B803 <=> B805 [BTG XXXIX The holy planet “Purgatory,” p. 804]

“The confusion of the minds of the initiated beings of the planet Earth of that time occurred, in my opinion, chiefly because of that beautiful theory of the Babylonian dualists in which it was said that, in some other world as it were, ‘paradise’ and ‘hell’ exist.

“Just these same two expressions, namely, paradise and hell, served, in my opinion, as the cause of all the subsequent ‘twaddle.’

“The point is, that in one of the Legominisms about the holy planet Purgatory, both of these words paradise and hell were also used.

“I do not know whether these two words were taken from the Legominism concerning the holy planet or whether they were obtained by a chance coincidence.

“By these same two words the two following conceptions were expressed in the Legominism about the holy planet Purgatory: by the word paradise the magnificence and richness which are on that holy planet were defined, and by the word hell that inner state indeed experienced by the higher being-bodies who dwell there, and, namely, the state of constant anguish, grief, and oppression.

“And in one of the Legominisms the causes for this state of theirs were even explained in detail, that is, that these higher being-parts or souls, having ultimately fallen after inexpressible, consciously suffering labors on to this holy planet, and having seen and understood the reality and significance of everything existing, and chiefly seeing our COMMON FATHER ENDLESSNESS HIMSELF so near and so often, they have become aware that on account of the undesirable elements present in them, they are still unable to help HIM in the fulfillment of HIS most sacred tasks for the good of our whole Megalocosmos.