AngelicArtistry's GoToHeaven Jophiel's Game Question 58

Heaven

While it is common to think of heaven in the Christian sense of being the singular abode of the Lord, the saints, and the angels, there is also an ancient belief in the division of heaven into _________ celestial mansions.

Such a conception is based on an ascending order of heavens, culminating in the final, ________ heaven. the place of highest spiritual perfection.

Also rooted in a multiplicity of heavens is the occult and mystical value placed on the number _____, a number revered in faiths all over the world.

The _______ heavens of Jewish tradition can be traced to the civilization of Sumeria, which existed in the fertile crescent of the Tigris and Euphrates valley from around the fifth to third millennia B.C.

This was adopted by later Babylonian and Persian empires and came to influence the Jewish people during the so-called Babylonian Captivity.

In Jewish writings, one of the best descriptions....and certainly one of the most colorful....was summoned up by the authors of the Books of Enoch.

These accounts contain many stories about the angelic denizens of heaven.

There are, additionally, angelic princes who govern the affairs of their appointed part of the _______ heavens.

At the summit of the celestial mansions was the _____ heaven, the place where the throne of God was situated.

Here the Lord was surrounded by the ever-chanting choirs of angels, the court of heaven, and the mightiest princes of the angelic choirs.

How many heavens does Jewish tradition indicate exist?

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