Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 3640

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3640. The hells too, which are very many, hold to the same fixed position, so much so that from their position alone one can know which hells they are and what they are like. So far as the position in which they are set is concerned, something similar may be said about them. They all exist beneath man on levels in every direction under the soles of the feet. Some from hell also seem to be dotted about overhead and elsewhere, but these do not have their true position there, for it is a false, persuasive notion which deceives and which counterfeits a position.


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