Heaven
Here are entered works on the celestial dwelling place of deities or of God, or on the achievement in a future life of a place or state of communion with God, union with the divine, or eternal peace. Works on a place of perfection or great happiness, either in the distant past or future life are entered under Paradise.
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Heaven: Is It For Real? (c1984), by Joe Crews (HTML at amazingfacts.org)- Linda (Baltimore: The author, 1958), by Eleanor B. Wasserman
- Heaven: Where It Is, Its Inhabitants, and How to Get There (new revised edition; Chicago: F. H. Revell Co., 1884), by Dwight Lyman Moody (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Paradise: The City and Throne (1909), by Elwood Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Strait Gate: or, Great Difficulty of Going to Heaven, by John Bunyan (PDF at chapellibrary.org)
- Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen, by Emanuel Swedenborg, trans. by John C. Ager (HTML at newearth.org)
- The Confucian Creation of Heaven: Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery (originally published 1990; digital pinyin edition 2023), by Robert Eno (PDF with commentary at Indiana)
- Among the Immortals, in the Land of Desire: A Glimpse of the Beyond (New York: The Shakespeare Press, c1916), by Mary A. Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
- Through Gates of Pearl: A Vision of The Heaven-life (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1916), by Augusta Albertson
- The Garuda Purana (1911), ed. by Ernest Wood and S. V. Subrahmanyam (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri (multiple editions)
- The Paradiso, From the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, by Dante Alighieri, trans. by S. Fowler Wright (HTML at sfw.org.uk)
- Purgatory and Paradise (new edition; Chicago: Thompson and Thomas, 1901), by Dante Alighieri and Gustave Doré, trans. by Henry Francis Cary
- The Heavenly Recognition: or, An Earnest and Scriptural Discussion of the Question, Will We Know Our Friends in Heaven? (15th edition; Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1861), by Henry Harbaugh (page images at MOA)
- A Debate on the State of the Dead (Louisville: Printed by Morton and Griswold, 1854), by Thomas P. Connelly and Nathaniel Field
- The Intermediate State and Prayers for the Dead, Examined in the Light of Scripture, and of Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1900), by Charles H. H. Wright (multiple formats at Google)
- The Intermediate World (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1878), by L. T. Townsend (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Psychopannychia (translated 1851), by Jean Calvin, trans. by Henry Beveridge (HTML at monergism.com)
- The Soul in the Unseen World: An Inquiry into the Doctrine of the Intermediate State (1902), by R. E. Hutton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Spirits of Just Men Made Perfect: A Study of the Intermediate State (Oberlin, OH: Bibliotheca Sacra Company, 1916), by John Elliott Wishart (multiple formats at archive.org)
- State of the Dead (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1871), by Anson West (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The State of the Departed (New York: Thomas N. Stanford, 1857), by John Henry Hobart (multiple formats at Google)
- Testimonies in Proof of the Separate Existence of the Soul in a State of Self-Consciousness Between Death and the Resurrection (1829), by Thomas Huntingford (multiple formats at Google)
- Where Are the Dead? A Guide to Scriptural Truth and Teaching Concerning the Intermediate State (c1920), by E. M. Milligan (PDF at Google)
- The State of the Dead and the Destiny of the Wicked (Battle Creek, MI: Steam Press of the Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association, 1873), by Uriah Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A History of the Doctrine of the Soul Among All Races and Peoples, Ancient and Modern, Including Theologians, Philosophers, Scientists, and Untutored Aboriginees (second edition, 1882), by Dudley Marvin Canright (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
- The Revelation to the Monk of Evesham Abbey in the Year of Our Lord Eleven Hundred Ninety-Six, Concerning the Places of Purgatory and Paradise (New York: J. McBride Co., 1909), trans. by Valerian Paget
- In the Desert of Waiting: The Legend of Camel-Back Mountain (Boston: L. C. Page & Co., 1908), by Annie F. Johnston (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- An Argument to Prove That Death is Not Obligatory on Christians (New York: Ennis Bros., 1875), by John Asgill, ed. by Tresham Dames Gregg (multiple formats at archive.org)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Future life- After Death -- What? (revised electronic edition, c1998), by Leoline L. Wright (HTML at TUP)
