Mr. Payami said the idea for "Secret Ballot" came from a short film, "The Test of Democracy," by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, which includes a surreal sequence in which a woman carrying a ballot box parachutes from an airplane -- bringing heaven-sent democracy?
"This natural landform happens to be on the solstice axis, which brings heaven and earth into one.
'The euro is not going to bring heaven on earth, but everything stagnates and it's time for a change.
In 1816 Charles Lamb remarked that when Coleridge himself recited the poem, "it irradiates and brings heaven and Elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it".
For those that like their religion more saccharine, April will bring "Heaven is for Real," the film adaptation of the best-seller about a young boy who, after nearly dying on the operating table, convinces his family that he actually visited heaven during surgery.
Strutting up and down Maddox Square, admiring the ethereal beauty of the Goddess in clay and the angels of flesh and blood that flit around, all dressed up in their finest, the cadence of their laughter melting into the music of the drumbeats, a testament to how, when the Gods come to earth, they bring heaven with them.
Just as some early Communists and Nazis genuinely believed that they were sweeping away old institutions to bring heaven on earth, so the better-natured people among the followers of this new ideology would think that they were offering wonderful benefits without any high price to pay.
These revolutions involved the fierce actuality of last judgments, as people who had lived with the promise of the second coming in their hearts had reached such a state of hatred, desperation and lack, a hatred of love's and heaven's absence in the society surrounding them, that they had fought to bring heaven into the world.
They were brought about by people who wanted to bring Heaven to Eart.
The mighty acts of God, which break into the human condition, bring heaven on earth.
This is how we bring Heaven to Earth now for you and me.
