up into clouds. Many people had actually seen angels LITTLE 

 ascending and descending. JOURNEYS 



*' 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 jfi jfc 



The idea that there was an ocean above the earth, 

 in the heavens, was brought forward to show the 



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