Syncretism covers the worship of Baal, the heavenly bodies ( sun, moon, and stars ), the " Queen of Heaven " and other deities as well as practices such as child sacrifice: " Other gods were invoked and serviced in time of need or blessing and provision for life when the worship of Yahweh seemed inadequate for those purposes.

Some describe the couple as intimate lesbian partners, citing as an example Bates ' 1891 letter to Coman: " It was never very possible to leave Wellesley good, because so many love-anchors held me there, and it seemed least of all possible when I had just found the long-desired way to your dearest heart ... Of course I want to come to you, very much as I want to come to Heaven.

Thence one may argue that the articulation Ianus-Ianitores could be interpreted as connected to the theologem of the Gates of Heaven ( the Synplegades ) which open on the Heaven on one side and on Earth or the Underworld on the other.

: But so have I seen a Rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the Morning, and full with the dew of Heaven, as a Lambs fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on a darknesse, and to decline its softnesse, and the symptomes of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves, and all of its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces.

While Catholic dogma leaves open the question of Mary's death before rising to Heaven, the Eastern Orthodox tradition of the Dormition of the Theotokos teaches that Mary died and then rose to Heaven.

When the Other was convinced that he was triumphant, he used his power to open all the gateways between the worlds — allowing Tim to escape to the Inn Between the Worlds using his mother's glamor stone to disguise himself as a girl called Mary but also freeing the Wild Hunt, the god-killing band trapped for two-thousand years by a compact of rulers from Heaven, Faerie, Hell and other realms.

On the fifteenth day the realms of Heaven and Hell and the realm of the living are open and both Taoists and Buddhists would perform rituals to transmute and absolve the sufferings of the deceased.

On the other hand, Catholic have used a reading which emphasizes " I say to you today ", leaving open the possibility that the statement was made today, but arrival in Heaven may be later.

In the Prado, Madrid, is the Fountain of Living Water emanating from the Lamb of God, in which the open fountain is set into the outer wall of Heaven.

Qian, disagreeing with Dong's decision to claim imperial title, wrote back: " Rather than closing up your gates to try to be the Son of Heaven, so that your entire clan and the people will all fall into fire, why not open your door to be Jiedushi, so that you will have honor and wealth the rest of your life?

The term has also been used to describe large, multistory, high-capacity high-profile nightclubs, such as Pacha in Ibiza or 1970s discotheques such as Studio 54 NYC opened in 1977, The Saint NYC ( opened in 1980 ) and Heaven London open in 1979 were earlier versions of the genre.

Charles Lamb, poet and friend of Coleridge, witnessed Coleridge's work towards publishing the poem and wrote to Wordsworth: " Coleridge is printing Xtabel by Lord Byron's recommendation to Murray, with what he calls a vision of Kubla Khan – which said vision he repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates & brings Heaven & Elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ".

* A canto was quoted and used as an underlying theme of the 1945 screen adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray: " I sent my soul through the invisible, some letters of that after-life to spell, and by and by my soul did return, and answered, ' I myself am Heaven and Hell.

The Gospel of Mark begins by calling Jesus the Son of God and reaffirms the title twice when a voice from Heaven calls Jesus: " my Son " in Mark 1: 11 and Mark 9: 7.

As surely as Heaven gave us little green apples, it would be my luck to pick a five-letter noun that is in current use.

He recalled: " When I was five I wrote a song about the rain because I loved the San Francisco drizzles, and later I wrote about a dog because I couldn't have one, and a clown because my uncle was a circus performer, and when I was eight I wrote a song in the Saddle " about a cowboy in the desert watching the stars at night and thinking about God because I often looked at the stars and tried to picture Heaven ", inspired by seeing Roy Rogers and hearing Dale Evans give her testimony at the civic auditorium.

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

Now my idea of Heaven, apart from being at Chatsworth, is to sit in the hall of Brooks's, having tea.

The Heaven, my boy, encompasses round about the earth and the sea and everything both on the earth and the sea.

As I had the good fortune a few years ago to be heard by Your Royal Highness, at Your Highness's commands, and as I noticed then that Your Highness took some pleasure in the little talents which Heaven has given me for Music, and as in taking Leave of Your Royal Highness, Your Highness deigned to honour me with the command to send Your Highness some pieces of my Composition: I have in accordance with Your Highness's most gracious orders taken the liberty of rendering my most humble duty to Your Royal Highness with the present Concertos, which I have adapted to several instruments ; begging Your Highness most humbly not to judge their imperfection with the rigor of that discriminating and sensitive taste, which everyone knows Him to have for musical works, but rather to take into benign Consideration the profound respect and the most humble obedience which I thus attempt to show Him.

For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father Who is in Heaven.

: So that my soul may but ascend to Heaven.

The title is an allusion to the last line of the poem He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats – " Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Rusted Root, a jam band who has also had a prolific music career with the songs " Send Me on My Way ", " Ecstasy ", " Heaven ", and " Free my soul ", also call Pittsburgh home.

" And then came also-God in highest Heaven have mercy-the executioner, and put the thumb-screws on me, both hands bound together, so that the blood ran out at the nails and everywhere, so that for four weeks I could not use my hands, as you can see from the writing ...

However, in late October, he suddenly became ill, and on October 22 he died, reportedly saying, " O save my Country, Heaven.

Where an Anglophone would say " Oh my God " or " Thank God ", a Chinese person might say " Oh Heaven " ("" or "") or " Thank the heavens and the earth " ("").

