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<p><i>On hell</i></p><p><i>[The fictional George MacDonald is speaking.]</i> <br></p><p><br></p><p> “There <b>are</b> only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God,
‘Thy will be done’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be
done.’ <br></p><p><br></p><p>[All //that <b>are</b> in Hell] <b>choose</b> it. Without that self-choice, there
<b>could be</b> no Hell. <br></p><p>[No soul //that seriously and constantly <b>desires</b> joy] will
ever miss it. <br></p><p>[Those //who <b>seek]</b>, find. To those //who<b> knock</b>, it <b>is
opened</b>.”. . .</p><p><br></p><p>“Hell <b>is</b> a state of mind—ye never <b>said</b> a truer word. <br></p><p> And every state of mind, <font color="#FF0000">left</font> to itself, every shutting up of the
creature /within the dungeon of its own mind <b>is</b>, in the end, Hell. <br></p><p>But
Heaven <b>is not</b> a state of mind. Heaven <b>is </b>reality itself. <br></p><p>[All //that <b>is</b>
fully real] <b>is</b> Heavenly.”. . .</p><p><br></p><p>“Hell <b>is</b> smaller than one pebble of
your earthly world: but it <b>is</b> smaller than one atom of this world, the
Real World. <br></p><p><b>Look at</b> yon butterfly. <br></p><p>If it <b>swallowed</b> all Hell, Hell <b>would
not be</b> big enough to do it any harm or to have any taste. . . .</p><p><br></p><p>“A
<font color="#FF0000">damned</font> soul <b>is</b> nearly nothing: it <b>is shrunk</b>, <b>shut up</b> in itself. <br></p><p>Good
<b>beats</b> <b>upon</b> the <font color="#FF0000">damned</font> incessantly /as sound waves <b>beat on</b> the ears of the
deaf, but they <b>cannot receive</b> it. <br></p><p>Their fists <b>are clenched</b>, their teeth
<b>are clenched</b>, their eyes fast <b>shut</b>. <br></p><p><br></p><p>First they <b>will not</b>, in the end
they <b>cannot, open</b> their hands for gifts, or their mouths for food, or
their eyes to see.”</p><p><br></p><p>“Then no one <b>can ever reach</b> them?”</p><p>“Only
the Greatest of all <b>can make</b> Himself small /enough /to enter Hell. <br></p><p>For
<u>the higher</u> a thing is, <u>the lower</u> it <b>can descend</b><br></p><p>—a man <b>can sympathise</b>
with a horse but a horse <b>cannot</b> sympathise with a rat. <br></p><p>Only One <b>has
descended</b> into Hell.”</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>From <i><a name="m_8986144308853837566_biblegateway_christianbook_com" href="http://links.biblegateway.mkt4731.com/ctt?kn=21&ms=NTM3NjMxMjQS1&r=MjY3OTQ2OTczOTUS1&b=0&j=MTE0MDM4MjE1MwS2&mt=1&rt=0" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://links.biblegateway.mkt4731.com/ctt?kn%3D21%26ms%3DNTM3NjMxMjQS1%26r%3DMjY3OTQ2OTczOTUS1%26b%3D0%26j%3DMTE0MDM4MjE1MwS2%26mt%3D1%26rt%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1491338643583000&usg=AFQjCNHmTtEQl-cfqZtEwURCVprsfACHug">The Great Divorce</a></i><br>Compiled in <i><a name="m_8986144308853837566_biblegateway_christianboo_1" href="http://links.biblegateway.mkt4731.com/ctt?kn=27&ms=NTM3NjMxMjQS1&r=MjY3OTQ2OTczOTUS1&b=0&j=MTE0MDM4MjE1MwS2&mt=1&rt=0" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://links.biblegateway.mkt4731.com/ctt?kn%3D27%26ms%3DNTM3NjMxMjQS1%26r%3DMjY3OTQ2OTczOTUS1%26b%3D0%26j%3DMTE0MDM4MjE1MwS2%26mt%3D1%26rt%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1491338643583000&usg=AFQjCNGKFq0En0VS3INRvQTUk0OjAm7byQ">Words to Live By</a></i></p><p><small><i>The Great Divorce</i>.
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