[Seraphita by Honore de Balzac]@TWC D-Link bookSeraphita CHAPTER III 24/83
I have not understood why the Virgin Mary should continue to wear blue satin garments in heaven.
I have even dared to ask myself why those gigantic demons, Enakim and Hephilim, came so frequently to fight the cherubim on the apocalyptic plains of Armageddon; and I cannot explain to my own mind how Satans can argue with Angels.
Monsieur le Baron Seraphitus assured me that those details concerned only the angels who live on earth in human form.
The visions of the prophet are often blurred with grotesque figures.
One of his spiritual tales, or 'Memorable relations,' as he called them, begins thus: 'I see the spirits assembling, they have hats upon their heads.' In another of these Memorabilia he receives from heaven a bit of paper, on which he saw, he says, the hieroglyphics of the primitive peoples, which were composed of curved lines traced from the finger-rings that are worn in heaven.
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