...time may come when men With Angels may participate, and find No inconvenient Diet, nor too light Fare: And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit, . . . (bk. 5, lines 454-55, 490, 493~97) This is an act simultaneously of ontological modulation and...

...sublim'd To vital spirits aspire ... ... |T]ime may come when men With Angels may participate, and ... Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit, Improv'd...may at choice Here or in Heav'nly Paradises dwell; If ye be found obedient, and retain Unalterably firm his love entire (5.478-84, 493-4, 497-502) obedience,...

...time may come when men With Angels may participate, and find No inconvenient Diet, nor too light fare: And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies...Improv'd by tract of time, and wing'd ascend Ethereal, as we, or may at choice Here or in Heav'nly Paradises dwell. . . 89 Meanwhile, "Here," in the earthly...

...time may come when men With Angels may participate, and find No inconvenient Diet, nor too light Fare; And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies...wingd ascend Ethereal, as wee, or may at choice Here in Heav'nly Paradises dwell. (5.493-500) Time is not the enemy of eternity, but the path to it; a world...

...(5.475— 76). l6 Matter can transmute into spirit, changing back into its divine essence as men's "bodies may at last turn all to Spirit, / Improv'd by tract of time, and wingd ascend / Ethereal" (5.497—99). A movement up God's hierarchy, such change is positive and an integral part of God's...