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  2. Biblical cosmology - Wikipedia

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    In the Book of Job the Council of Heaven, the Sons of God (bene elohim) meet in heaven to review events on Earth and decide the fate of Job. [49] One of their number is "the Satan ", literally "the accuser", who travels over the Earth much like a Persian imperial spy, (Job dates from the period of the Persian empire), reporting on, and testing ...

  3. Seven heavens - Wikipedia

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    At the seventh heaven, he meets an old man who opens the gate to the realm beyond the material universe, and Paul then ascends to the eighth, ninth, and tenth heavens. [ 34 ] In Mandaeism , a series of maṭartas , or "toll houses," are located between the World of Light ( alma ḏ-nhūra ) from Tibil (Earth).

  4. Opening of the World - Wikipedia

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    The Opening of the World Series is a trilogy of novels by Harry Turtledove set in a fantasy world. In the trilogy, the Raumsdalian Empire is the dominant political entity, which shares ties to a loose collection of barbarian tribes with a common ethnicity , known as the Bizogots.

  5. Paradiso (Dante) - Wikipedia

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    Paradiso (Italian: [paraˈdiːzo]; Italian for "Paradise" or "Heaven") is the third and final part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio.It is an allegory telling of Dante's journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice, who symbolises theology.

  6. Heaven in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    Araboth (Hebrew: עֲרָבוֹת, Tiberian: ʿĂrāḇōṯ, Deserts/Plains): [18] The seventh heaven, under the leadership of the Archangel Cassiel, is the holiest of the seven heavens because it houses the Throne of God attended by the Seven Archangels and serves as the realm in which God dwells; underneath the throne itself lies the abode ...

  7. Boy who inspired book says he lied - AOL

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    The book "Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" is going back to the publisher. Alex Malarkey, the then-six year old who claimed he died and briefly visited heaven, who detailed his experience in the ...

  8. On the Heavens - Wikipedia

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    Page one of Aristotle's On the Heavens, from an edition published in 1837. On the Heavens (Greek: Περὶ οὐρανοῦ; Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise: written in 350 BCE, [1] it contains his astronomical theory and his ideas on the concrete workings of the terrestrial world.

  9. Ancient Near Eastern cosmology - Wikipedia

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    Mesopotamia's image of the world, following the path Gilgamesh takes in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) cosmology refers to the plurality of cosmological beliefs in the Ancient Near East, covering the period from the 4th millennium BC to the formation of the Macedonian Empire by Alexander the Great in the second half of the 1st millennium BC.