Damned, damnation, condemnation
Hell - Joseph Anton Koch, frescoes of Casa Massimo - Dante's room.
Damnation is the ultimate penalty, the definitive separation of the Soul from God pronounced at the particular judgment of a person at the end of their earthly life.
Life is thus. It flows between the past and the Future, between evil and Good. In the middle stands man with his will and his free will; at the extremes, on the one hand God and His Heaven, on the other Satan and his hell. Man can choose. No one forces him.[1]
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
- The conduct of Judas and his final sin: "(...) But in [[Truth, sincerity|truth], oh! in truth I tell you that even after the worst offense, if the guilty one ran to the feet of the Father - He is called Father for this, O Judas, He is a Father of infinite perfection - if, in weeping, begging for forgiveness, he offered himself to atonement, but without despair, the Father would give him the means to atone so that he deserves forgiveness and saves his spirit." [2] (Jesus)
- Life, thereafter, has no end, because the Soul does not die, that is, it does not annihilate itself. It dies to its destiny which is heavenly but survives its punishment. It dies to this blessed destiny when it dies to Grace... This life, afflicted by a gangrene which is death to its destiny, extends throughout the centuries in damnation and torment.[3]
- Only the damned are allowed to separate from God.[4]
- Their death is damnation, which is still existence, Yes, but an existence deprived of what true Life and eternal joy are, that is, the beatific vision of God and His eternal possession in the eternal light.[5]
- But for one of you, the Blood will mean nothing and the Fire will mean nothing, because the Blood will have had the power to damn him and he will eternally know another Fire in which he will burn, vomiting blood and swallowing blood, because he will see blood wherever he cast his mortal gaze or his spiritual gaze as long as he has betrayed the Blood of a God.[6]
- Yes, I tell you. Often God, the Almighty, the All, waits for a creature, a nothing, to make or not make a sacrifice, a prayer, to seal or not seal the condemnation of a spirit. It is never late, never too late to try and hope to save a Soul.[7]
In the other works of Maria Valtorta
In the Notebooks
- Catechesis of June 7, 1943: Truly, I tell you that more than two-thirds of the human race belong to this category that lives under the sign of the Beast. For them, I am dead in vain. The law of those who bear the sign of the Beast is opposed to my Law. In one, the flesh dominates producing the works of the flesh. In the other, the spirit dominates producing the works of the spirit. Where the spirit dominates is the reign of God; where the flesh dominates is the reign of Satan.[8]
- Catechesis of January 15, 1944: He who is destined for hell endures it for eternity because no new resurrection comes from that death. I have said that this Fire is eternal and that all the makers of scandals and iniquities will find themselves there... [9]
In fundamental Christian texts
In the Bible
- Whoever says a word Against the Son of Man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks Against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, neither in this world nor in the world to come.[10] Those who have done Good will rise to receive life, but those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.[11]
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church
- The Christ descended into hell[12] (here in the sense of the Limbo)
- God does not predestine anyone to go to hell.[13]
- The last judgment[14] and following.
- If mortal sin is not redeemed by repentance and God's forgiveness, it causes exclusion from the Kingdom of Christ and eternal death in hell, our freedom having the power to make choices forever, without return.[15]