Heaven

*"No. This is where it begins.*"
— Philip Engel talking about the actual sky of Paradise ending at the eastern boundary of Paradise, while Michael's answer refers to the world of Heaven, *The Wrongful Death*

**Heaven** (Danish: *Himlen*) is a world that lie beyond Paradise, which itself is between Heaven and Earth. Here dwells God and the angels. The angels live inside of a city made of light called Empyrean. It was in Heaven that the Great War, between Lucifer and the angel army of God, was fought. In the western part there is a boundary where Heaven and Paradise lie adjacent to one another, in the form of a firmament. This firmament can be opened on God's orders or by order from an archangel like Michael, like when Michael and his angel army opened it to cast Lucifer and his army of traitors out of Heaven and down into the place that he would later shape into Hell.

## Locations

### Empyrean

*Main article: Empyrean*
The city of light in which angels and God dwell.

### Battlefield

*Main article: Battlefield in Heaven*
The gigantic grassy field where the battle between Lucifer's and Michael's angel armies fought one another, culminating in Lucifer's defeat and his and his followers' casting down into Hell.

### The western border

Here is the boundary, that marks the end of Heaven and the beginning of Paradise. It takes the form of a firmament.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Wrongful Death*. Høst & Søn, October 19, 2018 (English print-on-demand paperback) (Original Danish version published April 30, 2009 by Høst & Søn)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Angel of Evil*. (Publication House) October 20, 2019. (Original Danish version published April 29, 2010 by Høst & Søn)

## Notes

1. ↑ The outer edge of Heaven is described slightly differently in the original Danish version of *The Angel of Evil* and the English translation of the book. In chapter 20: *The War Against God* (Danish: *Krigen mod Gud*) in the the original Danish version, the outer edge is said to be a "hvælv" (using the definitive article making it "hvælvet") with the line "*Såret og blødende og med resterne af sin hær jages han bort af Guds krigere, fordrives hele vejen til himlens grænseskel, der i det samme begynder at åbne sig. Som en gigantisk mund går **hvælvet** op (...)*" which directly translates to "*Wounded and bleeding, and with the remnants of his army he is chased away by God's warriors, driven all the way to the boundary of Heaven, which at once begins to open up. Like a gigantic mouth the **firmament** opens up (...)*", however the lines in the English version has been translated to "*He runs, wounded and bloody, and together with the remnants of his army he is chased by God's warriors, driven to the outer edge of Heaven, which opens like a gigantic mouth (...)"* The original Danish lines could imply that it was to be understood as a literal firmament or vault of sky. But could also be, that "hvælv" was to have been understood as a large hole - a space or void - as the boundary was already opening up slightly where the word appears in the text. It could also have been used for dramatic effect, since "hvælv" (firmament, vault) could invoke images of large things - spaces or domes and the like - and thus not indicate that the boundary of Heaven is a literal firmament.

In addition, in *The Wrongfuld Death*, chapter 29: *The Merciless God*, Michael says that the eastern edge of Paradise is where Paradise ends and Heaven begins, and it is described that above the mountains a sky is visible, with a sun hovering just above the mountains, and which seems unnaturally large because it is so close to the mountains that one could touch it if they stood on the highest of the peaks. Just after Philip drinks in the scenery, he thinks out loud that "The sky. It... it ends here." which prompts Michael to say the beforementioned lines. This could imply that the sky visible above the mountains at Paradise' eastern edge is Heaven itself. It is also posible that the close-hovering sun is a part of it. Another difference between the Danish and English versions is the word used for "Heaven" in the exchange between Philip and Michael. In the Danish version Philip uses the word "himlen", which means sky or heaven, and it is clear that he is talking about the sky because the word is uncapitalized, but Michael's answer is clearly talking about the world of Heaven by the fact that he even feels the need to mention that "The sky (himlen, meaning the heaven, the heavens or simply heaven" begins there. The wordplay here is lost in the English translation by the usage of "The sky" in favor of a term like "The heavens."

Furthermore, the idea that the boundary between Heaven and Paradise is located at the western edge of Heaven is based on the fact that the boundary we hear of between Paradise and Heaven, which lie adjacent to one another, in *The Wrongful Death* and again in *The Fallen Angel*, chapter 28: *Green Eyes*, is located at the eastern edge of Paradise.