The Preachers' Garden of the Triumphant City of Jerusalem (1617) - Page 22

...of the customs of this city. ch. 1. ibid.
An example concerning the site of the places of the blessed. ch. 2. ... 176
On the societies and colleges of the blessed. ch. 3. ... 177
The division of every small sphere into societies or colleges. ch. 4. ... 178
That it can be understood in two ways that one sphere and one place is above another; and that heaven is always above the earth. ch. 5. ... 180

DISCOURSE VI.

The fourfold division of each Empyrean heaven, and on the site and order of the seats of the blessed in every heaven, and in the greater and lesser circuit. ch. 1. 181
On the threefold division of the Empyrean. ch. 1. 181
The division of the Empyrean into greater and lesser circles. ch. 2. ... 183

DISCOURSE VII.

On the distances and diverse species and diverse qualities of all the places of the blessed, and how one order differs from another in species in beauty, grace, ornament, and splendor in all the spheres of all the Empyrean heavens. 184
How the places of the blessed differ in species. ch. 1. ... ibid.
On the manifold distance between the parts of the Empyrean heaven. ch. 2. ... 185
That the places of the blessed are more excellent than inanimate bodies. ch. 3. ... 186
The difference between the places of the blessed. ch. 4. ... 187
An example concerning the excellence and difference of these places. ch. 5. ... 188

DISCOURSE VIII.

On the form and beauty and other conditions of the houses of the blessed; and on their site and state within them, and on their diverse ornaments. ... 190
On the form or shape of the seats or places

of the blessed. ch. 1. ... ibid.
That in the mansions of the blessed there are no stairs, nor windows, nor other similar things. ch. 2. ... 191
Why on earth earthly houses need windows, stairs, and such things, but there they do not. ch. 3. ... 192
That these places do not need light. ch. 4. ... 193
On the posture of the blessed in heaven, whether they shall sit, or lie down, and such things. ch. 5. ibid.
Whether these mansions will need furnishings. ch. 6. ... 195

DISCOURSE IX.

On the size of the places of the blessed.
On the magnitude of these places. ch. 1. ... ibid.
The great magnitude of the place of the blessed is proved, on the part of the blessed person and others. ch. 2. ... 197
That these mansions differ in magnitude. ch. 3. ... 198

DISCOURSE X.

On the unequal luminosity of the ten heavens and of all the places of the blessed; and on the material plazas, ways, paths, and streets of the supreme city, and on the wondrous site and order of the places of the blessed. ... 199
On the inequality of the light of the spheres of the Empyrean. ch. 1. ... ibid.
On the inequality of the light of the same sphere. ch. 2. 200
On the greatest light in the Empyrean after the Judgment. ch. 3. ... 201
On the material plazas, ways, and streets of this City. ch. 4. ... 202

DISCOURSE XI.

It is proved by reasons, revelations, and authorities that in heaven everyone has his own proper and particular place, as a house and particular inheritance, and it is answered