- 31 - endure are in reality good for their Salvation, even if they seem cruel and incomprehensible to mankind, and not in keeping with the concept of a merciful God. And yet the torments of hell are evidence of the love of God. A mother who subjects her child to the surgeon’s knife in order that it may be cured of a dangerous wound, acts under the impulse of maternal love and is driven to expose her child to pain because there is no other remedy. Similarly, the fundamental beliefs of the spirits in the pit can be reformed only by the torment they have to endure; there is no other way. But to all, even to the most hardened, the hour will come when, by their torment, they will be brought to see the error of their ways and will arise and go home to their Father.
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