Hells

Hell is, according to many religious beliefs, a place or a state of painful suffering. The English word 'hell' comes from the Teutonic 'Hel', which originally meant "to cover" and later referred to the goddess of the Norse underworld, Helgardh. Compare Anglo-Saxon helan, Greek kalyptein and Latin celare = "to hide, to cover" (all from IE *kel). In many religions, after death, evildoers either suffer eternally or until they have paid for their bad deeds before reincarnation or redemption. In monotheis ...

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Hells: Encyclopedia II - Hell - Hell in Literature Many of the great epics of European literature include episodes that occur in Hell. In the Roman poet Virgil's Latin epic, the Aeneid, Aeneas descends into Dis (the underworld) to visit his father's spirit. The underworld is only vaguely described, with one unexplored path leading to the punishments of Tartarus, while the other leads through Erebus and the Elysian Fields. In his Divina commedia ('Divine comedy'; set in the year 1300), Dante Alighieri employed the conceit of taking Virgil as his guide through Inferno (and ...

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Hells: Encyclopedia - Problem of Hell

The problem of Hell is a variant of the problem of evil, aimed specifically at religions which hold both that: An omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-knowing), and omnibenevolent (all-loving) God exists. Some people will be consigned to Hell forever, and will be eternally tortured. Problem of Hell - The debate. While Hell has traditionally been regarded as a punishment for wrong-doing or sin in life, the problem arises primarily from the severity of the punishment, if Hel ...

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Hells: Encyclopedia - Wilhelm Reich in Hell

Wilhelm Reich in Hell is a play by Robert Anton Wilson. It presents the character of famous psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, dead in a United States prison, passing through death and judgment. It draws on sources common to Wilson's other works, including the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the works of the Marquis de Sade and of Marilyn Monroe, Golden Dawn mysticism, and criticism of the American Medical Association. Other related archivesAmerican Medical Association, Golden Dawn, Marily

Hells: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary on Hell

hell: Naraka.

An unhappy, mentally and emotionally congested, distressful area of consciousness.

Hell is a state of mind that can be experienced on the physical plane or in the sub-astral plane (Naraka) after death of the physical body. It is accompanied by the tormented emotions of hatred, remorse, resentment, fear, jealousy and selfcondemnation.

However, in the Hindu view, the hellish experience is not permanent, but a temporary condition of one's own making.

See: asura, loka, Naraka, purgatory, Satan.

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Hells: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Hell

Hell. See HEAVEN AND HELL

Hells: New Age Spirituality Dictionary on Hell

Hell

The place of the dead not only the grave, but also the place the soul goes after death.

There are several words translated as Hell in the Bible:

Hades - A Greek word. It is the place of the dead, the location of the person between death and reincarnation.
Gehenna - A Greek word. It was the place where dead bodies were dumped and burned and has come to designate the place of eternal punishment
Sheol - A Hebrew word in the Old Testament, Hell is usually divided in a place of delight and a place of torment.

In Christian doctrine Hell is a place of eternal fire that is prepared for the devil and his angels and will be the abode of the wicked and the fallen angels

Hells: New Age Spirituality Dictionary on Hell

Hell

The place of the dead not only the grave, but also the place the soul goes after death.

There are several words translated as Hell in the Bible:

Hades - A Greek word. It is the place of the dead, the location of the person between death and reincarnation.
Gehenna - A Greek word. It was the place where dead bodies were dumped and burned and has come to designate the place of eternal punishment
Sheol - A Hebrew word in the Old Testament, Hell is usually divided in a place of delight and a place of torment.

In Christian doctrine Hell is a place of eternal fire that is prepared for the devil and his angels and will be the abode of the wicked and the fallen angels

Hells: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Hell

Hell. A term with the Anglo-Saxons, evidently derived from the name of the goddess Hela (q.v.), and by the Sclavonians from the Greek Hades: hell being in Russian and other Sclavonian tongues - ad, the only difference between the Scandinavian cold hell and the hot hell of the Christians, being found in their respective temperatures.

