My last post in this series is on heaven. I don't actually know what it will be like there, but there are some ideas I have had.
The Christian view of heaven is like a snapshot, to see heaven through a clear window. It is a visual view of heaven. Faerie is only a blurry picture, like an impressionist painting or a seal in wax. It captures not a view of heaven, but a feel of heaven. What little can be felt in mortal lands.
Heaven is like a glistening gemstone, but from here you can only see one facet at a time. One facet is faerie. I fancy that some of the others could be music, theology, and others. The whole vision I can not glimpse of even concive. Death is required for that.
Enjoy reading on your own. I think my next posts will be in relation of online courses by The Tolkien Professor.
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