Worth contemplating. A good man sees his worthless wife in the after life and can do nothing for her except to forget.
What i find missing so far in these documents is the presence of the possibility of repentance and forgiveness in the afterlife which we do know from other sources is also available. So hope is not banished in hell at all but merely rarely accessed. Perhaps that will change as we progrees.
However, the lack of just that lends support to the plausible pre christian provenance of these scriptures. However skeptical we want to be, we are also been presented information not available in the form of the comet impact that correctly resolves real questions that were troublesome without instruction.
It is possible that one item could have been successfully invented from whole cloth but a whole culture and history?.
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
THE SCROLL OF YONUA
Away from my eyes, O Hideous One. Slink back
into the dark shadows about the black sunless abode where dwell the
self-distorted souls of the Fearsomely Formed Ones. Back to your murky haven of
sombre compatibility.
[ This is an exact description of what we have learned so far of the architecture of the other side said differently. - arclein ]
Away, out of sight, for your repulsiveness brings back into my heart the thoughts of evils and temptations I have encountered and overcome, thoughts which I now so gladly forget. You poor, doomed fiend, mis-shapen, homy- headed, slit-snouted, stunted in arms and legs, horrible to behold. What dreadfiil thoughts and unclean deeds must have been yours, to fashion you in this manner!
Away, out of sight, for your repulsiveness brings back into my heart the thoughts of evils and temptations I have encountered and overcome, thoughts which I now so gladly forget. You poor, doomed fiend, mis-shapen, homy- headed, slit-snouted, stunted in arms and legs, horrible to behold. What dreadfiil thoughts and unclean deeds must have been yours, to fashion you in this manner!
Away, back to your own kind, back from the
twilit border where you lurk fiirtively, afraid, pitifiiUy seeking a ghmpse of
the bright joys denied to your own folly. Back to the place with which you have
pitiful affinity, back to your own dark, compatible companions.
The Guardians of the Hidden Gates repel you,
lest you befoul the pathways of the Glorious Ones who once struggled to find
beauty and cleanliness. The light of this place is ever spreading, and soon a
Glorious One may walk where you now slink in the gloom. Back, back from the
dividing flame, back into the sad comfort of enveloping darkness. Back to your
foul companions in misery, back into the mercifully enshrouding gloom.
Your fate saddens my heart. Can you find
consolation there, hidden in the comforting darkness? Does a kind word ever
lighten the burden of your days? Is there a place of rest among the slime and
excreta? O Fallen One, who once walked Earth so proudly in self-esteem,
selfishness and arrogance, go back, torment yourself no more with the sights of
beauty and joy which lie beyond your reach. O Wriggler in the Slime, back from
the purifying flame, what can it avail you now?
O Repellent One, who by wrongdoing and non-good
doing thus cursed yourself and were delivered into the comfortless arms of
decay and filth; who on Earth appeared arrayed in such deceptive softness and complacency;
who dwelt amid pleasure and luxury, away, back into the shadows, hide yourself
from the pure gaze of the Glorious Ones.
O Squirming One, turned back are you, the
shameful flesh is unworthy even of the flame. The unshapely mass, unchiselled
by the forming blows of self -discipline and selfless service, unmoulded by the
touch of compassion and love, unpolished by conformity to the burnishing blows
of sincere goodness, has no place near the region of revealing light. See, are
you not seared with pain when the pure light falls upon you? Miserable indeed
is your lot in that dread, dreary abode!
See, your slimy hide shrinks from the pure
glare, it splits, it cracks, back, back into your dark cavern with its floor of
slime. Back out of sight, out of hearing, back from the pure gaze of
righteousness. How miserable the lot of one who finds unconsoling comfort in
the depths of dread darkness lit only by shadowy gloom! How awfiil to dwell in
companionship with distorted shades!
What became of the loveliness which once clothed
you on Earth? Whose fault that you brought it not with you? Did you ever pause,
even for one moment, to gaze into the self-revealing mirror within you and see
the awful creature you were forming? Amid your pleasures and luxury, did you
not think of the wellbeing of your inner self? Did you not care?
O if 1 could but help you now, but the
hideousness was set firm in the furaace fire of death. Then the enveloping flesh
was stripped away and the hidden horror within the mould revealed. As the
butterfly emerges from the chrysalis, so should the soul emerge from its
earthly body. An unnatural thing like this was never intended, yet you freely
made the choice. Not a single disfiguring line was made by another.
[ wow - well written - likely poesy in the original - arclein ]
[ wow - well written - likely poesy in the original - arclein ]
What words are those which rasp forth from the
unlipped, fish-shaped mouth? O ears, say you deceive me! O heart, cease this
pounding clamour! O hand of horror, release your awfial grip! Would that I
could swoon, that I could find relief in unconsciousness, but facts have to be
faced here as on Earth. I must look in trembling terror.
Yes, I loved on Earth, nothing there was more
precious to me than my sister in love. I forgave her wilfulness and was not
stirred up when her words were unkind. I ever remained a man of cool temper. I
clothed her well and good food she never lacked. My heart sang in her presence,
1 rejoiced in her loveliness, she was my life, my wife. Yet she was unfaithful,
she was cruel, she found pleasure in deceit and perversion. As the years passed
they became heavy, clouded and bitter because of her wayward ways.
O horror, O terror, O cringing fear, keep away
from me! O my eyes, O my heart, it is true. It is the one I loved.
O let me die once more, that consciousness may
pass from me ! It is her whom I loved, she for whom 1 waited in joyfiil
anticipation, hoping to find the light of my youth, hoping the overlay of later
evils would be sloughed away by death, hoping to find the warm, throbbing
liveliness I once held. I would gladly have forgiven the pain she caused in her
maturity. O what has become of the smooth flesh, the warm touch? Where is the
beauty of face, the grace of form? O raise not the crocodile-skinned arms to
shield the awfijl snout, the green-rimmed, red- veined eyes!
O racing heart! I hear the misformed words
amidst the hiss and gurgle issuing forth from the oozing aperture. O say not
that 1 was so blind, so greatly deceived, that you cared for nought but the
earthly things we shared; that your affection was the false front of hypocrisy,
your love a lie. Did I not always forgive? Was I not always patient? With whom
did you share the terrible thoughts and desires that fashioned you thus ?
Surely this caimot be the work of your own nature alone. Fickle you were and
pleasure loving, selfish, cruel and deceitfiil, but all this I forgave because
of the plea of my heart. Was this not enough? O where is the companion I
awaited? Lost, and worse than lost.
O compassion, O mercy, come to my aid! My heart
fails me, I caimot face what I thought to greet so joyously. O powers of
solicitude, strengthen me. What can I do to mitigate the Law? Is there hope? Is
there a way?
A whisper of comfort, O gratefully I hear it,
"There is hope and there is a way, but between this self-shaped horror and
the Glorious Ones there is an uncrossable chasm. In sorrow and anguish it must
seek a road, it must go its own dark way as you must go yours in the light.
Turn back, turn again towards the light, the compassion in your own heart does
nought to bridge the gulf between, unless it strikes a responsive spark within
the other heart".
"Let the memory be erased, this is not the
companion of your path. The trials and sorrows borne so well, the uncomplaining
unselfishness fashioned you in glory. Nor would you have reached the present
degree of perfection had she not been as she was, and is now revealed to be.
This fearful fate was wrought by the lost one alone, for each is the sole
keeper of his spirit. Each soul is fashioned by every thought, desire and deed,
every emotion that touched it during its sojourn in an earthly body".
"Each is the maker of his own fiiture, the
fashioner of his own being".
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