" Matthew, on the other hand, employs the Greek term " Basileia tōn Ouranōn " (), which is translated as " kingdom of Heaven " 31 times and " kingdom of God " only 6 times, with " the kingdom " with no qualifier appearing a further ten, and " in my Father's kingdom " once.

The next 3 drops were not half a Foot, at least not a foot more than my own height, but every Drop increased the Palsy of my Limbs — I shook all over, Heaven knows without the least influence of Fear, and now I had only two more to drop down, to return was impossible — but of these two the first was tremendous, it was twice my own height, and the Ledge at the bottom was so exceedingly narrow, that if I dropt down upon it I must of necessity have fallen backwards and of course killed myself.

By Heaven, I hope I shall die up to my knees in blood!

Among his 10 suggestions are “ 1 ) Is it astonishing ?” and “ 10 ) Would I be happy to go to Heaven with this pinned on to my angelic jacket as an entrance show?

The view of the Church is that celibacy is a reflection of life in Heaven, a source of detachment from the material world which aids in one's relationship with God.

China's traditionalist view of history sees the rise and fall of dynasties as passing the " Mandate of Heaven ".

Further evidence includes the many female figurines unearthed in ancient Israel, supporting the view that Asherah functioned as a goddess and consort of Yahweh and was worshiped as the Queen of Heaven.

The songs " Misty Mountain Hop ", " That's the Way ", and early dabblings in what would become " Stairway to Heaven " were written in Wales and lyrically reflect Plant's mystical view of the land.

He takes Lestat on a whirlwind tour of Heaven, Hell and retells of the entirety of history from his own point of view in an effort to convince Lestat to join him as God's adversary.

Like the other Abrahamic religions, Islam teaches the bodily resurrection of the dead, the fulfillment of a divine plan for creation, and the immortality of the human soul ( though Jews do not necessarily view the soul as eternal ); the righteous are rewarded with the pleasures of Jannah ( Heaven ), while the unrighteous are punished in Jahannam ( Hell ).

Luka Bloom's song ' Forgiveness ' from his album Salty Heaven is sung from the point of view of an Irish Famine refugee who has relocated to Canada and who despite his suffering has chosen forgiveness over bitterness.

After Christianity and Judaism had separated, the prevailing view regarding Enoch was that of Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, which thought of Enoch as a pious man, taken to Heaven, and receiving the title of Safra rabba ( Great scribe ).

The Ahmadiyya view of Jesus, while agreeing that Jesus was mortal, breaks with mainstream Islamic interpretation by asserting that Jesus was not raised alive to Heaven.

Spiritualists do not believe that the works or faith of a mortal during a brief lifetime can serve as a basis for assigning a soul to an eternity of Heaven or Hell ; they view the afterlife as containing hierarchical " spheres ", through which each spirit can progress.

This view sought to discourage and demonize notions of rebellion against the Qing government, by propagating that the Manchus put an end to Li's illegitimate rule and restore peace to the empire, thus receiving the Mandate of Heaven to rule China.

" In this view, the function of the guardian angel is to lead men to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Some non-Catholic Bible scholars interpret these verses to refer not to Mary, but rather to Israel or the Church and they do not view Mary as the Queen of Heaven.

But this rebuttal seems to work against itself by implying that since God does not give any other option, humans have no choice but to believe in God to enter Heaven ; this view would ultimately brand God as evil for demanding worship on the threat of eternal damnation or annihilation.

On the other hand, against the novel and minority view of Rabbis Bigman and Shammah, Rabbi Cherney notes that, e find that Shmuel's claim that it various violations of the normative laws of tzniut is permitted " for the sake of Heaven, הכל לשם שמים ," the act is normatively forbidden, but permitted because it gives no sexual pleasure in the given time and place is quoted by later authorities.

From the secularists ’ point of view it was possible to distinguish between political ideas and structures that were religious and those that were not, but Catholic theologians in the mainstream argued, following St. Thomas Aquinas, that such a distinction was not possible, inasmuch as all aspects of society were to be organized with the final goal of Heaven in mind.

In this view, the Catholic Church — composed of all baptized, professing Catholics, both clergy and laity — is the unified, visible society founded by Christ himself, and its hierarchy derives its spiritual authority through the centuries, via apostolic succession of its bishops, most especially through the bishop of Rome ( the Pope ) whose successorship comes from St. Peter the Apostle, whom Christ gave " the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven ".

We see the shift in traditional belief of Heaven as influenced by the Renaissance, which is called " neo-Platonism ," which tried to lift love to a spiritual, idealistic plane, as compared to the traditional Catholic view of Heaven.

Many of these works are on display in the museum's galleries, but works from the medieval collection are also frequently included in special exhibitions, such as Treasures of Heaven, an exhibition about relics and reliquaries that was on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, and the British Museum in 2010 / 2011.

Told from her point of view, the story details how she creates a new 7th Heaven bar in the city of Edge, and attempts to hold onto the concept of a normal family with herself and Cloud, despite him beginning to isolate himself from others.

He said not as Pope but as a private theologian that the saved do not attain the Beatific Vision until Judgment Day, a view more consistent with soul sleep .： The general understanding at the time was that the saved attained Heaven after being purified and before Judgment Day.

The player battles enemies called Heaven Smiles in first-person view.

In view of the fact that Temerin used to be a rich settlement, between 1746 and 1749 local Serbs built an Orthodox church and dedicated it to Christ ’ s ascension into Heaven.