29. The two preceding chapters have shown, and the following ones will show, that the Last Judgment will take place in the spiritual world, not in the natural world or upon earth. The earlier chapters showed that heaven and hell are from the human race, and that all who have been born as human beings from the beginning of creation and have died are either in heaven or in hell; so all are together there. In the following chapters it remains to be shown that the Last Judgment has already taken place.