Fourth Heaven

Angelic Creatures
Archreapers
Edenim

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**Shehaqim**, also known as the **Fourth Heaven**, is the fourth region of the Abrahamic Heaven.

## Summary

Shehaqim is the fourth amongst the Seven Heavens, thus making it the Fourth Heaven and the central region of the heavens. It is also called **The Garden** due to its primary function as the place where the Garden of Eden and the Temple of the Sefirot are located.

This is the afterlife of the gods, who once died shall descend to the realm. However, unlike the souls of the deceased in the First Heaven and the Third Heaven, the nature of the gods in Shehaqim have more resemble for the nature spirits in Earth than their former divine selves. Mary Winchester, one of the humans dwelling there, described the afterlife for the divinities to be "Garden of Eden in appearance but Family Home in nature".

Despite this, there are also living humans who dwell here, such as Sam Winchester, due to their status as the consorts and offsprings of the High-ranked Angels. They also live in the realm but have more influential and keep their original powers.

In this realm, countless resource-manufacturing facilities are located, from factories specifically built for the purpose of mining and refining Enochian metals to endless fields growing the ever mysterious manna - The holy food of the Angels, all of them are located here in the Fourth Heaven. These products are then be distributed across all the regions of Heaven, with the main region being the Fifth Heaven where they will be used in the creation of many products, items, and equipment.

This is the origin of all lives, as the Well of All Souls and the Spring of Life are also located here. From the Well, Azrael creates all the souls in existence, and from the Spring, the Celestial Prince sows the seeds of life across all Creation. From walking down the banks of the rivers originated from the Spring of Life, one could reach all six out of the seven heavens, with the Seventh Heaven being banned from all outsiders as it is the personal abode of the God.

This is the birthplace of the Archreapers, where their bodies were shaped from the essence of the Well of All Souls and their essence shaped from the primordial water of the Spring of Life. Following the creation of the Reapers and the death-affliated deities, the Archreapers had retired here.

Located beneath the Well of All Souls and the Spring of Life is the ever-turning Wheel of Reincarnation, hidden within the heart of the Tomb of Celestial Bodies. The realm possesses the unique power to restore souls - A power beyond even the capabilities of the Celestial Princes, as shown in Chapter XXX when Samael was brought inside the center of Shehaqim to have her soul restored by Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel.

Following the sealing of the Abrahamic Underworld and abandonment of the original Abrahamic hellish afterlife Jahannam and Abrahamic Limbo being taken over by the Fallen Angels, the Celestial Princes and the Elder Seraphim had reconstructed the newest version of eternal damnation here in Shehaqim. According to Dulio, the Inferno is located "on the northern side" while Purgatory is located on the opposite side.

According to Castiel, this is the "crossroad of divinity and humanity".

## Appearance

Shehaqim is one of the mysterious of all the seven heavens, with little description about its appearance, though Irina has described it as being more beautiful than the three previous heavens.

From outside, its appeared as a colossal floating garden surrounded by giant walls of brass and gleaming metals, radiating a white-gold aura of light and holiness. Standing guarded at all times around and over the walls are the special elite forces of the Seraphim Kamael and Jophiel.

## Points of Interest

### Garden of Eden

**The Garden of Eden** is the biblical garden where the first humans - Adam and Eve - once lived before their banishment under the order of God. It is considered to be the cradle of humanity, as the ancestors and creators of all mankind were created here under the hand of God Himself.

Despite being known as a garden, Eden, in reality, is a pocket dimension with the size being half as large as Shehaqim itself, containing within it all the species that had and is existing on Earth and all the mythological worlds connecting to it, but also many species unique to the garden. According to Jophiel, only God and the Celestial Princes know how many species are there in the garden and their purposes, as not even the Angels, Fallen Angels, and Archdaemon know about that.

There are several rifts that connect the garden to Assiah, specifically where Eden originally was in - Southern Mesopotamia. Because of it, many powerful elite Angels are tasked with protecting these rifts 24/7 in order to prevent any breach to happen or outsider sneaking into the Garden.

