The Archive · 1928

In the Nether Regions

Thus assured, Treshe told of his! short visit to Nyal-wa. He told them that, just as he was losing consciousness, all the people he had ired appeared before him with ugly-looking hooks and dragged hint down to the lower world. Some tuck their hooks into his eyes, some hooked him by the cars, and others fled ropes around his neck, and in to the lamas, is to bestow all one's goods to feed the poor, and, ax the Tamas are very poor, they get all the feed, and they are responsible therefore for getting the inhabit ants into Paradise. They have divided the people into four classes those with lots of virtue, those with lots of vice, those whose vice and virtue run a dead heat, and those who have neither virtue nor vee. The firet go straight to Dehwajen, the second fo Nyalwa, the third have the privilege of being again born a8 human beings; further opportunity to let vice oF virtue with the race, and the fourth rely become four-footed animals his i essence ig Lamaison. There ix also the theory of the 1,000 re. births, 500 of one kind and 500 of another.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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