Heaven and Hell (Harley) n. 70

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70. It ought to be known that, whenever all in one society of heaven appear together as one, it is in the likeness of a man, yet no one society is just such a man as another. They differ from one another like the faces of individuals of one family, for the reason given above (n. 47), that is, they vary in accordance with the varieties of the good in which they are, and this determines their form. The societies of the inmost or highest heaven and in the centre of it appear in the most perfect and most beautiful human form.


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