THE PURGATORY EXPLAINED BY JESUS IN MARIA VALTORTA
October 17, 1943 Jesus says
“I want to explain to you what Purgatory is and what it consists of. And I will explain it to you, with a form that will shock many who believe themselves to be the custodians of the knowledge of the beyond and are not.
Souls immersed in those flames suffer only from love.
Not undeserving of possessing the Light, but neither worthy of entering immediately, in the Kingdom of Light, they, when they present themselves to God, are invested by the Light. It is a short, anticipated bliss, which makes them certain of their salvation and makes them aware of what their eternity will be and experts of what they committed towards their soul, defrauding it of years of blessed possession of God. Then immersed in the place of purgation, they are hit by scapegoats.
In this, those who speak of Purgatory say right. But where I'm not right is in wanting to apply different names to those flames.
They are a fire of Love. They purify by lighting the souls of love. They give love because, when the soul has reached in them that love that it did not reach on earth, it is freed from it and is joined to love in Heaven. You think that doctrine is different from cognita, doesn't it?
But think about it.
What does the Triune God want for the souls created by Him? Good.
Who wants Good for a creature, what feelings does it have for the creature? Feelings of love. Which is the first and second commandment, the two most important, those that I have said not to be bigger and to be the key to eternal life? It is the commandment of love: "Love God with all your strength, love your neighbor as yourself".
Through my mouth and the prophets and saints, what have I told you countless times? That Charity is the greatest of absolution. Charity consumes the sins and weaknesses of man, because whoever loves lives in God, and living in God little sins, and if he sins immediately he repents, and for those who repent there is the forgiveness of the Most High.
What did the souls lack? Love. If they had loved much, they would have committed few and minor sins, connected to your weakness and imperfection. But they would never have reached conscious pertinacity in venial guilt. They would have studied not to pain their Love, and Love, seeing their goodwill, would also absolve them of the venialities committed.
How can a fault be repaired, even on earth? By expanding it and, if possible, through the means by which it was committed. Who has damaged, returning what he raised with arrogance. Who slandered, retracting the slander, and so on.
Now, if this wants poor human justice, won't God's holy justice want it? And what means will God use to obtain reparation? Himself, that is, Love, and demanding love. This God whom you have offended, and who loves you fatherly, and who wants to join you with his creatures, leads you to achieve this connection through Himself.
Everything hinges on Love, Mary, except for the true "dead": the damned. For them "dead" even Love died. But for the three kingdoms the heaviest one: the Earth; the one in which the weight of matter is abolished but not of the soul burdened by sin: Purgatory; and finally the one where the inhabitants of it share with them the spiritual nature that frees them from every burden, the engine is Love. It is by loving on earth that you work for Heaven. It is by loving in Purgatory that you conquer Heaven that in life you did not know how to deserve. It is by going to Heaven that you enjoy Heaven.
When a soul is in Purgatory, she does nothing but love, reflect, repent in the light of Love which for her has ignited those flames, which are already God, but they hide God for her punishment.
Here is the torment. The soul remembers the vision of God in the particular judgment. It carries with it that memory and, since having even glimpsed God is joy that surpasses every created thing, the soul is anxious to rejuvenate that joy.
That remembrance of God and that ray of light that invested it at its appearance before God, cause the soul to "see" in their true entity the shortcomings committed against his Good, and this "seeing" constitutes together the thought that for those shortcomings the possession of Heaven and union with God for years or centuries has voluntarily been forbidden, constitutes his purgative punishment.
It is love, the certainty of having offended Love, the torment of purgatives. The more a soul in life has missed and the more it is blinded by spiritual cataracts, which make it more difficult to know and achieve that perfect repentance of love which is the primary coefficient of its purgation and entry into the Kingdom of God. love is weighed down in his life and made late as much as a soul has oppressed him with guilt. As by the power of Love she cleanses herself, her resurrection to love accelerates and, consequently, her conquest of Love, which is completed when the atonement is over and the perfection of love, it is admitted into the City of God.
