Hell, what is it?

Much as been written about Hell, but what actually is it?  The answer is not as forthcoming as one might first think.  There are two sites mentioned in my 'Preface' page which should help greatly. 

In short, there are four words which are covered primarily with one word, certainly in the KJV.  Yet there are half as many occurrences of Hell in the NIV.  This in itself is noteworthy.  (The Niv is an later Bible translation, and yet from earlier Text and therefore might be said to be the truer, certainly as regards the Greek even if not when actually translated.) 

The four words covered are: Hades, Ge-hinnom, Sheol, Tartaroo. 

Hades and Sheol are effectively the same, a grave, or truer: the 'unseen', hence a grave. 

Tartaroo or Tartarus is seen only once in the New and that in Peter and again is a grave being a deeper abyss than Hades. 

Thus these three can be seen as death also in the right context. 

Ge-hinnom, not an actual words in itself, but made of two words (Imperial Bible dictionary) is the Valley of Hinnom, and is the valley right next to Yerushalaim (Jerusalem) to the south of, and had at one time, according to Dr Martian (The Secrets of Golgotha 2nd edition) a two tiered bridge crossing it (two tiered in the sense of looking as if one bridge were on top of the first.

Now the question, What is Hell, begins to make more sense.  It appears that the basic idea that is spoken of is either death or the valley of hinnom, such as the Mashiyach spoke of in Matthew 5 which is normally rendered as Hell.  The Youngs Literal 1898 version does not render it thus, but as 'Gehenna' being a composite of the words. The significance of Gehenna, as it is sometimes translated, is the place mentioned in Jeremiah where they made there sons and daughters cross over to Molech, perhaps even sacrificing them. This horrendous act, the Self-Existent (Yhvh) said, I did not command neither entered my mind.  Thus we see that the right-hand of the Existent is speaking here, as in Isaiah 45.7 he says he forms the light and ‘creates’ darkness, and makes peace and ‘creates’ evil.  Therefore there are two sides much the same as people, created in the Image and therefore having the good/evil aspects within us also.  So the word ‘evil’ often translated in other ways,--as indeed it could be--but in its basic form, shows something far more primordial, and that is, the Existent does all things within the Corporeal, good and evil, all comes from him- and therefore we see a left and right. 

So to stop this, the Existent sent an army which desecrated the valley with unclean things.  Before this they had a holy light which remained lit and was therefore ‘never quenched’.  This valley was then turned into a rubbish dump, a dump which had rotting flesh on it, and meant that there were maggots there, laid by flies, and hence the ‘worm [maggot] that never dies‘.  They do in fact, but it appears that they do not.  This mistranslation of worm only makes the misunderstanding of that passage somewhat easier. 

Thus to lose one eye, something which Yahshuah was saying should be self inflicted (not literally, nor did the law command it) would be better than being thrown into a place unclean for one,  but also meaning to be dead.  The Lake of Fire, which on the late Dr Martins site, we see is the Dead Sea, which at one time had volcanic action and therefore could be seen as a lake of fire and brimstone etc.

Yet still this problem of Hell and suffering after death.  Even with the explanations, there appears to be something still lingering.  Scripture after all the lord tells us, cannot be broken.  In Ecclesiastes 9.5 we see the ‘Dead know nothing’, and Paul tells us in the New that the ‘Wages of sin is death’ (Romans 6.23) not suffering always in fire.  In fact Paul is suspiciously quite on the subject, which suggests that there is no such subject at all, certainly in his eyes, and who of us would seriously doubt him.  Somewhere within this is the answer, and I think it lies within the lost gospel of Thomas. 

We as a life form, as an aspect of the Valence (God/power) are the part which has awareness, freedom.  It is us who have been released.  As such, we see that it is we who suffer here if we do something wrong, being in a body which does indeed suffer.  The lord is said to have said in Thomas, When you see your likeness, you are happy (blessed?), but when you see your images, which come into being before you, and neither die nor are made manifest, how much will you have to bear.  These images it appears are thoughts within our own logos, part of us.  It is these which are held within the heavenly realms, and ‘us’ which are released.  We therefore die (sleep) if not finding the Way, and these we might then consider, are the ones that suffer.  After all, if we think of them as part of our own mind, our own logos, our own thoughts, and therefore self, it can be seen that they would wish to be with their own twin, or perhaps family.  Certainly the Likeness can be seen as a twin, and the images perhaps members of the body of us.  It is not unrealistic to think then, that they would suffer being still imprisoned as it were, within the heavenly realms.  This I would consider to be the ‘torment’, ‘suffering’, ‘Hell’. 

We might then say that we have a huge responsibility on our tiny shoulders, for a family we don’t even know exists.  If this all seems to hard to take, remember that everything comes from the Origin of all things, the Valence (God), and therefore we are, without a shadow of a doubt, an aspect of such, or in other words, Thought-division, seen here within the corporeal realm as Aspect-holding, which is indeed what we are, held within our realm, minds within a Mind.   In short, it is not us as an awareness which suffers, it is the twin or images of us still within, as it were, the logos (book) whilst we play out that script (to-write) in this stage and play we are within.  If one is not convinced, then consider that if God wished to make us suffer, we are now, at this present time, within a body which is more than capable of making us feel extreme pain.  And, considering after death, one way or another, we are released from that--certainly within the flesh--then how then can we suffer after death?  Also, as we are now within a lower realm, it is the lower valences which have control over us, and not the Almighty Valance the Existent, but a lesser one.  All things are aspects of God after all.