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43. All the wicked in Hell ascend through certain chambers. There are several doors in Hell, and all the doors correspond to doors in the Garden of Eden. When the wicked who received their punishment are taken out of there, they open the doors and place them outside. All the doors are called by names that correspond to the doors in the Garden of Eden, and each door in the Garden of Eden corresponds to that same door in Hell. Those doors in the Garden of Eden, doors opposite doors, when they see the door in Hell, they know by that from which Behina<\/em> [discernment] is its corresponding door in the Garden of Eden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

44. The last chamber in Hell, the lowest of all, is twofold: chamber over chamber. It is called \u201cA land of thick darkness,\u201d as it is written, \u201cFour-square it shall be and double,\u201d which translates as \u201ca square shall be weary.\u201d Here, too, \u201cThick darkness\u201d means doubled. That chamber is called \u201cthe bottom of Sheol.\u201d Sheol is the upper chamber, and \u201cthe bottom\u201d is the lower chamber. For this reason the land of thick darkness is called \u201cbottom,\u201d and is also called \u201cdoom.\u201d This is why it is written, \u201cSheol and doom,\u201d which are a twofold chamber, one atop the other. All the chambers were not twofold, and all are not weary, meaning they are not called \u201cA land of thick darkness,\u201d except this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

45. One who descends to Doom, which is called \u201cbottom,\u201d never rises. That person is considered a man who has perished and has been lost from all the worlds. This is the place to which people who despise answering Amen is lowered. They are sentenced in Hell for many Amens that were lost from him, meaning that he did not appreciate. He is brought down to that bottom chamber, in which there is no door, and he is lost and never rises from there. This is why it is written, \u201cAs the cloud is consumed and vanishes, so he that goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.\u201d But Jonah said, \u201cFrom the depth of Sheol I cried for help; You heard my voice,\u201d so did he rise from there? It is also written, \u201cHe brings down to Sheol, and brings up.\u201d But here it is a Sheol from which there is rising, and there it is the bottom from which he does not rise. Here he repented and remade penitence, and there he did not repent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

46. \u201cFor My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns.\u201d \u201cThey have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters\u201d is that he did not wish to sanctify the name of the Creator with the Amen. His punishment is as it is written, \u201cTo hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns,\u201d which descend to Hell degree by degree until they go down to Doom, which is called \u201cthe bottom.\u201d And if he sanctifies the name of the Creator to aim in the Amen properly, he rises degree by degree to be refined by that next world, which always continues and never stops, as it is written, \u201cThe Lord preserves the faithful and fully recompenses the proud doer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

43. All the wicked in Hell ascend through certain chambers. 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