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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: from the earth. The theological universe no longer corresponds to
that which physical science presents for our contemplation. It
was quite different with the Jew. His conception of the abode of
Jehovah and the angels, and of departed souls, was exceedingly
simple and definite. In the Jewish theory the universe is like a
sort of three-story house. The flat earth rests upon the waters,
and under the earth's surface is the land of graves, called
Sheol, where after death the souls of all men go, the righteous
as well as the wicked, for the Jew had not arrived at the
doctrine of heaven and hell. The Hebrew Sheol corresponds
strictly to the Greek Hades, before the notions of Elysium and
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