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Letters from a living dead man

Chapter 22: LETTER XVIII INDIVIDUAL HELLS
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A sequence of automatic letters presented as communications from a recently deceased individual and transcribed by a living interlocutor, offering sustained reflections on postmortem existence, perception beyond the physical, and spiritual progress. Through episodic missives the writer describes otherworldly landscapes, encounters with departed souls, moral and metaphysical instruction, and symbolic treatments of memory, time, and hierarchical order among unseen beings. The collection blends anecdote, philosophical exposition, and poetic passages to sketch an imaginative afterlife and suggest attitudes and practices for ethical growth and deeper comprehension of life beyond the corporeal realm.

LETTER XVIII
INDIVIDUAL HELLS

SOME time ago I told you of my intention to visit hell; but when I began investigations on that line there proved to be many hells.

Each man who is not content with the orthodox hell of fire and brimstone builds one out of mind-stuff suited to his imaginative need.

I believe that men place themselves in hell, that no God puts them there. I began looking for a hell of fire and brimstone, and found it. Dante must have seen the same things I saw.

But there are other and individual hells——

(The writing suddenly stopped, for no apparent reason, and was not continued that night.)