Hell “The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of hell.”<\/em><\/p>\n As fire was the characteristic of the place, it was called the Gehenna of fire. It should be carefully distinguished from Hades By this word the Septuagint translated the Hebrew Sheol, which has a similar general meaning. The classical Hades In the New Testament, Hades Hades As we can see here, there is much confusion in these two Greek words that are\u00a0translated\u00a0as hell with the first referring to a “symbol of the place of the future punishment In these ideas of hell as defined in the Greek word geenna\u00a0<\/em>we should see the place defined by Vincent as its nature. A place where one would fear to go in physical Life and should prefer to pluck out an eye or cut off a hand rather than to go there according to the Master’s teachings. There is of course no clarity in this and the sayings are rather parabolic and intended to show the severity of the offending eye or hand and the danger of anger; that these are equivalent to being cast into “the common refuse-place of the city, into which the bodies of criminals, carcasses of animals, and all sorts of filth were cast<\/em>“4<\/sup>. Yet, the common understanding of this is that place called hell to which a man goes after death if he is not good enough to be elevated to heaven.<\/p>\n The other word translated as hell is the Greek word hades and the ideas here are of the more traditional meanings as we have been discussing above albeit the words are yet sorely misunderstood. Here we refer to the\u00a0the invisible land, the realm of shadow or, <\/em>as the lexicon paints it, the realm of the dead<\/em>2<\/sup>. <\/em>Vincent tells us also that It is the place to which all who depart this life descend, without reference to their moral Can we see in these three verses the confusion of terms that we are dealing with and which are explained away by doctrine as the heaven and hell of the good person and the sinner. Can we see that both do go to this same place as hades<\/em> and that Vincent’s reference to the fate of Jesus is to the same, after His death on the Cross, and is not what it is generally made out to be; it is the place of ALL after death and from which the Soul who can will free himself as did the Christ. The reference to Christ is from the Book of Acts of which Vincent tells us above says: “He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption<\/em>” (Acts 2:31).<\/p>\n Our purpose here today is to highlight the lack of reality in the way that death is approached by so many people and by the doctrines that purport to explain and interpret the words of the Master.\u00a0When death is seen as the transition from the realm of men in form to the realm of men without form, the race will come to better understand it. Except for the Master there are none who have come back in such a public way and we must realize here that His return was not to the body of flesh that He left but, as we have discussed, to a body that could be whatsoever He desired it to be and this should be no more strange that the fig tree dying or Lazarus being raised. The Master tells us that “with God all things are possible<\/em>” (Mark 10:27) and it should not be in a man’s vocabulary to doubt anything of Him. We close with another saying from the Apostle Paul regarding death from a rather personal perspective but one which can be extended to others in the proper understanding of Life. This is to say that when the consciousness in form us focused<\/em> upon the Soul, the Christ Within, and the Love and the Power of the Soul is being expressed through form, that we can say with the apostle that: “So when this corruptible shall have put on\u00a0incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on\u00a0immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up\u00a0in victory.\u00a0O death, where is thy sting? O grave,\u00a0where is thy victory?<\/em>”\u00a0(1\u00a0Corinthians\u00a015:54-55). And, when we can understand this of ourselves, we can understand this of others. 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