HELLS

In the Spirit Planes, hell is a place as well as a condition, and that as a place; it has all the accompaniments that make it a reality to the spirits who inhabit it. Of course, the conditions of the spirits who are in these hells are determined by their recollections worked upon by their consciences. Notwithstanding that, these recollections are the things that cause their sufferings; yet, the appearances of the locations in which they live are due to something more than these mere recollections. As you have been informed, all these spirits are in darkness, the degree of the darkness in which they live being determined by their recollections. I mean that when the spirit has recollections of deeds done, or not done, which are not so bad as the recollections of another, the former spirit is in a place where there is less darkness than the latter. These places have their own fixed condition of darkness and of gloom, and many other attachments, which increases the sufferings that spirits have to endure.


There are, of course, no fires, brimstone lakes, and devils with pitchforks adding to the sufferings of the spirits. Yet, there are certain conditions and appearances, which are outside of the spirits themselves, which causes their recollections to become more acute, and to work in a manner to produce a greater degree of suffering.


These hells may be places of caverns, rocks, barren wastes, dark holes, and other such things as have been written about. Mortals must know that evil spirits do not live in pleasant places and suffer only from the punishments which their recollections (conscience) bring to them.