Post by petertherock on Mar 14, 2016 20:40:55 GMT -5
I have talked about the sins that lead to Hell...at least some of them anyway...but here is a description of Hell I itself as seen in a vision by Saint Veronica Giuliani...
Saint Veronica Giuliani Visions of Hell
"In a sudden, I found myself in a dark, deep and smelly, you heard bulls, braying of donkeys, lion roars, whistles of snakes, ghastly confusion of voices, and thunders that contributed great terror and fear. I saw flashes of fire and dense smoke. Adagio! Still nothing.
I seemed to see a big mountain all covered with snakes, the snakes and reptiles braided together, no one recognized the other, and in quantity without a number. Feeling, beneath them, curses and ghastly voices, turned to my angels, I asked them what those voices were, and they told me that there were many troubled souls, and that this place was the cooler. Indeed opened immediately, the great mountain, and I seemed to see it all filled with demons and souls! In large numbers! Those souls were stuck together as if they were one, and thus kept the demons associated with chains of fire to themselves, as if they were demons and souls the same thing and every soul had so many demons upon which we could just distinguish. The way in which the views I cannot describe it, just so I said to myself understood, but I do not say anything of what it is.
I was transported to another mountain where bulls and horses were unbridled which seemed to me that they might be as many dogs bite angry. In these animals was fire from the eyes, mouth and nose, their swords sharp teeth seemed that, suddenly reduced to pieces and nothing whatever was in their mouth, and realized that kicking and devour souls. Which clash and terror that made it! Do not you ever stopped and realized that last forever so. Then I saw other mountains with most ruthless torments, but it is impossible to describe, and the human mind can never, ever understand.
In the midst of this place, there is a throne, high, broad, and composed argali all of the demons! More ghastly struggle, and in the middle of it there is a chair made up of demons, the heads and the principal. Here he is sitting Lucifer, ghastly, horrible. O God! What an angle picture! Come over to ugliness, all other demons, that seems to have a head size of a hundred head, and it is full of very long spikes on top of each of which there is like an eye, big as a head of beef, which sends arrows fire burning all hell. And although this is a very big place comprising millions of souls and demons, all they see this view without veils, and all were suffering the same torments over Lucifer. It sees all, and everyone sees him.
Here, my angels, I did understand that, as in heaven, the sight of God, face to face, makes everyone happy and blessed those present, as well, in hell, the ugly face of Lucifer, this diabolical monster, is to torment all souls. They see all of them, face to face the enemy of God, and having lost God forever, and have not ever, ever to enjoy, is well worth it. Lucifer was in itself, and he stands out so that all the damned. It curse and blaspheme all, it all curse and curse, and it haunts, and torture.
And what is this? I asked my angels, and they answered me: Forever, for all eternity. O God! I cannot say anything, of what I have learned and understood, with words, we do not say anything. Here, now, I did see that the cushion was in the chair of Lucifer, if it was seated in that throne. He was the soul of Judas. Even under the feet of that Lucifer was a very big cushion, all torn. I was made to understand that these were souls of Religious; opened this throne and I seemed to see, among those demons that were under the chair, a large amount of anime. Then I asked my Angels: Who are these? And they told me that were prelates, Head of the Church, and the superiors of Religion.
O God! Each soul suffers, in a sudden, all that suffer from the damned souls of others, and I seemed to understand that my way was there to torment all the demons! And all the souls in hell. I believe however, that not only I accompanied my Angels, but I accompanied incognito my dear Mother, Mary most holy, because without her, I would have died of fright. I will not say more, so I cannot say anything. All I said is nothing, and everything I've heard from the preachers is an anything. The hell does not understand, I never can learn the hardness of his pains and its torments. This view I was very good, made me take the decision of departing from everything and to do my transactions with more perfection as I am so neglected. In hell there is a place for everyone, and there is still my, if not silent life. May be all to the glory of God, according to the will of God, for God, God!
On another occasion the devil showed her a vision of hell. “It seems that the tempter showed my soul hell being opened, and that in fact he had placed it (her soul) in it, and that only a small push was needed to cast it inside. It seemed then that I heard screams and voices of lamentation from the damned. I only saw infernal monsters, many serpents, many ferocious animals, and an infernal stench and extremely hot flames, which were so big that their height could not be measured. I could only compare it to the distance between heaven and earth. As far as the size of the place, one could not see the beginning or the end. You could hear many blasphemies and curses against God. How sad. What torment this caused my soul.”
She was shown hell once more: “At that moment I was once again shown hell opened; and it seemed many souls descended there, they were so ugly and black that they struck terror in me. They all dropped down in a rush, one after the other, and once they had entered those chasms there was nothing to be seen but fire and flames.” This vision led Veronica to offer herself as a victim of Divine Justice: “My Lord, I offer myself to stand here as a doorway, so that no one may enter down there and lose You.” Then she stretched out her arms and said, “As long as I stand in this doorway, no one shall enter. O souls, go back! My God, I ask nothing else of You but the salvation of sinners. Send me more pains, more torments, more crosses!”
The Blessed Virgin Mary speaking to Veronica about her trips to hell told her, “When you were going around hell, you came across torments and tormentors at every step; but that time when you went by the seat of Lucifer, you were terrified at seeing so many souls were on the seat of Lucifer himself. This is in the center of hell and is seen by all the damned, by all the devils, and this sight causes all of them great suffering. I also let you know that, in the same way that the sight of God in Paradise constitutes Paradise itself; down there in hell, the sight of Lucifer is what constitutes hell.”