It is necessary to pray a lot because these souls, who suffer to reach Joy, are quick in reaching the perfect love that absolves them and unites them to Me. Your prayers, your suffrages, are as many increases of fire of love. They increase the ardor. But oh! blessed torment! they also increase the ability to love. They accelerate the purgation process. The souls immersed in that fire raise to ever higher degrees. They bring them to the threshold of the Light. Finally, they open the doors of Light and bring the soul into Heaven. To each of these operations, caused by your charity for those who preceded you in your second life, there is a surge of charity for you. Charity of God who thanks you for providing for his painful children, charity of the painful people who thank you for working to bring them into the joy of God. Never as after the death of the earth do your loved ones love you, because their love is now infused with Light of God and this Light they understand how you love them and how they should love you.
They can no longer give you words that invoke forgiveness and give love. But they say to Me for you, and I bring them to you, these words of your Dead, who now know how to see and love you properly. I bring them to you together with their request for love and their blessing. Already valid since Purgatory, because already infused with the burning Charity that burns and purifies them. Perfectly valid, then, from the moment in which, freed, they will meet you on the threshold of Life or will reunite with you in Life, if you have already preceded them in the Kingdom of Love.
Trust in Me, Maria, I work for you and your loved ones. Raise your spirit. I come to give you joy. Trust me".
October 21, 1943 Jesus says:
“I return to the topic of souls accepted in Purgatory.
If you haven't grasped the full meaning of my words, it doesn't matter. These are pages for everyone, because everyone has loved ones in Purgatory and almost everyone, with the life they lead, is destined to stay in that home. For some, I continue therefore.
I said that purging souls only suffer from love and expiate with love. Here are the reasons for this expiation system.
If you, thoughtless men, carefully consider my Law in its advice and commands, you see that it is all centered on love. Love of God, love of neighbor.
In the first commandment I, God, impose myself on your reverential love with all the solemnity that is worthy of my Nature with respect to your nothingness: I am the Lord your God ”.
Too many times do you forget, O men who believe you are gods and, if you do not have a spirit vivified by grace, you are nothing but dust and putrefaction, animals that combine animality with the cunning intelligence possessed by the Beast, who makes you commit works of beasts, worse than beasts: of demons.
Say it morning and evening, say it at noon and midnight, say it when you eat, when you drink, when you go to sleep, when you wake up, when you work, when you rest, say it when you love, tell it when you make friends, say it when you command and when you obey, say it always: “I am not God. Food, drink, sleep, I am not God. Work, rest, occupations, works of genius, are not God. Woman, or worse: women, are not God. Friendships are not God. Superiors are not God. Only one is God: it is my Lord who gave me this life because with it you deserve the Life that does not die, that has given me clothes, food, dwellings, who gave me the job to earn my life, the genius because you witness being the king of the earth, who gave me the ability to love and creatures to love 'with holiness' and not with lust, which gave me the power, authority to make it a means of holiness and not of damnation. I can become similar to Him because He said it: 'You are gods', but only if I live his Life, that is, his Law, but only if I live his Life, that is, his Love. Only one is God: I am his son and subject, the heir of his kingdom. But if I desert and betray, if I create my own kingdom in which I humanly want to be king and god, then I lose the real Kingdom and my fate as the son of God decays and degrades to that of the son of Satan, as it cannot be done at the same time to serve selfishness and love, and whoever serves the first serves the Enemy of God and loses Love, that is, he loses God ”.
Remove from your mind and heart all the lying gods you have placed, starting with the mud god that you are when you do not live in Me. Remember what you owe me for everything I have given you and I would have given you more if you had not tied your hands to your God with your way of life what I have given you for everyday life and for eternal life. For this reason, God has given you his Son, so that he would be immolated as a spotless lamb and wash your debts with his Blood and thus not bring back, as in the Mosaic times, the iniquities of the fathers on the children until the fourth generation of sinners, who they are "those who hate me" because sin is offended against God and those who offend hate.
