The War in Heaven

Raphael suggests that the humans, if they remained unfallen because they're made of the same material as angels, would eventually transcend. They would metabolize the latent grossness of their bodies and become angelic. "They would achieve a kind of heaven without dying," Raphael says in his book. Milton thought he went blind because he ate something bad, right? So this is very... Milton's ... This is a metaphor that for Milton that is philosophical, theological, poetic, and personal, and biological somehow.