can only do work that is evil and harmful. They cannot work faithfully;
they can work only fraudulently and unwillingly. Therefore they leave
their work. The only things they love to do are socializing and talking,
walking around, and sleeping. At that point their bosses can no longer
induce them to work; therefore they are exiled as useless.
[ 10 ] ( 10 ) Once they have been exiled, their eyes open and they see a
road that heads down to a cave. When they arrive at the cave, a door
opens and they go in. They ask whether there is food there. When they
receive a positive answer, they ask permission to stay and are told that
they may. They are taken in and the door closes behind them.
Then the person in charge of the cave comes and says to them, “You
can no longer leave. Look at your companions here. They all labor, and
as they labor food is given to them from heaven. I’m telling you this so
that you’ll know what’s going on.”
Others add, “The person in charge of us knows what type of work
each of us is well suited to do and orders us to do that daily work. On the
days when you do your work, you get food. If you don’t do your work,
you don’t get food or clothing. Anyone who does something evil to
someone else is thrown into a corner of the cave onto a bed of accursed
dust. There the evildoer is horribly tormented until the person in charge
sees some sign of repentance. At that point the evildoer is released and
ordered back to work.”
[ 11 ] The newcomers are also told that after their work they are each
allowed to go for a walk or socialize, and later on to sleep. The newcom-
ers are taken deeper into the cave where there are harlots. Each man is
allowed to have one of them and call her his partner, but he is forbidden
by law to sleep with other partners.
Hell consists of caves like this that are nothing but eternal work-
houses. I have been allowed into some of them to look around for the
purpose of reporting on them.
All the people there seemed lower class. They did not know who they
had been or what work they had done in the world. The angel who was
with me, however, told me, “This one was a servant, this one a soldier,
this one a general, this one a priest; this one held a high position; this one
had wealth. Yet for all they know now, they were slaves and companions
back then as well. This is because they were similar inside, although very
different on the outside. It is the inner selves that associate people in the
spiritual world.”
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