by Ammie Hague

Created on: November 10, 2008

"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches." -Revelations 3:22

If one attains an elevated state of being, then are not they themselves the place that heaven exists? Is not the place that an enlightened person occupies that place into which the holy is come? If hell is the absence of God, wouldn't heaven be the presence of that divine spirit?

"Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God?" 1 Corinthians 6:19

Dictionaries have some interesting things to say about Heaven:

-An ideal condition of rest, harmony, stability, or joy

-Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

-Any place or state of perfect happiness; paradise

-An ideally perfect place

-Any real or imaginary place offering peace and simplicity

Alright, I'll confess to being slightly misleading. Only one of those descriptions refers to Heaven. The others refer to such places as the Elysian Fields, Nirvana, Utopia, Arcadia and Shangri-la (not in that order).

It isn't so easy to distinguish them from one another when we remove the title "heaven" or "nirvana" and begin to compare the actual qualities we attach to these words. These attributes are what give the words their value and meaning and really without those qualities, the words are worthless.

"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." -2 Peter 3:8

One of the pre-eminent teachings related to this quote is that as an eternal being, time is meaningless to god. Similarly, I must concede that as an omnipresent entity so must be space and distance. What is the purpose in making this point? Easy enough, if time and space are meaningless to god, then heaven can be said to be in the here an now, just as easily as it is in the firmament during rapture. Heaven can be the spirit within a person, as easily as outdoors on a forest trail because those places are all a part of ubiquity of god.

In short: heaven is anywhere and everywhere.

The qualities of peace, bliss, harmony and simplicity are all states of being. Peace is not a physical place that one goes to, nor is simplicity, or any of the other examples. They are however lifestyles and frames of mind that any human being can struggle to obtain and reach. Ostensibly, it can be said that the person who strives to achieve these qualities of being will, following the law of attraction, draw others with similar ideals toward them and inadvertently

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