But even the idea of those overheated regions is not original with the Europeans, many peoples having entertained the conception of an underworld climate; as well may we if we localise our Hell in the centre of the earth. All exoteric religions - the creeds of the Brahmans, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Mahommedans, Jews, and the rest, make their hells hot and dark, though many are more attractive than frightful. The idea of a hot hell is an afterthought, the distortion of an astronomical allegory.

With the Egyptians, Hell became a place of punishment by fire not earlier than the seventeenth or eighteenth dynasty, when Typhon was transformed from a god into a devil. But at whatever time this dread superstition was implanted in the minds of the poor ignorant masses, the scheme of a burning hell and souls tormented therein is purely Egyptian.

Ra (the Sun) became the Lord of the Furnace in Karr, the hell of the Pharaohs, and the sinner was threatened with misery "in the heat of infernal fires". "A lion was there" says Dr. Birch "and was called the roaring monster". Another describes the place as "the bottomless pit and lake of fire, into which the victims are thrown" (compare Revelation). The Hebrew word ga?-hinnom (Gehenna) never really had the significance given to it in Christian orthodoxy.

Hells: Mysticism Magick Dictionary on HELL

HELL

The negative vortex. The state of the world as it awaits the transmogrifying ourgos of the magician. In the infernal state, the world contains an infinite number of physical, mental and spiritual torments that usually pass unnoticed by the damned who have grown accustomed to them. Only when some new and particularly hideous catastrophe strikes do the victims remember where they are and where they have been all along.

Hell is as much an illusion as earth. There is a possibly apocryphal anecdote related by Mrs. Melitta Rubia, a latterday disciple of HPB, in which she dreams that she has been transported to a lovely, warm garden of dazzling beauty in which all of her wants are provided. Here she dwells, day after halcyon day, in sweet idleness and luxury. One evening, as she descends to the crystal clear lake to drink the divine nectar that crowns her perfect existence, she suddenly discovers that she has been living a hideous delusion. The truth is that she is really a loathesome parasite whose lovely garden is simply her host's skin and the crystal lake her host's bloodstream.

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Hells: A Christian Theological Dictionary on Hell

A Christian theological definition of Hell according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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Hell is the future place of eternal punishment of the damned including the devil and his fallen angels. There are several words rendered as Hell: Hades - A Greek word. It is the place of the dead, the location of the person between death and resurrection. (See Matt. 11:23; 16:18; Acts 11:27; 1 Cor. 15:55; Rev. 1:18; 6:8). Gehenna - A Greek word. It was the place where dead bodies were dumped and burned (2 Kings 23:13-14). Jesus used the word to designate the place of eternal torment (Matt. 5:22,29,30; Mark 9:43; Luke 12:5). Sheol - A Hebrew word. It is the place of the dead, not necessarily the grave, but the place the dead go to. It is used of both the righteous (Psalm 16:10; 30:3; Isaiah 38:10) and the wicked (Num. 16:33; Job. 24:19; Psalm 9:17). Hell is a place of eternal fire (Matt. 25:41; Rev. 19:20). It was prepared for the devil and his angels (Matt. 25:41) and will be the abode of the wicked (Rev. 22:8) and the fallen angels (2 Pet. 2:4).
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Hells: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Hell

Hellen (Greek) Son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only survivors of the deluge; ancestor of the Hellenic race. His sons were Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, parents of the Dorian, Ionic, and Aeolian races. (BCW 5:219)

Hells: Encyclopedia II - Hell - Origins

Hell, as it exists in the Western popular imagination, has its origins in Hellenized Christianity, particularly taken from adaptation of the Hellenistic afterlife known as Tartarus. Judaism, at least initially, believed in Sheol, a shadowy existence to which all were sent indiscriminately. Sheol may have been little more than a poetic metaphor for death, not really an afterlife at all: see for example Sirach. However, by the third to second century B.C. the idea had grown to encom ...

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