"<p>The purgatory: the battle of heaven and hell, full of changing shapes, full of fleeting features. Heaven and hell are final, undivided, unseparated: one is infinite fullness, beyond "much", beyond all richness; the other is infinite lack, beyond "little", beyond all misery.<br /><br />There are no differences in heaven and hell, everything in them is the same; yet we can speak of the circles and sub-circles, the divisions, of heaven and hell: for different for every saved and for every damned person is the stairway which connects him with the phenomenal world; for each stairway is formed according to the way in which its owner functions in the phenomenal world. He who is saved or damned is no longer an individual, no longer a separate being; but his staircase is just as individual as he is an individual in his relation to the phenomenal world. No two staircases are the same, but there are group similarities: they are the sections of heaven and hell.</p>"