Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1288

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1288. About a very deep hell

The hellish demon or fury who had been here and brought with him such a poisonous aura, and who sent out to me a little child with a dagger and a container of poison [1282-3], and later did the same to someone else, was afterwards removed, to be sent back to his cadaverous hell [1279]. He moved on, somewhat to the left, a little toward the region of the temple, at the same level, and in fact to a great distance, without descending. Afterwards he sank down, at first into a fire that appeared, then into fiery smoke like that of a furnace. Soon he passed under that furnace-for the place was portrayed as a huge furnace-towards the parts in front where there were caverns sloping downwards and to the sides in every direction. There he sank down into the cadaverous stink, and as he made his way thither, he was constantly thinking up evils and planning bad things, especially against innocent people, without a cause. The spirits around me shuddered and fled away. When he fell through the fire, he wailed miserably. 1748, 10 March. This hell is under the earth, in the very dark caverns described previously [1246-9, 1257-66].


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