Sunday, May 23, 2004

Here, by the way, is St. Teresa's vision of Hell.

The entrance seemed to me like a very long, narrow passage, or a very low, dark, and constricted furnace. The ground appeared to be covered with a filthy wet mud, which smelt abominably and contained many wicked reptiles. At the end was a cavity scooped out of the wall, like a cupboard, and I found myself closely confined in it. But the sight of all this was pleasant compared with my feelings.

"All that I have written seems to me like straw compared with what has now been revealed to me," said St. Thomas Aquinas.

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