### Temple of the Sefirot

**The Temple of the Sefirot**, also known as the **Temple of Life**, is where the Tree of Life - Sefirot - is located. It is colossal temple with a futuristic design created using ancient Enochian technology and the rarest of precious metals. It is placed under hundreds of thousands of ancient Enochian Magick wards, which light the temple with an ethereal and shimmering aura.

### Well of All Souls

**The Well of All Souls** is where all souls in existence originated from, the basis of immortality and humanity, the root of creation and death, and the foundation of life and death. From here, Azrael had sows the seeds of life across all Creation, and to here, the Celestial Prince shall empty the husks of death she harvested. According to Brahma, the divine energy that ensure the immortality of divinities such as the gods and the buddhas also originated from the Well.

It is located next to the Spring of Life. Legends said that the water of the Spring originated from the Well, as the Soul carrying within it a near-infinite amount of life-force and death-force - Two main components that formed the sacred Spring, though the Angels neither confirm nor deny this claim.

### Tomb of Celestial Bodies

**The Tomb of Celestial Bodies**, also known as **The Empty**, is one of the most mysterious places in the Abrahamic Heaven. There isn't much information about the place and the information available are all based in rumors and legends. Only God and the Celestial Princes could enter it.

This is the primordial void the predated all of existence, the cradle in which God had created the Celestial Princes from His own divine essence. It is also where the immortal souls of Angels, Fallen Angels, Archdaemon, and angelic creatures shall go to when they die.

### Inferno

**The Inferno**, also known as **The Hellish Yard**, is the hellish afterlife reserves for the most sinful of souls, where they will be eternally punished and tortured for the crimes they had committed when they were alive. Because of that, the Angels here are often referred to as either the Infernal Angels, or the **Angels of Destruction**, led by Maalik and the Zabaniyah of the Islamic Faction.

According to Azazel, this is the third version of the hellish afterlife created by Angels, the first being Sheol (The Underworld in Jewish Mythology) and the second being Jahannam (Hell in Islamic Mythology). This version is based on the depictions of Hell in Christian Mythology.

### Purgatory

**The Purgatory**, also known as **The Grave Yard**, is the static afterlife reserves for those who, while are sinful, still possess the potential to change and redeem themselves of their sins. Here, they are put through countless trials to purify themselves of their past mistakes so that they could be considered pure enough to be moved to the Third Heaven.

According to Dulio, most Angels call it either the "Purgatory System" or the "Damned Soul Recycling System".

## Inhabitants

Shehaqim is predominantly inhabited by the Angels, angelic creatures, and the Archreapers. Despite this, there are countless other species dwelling within the realm, each greatly differ from the one before them.

The realm serves as the 'garden' where the Garden of Eden and the Temple of the Sefirot are located, in each place dwells countless different species, both living and undead, of multiple differences. The Well of All Souls and the Spring of Life are also located here, thus making all the souls in existence, of both mortals and immortals alike, a momentarily inhabitant of the realm.

It also functions as an afterlife. Here, the souls of deceased gods shall descend to when they are either killed by others or faded due to a lack of worship and will of live, existing as mere shadows of their former selves, walking around the ethreal realm without any sense of identity. Following the sealing of Sheol and the abandonment of Jahannam and Limbo, the Celestial Princes and the Elder Seraphim had constructed two new pocket dimensions here in the realm, working as the hellish afterlife for the damned and a "recycling system" that purifies sinful souls so that they could enter the Third Heaven.

## Trivia

* Shehaqim is governed over by the Celestial Prince Gabriel.
	+ In several religious and occult text, Haniel is said to be the governor of the Fourth Heaven.
* It is the only realm that could be accessed from Assiah, as there are multiple rifts left behind when the Angels relocated the Garden of Eden to the Fourth Heaven.
* According to the Angels, the Darwinian theory of evolution is correct, though it could only be applied on the living species created after the Great Flood.