Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1399

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1399. THAT IN THE OTHER LIFE THERE ARE INDEFINITE VARIETIES Man knows simply that there is a hell and a heaven, that in hell there is fire and torment and in heaven felicity, and he knows nothing further. He is profoundly ignorant as to what they consist of and therefore he judges concerning them from things in the world in general, or rather, makes no judgment, because he has only a general idea. Where there is [only] a general idea there is almost no idea. And yet there are indefinite varieties so that they can never be described.


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