Last Judgment (Post) (Rogers) n. 112

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112. [113.] The most malicious of Roman Catholics become the stupidest, for the reason that when malice permeates all the inner elements of their minds and destroys every spiritual truth, they become then first insane and afterward stupid. They are sent underground between the west and the north. When anyone arrives at that site, a great stupor seizes his thinking and lethargy his body. Many of them were devil-worshipers and had books which contained the doctrinal tenets of their worship. One or two of the books were taken from them and read in the presence of others, in which was found a doctrinal declaration to the effect that they petition God the Father to excuse them for turning to the devil, because they had sought and had not received aid from God the Father; and knowing that they do receive aid from the devil, they therefore turn to him, calling him their benefactor. The second book, inscribed with nothing but symbols and squiggly lines, on being opened and deciphered, taught that they have nothing from the Divine, but everything from the devil. When asked the reason, they said that they do not obtain from God by their prayers their wish to exercise dominion over the souls of people and over the goods of their land as they did in the world. They were told that no one obtains this by prayer. Upon being exposed, they became at first insane, and presently they rushed from the mountain they were on, down the southern side of the mountain, into a dreadful hell where devil-worshipers dwell, and their houses collapsed into heaps. One of them ran over to me, and he was dark like a devil.


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