At this, my good Master said unto me, “Do you not ask who are these sorrowful spirits which you behold? I would have you know, ere you go any farther, that they have not sinned. And, if they had any merit, it was not enough to avail them, because they had not been Baptized, which is the entryway to the Faith in which you believe. If they were born before the advent of Christianity they did not worship God in the correct manner. And I myself am one of these. Because of such a defect, and not for any other fault, are we lost. We are afflicted only in that we live with desire but without hope.”
