Note 8 — CHAPTER 5. SUGGESTION AND THE MASSES
Reading edition
The writers of the Old Testament speak only of “Sheol” (Job X, 21)—a great pit under the earth, derived from the Babylonian “Arallu” and akin to the Greek “Hades”, where the spirits of the dead—good, bad or indifferent—went. “Hell-fire” and “brimstone” are a much later invention.