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'Frateretto calls me; and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness'
-Shakespeare, King Lear
Is Hell real?
Is there more than one?
How does one avoid it?
Is it permanent?
Do the beings of Hell serve a higher Good, a greater Evil, or are they simply another species in a vast cosmos of realms?
Is it just metaphorical? ->
"People must hurt each other, as inevitably as they breathe. Nothing can stop it. It's not enough to accept it. Accepting it is not enough, like sighing resignedly and putting on an attitude of long-suffering. Don't get to be too good at protecting yourself. You've got to be ripped to pieces for the one you love, again and again. That's doesn't prove anything but love, and its entitlements are a frailty that can't be held.
But you will live even in that hell. The fire that hurts you gives off light like any other fire, that illuminates beautiful things, and is beautiful itself."
-The Great Lover, Michael Cisco
Or is Hell just here, in this world? ->
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Or could it be both Imaginal/Phenomenal and Material at the same time?
-Shakespeare, King Lear
Is Hell real?
Is there more than one?
How does one avoid it?
Is it permanent?
Do the beings of Hell serve a higher Good, a greater Evil, or are they simply another species in a vast cosmos of realms?
Is it just metaphorical? ->
"People must hurt each other, as inevitably as they breathe. Nothing can stop it. It's not enough to accept it. Accepting it is not enough, like sighing resignedly and putting on an attitude of long-suffering. Don't get to be too good at protecting yourself. You've got to be ripped to pieces for the one you love, again and again. That's doesn't prove anything but love, and its entitlements are a frailty that can't be held.
But you will live even in that hell. The fire that hurts you gives off light like any other fire, that illuminates beautiful things, and is beautiful itself."
-The Great Lover, Michael Cisco
Or is Hell just here, in this world? ->
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Or could it be both Imaginal/Phenomenal and Material at the same time?