12-13-2012- PAUL'S IDIOMS OF HELL
"REMARKS"
THE FOLLOWING WAS DISCOVERED IN "THE LOST BOOKS OF THE BIBLE". IT IS WELL NOTED THIS DESCRIPTION OF THE ATTRIBUTES OF HELL BY PAUL, IS FRIGHTENING AND DESCRIPTIVE. STILL ALL IN ALL, IT IS REALITY WE DON'T SOMETIMES WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE.
KEY TO THE PLATE "HELL"
- ENTRANCE TO THE CONFINES TO HELL.
- CHARON, (A SON OF EREBUS, ( A PERSONIFICATION OF DARKNESS), WHOM IN GREEK MYTH, FERRIES THE SOULS OF THE DEAD OVER THE RIVER, STYX, THAT RUNS IN THE UNDERWORLD), IN HIS BARK.
- THE MINOTAUR, (A MONSTER SHAPED HALF LIKE A MAN AND HALF LIKE A BULL, CONFINED IN THE LABYRINTH BUILT BY DAEDALUS, (BUILDER OF THE CRETAN LABYRINTH AND THE INVENTOR OF WINGS WHEREBY HE FLEW TO ESCAPE IMPRISONMENT), FOR MINOS, (A SON OF ZEUS AND EUROPE AND KING OF CRETE, WHO FOR HIS JUST RULE, WAS MADE SUPREME JUDGE IN THE UNDERWORLD AFTER DEATH), AND GIVEN A PERIODICAL TRIBUTE OF YOUTHS AND MAIDENS AS FOOD, UNTIL SLAIN BY THESEUS), ROARING AT THE APPROACH OF CONDEMNED SOULS.
- SOULS AGITATED BY THE IMPURE BREATH OF EVIL SPIRITS
- CERBERUS, (A 3 HEADED DOG, THAT IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, GUARDS THE ENTRANCE INTO HELL.
- THE AVARICIOUS, (THE COVETOUS AND HOARDING), AND PRODIGAL, (THE RECKLESSLY EXTRAVAGANT) CONDEMNED TO CARRY BURDENS
- THE ENVIOUS AND ANGRY, CAST INTO THE STYX, (A RIVER OF THE UNDERWORLD OVER WHICH SHADES OF THE DEAD, ARE FERRIED ON THEIR WAY TO HELL).
- TOWER AND WALL OF THE EVIL CITY
- IN THIS DITCH, ARE THOSE WHO HAVE SINNED AGAINST THEIR NEIGHBORS; CENTAURS, (HALF MAN AND HALF HORSE), SHOOT ARROWS AT THEM.
- THOSE WHO HAVE SINNED AGAINST THEMSELVES, ARE HERE TORMENTED BY HARPIES.
- RAIN OF FIRE, FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SINNED AGAINST YAHWEH.
- SOUL OF THE TYRANT GERION.
- DEBAUCHEES, (ORGIES), AND CORRUPTORS, (MORALLY DEGENERATE AND PERVERTED), OF YOUTH, FLOGGED BY DEVILS.
- POISONOUS GULF INTO WHICH FLATTERERS, (PLEASING SELF-DECEPTION, INSINCERE OR EXCESSIVE PRAISE), ARE PLUNGED.
- LAKE OF FIRE IN THE CAULDRONS, INTO WHICH SIMONAICS, ( THE BUYING OR SELLING OF A CHURCH OFFICE OR ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENT), ARE CAST.
- SORCERERS AND DIVINERS, THEIR FACES TURNED BACKWARD.
- BOG OF BOILING PITCH, FOR CHEATERS, THIEVES, AND DECEIVERS.
- HYPOCRITES CRUCIFIED.
- PERFIDIOUS ADVISERS, PLUNGED INTO A FLAMING DITCH.
- FOR SCANDALOUS PERSONS: ONE HOLDS HIS HEAD IN HIS HAND.
- ROBBERS AND OTHER CRIMINALS, TORMENTED BY A CENTAUR, (HALF MAN AND HALF HORSE), ARMED WITH SERPENTS.
- ALCHEMISTS, ( THE DISCOVERY OF A UNIVERSAL CURE FOR DISEASE AND THE DISCOVERY OF A MEANS OF INDEFINITELY PROLONGING LIFE), AND QUACKS, ( A PRETENDER TO MEDICAL SKILLS), A PREY TO LEPROSY.
- WELL OF ICE, FOR TRAITORS AND THE UNGRATEFUL.
- PLUTO, (THE GREEK god OF THE UNDERWORLD), IN THE MIDST OF A GLACIER, DEVOURING THE DAMNED.
- THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM.