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The Hidden Principal in the Hell
According to witness of those who had near-death experiences, everybody in the spirit world looked happy or full of love. However, there are a limited number of witnesses who reported that they had seen the hell in their near-death experiences.
Indeed, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Raymond Moody have not assured that there is not only the happy spirit world but also the hell where souls of evil men would go. Yet, Emanuel Swedenborg, a notable psychic in the 18th century, reported existence of the hell in the afterlife in a detailed manner, which seems to be more trustworthy.
However, almost all who have claimed that they saw the spirit world with angel-like entities or the world of light in their near-death experiences have never confessed that they are sinners or evil men in this world. They might have all changed to good men or repenting men to be forgiven by the God on their deathbeds. But as half of men in this world look sinful or evil, there must be a special place in the afterlife where they should go by preference.
According to Swedenborg, all the souls of dead men get into the spirit world and proceed along a road until they encounter a big stone from which the road is divided to the left and the right. Good souls go along the left road which is straight to Heaven. But evil souls stumble on the stone to harm themselves but stand up to run along the wide right road to the hell. Perhaps, evil souls cannot see the stone and should find the wide right road so comfortable.
Angels and good souls in Heaven can see the hell below, although the hell is covered by some lid, if they allowed to do so. The hell is in three layers like in the caves in mountains. The uppermost layer is dark and gloomy. The next lower one is full of fire. The lowest one is where evil souls purged from the two upper layers go and hide or are abandoned.
Evil souls in the dark and gloomy layers are those who did evil things while being guided or allured by outside evil. Evil souls in fire are those who did evil things while being moved by their inherent evil. They fight, attack, harm, and rob one another. They roam about like wild animals. And when they are punished due to their extreme evil nature, they go to subterranean caves or wilderness like the desert. Especially those who used preeminently shrewd and dirty skilled tricks to do evil would be abandoned there until the last time when they are finally destroyed by the God.
However, it should be noted that souls of those who are excellent in intellectual power but lack enough love are not highly regraded or appraised. The most important feature of men consists in love, since love makes a man worthy of the name. They may also fall into the hell if not so deep. Even if they are allowed into Heaven, they should be placed under those without much intellectual power but with enough love to the God and others.
Those who had near-death experiences must have only seen the entrance to the spirit world. But, further into the spirit world, every soul should go to Heaven or the hell, which must be too severe to be revealed to living men in this world.
However, those scholars and pundits as well as those who had near-death experiences do not usually talk much about Satan in the spirit world or the hell. Yet, Satan as the source of evil and vice should be the hidden principal in the hell, the spirit world, or this world. We should not neglect it like in the case of the Gospels.
++++ ++++ ++++Matthew 9, King James Version
10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.