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CCXLVII explained
An awakened soul asks 'Who am I?' and is told by a smiling angel that this knowledge is denied in Heaven.
What happens
An awakened soul asks 'Who am I?' and is told by a smiling angel that this knowledge is denied in Heaven.
Key passages
“Who am I?”
An awakened soul asks for its identity.
The soul seeks self-knowledge.
“That is the only knowledge that is denied to you here; this is Heaven.”
A smiling angel explains that in Heaven, the one thing withheld is the answer to the soul's identity.
Heaven denies self-knowledge.