Do not raise other altars to untrue gods. Have, and not so much on the stone altars, but on the living altar of your heart, the Lord God alone and unique. Serve to him and offer true worship of love, of love, of love, or children you do not know how to love that you say, say, say words of prayer, words only, but do not make love your prayer, the only one that God likes.
Remember that a true heartbeat of love, which rises like a cloud of incense from the flames of your heart in love with Me, has a value for Me infinite times greater than a thousand and thousand prayers and ceremonies made with a warm or cold heart. Draw my Mercy with your love. If you knew how active and great my Mercy is with those who love me! It is a wave that passes and washes what is a stain in you. It gives you a white stole to enter the holy City of Heaven, in which the Charity of the Lamb shines like the sun and made himself immolated for you. Do not use the Holy Name out of habit or to give strength to your anger, to vent your impatience, to corroborate your curses. And above all do not apply the term "god" to a human creature you love for hunger for the senses or for a cult of mind. Only one should be told that Name. To Me. And to Me it must be said with love, with faith, with hope. Then that Name will be your strength and your defense, the worship of this Name will justify you, because whoever works by putting my Name as a seal of his actions cannot commit evil actions. I speak of those who act with truth, not of liars who try to cover themselves and their works with the radiance of my Name three times holy. And who are they trying to fool? I am not subject to deception, and men themselves, unless they are mentally ill, from the comparison of the works of the liars with their saying, understand that they are false and feel disdain and disgust.
You who do not know how to love anything but yourself and your money and it seems lost every hour that is not dedicated to satisfy the meat or to feed the bag, know, in your enjoyment or work by greedy and brutes, put a stop that will give way to think of God, his goodness, his patience, his love. You should, I repeat, always keep in mind whatever you do; but since you do not know how to work while keeping your spirit fixed in God, stop working once a week to think only of God.
This, which may seem servile law to you, is instead proof of how God loves you. Your good Father knows that you are fragile machines that wear out in continuous use and has provided for your flesh, even for that as it is also his work, giving you the command to let it rest one day out of seven to give it just refreshment. God doesn't want your illnesses. Had you remained his children, his own, from Adam onwards, you would not have known the diseases. These are the fruit of your disobedience to God, together with pain and death; and as mushroom growers they were born and born on the roots of the first disobedience: that of Adam, and they spring from each other, tragic chain, from the germ that remained in your heart, from the poison of the cursed Serpent that gives you fevers of lust, of greed, gluttony, sloth, guilty imprudences.
And it is guilty imprudence to want to force your being to work continuously for gain, as is the desire to enjoy the throat or sense by not contenting yourself with the food necessary for life and the companion necessary for the continuation of the species, but satisfying you beyond measure as animals from quagmire and exhausting and demeaning you as indeed, not as brutes, which are not similar but superior to you in the union to which they are obeying laws of order but degrading you worse than brutes: like demons who disobey the holy laws of instinct righteous, of reason and of God.
You have corrupted your instinct and it now leads you to prefer corrupt meals, formed by lusts in which you desecrate your body: my work; your soul: my masterpiece; and kill embryos of lives by denying them to life, because on the contrary you suppress them voluntarily or through your lepros which are deadly poison to the source lives.
How many are the souls that your sensual appetite calls from Heaven and to whom you then close the doors of life? How many are those who just come to an end, and come to light dying or already dead, and to whom you are excluding Heaven? How many those to which you impose a burden of pain, which can not always lead with a sick existence, marked by painful and shameful diseases? How many who cannot resist this fate of unwanted martyrdom, but affixed by you as a mark on fire on the flesh, which you have generated without reflecting that, when you are corrupt as decayed tombs, it is no longer lawful to father children to condemn them to society's pain and disgust? How many those who, unable to resist this fate, commit suicide?
