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 Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest heavens; from Gustave Doré's illustrations to the Divine Comedy. |
Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious, cosmological, mythological, or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings (such as a God, angels, the jinn, and sky deities like King or Queen of Heaven, Heavenly Father, Heavenly Mother, Son of Heaven, heavenly saints or venerated ancestors) originate, are enthroned or inhabit. It is commonly believed that heavenly beings can descend to earth or take on earthly flesh and that earthly beings can ascend to Heaven in the afterlife or in exceptional cases enter Heaven alive. Heaven is often described as a "higher place", the holiest place, a Paradise, in contrast to Hell or the Underworld or the "low places", and universally or conditionally accessible by earthly beings according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, faith, or other virtues or right beliefs or simply the Will of God. Some believe in the possibility of a Heaven on Earth in a World to Come or of a World Tree which connects the heavens, the world, and the underworld. Another belief is in an Axis mundi which connects heaven and earth. In Indian Religions, Heaven is considered as Svarga loka, and soul is again subjected to rebirth in different living forms according to the fruits of its good deeds. This cycle can be broken after a soul achieves Moksha or Nirvana.
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| Catechism of the Catholic Church I believe in Life... Catechism of the Catholic Church I believe in Life Everlasting www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p123a12.htm - Web |
| Catholic Encyclopedia: Heaven Catholic Encyclopedia: Heaven www.newadvent.org/cathen/07170a.htm - Web |
| Jewish Encyclopedia: Heaven Jewish Encyclopedia: Heaven jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7440-heaven - Web |
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| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Heave... Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Heaven and Hell. plato.stanford.edu/entries/heaven-hell/ - Web |
| In Films, Heaven’s No Paradise New York Times Wed.... In Films, Heaven’s No Paradise New York Times Wed. July 22, 2009: www.nytimes.com/.../film-view-in-films-heaven-s-no-paradise.html?pagewanted=all - Web |
| Heaven: A fool's paradise Heaven: A fool's paradise www.independent.co.uk/.../heaven-a-fools-paradise-1949399.html - Web |
| Swedenborg, E. Heaven and its Wonders and Hell. Fr... Swedenborg, E. Heaven and its Wonders and Hell. From Things Heard and Seen www.swedenborgdigitallibrary.org/contets/HH.html - Web |
