Hot air rises, doesn't it?

So naturally, there's an endless wind rising from Hell. All those fires, you know.

The wind from Hell uplifts all souls in its unstoppable gale. Hell exerts a constant pressure on us all, but contrary to popular opinion, it presses us toward Heaven.

Don't look surprised. Climatology often seems paradoxical.

Devils have had to learn the trick of falling perpetually. Once was not enough! Like the Red Queen running, in "Through the Looking-Glass", they must go on falling, moment by moment, vigorously, just to stay in place. If they relax, they're blown back up toward Paradise like chaff in a tornado.

Human beings, on the other hand, being material, have gravity as an anchor: our matter wants to fall, our soul to rise.... thus leaving us (usually) balanced--free to live without consciously struggling to be angelic or hellish. Like fish with swim-bladders, a well-balanced human soul is in equilibrium... floating free.

Quite a clever engineering solution, this physical world! A sort of sea-anchor, stabilizing us in that gale.

I wonder if, in the beginning, (or as the Christians say, In The Beginning) that was the whole point of having a material world at all.

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