Heaven is an eternal school, according to Origen

According to Origen, the greatest theologian of the third century, when you get to heaven, God teaches you science (biology, physics, astronomy, etc.)! For example, astronomy:
When the saints reach the heavenly abodes, they will clearly see the nature of the stars one by one, and will understand whether they are endued with life, or their condition (whatever it is). And they will also understand the other reasons for the works of God, which He Himself will reveal to them. For He will show to them, as to children, the causes of things and the power of His creation, and will explain why that star was placed in that particular quarter of the sky, and why it was separated from another by so great an intervening space; what, e.g., would have been the consequence if it had been nearer or more remote; or if that star had been larger than this, how the totality of things would not have remained the same, but all would have been transformed into a different condition of being. And so, when they have finished all those matters which are connected with the stars, and with the heavenly revolutions, they will come to those which are not seen, or to those whose names only we have heard, and to things which are invisible, which the Apostle Paul has informed us are numerous, although what they are, or what difference may exist among them, we cannot even conjecture by our feeble intellect. 
(Origen, De Principiis 2,11,7)
Sounds good to me!

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