heaven

Was there, then, any order in this, that he should be described as descending first out of his own heaven into the Creator's?

But if an eternal place is promised, and an ascent into heaven is built by the Creator, promising too that the seed of Abraham should be as the stars of heaven, surely on account of a heavenly promise — that promise being safe, why should it not admit that the bosom of Abraham be called some temporal receptacle of faithful souls, in which already the image of the future is delineated, and a certai …

Of our earthly dwelling-place he does not say that we have a house eternal, not made with hands, in heaven, because what is made with hands of the Creator perishes wholly, dissolved after death.

For eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and it has not entered the heart of man, what God has prepared for those who love him in the kingdom of heaven, in the unapproachable light, in the unutterable and unending glory.

and on behalf of us, his thankless servants, the Master accepted death, and death by the cross, that the tyranny of sin might be loosed, that the former condemnation might be removed, that the gates of heaven might be opened to us again.

And you will reach the eternal place that has two regions, each having many dwellings within it:

They who are heard from the great heaven by their song, blazing brightly, of beautiful forms — Evayāmarut;

being like the greatest mountains in the sky, may ye, the all-knowing ones, be hard to seize and restrain the bonds.

may our father Heaven be sweet.

His third pervading-breath — that is the sky.

And he who [speaks ill of a vrātya who knows thus] cuts himself off from Ṛta, Truth, the Sun, and the Moon.

The two cool-season months guard him from the upward direction, and Heaven and the Sun wait upon him — for whoever knows this.

Heaven, as is not unusual in religious systems, is but faintly sketched;

But, after a second birth through the study of the Scriptures, the virtuous at death pass straight into Heaven, where their stock of virtue will keep them for long ages;

Religious pictures, representing the circle of life with its various compartments, with Heaven at the top and Hell at the bottom, and with human and animal existence at the sides, are common in the East;

Then, when he has stayed his golden-yoked chariot and horses, he rests there upon the highest point of heaven, until he marvelously drives them down again through heaven to Ocean.

” --> When the goddess had so spoken, she soared up to windy heaven.

Of that commanding heaven, go to heaven, O thou who hast the sky as thy dwelling.

Of that commanding heaven, go to heaven, O thou who hast the sky as thy dwelling.

Of that commanding heaven, go to heaven, O thou who hast the sky as thy dwelling.

Since indeed the heaven too shall be rolled up like a book — nay, shall be nowhere, together with the earth itself, with which it was made in the beginning.

For if through the Wisdom of God all things were made, then God, in making heaven and earth in the beginning — that is, the starting-point — made them in his Wisdom.

Now then, if the principal works of God are heaven and earth, which God made before all things, it is fitting that they should properly be the beginning of his works, being the first made;

He sits at the Father's right hand;

Lo, out of abundance the Father answers from heaven, to attest to the Son:

But even Christ, beyond the ocean, and from this heaven which lies upon us, shone forth the true light to the nations.

But here, of the substance of the flesh, they are called the first and the last, as again "the first man of the earth, and the second from heaven";

For what kind of thing is it to go from the church of God into the church of the devil—from heaven, as they say, into the mire?

Do you doubt that in that very moment in which the devil rages in the assembly, all the angels look down from heaven and mark each man—who has spoken blasphemy, who has heard it, who has lent his tongue, who his ears, to the devil against God?

enjoyment, favor, and honor, invincibility, popular esteem, and an eternal place in heaven.

he who makes them free from disease with the collyrium-stick of the sacred treatises, obtains fame here, honor from the king, and a path to heaven.

The king who, accompanied by the *prāḍvivāka*, ministers, Brahmin priest, and assessors, acts as an observer according to *dharma*, abides in heaven.

One who performs this rite in such a manner is said to attain the world of Brahmā.

Wherever a hero is killed, surrounded by his enemies, he obtains imperishable worlds, provided he does not speak like a coward.

Whether he is liked or disliked, a fool or a scholar, if he arrives at the end of the *Vaiśvadeva* ritual, that *atithi* is a bridge to heaven.

In this, heaven and hell can be seen.

If the deeds are good, they fall into heaven.

There is something called *svargacyuta*, "one who has fallen from heaven.

Seeing Triśaṅku arrived at the divine world, Pākaśāsana — Indra — along with all the hosts of gods, spoke these words.

When the sage had so spoken, the lord of men ascended to heaven in his own body, O Kākutstha, while the assembled sages looked on.

let your honours, with concentration, officiate my sacrifice for its fulfillment, so that I may attain the world of the gods in my own body.