November 1

On Heaven: Recognition in

“I believe that heaven is a fellowship of the saints, and that we shall know one another there.” (40.302)

“Some have doubted whether there will be recognition in heaven; there is no room for doubt, for it is called “my Father’s house;” and shall not the family be known to each other? We are to “sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob,” and we shall therefore know these patriarchial saints; we shall not sit down with men in iron masks, and see none but great unknowns; but we shall “know even as we are known.”” (887.476)

“I consider the doctrine of the non-recognition of our friends in heaven a marvellously absurd one; I cannot conceive how there can be any communion of saints in heaven unless there be mutual recognition.” (3077.58)