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because we have already seen that even souls of the wicked are immortal.
TRANSMIGRATION & NIRVANA
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For the demons, [i.e., desires allegorically] having power by means of the food given to them, are admitted into your bodies by your own hands; and lying hid there for a long time, they become blended with your souls. And through the carelessness of those who think not, or even wish not, to help themselves, upon the dissolution of their bodies, their souls being united to the demon, are of necessity borne by it into whatever places it pleases."-Ibid. p. 152.
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"But we do confess that a kingdom is promised to us upon the earth, although before heaven, only in another state of existence;, inasmuch as it will be after the resurrection for a thousand years in the divinely built city of Jerusalem, let down from heaven,' which the apostle calls our mother from above,' and, while declaring that citizenship is in heaven, he predicates of it that it is really a city in heaven. . . And the word of the new prophecy which is a part of our belief, attests how it foretold that there would be for a sign a picture of this very city exhibited to view previous to its manifestation . . . Of the heavenly kingdom this is the process : After its thousand years are over, within which period is completed the resurrection of the saints, who rise sooner or later according to their deserts, there will ensue the destruction of the world and the conflagration of all things at the judgment; we shall then be changed in a moment into the substance of angels, even by the investiture of an incorruptible nature, and so be removed to that kingdom in heaven of which we have now been treating... So are we first invited to heavenly blessings when we are separated from the world, and afterwards we thus find ourselves in the way of obtaining also earthly blessings."-(Tertullianus) A N.C.L. vol. vii. pp. 170-172.
"All souls are immortal, even those of the wicked, for whom it were better that they were not deathless. For, punished with the endless vengeance of quenchless fire, and not dying, it is impossible for them to have a period put to their misery."-A.N.C.L. vol. xxiv. P. 163.
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The term quenchless fire' should be read as implying unending suffering in transmigration.
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