Structure of Hell
Dante described the infernal world as being a bottomless
funnel like structure with nine ledges or circles, with each circle being inhabited
by the souls of the deceased, who in life had a distinguishing defect.
Here is a diagram of the structure of hell as described by
Dante.
Present in each circle are the conditions for the souls of
the deceased to receive the appropriate retribution for their errors in life.
The nature of their punishment reveals the characteristics of their
distinguishing defects. In the seventh circle for example, there is a river of
boiling blood that the violent souls are immersed in. As they spent their lives
living off the blood of others by killing, murdering etc, so in hell/the abyss
they are immersed in blood unable to escape.
Conclusion
Dante gave the inferno a structure and Gnosis agrees with
this. Dante’s structure consists of nine circles where each circle has a
certain characteristic centre of gravity, that is, a magnetic attraction for
those who in life were characterised or marked by specific psychological states
and actions. They have just committed one big crime in their life that marked
them for life and so the weight of their psyche is what takes them to the
region of their characteristic region of the inferno.
In conclusion the inferno of the Earth is for our psyche,
not for our body. When we die our body disintegrates and becomes dust but our
psyche lives on. It all depends on the weight of our psyche, if our psyche is
very heavy it will descend deeper into the abyss.
End (354).
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