Mankind knows no more than simply that there is a hell, and a heaven, that in hell there is fire and torment, in heaven happiness. But they are profoundly ignorant about what it consists of, so they judge about them on the basis of things commonly existing in the world-or rather, they judge about them not at all, since they have only a general idea. Where there is a general idea, there is almost no idea. Nevertheless there are countless varieties, so that they cannot possibly be described.