*HELL
The Hebrew word "sheol" means "hell", or "the grave", or the "pit." (Heaven, p188)
The ultimate tragedy is that all those who end in Hell will have chosen it. Instead of accepting that we are all sinners in need of salvation of Jesus Christ, their pride condemns them to spiritual death. In the end, someone must be the god of our lives. If we insist on being our own god, we shall succeed, but at the cost of an eternity in Hell. (Heaven, p194)
In the end, either we say to God "Thy will be done" or God will say to us "Thy will be done" [and to hell we go.] (Paradise Lost by Milton)
Hell is not ever seeing (face to face) Goodness / God (Precepts, 3/11/97). I wonder if: we condemn ourselves to a temporary hell whenever we don't see the goodness in an event, esp if it causes us to suffer. I wonder if: seeing God face to face means transcending our imperfect selfs to see goodness in all things (all things = both good and bad = God)? Ironically, the more we realize how bad we are, the more we can see God's goodness (ie. seeing God face to face). Heaven is now if we realize that "shall" in the Beatitudes means now, not later.
Hell is the experience of the worst possible outcome of your choices, decisions, and creations. It is the natural consequences of any thought which denies Me or says no to Who You Are in relationship to Me. Hell does not exist as a place you have fantasized, where you burn in some everlasting fire or exist in some state of everlasting torment. That has been constructed in your fear-based theologies. You, yourself, create the experience, of unhappiness, incompleteness, so less than whole, so separated from God's grestest joy, whenever you reject Who and What You Really Are. However, that experience is never eternal, for it is not My plan that you shall be separated from Me forever and ever. (Conversations, p40-1)
You cannot not be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this. (Conversations, p115)
Hell is referred to as "her" which indicates that Hell is to Satan what the Church is to Christ. (Paradise3, p39)
Hell is like man's own imaginative decision. (Paradise3,p110)
Hell is a place, but within it lives a person whose fate is to discover that he himself is Hell. (Paradise3, p133
It is only in Hell that the soul grasps the infinite goodness and beauty of God; and the realisation that it has, of its own wilful volition, rejected God, is the sharpest pain of all. It is only in Hell, too, that the soul appreciates, for the first time, the sheer enormity of evil. (Quest, p167-8)
Satan's sin was the capital one of pride, an active arrogance which made him think he, like God, had the capacity and right to judge between good and evil. He himself defined justice and injustice, thus trying to seize a moral power which belongs to God alone. The crime of Satan is echoed in those who construct for themselves, in political and state terms, systems of morality which they, not God, lay down. Hell's denizens is anyone who, driven by pride in their own power or skill, their own beauty or genius, their own unaided intellect, abrogates to themselves a Godlike role. The road to Hell is paved by self apotheosis. Men and women of outstanding intellect and gifts are peculiarly liable to the temptations which make humand Hell-fodder. (Quest, p169)