Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell”
― Omar Khayyám
I'm not one to argue the theological niceties of Heaven, and Hell being aware that reward, and punishment are matters for the theoretical thinker to wax lyrical.
Edith Stein the Jewish convert who became a Carmelite nun and was murdered at Auschwitz wrote that God’s love is so great that it embraces even the most stubborn sinner.
Here's an article that discusses Rudolf Höss the commandant of Auschwitz and his final days:
https://aleteia.org/2016/03/04/how-the-commandant-of-auschwitz-found-gods-mercy/
Edith Stein was canonised by Pope John Paul II as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.
That St. Teresa Benedicta died in a man-made hell, a place of mass torment beyond anything conceived by the gospel authors it can be argued that her words reflect one of Our Father's attributes...love... expressed through forgiveness for all His children.
Our concepts of Hell beg the question: how can God not be present, when we believe Him to be omnipresent.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06612a.htm#IIB
“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
― John Milton
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