This article is about the divine abode in various religious traditions. Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest heavens; from Gustave Doré 's illustrations to the Divine Comedy . Heaven or the heavens , is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as gods , angels , spirits , saints , or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned , or live. According to the beliefs of some religions, heavenly beings can descend to Earth or incarnate and earthly beings can ascend to Heaven in the afterlife or, in exceptional cases, enter Heaven alive . Heaven is often described as a "highest place", the holiest place, a Paradise , in contrast to hell or the Underworld or the "low places" and universally or conditionally accessible by earthly bein...
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