But what do you believe? That I will harm her for this crime against God and herself? No. Before them, who sin against two, there are you who sin against three: against God, against yourselves and against the innocent you generate to bring them to despair. Think. Think well. God is righteous, and if guilt weighs, the causes of guilt also weigh. And in this case the weight of guilt lightens the sentence of the suicide, but loads the sentence of you, true murders of your desperate creatures.
On that day of rest that God has put in the week, and he has given you his example of rest, think, He: the infinite Agent, the Generator who continually generates from Himself, He has shown you the need for rest, He did it for you, to be Master in life. And you, negligible powers, want to ignore it as if you were more powerful than God! . On that day of rest for your flesh that breaks under excessive fatigue, know how to deal with the rights and duties of the soul. Rights: to real life. The soul dies if it is kept separate from God. On Sunday give it to your soul as you do not know how to do it every day and every hour because in it Sunday it feeds on the Word of God, saturates with God, to have vitality during the other days of work. So sweet is the rest in the father's house to a son that work has kept away all week! And why don't you give this sweetness to your soul? Why do you contaminate this day with crapule and labidini, instead of making it a third light for your bliss now and then?
And, after love for those who created you, love for those who generated you and those who are brothers. If God is Charity, how can you say you are in God if you do not try to look like him in charity? And can you say that you look like him if you love him alone and not the others created by him? Yes, that God must be loved most of all, but he cannot say that he loves God who despises to love those whom God loves.
Therefore, be the first to love those who for having generated you are the second creators of your being on earth. The supreme Creator is the Lord God, who forms your souls and, master as he is of Life and Death, allows your coming to life. But second creators are those who of two flesh and two blood make a new flesh, a new son of God, a new future inhabitant of Heaven. Because it is for the heavens that you are created, because it is for the heavens that you must live on earth.
Oh! sublime dignity of father and mother! Holy episcopate, I say with a bold but true word, who consecrates a new servant to God with the chrism of a conjugal love, washes it with the cry of the parent, dresses it with the work of the father, makes it bearer of the Light infusing the knowledge of God in the minds little words and the love of God in innocent hearts. In truth I tell you that parents are slightly inferior to God only because they create a new Adam. But then, when the parents know how to make the new Adam into a new little Christ, then their dignity is only a degree lower than that of the Eternal.
Therefore, love only less love than you must have for the Lord your God, your father and mother, this double manifestation of God that conjugal love makes a "unity". Love her because her dignity and her works are the most similar to those of God for you: they are parents, your creative terrains, and everything in you must venerate them for them. And love your offspring, or parents. Remember that every duty corresponds to a right and that, if the children have the duty to see the greatest dignity in you after God and to give you the greatest love after the total love that must be given to God, you have the duty to be perfect not to diminish the concept and the love of children towards you. Remember that generating meat is a lot, but it is nothing at the same time. Animals also generate meat and many times treat it better than you do. But you generate a citizen of Heaven. You have to worry about this. Do not turn off the light of the souls of the children, do not allow the pearl of the soul of your children to get used to the mud, because it does not cause it to become submerged in the mud. Give love, holy love to your children, and not foolish care for physical beauty, for human culture. No. It's the beauty of their soul, the education of their spirit, the one you need to take care of.
The life of parents is sacrifice as it is that of priests and teachers convinced of their mission. All three categories are "trainers" of what does not die: the spirit, or the psyche, if you like more. And since the spirit is flesh in the proportion of 1000 to 1, consider which perfection parents, teachers and priests should draw on, to truly be what they should be. I say "perfection". "Training" is not enough. They must train others, but to form them non-deformed they must model them on a perfect model. And how can they claim it if they are imperfect themselves? And how can they become perfect themselves if they do not model themselves on the Perfect who is God? And what can make man capable of modeling himself on God? The love. Always love. You are raw and shapeless iron. Love is the furnace that purifies and dissolves you and makes you fluids to flow through the supernatural veins in the form of God. Then you will be the "formators" of others: when you are trained on the perfection of God.
