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The belief in an everlasting place of damnation is a powerful image that has been
an integral part of the spiritual mythology of the world since the days of the earliest
Christian philosophers around 1,800 years ago.
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While it is a much more recent idea compared to the many beliefs of heavens and
spiritual paradise of ancient non-Christian belief systems, the horrendous images
of torture, fire, pain and fear evoked along with the threat of Hell have made it
a major focal point for many Christian writers, preachers and systems.
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Even today, around the world, literally tens of thousands of Christian preachers
regularly evoke the threat and the horror of Hell into the minds of their parishioners
as part of their sermons. Far from a fading idea, the concept of Hell has enjoyed
a revival of sorts at the end of the 20th Century with great concern towards the
concept of “Armageddon” and “Final Days”.
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So where does the idea of Hell actually come from? Why? And what does it mean for
people in the future?
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Origin of word (Etymology) |
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The word Hell is not a Christian invention, but an appropriation of a pre-existing
God of Northern Europe. Hell in Old English comes from the Cthonic underworld goddess
Hel(l) worshipped in Germanic and Nordic (Icelandic) communities from around 200
BCE to 300 CE.
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Hell was believed to be the daughter of Loki and the giantess Angrboda and the sibling
of both the Midgard worm who will cause the sea to flood the world with the lashings
of his tail and of Fenrir, the phantom world who will swallow the Sun at Ragnarok.
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She is Queen of the otherworld, also known as Hel(l) and she takes command of all
who die, except for heroes slain in battle, who ascend to Valhalla. In some religious
histories she is depicted as half black half white.
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The word Hell itself appears to come from a much older Proto-Germanic word “khalija
"one who covers up or hides something”.
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It is her role of Queen of the lost souls and her universal appeal across several
key European nations including Britain that attracted her as a concept to be “Christianized”.
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Development of the modern image of Hell
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Before the word Hell became popularized as the place of eternal damnation through
the publishing of one of the most famous books in English, the King James Bible
in 1611, the words Hades and Gehenna were used to describe the essential Christian
concept of misery and torment.
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Christianity holds the record for being the first and most successful religion in
history to use both theoretical torment and physical torment and misery as a recruitment
tool for followers.
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Before the advent of
Christianity and the wholesale destruction of the ancient world, religion
had retreated to a mostly part-time affair for most people. Simply, the improved
standard of living for individuals living across the Roman Empire had lowered peoples
reliance on supernatural beliefs.
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The same can be said for modern western society since the 1960’s and the significant
improvements in the standards of living.
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The concept of torment and pain have always been important elements of the satanic
roots of
Christianity and Paul of Tarsus, as opposed to the
Nazarene philosophy of Jesus and his real disciples.
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However, an ingenious new plan emerged around 300 CE to not only grow the religion
by dominate the ancient world.
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Firstly, the esoteric writings of John, the last true apostle, which we know as
the Book of Revelation suddenly became an extremely important text. For it connected
the concept of a Christian End of Days with a place of damnation and misery for
eternity unless individuals pledged total obedience to Christianity.
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Secondly, hell was going to be created on Earth through the systematic destruction
of society by Christianized leaders- a physical example of what people could expect
for “eternity” if they didn’t become loyal followers of Christianity,
the religion created by Paul of Tarsus and the House of Ananus, the Jewish High
Priests.
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Christianity succeeded in creating its first
Armageddon under the reign of Justinian around 540 CE having spent over
two hundred years systematically destroying every piece of knowledge, every practitioner
of skill, every ancient temple and structure dedicated to wisdom. They had succeeded
in halting all public works, all medical care, all education so that free flowing
public fountains stopped, sewers became blocked, cities became vreeding grounds
for new diseases and death and eventually the greatest relative loss of human life
in all of history.
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At least half of the world’s population died thanks to the Christian obsession
in bringing about the end of the world under Justinian by the end of the 6th Century.
Yet it was not the first, nor the last Christian induced “End of Days”
for in the centuries to follow, more plagues and death through Christian promoted
war has caused even more death.
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A spiritual hell |
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Contrary to Christian doctrine, there is no evidence that such a singular place
of pain exists. However, there is ample evidence that individual and small collective
hells exist.
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Individuals that fail to resolve regrets and unfinished business appear to carry
these problems over to the next world. So powerful are human emotions of regret
and guilt that it appears it can cause a mind to be suspended between this world
and the next-a kind of hell.
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Similarly, individuals who have lost their lives in war and tragedy also appear
to struggle with peace until they have worked through the regrets of life cut short
and lost love.
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Hell on earth
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All evidence to the existence of hell points to the human mind decision to make
life on earth a living hell. Humans over time have done their best to make life
misery, from war, from ill-thought building design and slums, from slavery, torture
and sacrifice. Now to modern cities of grey and dull, and lifeless oblivion.
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What is exceptional about the history of humanity making life on Earth a living
hell is that is can be traced back as an unbroken line of greed, messiahs, religions,
kinds, power, lust to the very first civilizations of humanity. At no point through
our existence have we stopped and thought it even possible that life on Earth could
be otherwise hell.
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Belief in Hell is the belief that War in Heaven
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A wisdom rarely revealed is that a belief in Hell is in fact a belief in War in
Heaven . That like on Earth, there is no peace in Heaven. For the very central characters
of Hell are those that were exiled, those that fought against Heaven and were cast
aside.
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And so much of our belief in this war is manifest in the belief in demons, in the
capturing and imprisonment of souls as slaves, in the light of angels and the darkness
of those that would cast evil.
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And so hell and the concepts that surround it are to be feared.
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The hell of regrets and unfinished business
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But to think that such a place of exile and torment is purely for those souls who
have disgraced humanity and cast great darkness, then we are sadly misguided. For
hell is the hell of regrets, the hell of a life unjustly taken, for the guilt of
taking lives unjust, for the curse uttered in life, for the fear and control of
other spirits who entrap us.
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Hell is not simply some place of torment, some "maximum security" spiritual
prison for the very worst inmates, it is a state of mind of every soul who feels
wronged or regrets the wrongs of their life that remain trapped and isolated. And
there are many millions of these sad souls.
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Do you really think all the souls of Auschwitz of all the people who worked and
died there have found a state of peace and heaven? How many do you think are still
in a state of hell? still in a state of anger for their lives unjustly taken?
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And what about all the young soldiers that have every died on the battlefields of
war? Do you fell they all feel at peace, that all unfinished business has been put
to rest?
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Or what about places of great torture and evil? Do you feel that the souls who unjustly
lost their lives in great pain and torment have happily moved on?
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Hell is far greater and far more complex and far more resilient than some organized
prison network for "maximum cursed" souls.
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The United States of Spirits, One Heaven
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The United States of Spirits, also known as One Heaven is the first time in history
where a dedicated, unified structure is proposed to not only end once and for all
the concept of hell, but systematically locate and redeem every single higher order
spirit.
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That eventually, not one single soul shall be damned, shall be cursed, shall exist
in a state of hell.
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This is the covenant, the final testament of the universe to the human race. |
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About: Hell
