Heaven in Our Hearts

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I write the heading as a line from one of my my favorite books, “The Compleat Gentleman” by Brad Miner.

The fifteen minutes after the divine Species denatured itself in my body (after Mass) today, I pondered within myself the mystery of what is in store for us in heaven, and this CAN be known by natural reason if it is developed to understand, already, the fullness of the natural law. The fullness, mind you. Before you call me an elitist, prick, or chauvinist, I put in the work; I attained the wisdom and knowledge.

I’ve seen questions over the years here wondering what heaven is like, and I will give you the human, natural equivalent of the answer to that question.

Whichever level of heaven we attain, be sad though we may be now that we will not attain a higher degree, heaven is an incomparable gain over the attainments of this life, and hell will remind you of the good choices you made. So the loss of a higher degree will be eclipsed by the glory of the simple attainment of heaven.

Before I go on, this is not private revelation. This was not revealed to me. I’ve thought about this question for years, and have no reason to believe I am now wrong.

First, in heaven, we will be as is described in the Apocalypse, surrounded by a city of magnificence, streets of gold, gates of pearl, etc. And we will be before the throne of God, at the ineffable banquet table. There we will meet old friends, great champions of the faith, and all the saints, and we will be like children, restored to our original natural glory. And in this, we will be exceedingly glad, and will celebrate.

Over “time,” we will increase in the depth of our heart, and grow wise, quieter, more evolved in our heavenly works of composing, writing, singing, and so forth. We will walk with a greater air of authority. Our smiles will carry more weight to them, and we may appear, not wrinkled or any Earthly form of age, wizened in our demeanor.

This will carry on, and soon, we will leave that heavenly city and sojourn out into the realms around and beyond. Now something I have not mentioned, though it may be common sense, is that our free will will be augmented to form our own destiny, though always for the good; there will be no dispositions to lesser glory. Continuing on, we will be accompanied with those who we fancy, our heavenly companions, and we will work nature to serve our wills, form outlying cities, and so on.

After some “time” of this, the magnificence of the heavenly kingdom will reach its apex, and we will then traverse into the realms beyond: other planets, the universe. We will form colonies there.

From then on, we will learn and have revealed the mysteries of creation to us, and we will form other planets, and take joy in our creative faculties. Make no mistake, we will not form other human beings, or creatures in the image of God. We will have the limited ability to form nature, such as trees and animals, and we will live among them.

Did you not think technology would play a role in heaven? Technology is simply a manipulation of nature. We will return, after our many sojourns, with the knowledge we have attained, to the heavenly kingdom we began in, and we will create technology anew. One example is that we will have machines that we will be able to enter in, and be taken back in our “superficial” faculties to the times of this world. We will have many journeys with old friends, real or fake, and will do things we wished we could have done while on Earth now. We will also form things like espionage groups to undermine the corrupt companies of this world, in our machines in heaven, and will be vital in the collapse of them, and we will celebrate in glee in the glory of God, remembering our days on Earth when the evil grew so powerful that it was unstoppable by human means.

Finally comes the great mystery that no human can penetrate. The symbol of time and the fabric of our reality will cease, and our known universe will disappear, and we will enter with God into the state He was in before the creation of time and the universe. No human knows what this is like.

I can’t feign to say I experienced any of this in forming these conclusions, but I needed the consolation so badly, constantly attacked by demons telling me I would receive the lowest level of heaven. And indeed I believe I will, but this formation of heaven in my mind consoled me in the knowledge that, though it will matter in a form, I will be supremely happy and will never regret anything again. In this, I can subsist on until the end of my life in order to fight those temptations of despair.
 
Martin Buber Ich Du or St. Angela of Folino???

HOW IT MAY BE KNOWN THAT GOD HATH ENTERED INTO THE SOUL

IT must be known that God cometh sometimes unto the soul when it hath neither called, nor prayed unto, nor summoned Him. And He doth instill into the soul a fire and a love and a sweetness not customary, wherein it doth greatly delight and rejoice ; and it doth believe that this hath been wrought by God Himself there present, but this is not certain.
Presently the soul doth perceive that God is inwardly within itself, because albeit it cannot behold Him within it doth nevertheless perceive that His grace is present with it, wherein it doth greatly delight. Yet is not even this certain.

Presently it doth further perceive that God cometh unto it with most sweet words, wherein it delighteth yet more, and with much rejoicing doth it feel God within it ; yet do some doubts still remain, albeit but few. For the soul possesseth as yet no perfect certainty, neither is it assured that God is truly within it, because such converse and such feelings can be produced likewise by other spirits.

Wherefore is it still in doubt. And it seemeth unto me that this cometh either of its own malice and sinfulness, or else truly by the will of God, who desireth not that the soul should feel certain and secure. But when the soul doth feel the presence of God more deeply than is customary, then doth it certify unto itself that He is within it.

It doth feel it, I say, with an understanding so marvellous and so profound, and with such great love and divine fire, that it loseth all love for itself and for the body, and it speaketh and knoweth and understandeth those things of the which it hath never heard from any mortal whatsoever. And it understandeth with great illumination, and with much difficulty doth it hold its peace ; and if it doth hold its peace, it holdeth it out of the abundance of its zeal, that it may not be displeasing unto God its Lover nor cause offence, and likewise by reason of its humility ; for it desireth not to speak of things so exceeding high that it may not draw attention unto itself.

Thus hath it happened divers times unto me, that, out of my burning desire to work the salvation of my neighbour, I did speak things for the which I was reproved, and it was said unto me, " Sister, turn thee again unto the Holy Scriptures, for they say not thus, and therefore do we not understand thee." But with that feeling whereby it is certified unto the soul that God dwelleth within it, there is given unto it a disposition so perfect that it doth most entirely and verily agree with the soul in all things, and in every way do all the members of the body agree with the soul and do truly form one cause together with it ; neither do they rebel against the will of the soul, but do perfectly desire those things which are of God, but which, nevertheless, they had not heretofore in any way desired. And this disposition is granted unto the soul through grace whereby it doth perceive that the Divine Being hath entered into it, and hath granted it the assurance and the desire of God and of those things which are of God, after the manner of the true love wherewith God hath loved us. Thus doth the soul feel that God is mingled with it and hath made companionship with it.

Further, when God cometh unto the soul, it is some times given unto it to behold Him, and it beholdeth Him devoid of any bodily shape or form, and more clearly than doth one man behold another. For the eyes of the soul do behold a spiritual and not a bodily presence, of the which I am not able to speak because words and imagination do fail me. And in very truth the soul doth rejoice in that sight with an ineffable joy and regardeth naught else, because this it is which doth fill it with most inestimable satisfaction.

This searching and beholding (whereby God is seen in such a manner that the soul can behold naught else) is so profound that much doth it grieve me that I cannot make manifest aught whatsoever of it, seeing that it is not a thing the which can be touched or imagined or judged of.

Peace
 
The last post is from

The book of divine consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno
by Angela, of Foligno, 1248?-1309; Steegmann, Mary G; Thorold, Algar Labouchere, 1866-1936

Peace
 
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