Thomas Traherne

Thomas Traherne's passage appears to be more of an idealistic description of heaven than the usual passages I have read (mostly everyone is connected passages). Traherne writes that as humans living in the mortal realm, we will never experience the greatest happiness or beauty until we are standing before God and his heaven kingdom. Also, it can be taken as we do not understand or see things clearly until we are in God's realm. Either way, Traherne describes his heaven as a place of absolute perfection. It is a utopia. Children were "moving jewels" as they played in the streets. Young men were glittering angels, and maidens were pieces of beauty and life. He loses his fears, his doubts, and other mortal thoughts and enters a form of enlightenment.