Closely questioned, he professed a spontaneous desire to be admitted into their band, to join in their dangers and share their honours; whereupon the oath was administered to him, the passwords and secret signs revealed, and he was bound from that time forth, under the bonds of a most painful death and torments in the afterworld, to submerge all passions save those for the benefit of their community, and to cherish no interests, wrongs or possessions that did not affect them all alike.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
Such imposture, Godwin argued, is as futile as the parallel use by religion of the pains and penalties of the afterworld.
"Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle"
H. N. Brailsford
The gods will be good in that afterworld;-I will find you again.
"The Flute of the Gods"
Marah Ellis Ryan