Both atmospheres are at work everywhere. This is an awesome reality in our lives, so awesome that there are times when we want to despair or to flee. This is an extremely compelling fact, and when we grasp its significance for the very first time we feel as though our breath, our life were being taken away. We are stretched out between heaven and hell. Not only is man a tightrope between the animal world and that which lies above man and is to be his future.
Man is like a vault stretching upward and outward between two atmospheres.
This is an awesome situation, and we are placed in it to fight. The one atmosphere is poisoned and brings death. It does this not merely through bacteria and bacilli, which by their very nature belong to death. This poisoned atmosphere has a very deceptive character. Often its death-dealing forces appear very much alive, even beneficial to life.