To answer such a question we must resort to the dictionary. Every word is derived from some ideal or idea. Words often change in their meaning. With words of ancient use, we should observe the root. The root of heaven is the word "heave."and this word may be taken as synonymous with "lifting" or "exaltation."

Heaven then must mean some form of elevation, either in space or in the mind. In order to live, we heave, puff up or breathe. From this sense, "heaven is within." The earth heaves in the contraction or extension of its atmosphere. The rising and falling of the tides may be compared to the animal mode of breathing. In another sense, any effort which is accompanied by a condition of relief from some previous satiated condition, may give a good idea of the meaning of "heaven."

We have completed the limitation of our breathing power when we give up living, and in that sense, it is said, we "go to heaven."When the spirit goes out of the body it has to go into space, or into the atmosphere, and the dictionaries tell us that the atmosphere is heaven. They also say "heaven is the dwelling place of God." and then we are taught that God is everywhere," and we are also taught that waves of vibration permeate through, above, below and on every side of everything. Now. by this analysis, you can tell what and where heaven is as well as anyone can. The breathing process of everything is out and in, and when the force is in, then it becomes a relief to expel it and when it is out then it is a relief to inhale it, and so heaven is "relief."and heaven is everywhere. On these various meanings of the word "heaven." many mythological stories have been written, and they are filled with truths, adapted to infant minds, and no matter how much these stories differ, they all contain truths of heaven and heavenly conditions.

These myths are truth and nothing but truth, but they are not all of truth.