- Mediumship and Survival: A Century of Investigations (London: W. Heinemann, c1982), by Alan Gauld (illustrated HTML at esalen.org)
- Claude's Book (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1919), by L. Kelway Bamber
- Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life, by E. A. Wallis Budge
- The Hopes of the Human Race, Hereafter and Here (New York: J. Miller, ca. 1876), by Frances Power Cobbe
- The Hopes of the Human Race, Hereafter and Here (second edition; London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1880), by Frances Power Cobbe (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Immortality of the Soul, by Hiram Mattison (page images at MOA)
- Lumen (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1897), by Camille Flammarion
- The Passing -- And Life Afterward, by Max Heindel (illustrated HTML at rosicrucian.com)
- The Powers of the World to Come, by George B. Cheever (page images at MOA)
- After Death -- What? (Theosophical Manual #5; Point Loma, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1939), by Leoline L. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
- After Life in Roman Paganism (1922), by Franz Cumont (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) (based on the 1913 Medici Society text), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (HTML at Lysator)
- The Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani (based on the 1895 text and commentary), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Book of the Psychic Society: A Study of the Fourteen Unseen Powers That Control Human Life; and Containing Immortality, A Scientific Demonstration of Life After Death (Washington: Ralston University Pub. Co., 1908), by Edmund Shaftesbury
- The Doctrine of Annihilation in the Light of the Gospel of Love (London: Henry S. King and Co., 1875), by James Baldwin Brown
- Here and Hereafter, or, Man in Life and Death: The Reward of the Righteous and the Destiny of the Wicked (Washington: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1897), by Uriah Smith (HTML with commentary at lionofjudah1.org)
- How I Know That the Dead Are Alive (Washington, DC: Plenty Pub. Co., 1917), by Fannie Ruthven Paget
- In After Days: Thoughts on the Future Life (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1910), contrib. by William Dean Howells, Henry James, John Bigelow, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Mills Alden, William Hanna Thomson, Guglielmo Ferrero, Julia Ward Howe, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
- The Intermediate World (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1878), by L. T. Townsend (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On the Threshold of the Unseen: An Examination of the Phenomena of Spiritualism and of the Evidence for the Survival After Death (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1918), by William Barrett, contrib. by James H. Hyslop
- The Other Side of Death, Scientifically Examined and Carefully Described (Chicago: Theosophical Book Concern, 1903), by C. W. Leadbeater
- Raymond, or, Life and Death; With Examples of the Evidence for Survival of Memory and Affection After Death (New York: G.H. Doran Co., c1916), by Oliver Lodge (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Contact With the Other World: The Latest Evidence as to Communication With the Dead (New York: The Century Co., 1919), by James H. Hyslop
- Death-- and After?, by Annie Besant (Gutenberg text)
- The Immortality of the Soul (New York: Pub. at the Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1849), by Luther Lee (multiple formats at Google)
- The Nature of Spirit, and of Man as a Spiritual Being, by Chauncey Giles (HTML at swedenborgdigitallibrary.org)
- Nearing Home: Comforts and Counsels for the Aged, by William Edward Schenck (page images at MOA)
- Paradoxical Philosophy: A Sequel to The Unseen Universe (second edition; London: Macmillan and Co., 1879), by Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait
- Stories of Infinity: Lumen; History of a comet; In Infinity (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1873), by Camille Flammarion, trans. by S. R. Crocker (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Ministry of Angels Here and Beyond (fifth edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920), by Joy Snell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Polynesian Analogues to the Celtic Other-World and Fairy Mistress Themes (extract from Vassar Mediaeval Studies; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923), by Martha Warren Beckwith (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Unity of Man, or, Life and Death Realities: A Reply to Rev. Luther Lee (1850), by George Storrs (PDF at a2z.org)
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