Heaven or the heavens is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities angels souls saints or venerated ancestors are said to originate be enthroned or reside. According to the beliefs of some religions heavenly beings can descend to Earth or incarnate and earthly beings can ascend to Heaven in the afterlife or in exceptional cases enter Heaven without dying. Heaven is often described as a "highest place" the holiest place a Paradise in contrast to hell or the Underworld or the "low places" and universally or conditionally accessible by earthly beings according to various standards of divinity goodness piety faith or other virtues or right beliefs or simply divine will. Some believe in the possibility of a heaven on Earth in a world to come.