But there is no "Hell" in this story, the "shades" of the dead in "Hades" are not punished and do not burn. They remain as they were when their bodies were still alive, they remain themselves, or, a shadowy version thereof, despite what Milton, or Dante, or the many authors of the Old and New testament have to say about the matter.
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"Mind Moves Matter" -- Virgil
I am my self (my mind) and myself is my soul (my mind is my soul) And therefore self and soul are the same, not two things equal to each other, but one thing in the same. There is no separation between myself and my soul.
How could I sell my soul independently of my mind. Why would it matter to me to sell my soul, assuming it were possible, to the Devil. If I am not my soul, then it is a thing separate from me, my mind, and so why would I care if the Devil takes my soul. He could just as well have my car, or my house, or my favorite synthesizer; and none of that, after the death of the body (and the brain with it), none of that makes any difference anymore when you have "given up the ghost." The only thing that matters is how you choose to move on in this vast construction of the universe (perhaps to a more intense, bright, "heaven" or to a less intended "shadow" or "shade" (not "utter darkness" or the "abyss" as yet [notably named "The Gulfs" in the works of Clive Barker]) in "Hell" or better for my arguments, "Hades" or "the land of shades" as these souls have chosen to retain the personalities and memories of their previous life, but in the absence of a grip on that life, the only way to hold on to it is that fall away, back, down, to a lesser light if not a lesser truth. But if the soul craves the light and "love" of God in "heaven," to move up and away, into the light and the greater truth, then one follows that tunnel to the light at its end, and joins the 2/3rds of the angels, in the company of God, the Holy Ghost (modern: "Holy Spirit") and his son whose name is actually Yeshua or "Joshua," a bizarre mis-translation from the old Hebrew "Yeshua" which is most definitely not "Jesus." It reminds me of the "Jehovah's Witness" movement. They mistranslated, mispronounced the name of God, YHWH, or Yahweh as Jehovah and then stuck with it even when it was pointed out to them that they were saying it "wrong" (who can really said to be "wrong" about these things? Perhaps "incorrect" is the better term.) There's also some dispute among theologians about the original version of the birth of Jesus. Some say that when Mary was called a Maiden, which can mean "a virgin" OR just mean "a young woman" that the translators mis-translated it to mean Mary was a Virgin and therefore the only way she could have been impregnated and given birth to Jesus was if "God" and his angels did so (not at all unlike the Greek god Zeus who impregnated a "few" women in his time (quite a few if you look it up), which may be the origin of the drastic mistranslation and subsequent near (or up close) "worship" of Mary in the Catholic Church (which was originally just called "The Church." --egad, what heresy does he spew?!) Her near deification has always bothered me, even when I was a Christian. It seemed so "pagan" which actually did come in handy when converting the "heathens" to Christianity by Missionaries across the globe who found the plethora of primarily female deities an easy way to slide Mary, mother of the Christian god, right in there. And today, it's become a distinct, actual deification by the "feminists" who claim she is a goddess, and is the feminine side of God, thus "resurrecting" the motives of the missionaries.
But then who's to say that there aren't "higher" or "lower" places than Heaven and Hades (once again, in modern Christian theology: Hell, in my version: Hades)? Perhaps an infinite of both directions, like a Jacob's ladder leading up to heaven, or down to earth, or lower, down into hell. And what if what he perceived as an infinite up and an infinite down are actually one great wheel that meets itself again, coming and going, the worm consuming it's tail, eternity, so much so that with "human good and evil" out of the picture, it would not be impossible for them to meet, or for every equal or opposite place on the ladder wheel, to be light into darkness, or darkness into light.
And so, if my brain and my mind were independent of my soul, then I could sell a thousand souls to hell and still ascend to heaven. For why would heaven need a soul either, if it were separate from the self. I, myself want (or choose) which direction my mind-soul will go, up or down, light or dark, (but no, no good or evil, these things are constructs of human beings, they are more akin to the baser nature of the robotic human brain. Hunger, pain, sickness, health, full, fat, fight or flee; all these things are physical attributes of the brain, and therefore the body, which are necessary to keep us alive or, if ignored, drag us down to the death of the body and the brain.
But the soul does not hunger for food. The soul does not eat too much or drink to much, or depend on drugs or take sex to excess. The soul "seems to" have an opinion of fight or flight, but that's just chemicals in our body, specifically to adrenaline pushing the body in its best direction, towards or away. And so the same for a human's good or evil. They are pushed one way or the other based on what they feel is right, even in the face of alternate facts. Even if everyone else can see it's evil.
Evil is when one or more humans consciously inflicts bodily or mental harm upon another human or group of humans. Consciously, or sometimes by a lack of action where action is needed.
Was Hitler moved by supernatural evil, was he possessed by a devil, or pushed by The Devil? Those who fear the facts about human nature would prefer to think that no man could do the deeds he (and Stalin) did to their own people, their own race. Forget not that Hitler's father was a wealthy Jewish man who spurned his mistress and their bastard son. And Stalin was a Russian who was perhaps more power hungry than Hitler, who knows if he was part Jewish, or even Asian, who's to tell? The fact is he killed "more" humans than Hitler, but humans prefer to deal with Hitler because he's easier to wrap our "heads" around.
So, Hitler wished to bring back the glory and honor and riches that Germany had before the first World War. And he blamed the incompetent coward Kaisers and the rich conniving Jews for the loss of this. And so he was motivated, almost more than any man in history, to move forward with war, conquering, and killing all enemies from within and without.
But there was no devil that did this. No soul of his bound for hell. This was done by a man, a human, and at the very base of it was the desire for comforts, political and bodily as in rule and physical excess. And so we would like to believe Hitler burns in Hell. And if the self, the soul, had any part in this (which I must believe it did) then he is indeed in a place "removed from the light and the love of God) if not necessarily "burning" in "hell."
Incomplete: First Draft
