Journey to the inferno of Santa SISTER FAUSTINA KOWALSKA

Today, under the guidance of an angel, I have been in the depths of hell. It is a place of great torments for all its frighteningly large extent. These are the various pains that I have seen: the first punishment, that which constitutes hell, is the loss of God; the second, the constant remorse of conscience; the third, the awareness that that fate will never change; the fourth penalty is the fire which penetrates the soul, but does not destroy it; it is a terrible pain: it is a purely spiritual fire ignited by the wrath of God; the fifth penalty is continuous darkness, a horrifying suffocating stench, and although it is dark, demons and damned souls see each other and see all the evil of others and their own; the sixth penalty is the constant companionship of satan; the seventh penalty is tremendous despair, hatred of God, curses, curses, blasphemies. These are pains that all the damned suffer together, but this is not the end of torments. There are particular torments for the various souls which are the torments of the senses. Every soul with what has sinned is tormented in a tremendous and indescribable way. There are horrible caves, chasms of torments, where each torture differs from the other. I would have died at the sight of those horrible tortures, if the omnipotence of God had not sustained me. The sinner knows that with the sense in which he sins he will be tortured for all eternity. I write this by order of God, so that no soul justifies itself by saying that hell is not there, or that nobody has ever been and nobody knows what it is like. I, Sister Faustina, by order of God have been to the depths of hell, in order to tell it to souls and testify that hell is there. Now I can't talk about this. I have the order from God to leave it in writing. Demons have shown great hatred against me, but by order of God they have had to obey me. What I have written is a faint shadow of the things I have seen. One thing I noticed is that most of the souls that are there are souls who did not believe that there was hell. When I returned to myself, I could not recover from the fear, at the thought that souls suffer so terribly there, for this I pray with greater fervor for the conversion of sinners, and I incessantly invoke God's Mercy for them. Or my Jesus, I prefer to agonize until the end of the world in the greatest tortures, rather than to offend You with the smallest sin.