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...tomb was that of a house like that occupied by the spirit in life and which was to be its permanent domicile. Among people who lived in caves, burial was made underground. Thus grew up the ideas of the nether world which are shown in the word hell, which means "the hidden." Some people buried their dead in mounds and barrows and some on hill-tops which were consequently believed to be peopled with spirits. Probably the latter custom was not without influence in forming the idea of a heaven above. A very prevalent belief was that of a migration...
...Divines and dying men may talk of hell, But in my breast its several torments dwell...
...made to them was the only true one. There are many other points of similarity in the three religions. Floods, fires, and cataclysms appear in them all; all insist on the immortality of the soul and the immutability of the supreme Being; and all have a heaven and a hell. Of course the details vary, but the general underlying basis remains, and it is this with which theosophy concerns itself...
...Paper" Sport is as good a "Harvard Type" as the Advocate has yet introduced; and the "Law Breaker," which follows, contains some uncommonly vivid word painting. Its author, Philip Richards, gives an excellent description of the novel feelings which the hero experiences on his first introduction to a gambling hell. In marked contrast are "Merely Players," and "Applied Science," the articles already indefinitely referred to as lacking in originality...
...second volume of Professor Norton's translation of Daute's Divine Comedy has appeared and is for sale by the booksellers. The translation of the first division of the poem, Hell, has been reviewed at length in the CRIMSON and notice of the book at hand is unnecessary further than to say that the Purgatory, as a translation of marvelous accuracy rendered in surpassing prose, fullfills the promise of the first volume that if there is to be a universally standard translation of the Divine Comedy this work will fill that place...