The Road to Paradise
Chapter 48
When people have a dark experience of purgatory because of their religion
Since paradise is a spiritual realisation of the dreams that physical existence engenders in living beings, and is thus created in spiritual matter by their capacity for thinking, the kinds of thoughts that the dogmas and views of their religions bind them to inevitably have a greater or lesser influence on the paradise they will experience after their physical terrestrial life.
The Christian faith, for example, based on the ecclesiastical doctrine that has been preached to its followers, has inevitably created in many souls a terror of death and the "hell" that awaits them after death, that is, awaits all those who are not baptised or who do not receive "the forgiveness of sins by the blood of Jesus and the mercy of God".
The faithful, conscientious followers of the above-mentioned ecclesiastical Christianity will inevitably feel guilt-stricken because they have not been able to love their neighbour as themselves, which is of course quite impossible for an unfinished human being.
But when they feel guilt-stricken or think that they have "sinned", they believe that "eternal hell" awaits them after death.
And not all these people trust that the sacrament of Holy Communion or their prayers for the forgiveness of sins can save them from the gruesome or satanic fate that it must be to be burnt in an "eternal hellfire".
Death is thus a horrific nightmare for such beings.
Some will even experience the feeling of being burnt in the above-mentioned "hell" because the existence in purgatory is shaped precisely by the kinds of thoughts that dominate one's thinking.
These believers thus receive, as seen here, an intensified experience of purgatory.