The Question of Hell

Within Filianism, there is a conception of Hell, but it is not the same as the classical Western (or Christian) view, one of layers of eternal torment and damnation.

Within the Mythos, our Lady made the ultimate sacrifice to be the only one to experience true suffering and spiritual death, and in doing so brought the light of Dea to all levels of creation. As such, there is no true spiritual death for any living soul, but that does not mean there isn't suffering to some degree. Filianism views hell, or hells, as more of a purgatory, wherein your personal werdë and actions may mean that you will need to do reflection and purification to move once again closer to Dea.

Below is a Madrian piece on Hell and Purgatories: it is meant to explain this in more depth, but please do know that no one soul is ever to feel they are without the presence of our Lady, and we can and should be making attempts every day at bettering ourselves and the world around us.

There is a Hell-or more exactly, there are hells. But they have nothing to do with the Christian conception of eternal damnation. Damnation is to be cut off from God with no hope of recovering Her; but the sacrifice of the Daughter has brought Her onto every level of fallen creation. There is a Hell of sheer damnation, but through Her sacrifice, its gates have been shattered, and the only Being to have suffered the agony of damnation is She Herself.

On the other hand, to deny that it is possible to enter a state of great suffering is fatuous, since it is obvious that some souls are already in such a state on this very earth. States of suffering are not ‘punishments’, they are simply the natural result of werdë built up by wrong actions and choices in this life or in others. Hells beyond this world exist in sub-physical matter inhabited by ‘demons’ or perverted intelligences who have so far rejected the Principle of Good (Who is God Herself) as to be in the active service of evil. Yet we are not lost. The Presence of the Daughter is in all places and states, and as always, the choice is ours whether we turn toward Her or plunge deeper into evil and suffering.

All suffering contains the possibility of purification. In this sense, all hells are purgatories. But the term purgatory is often used to mean that state in which a soul ‘relives’ her life, seeing all its acts in the light of the pure spiritual standard, and feeling the deep inner pain of her wrong actions, or else is drawn into the whirlpool of her life’s passions and obsessions, re-enacting them until they sicken her, but unable to stop, carried along by the passion-momentum built up during her life.