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1. "A fear which induces Mankind to regard death as a calamity is one which theological religion has inculcated, particularly The Protestant Fundamentalists and The Roman Catholic Church, the fear of Hell, the imposition of penalties, usually out of all proportion to the errors of a lifetime, and the terrors imposed by an angry God. To these, man is told he will have to submit, and from them there is no escape, except through the vicarious atonement."
"There is, as you well know, no angry God, no Hell, and no vicarious atonement. There is only a great Principle of Love animating the entire Universe. There is The Presence of The Christ, indicating to Humanity the fact of The Soul and that we are saved by the livingness of that Soul, and the only Hell is The Earth Itself, where we learn to work out our own salvation actuated by The Principle of Love and Light and incited thereto by the example of The Christ and the inner urge of our own Souls."
"This teaching anent Hell is a remainder of the sadistic turn which was given to the thinking of The Christian Church in The Middle Ages and to the erroneous teaching to be found in The Old Testament anent Jehovah, the tribal God of The Jews. Jehovah is not God, The Planetary Logos, The Eternal Heart of Love Whom Christ revealed. As these erroneous ideas die out, the concept of Hell will fade from men's recollection, and its place will be taken by an understanding of The Law (of Cause and Efffect or Karma) which makes each man work out his own salvation upon The Physical Plane, which leads him to right the wrongs which he may have perpetrated in his lives on Earth, and which enables him eventually to clean his own slate."
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