Many times children represent the spiritual failure of parents. You can see through the children what the parents were worth. Chè, if it is true that depraved children are sometimes born of holy parents, this is the exception. Generally one of the parents is at least not a saint and, since it is easier for you to copy the bad than the good, the child copies the less good. It is also true that sometimes a holy child is born of depraved parents. But even here it is difficult for both parents to be depraved. By law of compensation the better of the two is good for two and with prayers, tears and words, he does the work of both of them by forming his son in Heaven.
In any case, O children, whatever your parents may be, I say to you: “Do not judge, love only, forgive only, obey only, except in those things which are contrary to my Law. To you the merit of obedience, love and forgiveness, of the forgiveness of you children, Mary, who accelerates God's forgiveness of parents, and the more it accelerates it the more complete forgiveness it is; to parents the responsibility and the right judgment, both with regards to you and for what belongs to God, of God the only Judge ”.
It is superfluous to explain that to kill is to miss love. Love towards God, to whom you raise the right of life and death towards one of his creatures and the right to judge. Only God is a judge and a holy judge and, if He has allowed man to create justice for itself to put a stop to both crime and punishment, you will be in trouble if, as you fail in the Justice of God, you are missing in the justice of man by erecting yourselves as judges of your fellow man, who has missed or you believe he has missed you.
Do you think, O poor children, that offense, pain, upset mind and heart, and that anger and pain itself put a veil on your intellectual sight, a veil that precludes the vision of true truth and charity as God he presents it to you so that you can regulate your just righteous indignation and not make it, with too much ruthless condemnation, an injustice. Be holy even while the offense burns you. Remember God especially then.
And you too, judges of the earth, be holy. You have at your hands the most vivid horrors of humanity. Scrutinize them with an eye and mind steeped in God. See the true "why" of certain "miseries". Think that even if they are true "miseries" of humanity that degrades, there are many causes that produce them. In the hand that killed, look for the force that moved it to kill and remember that you are also men. Ask yourself if you: betrayed, abandoned, teased, you would have been better than the one who is in front of you waiting for a sentence. By taking the severe examination of you, think if no woman can accuse you of being the real killers of the child she has suppressed, because after the joyful hour you have escaped your honor commitment. And if you do it, be severe.
But if, after having sinned against the creature born of your snares and lust, you still want to obtain forgiveness from the One who does not deceive himself and does not forget with years and years of correct life, after that impropriety that you did not want repair, or after that crime you have caused, be at least industrious in preventing evil, and especially where feminine lightness and environmental misery predispose you to falls in vice and infanticide.
Remember, O men, that I, the Pure, have not refused to redeem women without honor. And for the honor they no longer had, I raised in their minds, as a flower from a profaned soil, the living flower of repentance which redeems. I gave my pitiful love to the poor wretches that a so-called "love" had prostrated in the mud. My true love saved them from the lust that the so-called love had inoculated in them. If I had cursed and fled, I would have lost them forever. I also loved them for the world, which after having enjoyed them, covered them with hypocritical ridicule and liar with indignation. Instead of the caresses of sin, I caressed them with the purity of my gaze; instead of the words of delirium, I had words of love for them; instead of money, the shameful price of their kiss, I have given the riches of my Truth.
This is done, men, to draw from the mud those who sink into the mud, and do not cling to the neck to perish or throw stones to sink them more. It is love, it is always love that saves.
What sin against love is adultery, I have already talked about it and I will not repeat, for now at least. There is on this regurgitation of animality so much to say and so much that you would not even understand, because of being traitors to the hearth you boast that for pity of my little disciple I am silent. I do not want to exhaust the forces of the exhausted creature and disturb his soul with human crudeness since, close to the goal, he thinks only of Heaven.
