HELL: ITS DELUSIONS AND MISERIES.
The antipode of heaven. Common errors respecting it. How is hell created? Its materiel. Its life is self-love, and hatred to the neighbor. Hell-fire. The darkness of hell. What kind of bodies have evil spirits? What abodes? What surroundings? Are they punished for the sins done in the body? Do they feel remorse? The Devil—what of his personality? How are evil spirits occupied? Reception of a new-comer in hell. Sufferings. Why does God permit? Why does He not reform the devils? or annihilate them? Is hell to be eternal? The uses of hell |
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THE WORLD OF SPIRITS.
The intermediate state. Hades. Why the Reformers expunged it from their creed. Necessary in the nature of things. How created. Its first external appearance to the new-comer. The causes of the wonderful changes there. Judgment—special and general. How is the special judgment effected? Uses of the world of spirits. Societies there. Spiritual affinities. General judgments. Peter's strange interpretation of a passage from the prophet Joel. Four judgments have taken place. Christ the Judge; angels the ministers. New keys to the philosophy of history. Effects of the judgment executed by the Lord when He was on the earth. |
