We just learned about the Divine Comedy - Purgatorio.
Another part of the Divine Comedy book written in Early Christianity is Paradiso.
In this part of the story, Dante writes about what heaven might be like.
Long ago people didn't really know how the planets and stars worked, and a lot of people thought that the other planets and the sun went around the earth.
These days we know that the earth and other planets go around the sun, but in Dante's picture of heaven he thought the earth was the middle of our universe.
He wrote about 10 levels of heaven:
- Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Stars, Primum Mobile, Empyrean
Each higher level was better than the last one, and the Empyrean was the special holy perfect place where God lived.
The Primium Mobile was like a circle outside all of the planets that helped move the sun and stars, and this was where the angels lived.
Just like the other parts of this book, it was so popular that many people came to believe that this was what heaven really looked like.
(from: wikipedia - divine comedy)
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