Heaven and Hell (Harley) n. 184

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184. It is better, however, to bring forward the evidence of experience. Whenever I have spoken with angels face to face, I have been with them in their dwellings. Their dwellings are precisely like the dwellings on earth which are called houses, but more beautiful. In them are chambers, inner rooms and bedrooms in great number. There are also courts and around them gardens, flower-beds and lawns. Where they live in societies, their houses are near each other, one alongside another, arranged in the form of a city, with streets, roads and public squares exactly like the cities on our earth. I have been permitted to wander through them, looking about on every side and occasionally entering the houses. This occurred when I was fully awake, and my inner sight was opened.# # Angels have cities, palaces, and houses (n. 940, 941, 942, 1116, 1626, 1627, 1628, 1630, 1631, 4622.)


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