Six Theosophic Points, and Other Writings
29. But if it resolve rashly, and abandon itself wholly to the wrath, then the fierce wrath destroys the first image according to God. And if it cannot entirely, because the divine power hinders that.
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then it would cast the whole man headlong; and many a one is plunged into despair in this anguish, so that he lays violent hands on himself.
30. Thus the soul with the image falls unto the wrathful, dark world; and the image is brought into a hellish figure, into a form of its property which it had here. So it fared also with the devils, who have lost their first image.
31 Every devil has an image according to his property, according to the figure of the wrath, in accordance with its quahty; like as there are horrible worms or evil beasts, and such a thing has also the lost soul to expect.
32. External Reason supposes that hell is far from us. But it is near us. Every one carries it in himself, unless he kill the hellish poison with God's power, and bud forth therefrom as a new twig, which the hellish quality cannot seize or touch (riigen).
33. Though indeed the fierceness of hell is recognized more in one place than in another, all according to the hellish dominion, where the upper dominion is powerful in various places in the locus of this world; all according to the fire enkindling of King Lucifer, as in many places of the earth, as also in the deep between the stars and the earth, is the hellish quality to be discerned above other places, where the inner fierceness extends to the external principle. Here then are distinct dominions of devils, also of the other hellish properties ; here the fierce wrath of God has stronglyp. 109 inflamed itself, and now burns until the judgment of God.
34. Every man carries heaven and hell within hi min this world. The property which he awakens, the same burns in him, and of that fire is the soul susceptible. And when the body dies, the soul needs to go nowhither, but it is committed to the hellish dominion of which it is the property. Those devils who are of its property await it, and receive it into their dominion until the judgment of God. And though they are confined to no place, yet they belong to the same dominion, and the same quality they have everywhere. Wherever they go, they are in the same dominion and quality; for the abyss has no place, neither time nor space. As it was before the times of the world, when there was no place; so it is and remains so eternally in the abyss.
35. And though the place of this world was given to Lucifer for a kingdom (for he was created therein), yet he has been cast out from place and position, and dwells in the abyss, where he can never reach any place of the angehc kingdom; but is shut up in his own realm in the abyss, where he must bear eternal reproach as a prisoner. As is done to a malefactor, who is put into a dark dungeon away from all the beings of this world, where he must do without any mundane joy or pleasure and bear the reproach of his crime.
36. So it fares also with the devils, and with all damned souls, who he captive in the dark prison.
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29. But if it resolve rashly, and abandon itself wholly to the wrath, then the fierce wrath destroys the first image according to God. And if it cannot entirely, because the divine power hinders that.
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then it would cast the whole man headlong; and many a one is plunged into despair in this anguish, so that he lays violent hands on himself.
30. Thus the soul with the image falls unto the wrathful, dark world; and the image is brought into a hellish figure, into a form of its property which it had here. So it fared also with the devils, who have lost their first image.
31 Every devil has an image according to his property, according to the figure of the wrath, in accordance with its quahty; like as there are horrible worms or evil beasts, and such a thing has also the lost soul to expect.
32. External Reason supposes that hell is far from us. But it is near us. Every one carries it in himself, unless he kill the hellish poison with God's power, and bud forth therefrom as a new twig, which the hellish quality cannot seize or touch (riigen).
33. Though indeed the fierceness of hell is recognized more in one place than in another, all according to the hellish dominion, where the upper dominion is powerful in various places in the locus of this world; all according to the fire enkindling of King Lucifer, as in many places of the earth, as also in the deep between the stars and the earth, is the hellish quality to be discerned above other places, where the inner fierceness extends to the external principle. Here then are distinct dominions of devils, also of the other hellish properties ; here the fierce wrath of God has stronglyp. 109 inflamed itself, and now burns until the judgment of God.
34. Every man carries heaven and hell within hi min this world. The property which he awakens, the same burns in him, and of that fire is the soul susceptible. And when the body dies, the soul needs to go nowhither, but it is committed to the hellish dominion of which it is the property. Those devils who are of its property await it, and receive it into their dominion until the judgment of God. And though they are confined to no place, yet they belong to the same dominion, and the same quality they have everywhere. Wherever they go, they are in the same dominion and quality; for the abyss has no place, neither time nor space. As it was before the times of the world, when there was no place; so it is and remains so eternally in the abyss.
35. And though the place of this world was given to Lucifer for a kingdom (for he was created therein), yet he has been cast out from place and position, and dwells in the abyss, where he can never reach any place of the angehc kingdom; but is shut up in his own realm in the abyss, where he must bear eternal reproach as a prisoner. As is done to a malefactor, who is put into a dark dungeon away from all the beings of this world, where he must do without any mundane joy or pleasure and bear the reproach of his crime.
36. So it fares also with the devils, and with all damned souls, who he captive in the dark prison.
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