Purgatory
In Catholic theology, Purgatory is a place of cleansing after the particular judgment. After death, persons who repented of their sins but had not expiated them in life are purged before entering heaven. Because everyone who enters Purgatory will eventually reach heaven, it isn't a place of punishment and isn't related to Hell. Prayers for the dead or indulgences[?] can shorten one's own or loved one's stays therein.
The Eastern Orthodox church doesn't have an official doctrine regarding purgatory per se; however, they do traditionally offer prayers for the dead, asking God to show them his mercy and loving kindness. Theosis, the process of becoming more like God and more united with God, can begin in this life and can continue after death.
Protestant churches generally reject the belief in purgatory. Catholics quote II Maccabees[?] 12:45 in defence; but Protestant do not recognise that book as canonical as it is in a group of books called by Protestants the Apocrypha and by Catholics and Orthodox the Deuterocanonical Books.
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Purgatory or Purgatorio is the second book of Dante's Divine Comedy.
He hath possessed the Right thought,
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reciteth the Holy Name, for his faith cometh from the Divine Promise
to attain unto the Great Nirvana.
199. At this time when the five Signs of Degeneration are manifest,
even the Priests, together with the people, are enemies unto him who
shall sink into three evil worlds for age-long myriads of Kalpas.
201. Though the way into the Land that is in the West hath been made
good fruit thereof, for we have hindered ourselves and our brethren
we leave this sinful world? Wherefore we should live in hearty
ocean deeps of his love.
203. For it is by the marvellous mercy of our Lord that we may cast
Eternal Kingdom.
Therefore should we return unto the Lord righteous deeds in
CONCERNING GENSHIN-SOZU
204. Genshin the Great Teacher declareth: "In this world have I,
of Salvation being accomplished, I return unto the Eternal Kingdom
tenderly opened unto us the gate of the Doctrine of the Holy Name,
from the Golden Day of our Lord.
206. Genshin-Sozu, he who sat in the Assemblage on the Peak.
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