Continuing with Muhammad's description of his supposed Night Journey from Humphrey Prideaux's Life of Mohamet...
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"From the
first heaven Muhammad said he ascended up into the second heaven which was a distance of five hundred years journey
above the first. He determines this to be the distance of each of the seven
heavens above the other. As in the first heaven the gates were opened for him, where
at the entrance he met Noah who
greatly rejoiced at the sight of Muhammad and recommended himself to his
prayers. In this heaven, which was made of pure gold, Muhammad tells us he saw
twice as many angels as in the former and among them one of such an extraordinary
size that while standing in the second heaven, his head reached into the third.
"From
the second heaven Muhammad ascended upwards into the third which was made of precious stones. At the entrance he met Abraham who also recommended himself to
Muhammad’s prayers. In this third heaven Muhammad said he saw a vast many more angels
than in the second heaven and among them another large angel of such phenomenal
size that the distance between his two eyes was seventy thousand days’ journey,
according to our rate of traveling here on earth.