Chapter VII: THE SUFFERINGS OF HELL AND METEMPSYCHOSIS. Origin in Homer,

170—Orphic theology, 171—Resemblance to penal law, 172—Apocryphal
gospel of Peter, 173—Oriental influence, 174—Fire of hell,
175—Metempsychosis, its animistic basis, 177—Origin in Greece,
177—Souls passing continuously through different kinds of beings,
179—Reincarnation a punishment, 180—“Palingenesis” or uncontinuous
reincarnation, 182—Transmigration from man to man, 183—Purification
of the soul in the air, 184—by water and fire, 185—Purgatory in the
atmosphere, 186—The purified spirit remains in heaven, 187.