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up into clouds. Many people had actually seen angels
ascending and descending.
" Messengers from on high" and God's secretaries
were constantly coming down on delicate errands.
Everything that man did was noted and written down.
We were watched all the time by unseen beings. The
Bible tells of how the earth was eventually to be des-
troyed, and then there would only be heaven and hell.
God, His Son and the angels were going to come down,
and for ages men watched the heavens to see them
appear. All sensitive children, born of orthodox Chris-
tian parents, who heard the Bible read aloud, looked
fearfully into the sky for "signs and wonders." The
Bible tells in several places of devils breaking out of
hell and roaming over the earth. Dante fully believed
in this three-story-house idea, and pictures with awful
exactness the details, which he gained from the preach-
ing of the priests. Dante was never honored by having
his books placed on the " Index." On the contrary he
got his vogue largely through the recommendation of
the priests. To them he was a true scientist for he cor-
roborated their statements.
The Christian Fathers ridiculed the idea of the earth
being round, because, if this were so, how could the
people on the other side see the Son of Man when
He came in the sky ? Besides that, if the earth were
round and turned on its axis, we should all fall off into
space .i t
The idea that there was an ocean above the earth,
in the heavens, was brought forward to show theLITTLE
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