The Creation of Hell

MV - “Lessons on the Epistles of St. Paul to the Romans”:

214 – 216 Jesus speaks: “’Eden’ was the name of the place where man had been created and placed
so that he could populate it with his campaign. Just as ‘Heaven’ was the name of the place where the
angels and pure spirits had been placed after having been created by God in order to adore and
serve Him forever and ever. Eden means ‘garden,’ that is, a place of delights. Heaven means ‘Kingdom
of God,’ a place of holiness and joy. If order had not ever been voluntarily violated by the creatures
to whom God had given life and places of joy and delight, Eden would have remained Eden for all the
descendents of the Man-Adam, and Hell would not have existed. However, the angel first, knowing
the future mysteries and future works of the Lord through a sublime gift, mysteries and works which
Lucifer, through the most sublime amongst the angels, could never have accomplished, in the place
of contemplating by adoring the infinite Power and Love of his Creator - and this would have been
‘living in order and living in harmony with good intellectual impulses’ - he rallied against his Lord in a
foolish rebellion that stifled love, and therefore, harmony and order in him and in his followers; and
he created. Yes, he too, created. But what? He created disorder, sin, and hell; that which only one
who had separated himself from God could create. The disorder in human impulses and instincts
which God had given as good, order and harmonious amongst them, in order and in harmony for the
final end for which God had created man, was brought into being by Lucifer, the rebel who for having
been the ‘brightness of the morning’ of the heavenly creation of the angels, believed himself to be
‘like the Most High’ above whose heavens he attempted to ‘exalt his throne.’ (Isaiah 14) Sin against
love, that is, pride of the mind and of the heart of which the innocent Man-Adam became guilty, the
tremendous sin of the I who wants to ‘become like God,’ (Genesis II) was brought into being by
Lucifer who then seduced Man to this sin in order to make him [Adam] similar to himself in his
rebellion to God. Hell, the place of eternal inconceivable torture in which those who obstinately live
in hate towards God and His Law precipitate, has been created because of him, by the rebellious
Archangel who was fulgurated with his followers by divine wrath and conquered by faithful angels,
conquered, because he was by then stripped of the power of his state of grace, fulgurated and
‘brought down to the depths of the Pit’ (Isaiah) in which his horrendous fire of hate, and his now
horrendous light and flame, so different from the light and flame of grace and love with which God
had endowed him when He created him, had lit the eternal and most atrocious fires. Heaven
remained Heaven, even after the rebellion and the fall of the rebels. Because in the Kingdom of God,
everything is established by eternal rules and - having expelled the proud, the rebellious, and the
self-idolaters whose abode is the burning inferno pool - perfect holiness, joy, love, harmony and
order continues forever. However disorder existed at this point, and with it, sin, sorrow and death
were able to pierce amongst the delights of Eden, disturbing order, harmony and love, spreading
poison, corrupting the intellect, will, sentiments and instincts, arousing sinful appetites, destroying
innocence in grace, grieving the Creator and making creatures who were, a little while ago
supernaturally and naturally happy, both unhappy, one condemned to obtain his bread with [great]
difficulty from the earth now cursed and bearer of tribulations and thorns, and the other condemned
to giving birth in pain, to live in sorrow and in subjection to man, both condemned to sorrow over a
son slain by the [other] son and the shame of being parents of a fratricide, and in the end, of being
acquainted with the sorrow of dying. All this millennial sorrow comes from a disorder created by a
rebel in Heaven and by acquiescence to the disorder proposed by the now accursed snake, in Eden,
to the first two inhabitants of the Earth. Nor ever more could the first perfection, the first love, the
first harmony, the first order; rise after an angel and two innocents voluntarily preferred evil over the
Supreme Good. Not even the Sacrifice of God, who made Himself Man in order to redeem, served to
re-establish the primeval state order, harmony, love of perfection. Grace restores; however; the
wound remains. Grace succors; however, the formats remain. Whereas before it would have been
sweet and effortless to reach Heaven, one now needs to “use violence” in order to attain the
Kingdom of Heaven: Holy violence against evil violence. Because from the moment of the sin, Good
and Evil exists, and they contend with each other outside and within man. God calls. Satan calls. God
inspires. Satan inspires. God offers His gifts: Satan his. And between God and Satan is man; man in
whom there are two natures already in battle against one another, one carnal in which the foments
of the Sin dwell, the other spiritual in which the voices of Grace dwell. And if God turns in the
direction of he who resembles Him because He is the Father who loves His sons and who wants to
re-unite with them after their earthly trial, Satan, the Adversary, Hater of God and of Man son of
God, turns in both directions and incites the carnal side while he attempts to seduce the spiritual
side in order to conquer and prey on like a ‘roaring lion who wants to devour,’ of whom Peter the
apostle speaks.”

The Seven Chasms of Hell

Ref: Diary of St. Faustina -741 p296

St. Faustina is speaking: “Today, I was led by an Angel to the chasms of hell. It is a place of great
torture; how awesomely large and extensive it is! The kinds of tortures I saw: the first torture that
constitutes hell is the loss of God; the second is perpetual remorse of conscience; the third is that
one’s condition will never change; the fourth is the fire that will penetrate the soul without
destroying it – a terrible suffering, since it is a purely spiritual fire, lit by God’s anger; the fifth torture
is continual darkness and a terrible suffocating smell, and, despite the darkness, the devils and the
souls of the damned see each other and all the evil, both of others and their own; the sixth torture is
the constant company of Satan; the seventh torture is horrible despair, hatred of God, vile words,
curses and blasphemies. These are tortures suffered by all the damned together, but that is not the
end of the suffering. There are special tortures destined for particular souls. These are the torments
of the senses. Each soul undergoes terrible and indescribable sufferings, related to the manner in
which it has sinned. There are caverns and pits of torture where one form of agony differs from
another. I would have died at the very sight of these tortures if the omnipotence of God had not
supported me. Let the sinner know that he will be tortured thought all eternity, in those senses
which he made use of to sin. I am writing this at the command of God, so that no soul may find an
excuse by saying there is no hell, or that nobody has ever been there, and so no one can say what it
is like.”