It is obvious that the one who steals is missing from love. If he remembered not to do to others what he would not have done to himself, and loved others as much as himself, he would not violently and defraud what belongs to his neighbor. Therefore there would be no lack of love, as you miss committing a thief that can be of commodity, of money, as of occupation. How many thefts you commit by robbing a friend of his place, an invention of his companion! You are thieves, three times thieves, doing this. You are more so than if you stole a wallet or a gem, because without them you can still live, but without a profit place you die, and with the robbed of the place your family dies of hunger.
I have given you the word as a sign of elevation over all other animals on earth. You should therefore love me for the word, my gift. But can I say that you love me for the word, when you make yourself the weapon of this gift from Heaven to ruin your neighbor with a false oath? No, you don't love Me or your neighbor when you assert the fake, but you hate us. Don't you think that the word kills not only the flesh, but the reputation of a man? Whoever kills hates, who hates does not love.
Envy is not charity: it is anticarity. Those who excessively desire other people's stuff are envious and do not love. Be happy with what you have. Think that under the appearance of joy there are often pains that God sees and that are spared you, apparently less happy than those you envy. For if, then, the object desired is someone else's wife or someone else's husband, then know that you combine sin of envy with that of lust or adultery. Therefore, make a threefold offense against the charity of God and neighbor.
As you can see, if you contravene the decalogue you contravene love. And so it is with the advice I have given you, which are the flower of the plant of Charity. Now, if by contravening the Law you are contravening love, it is obvious that sin is a lack of love. And therefore he must expiate himself with love.
The love that you have not been able to give me on earth, you must give it to me in Purgatory. That's why I say that Purgatory is nothing but suffering from love.
All your life you have little loved God in his Law. You have thrown the thought of Him behind you, you have lived loving everyone and not loving Him very much. It is right that, not having deserved Hell and not deserving Heaven, you deserve it now by lighting yourself with charity, burning as you are been lukewarm on earth. It is right for you to sigh for a thousand and a thousand hours of love atonement for what you have failed a thousand and a thousand times to sigh on earth: God, the supreme purpose of created intelligences. Every time you have turned your back on love, years and centuries of loving nostalgia correspond. Years or centuries depending on your seriousness of guilt.
By now made sure of God, cogniti of the supernal beauty of God for that fleeting encounter of the first judgment, whose memory comes with you to make you anxious for love, you sigh to him, the distance from him weep, d ' you have been the cause of this distance you regret and repent, and you make yourselves more and more penetrable to that burning fire of Charity for your supreme good.
When the merits of Christ come, from the prayers of the living who love you, thrown like glowing essences in the holy fire of Purgatory, the incandescence of love penetrates you stronger and deeper and, among the glowing of the vampires, more and more the memory of God seen in that moment becomes clear in you.
As in the life of the earth the more love grows and the thinner the veil that conceals the Divinity is made, just as in the second kingdom the more purification grows, and therefore love, and the closer and more visible the face of God becomes Already shines and smiles amid the flashing of the holy fire. It is like a Sun that is becoming more and more close, and its light and its heat annul more and more the light and heat of the purgative fire, until, passing from the deserved and blessed torment of the fire to the conquered and blessed refreshment of possession, go from blaze to Blaze, from light to Light, rise to be light and blaze in It, eternal Sun, as a spark absorbed by a stake and as a lamp thrown into a fire.
Oh! joy of the joy, when you find yourself risen to my Glory, passed from that kingdom of waiting to the Kingdom of triumph. Oh! perfect knowledge of Perfect Love!
This knowledge, O Mary, is a mystery that the mind can know by the will of God, but it cannot describe with a human word. Believe that it deserves to suffer a lifetime to possess it from the hour of death. Do you believe that there is no greater charity to procure it with prayers to those you love on earth and that now they begin purgation in love, to which the doors of the heart were closed in life many and many times.
Soul, blessed to whom hidden truths are revealed. Go ahead, work and go up. For yourself and for those you love in the afterlife.