5377. About the destruction of the ancient heaven, that is, about the changes there
There is an expanse higher yet, above the middle where the Christians are, that did not appear to me earlier, nor did it to those below. It is high above the head all around. Certain [spirits] said they do not see it although they had seen the ones ascending into it as if into a cloud, but they were seen to have vanished at a certain level of ascent. All from the Christian world ascend there who thought about God and who led a life of piety, thus those whose inward parts had been opened a little, but not otherwise than by a life of piety and thought about God.
