Last Judgment (Post) (Rogers) n. 127

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127. [127.] While the Last Judgment was going on, gentiles who dwelled in the western zone beyond the Muslims were then conveyed toward the east, not by a circular route, however, but over the northern plane of Christians and, what surprised me, at a height, so that they were transferred by a route above the Christians, and yet they did not communicate with them. They were then allotted places around the Muslims in the east and also in the south. Over where the Muslim heavens are, on either side of them, appeared chasms sloping down to a depth. Into these were cast the evil among them who worshiped idols and entertained no thought of God, and who at the same time lived an evil life. [128.] There is also a similar chasm on the northern side of the Muslim desert. Into it were cast the worst of them. So, too, many of the Roman Catholic religion who worshiped images of the saints and thought not at all of the Lord. The latter were gathered from the northern zone beneath mountains there and mixed with gentiles, because they are of a similar character. After that I saw the whole northern valley, reaching to the mountains there, completely torn up and all who were there scattered; and there appeared then as though a cloud of smoke.


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