Among the ordeals for novitiates was enforced silence for five years.
"Human, All-Too-Human, Part II"
Friedrich Nietzsche
Hereupon the two novitiates asked, "Are there in heaven human forms altogether similar to those in the natural world?"
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg
The two angelic spirits replied, that it was altogether similar; and as they perceived in the novitiates an inclination to know, whether in heaven there were similar ultimate delights, they said, that they were exactly similar, but much more blessed, because angelic perception and sensation is much more exquisite than human: "and what," added they, "is the life of that love unless derived from a flow of vigor?
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg