Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 965

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965. These details have to do with the hells and with types of punishments. The torments of hell are not, as some suppose, the gnawings of conscience, for people in hell have had no conscience and therefore cannot suffer the torment of conscience. Those who have had conscience are among the blessed.


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