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Portrait of Swedenborg by Carl Frederik von Breda. Heaven and Hell is the common English title of a book written by Emanuel Swedenborg in Latin, published in 1758.The full title is Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen, or, in Latin: De Caelo et Eius Mirabilibus et de inferno, ex Auditis et Visis.
Heaven and Hell (French: Le Ciel et l'Enfer) is an 1865 book by Allan Kardec, the fourth tome of the fundamental works of Spiritism. Its name was intentionally taken from a previous book by Emanuel Swedenborg, it was also subtitled "Divine Justice According to Spiritism". It is divided into two parts named "The Doctrine" and "The Examples".
Naraka, as a whole, is known by many names conveying that it is the realm of Yama. Yamālaya, Yamaloka, Yamasādana and Yamalokāya mean the abode of Yama. Yamakṣaya (the akṣaya of Yama) and its equivalents like Vaivasvatakṣaya use pun for the word kṣaya, which can be mean abode or destruction. It is also called Saṃyamanī, "where ...
That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation is a 2019 book by philosopher and religious studies scholar David Bentley Hart published by Yale University Press. In it Hart argues that "if Christianity taken as a whole is indeed an entirely coherent and credible system of belief, then the universalist understanding of its ...
In C. S. Lewis' novel The Great Divorce the narrator meets writer George MacDonald in heaven, who uses the quote "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav'n" as answer to the narrator's questions about heaven and hell. Frederick Buechner's debut novel, A Long Day's Dying, takes its title from Book 10 of Paradise Lost.
William Blake regarded Satan as a model of rebellion against unjust authority [172] and features him in many of his poems and illustrations, [172] including his 1780 book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, [172] in which Satan is celebrated as the ultimate rebel, the incarnation of human emotion and the epitome of freedom from all forms of reason ...
1865 - Heaven and Hell - composed of two parts: the first part critically examines the Catholic doctrine on transcendence, aiming to highlight philosophical contradictions and inconsistencies with scientific knowledge that, according to Kardec, could be overcome through the spiritist paradigm of reasoned faith. The second part contains dozens ...
The Fallen Angel (1847) by Alexandre Cabanel. The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology.He appeared in the King James Version of the Bible in Isaiah [1] and before that in the Vulgate (the late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible), [2] not as the name of a devil but as the Latin word lucifer (uncapitalized), [3] [4] meaning "the ...