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Often appears with: fate, destiny, and necessity · judgment, heaven, and hell · immortality of the soul · under the earth · transmigration of souls · the heavens and the stars · the earth and its formation · substance and bodily change · sky paradise for souls · repentance at death · prayers and masses for the dead · prayer and worship
Usually: reflection (2) · crisis of belief (2) · description (1) · narrative (1) · confronting death (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1) · exhortation (1) · indignation (1) · skepticism (1)
“Moreover that foul flaming pit which you saw, is the mouth of Hell, into which whosoever falls shall never be delivered to all eternity.” Bede, the Venerable, Saint, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England · vivid
He outlines Australian variations of the afterlife: souls may inhabit the under-earth, a common place beyond sea on islands or lakes, or even the sky, sometimes with special treatment for the virtuous.
heart could not be that of the breath or the shadow or the placenta. While they are all related, still they are to be distinguished, and even have different names.[761] Moreover, even if the soul is localized especially in certain parts of the organism, it is not absent from the others. In varying degrees, it is diffused through the whole body, as is well shown by the funeral rites. After the last breath has been ex…
It argues against a simplistic afterlife by discussing what would happen if souls remain in air, and adds that all beings are reshaped back into an original rational source through transmutation, transfusion, or conflagration.
must he use himself to cut off actions only, but thoughts and imaginations also, that are unnecessary for so will unnecessary consequent actions the better be prevented and cut off. XXI. Try also how a good man's life; (of one, who is well pleased with those things whatsoever, which among the common changes and chances of this world fall to his own lot and share; and can live well contented and fully satisfied in th…
The souls spend seven days in the meadow, then observe the heavenly spindle of Necessity with the Fates and sirens, whose music and revolutions govern the cosmos.
hear the voice; and when there was silence, one by one they ascended with exceeding joy. These, said Er, were the penalties and retributions, and there were blessings as great. Now when the spirits which were in the meadow had tarried seven days, on the eighth they were obliged to proceed on their journey, and, on the fourth day after, he said that they came to a place where they could see from above a line of light…
After a visionary tour of heaven and hell, the guide explains that near-death repentance leads to judgment and Heaven, while those who fall into Hell are never delivered; the narrator is forced back to life to reform.
When I began to hope that we should enter that delightful place, my guide, on a sudden stood still; and straightway turning, led me back by the way we came. “In our return, when we came to those joyous mansions of the white-robed spirits, he said to me, ‘Do you know what all these things are which you have seen?’ I answered, ‘No,’ and then he said, ‘That valley which you beheld terrible with flaming fire and freezin…