126. [126.] About the time of the Last Judgment Christians in the spiritual world appeared there in the middle, arranged at various distances from the center to the peripheries and also in the directions of the points of the compass according to their light of truth from a love of good. Around that middle area appeared Papists in front, then Muslims, similarly arranged in the directions of all the points of the compass, in proximity to the Christians according to their light of truth from good. Beyond that perimeter appeared gentiles, arranged in groups according to their religious persuasion and according to their life in consequence of it. They all have similar lands, distinguished into mountains, hills, rocks and valleys, and extending over these are expanses in which the best of them dwell, who have received from angels truths of doctrine regarding the Lord and life. Beyond those peoples appeared as though a sea, which constituted the final boundary. All those circular bands taken together do not stretch out into a flat plane but into a globe, like the earth. Consequently, when I was taken to gentiles, after passing through Muslims I descended at an angle.