Darkness
See also: Hell, Hells.
In many teachings of the work of Maria Valtorta, the image of material Darkness is used to represent the spiritual Darkness that covers a Soul who has voluntarily turned away from God.
In "The Gospel as it was revealed to me"
- You block the Light with your hatred, and for that reason it can be said that the Light was repelled by the Darkness and that the world did not want to know it.[1] – At Bozrah, addressed to Pharisees who came to trap him. Comparison with the people of Auranitis (Bachan) who, themselves, Homele the Light.[2]
- The shock of reality at the hour of Darkness will be of superhuman Violence in the Hearts that love, not yet perfectly settled, makes Confessionless.[3]
- Do you not fear the Darkness of hell, eternal, horrible? The continual deprivation of God? The continual remorse? The pain of having killed yourself, forever, in your spirit?[4]
- The Darkness does not want the Light and the Light does not impose itself on one who repels it.[5]
- I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in Darkness, but will have the light of Life![6] and [7]
- As long as it is not the hour of Darkness, nothing dark can happen to you. When then it is that hour, no distance nor any force, not even the armies of Caesar, will be able to save me from the Jews. For what is written must happen and the forces of evil already work in secret to fulfill their work.[8]
In other works of Maria Valtorta
The Notebooks of 1944
- Dictation and vision of January 15: The third torment will be the material and spiritual darkness. To be forever in Darkness after having seen the light of paradise, to be embraced by the Darkness after having seen the Light that is God! To struggle in the black horror where only the name of the sin that caused them to be plunged into such horror is illuminated, by the streetlamp of the spirit burning Fire,![9]