Not exact matches
Ezekiel Garragut imagines God as a fierce force rather like himself, a dark diviner of
souls who delights less in rewarding the
pure with bliss
eternal than in sinking sinners in an excremental hell.
Greek thought of
eternal life, at its higher levels, early became individualistic; it concerned the escape of the
soul to the
pure world of spirit, immaterial and invisible.
Continued life after Sheol meant to him not the escape of an individual
soul to the realm of «
pure being» or reabsorption into the
eternal Spirit, but the shared life of a divine kingdom.