The Blessed Virgin Mary also told her, “Many do not believe that hell exists, and I tell you yourself, who have been there, have understood nothing of what hell is.”
Saint Veronica Giuliani Visions of Hell
"In a sudden, I found myself in a dark, deep and smelly, you heard bulls, braying of donkeys, lion roars, whistles of snakes, ghastly confusion of voices, and thunders that contributed great terror and fear. I saw flashes of fire and dense smoke. Adagio! Still nothing.
I seemed to see a big mountain all covered with snakes, the snakes and reptiles braided together, no one recognized the other, and in quantity without a number. Feeling, beneath them, curses and ghastly voices, turned to my angels, I asked them what those voices were, and they told me that there were many troubled souls, and that this place was the cooler. Indeed opened immediately, the great mountain, and I seemed to see it all filled with demons and souls! In large numbers! Those souls were stuck together as if they were one, and thus kept the demons associated with chains of fire to themselves, as if they were demons and souls the same thing and every soul had so many demons upon which we could just distinguish. The way in which the views I cannot describe it, just so I said to myself understood, but I do not say anything of what it is.
I was transported to another mountain where bulls and horses were unbridled which seemed to me that they might be as many dogs bite angry. In these animals was fire from the eyes, mouth and nose, their swords sharp teeth seemed that, suddenly reduced to pieces and nothing whatever was in their mouth, and realized that kicking and devour souls. Which clash and terror that made it! Do not you ever stopped and realized that last forever so. Then I saw other mountains with most ruthless torments, but it is impossible to describe, and the human mind can never, ever understand.
In the midst of this place, there is a throne, high, broad, and composed argali all of the demons! More ghastly struggle, and in the middle of it there is a chair made up of demons, the heads and the principal. Here he is sitting Lucifer, ghastly, horrible. O God! What an angle picture! Come over to ugliness, all other demons, that seems to have a head size of a hundred head, and it is full of very long spikes on top of each of which there is like an eye, big as a head of beef, which sends arrows fire burning all hell. And although this is a very big place comprising millions of souls and demons, all they see this view without veils, and all were suffering the same torments over Lucifer. It sees all, and everyone sees him.
Here, my angels, I did understand that, as in heaven, the sight of God, face to face, makes everyone happy and blessed those present, as well, in hell, the ugly face of Lucifer, this diabolical monster, is to torment all souls. They see all of them, face to face the enemy of God, and having lost God forever, and have not ever, ever to enjoy, is well worth it. Lucifer was in itself, and he stands out so that all the damned. It curse and blaspheme all, it all curse and curse, and it haunts, and torture.
And what is this? I asked my angels, and they answered me: Forever, for all eternity. O God! I cannot say anything, of what I have learned and understood, with words, we do not say anything. Here, now, I did see that the cushion was in the chair of Lucifer, if it was seated in that throne. He was the soul of Judas. Even under the feet of that Lucifer was a very big cushion, all torn. I was made to understand that these were souls of Religious; opened this throne and I seemed to see, among those demons that were under the chair, a large amount of anime. Then I asked my Angels: Who are these? And they told me that were prelates, Head of the Church, and the superiors of Religion.
O God! Each soul suffers, in a sudden, all that suffer from the damned souls of others, and I seemed to understand that my way was there to torment all the demons! And all the souls in hell. I believe however, that not only I accompanied my Angels, but I accompanied incognito my dear Mother, Mary most holy, because without her, I would have died of fright. I will not say more, so I cannot say anything. All I said is nothing, and everything I've heard from the preachers is an anything. The hell does not understand, I never can learn the hardness of his pains and its torments. This view I was very good, made me take the decision of departing from everything and to do my transactions with more perfection as I am so neglected. In hell there is a place for everyone, and there is still my, if not silent life. May be all to the glory of God, according to the will of God, for God, God!
On another occasion the devil showed her a vision of hell. “It seems that the tempter showed my soul hell being opened, and that in fact he had placed it (her soul) in it, and that only a small push was needed to cast it inside. It seemed then that I heard screams and voices of lamentation from the damned. I only saw infernal monsters, many serpents, many ferocious animals, and an infernal stench and extremely hot flames, which were so big that their height could not be measured. I could only compare it to the distance between heaven and earth. As far as the size of the place, one could not see the beginning or the end. You could hear many blasphemies and curses against God. How sad. What torment this caused my soul.”
She was shown hell once more: “At that moment I was once again shown hell opened; and it seemed many souls descended there, they were so ugly and black that they struck terror in me. They all dropped down in a rush, one after the other, and once they had entered those chasms there was nothing to be seen but fire and flames.” This vision led Veronica to offer herself as a victim of Divine Justice: “My Lord, I offer myself to stand here as a doorway, so that no one may enter down there and lose You.” Then she stretched out her arms and said, “As long as I stand in this doorway, no one shall enter. O souls, go back! My God, I ask nothing else of You but the salvation of sinners. Send me more pains, more torments, more crosses!”
The Blessed Virgin Mary speaking to Veronica about her trips to hell told her, “When you were going around hell, you came across torments and tormentors at every step; but that time when you went by the seat of Lucifer, you were terrified at seeing so many souls were on the seat of Lucifer himself. This is in the center of hell and is seen by all the damned, by all the devils, and this sight causes all of them great suffering. I also let you know that, in the same way that the sight of God in Paradise constitutes Paradise itself; down there in hell, the sight of Lucifer is what constitutes hell.”
The Blessed Virgin Mary also told her, “Many do not believe that hell exists, and I tell you yourself, who have been there, have understood nothing of what hell is.”