Chapter 5 of 40 chapters from Eternal Hell by the Reverend Father Francois Chazal, MCSPX:
Burial of Hell Into Oblivion
Man has been created to know, love and serve God. The failure of doing
so permanently is called damnation, the failure of doing so in this life is
called sin. Most people are not that bad as to hate God in this world, and
most do not commit heinous mortal sins, but their loss came from the
lack of consideration of eternal things.
Today’s world is especially dangerous in that respect, with the advent
of new means of capturing the mind of men in general, and the electronic
cage in particular.
The hymn of Vespers says it all: “Dum nil perenne cogitat sese culpis
illigat,” “As he perpetually thinks about nothing, he ties himself with
sins.” Most don’t think in their heart, and break the rst commandment
imperceptibly because the rst commandment requires to love God with
one’s whole mind, soul, heart and strength. People like God for the most
part, but that is not at all what He is asking, or demanding of us. People
“luv” God, says a well-known bishop, they don’t LOVE Him.
Warner & Bros., in order to cater to the American Catholic public in
the 1950’s, came with a nice rendition of Fatima: the children played
very well, the depiction of the Masonic government trying to counter
the spread of the phenomena and trying to persecute the seers, is well
done. e nerdy local priest, the inept bishop, are well described. Even
keeping Our Lady in a haze, was the right decision. All went well then?
No! e vision of Hell, which is the rst and most important message of
Fatima is missing in the movie. It seems that the Devil wouldn’t mind
having Russia mentioned by Our Blessed Mother, but what Warner and
all the yist priests and laymen of that time will not countenance is
the severe and terrible warning about Hell. is, you can say, is a typical
betrayal of souls, who will not hear what they need to hear from Our
Blessed Mother.
The problem is that after death, everyone will be alone with only God
and himself facing each other. Only then does the soul realize totally
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that He is his only life, his only light, his only happiness, in short his All.
St. Francis, the whole night long, night after night, could not sleep but
would say over and over again: “My God and my All!” By the end of his
life, he was quite ready... but now, men today don’t have any time to
tell God that they love Him, or it burdens them to say so enough times.
A World Geared Against Contemplation
The fabric of our present world says Bernanos, is the destruction of
contemplation.
It is a lot more eective to destroy man’s sense of contemplation of
eternity, than even to deny and brush Hell aside. Never before have we
seen the mind of man more absorbed by such an organized hallucination
of the senses, a well-planned organization, and a serious and massive
entertainment operation. e objective is simple: If man uses his intellect,
that will be to establish a bigger man-made paradise and diversion from
Eternity.
People can go to Disneyland and get a total immersion in a fabricated
paradise, or go to Phuket Island if they so desire; they can put on the
gear of virtual reality on their eyes and ears, or live like the Hikkiko-
moris, entirely enclosed into a virtual world, the Metaverse. For the
most a 72’ high-def convex plasma screen, combined with a massively
powerful gaming console will do. These are the successors of the colossal
entertainment institutions of the Roman Empire. Their main circus was
indeed called the Colosseum, not just because of the colossus of Nero
nearby, but because the building was, and still is actually huge. It is a pity
that so little remains of the Circus Maximus near the Palatine because
its capacity was 280,000 spectators. “We will keep you entertained,” we
will keep the bait until you are all in the net.
Global Ineptitude
Once the sense of man is emerged in horizontal earthly things, stupidity
is achieved at last, and the soul cannot catch any divine message: “The
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animal man does not perceive what belongs to the Spirit of God” (I Cor,
2:14), nay, he even desires what abstracts his mind from things above to
get a beer, deeper immersion in mud (2,2,46,ad2).
The final product is the lack of time devoted to prayer, the total lack of
orientation of the soul to Heaven. e avenues of fun are so diverse, many
sinful, and just as many seemingly innocent, like sports, games, races,
fashions, manias, modern music, fiestas, carnivals, always attended by
vast crowds, and now in some cases, billions of viewers. e big facilities
that used to exist in ancient time are now available, not just in an empire,
but in the whole world, even among nations who never used them. “Let
us build a city and a tower to celebrate our name,” says man in order
to forget God Who in turn observes, “What they have started, they will
never stop continuing it until it is complete.”
Interestingly, Isaiah does not blame Sodom for sodomy, but simply
for forgetting God altogether. Like Lot, it was lured by its prosperity
and abundance, like us today are lured by the massive ports, storage
facilities, logistic centers culminating in huge commercial complexes and
shopping malls. In Hong-Kong, Singapore and so many other places, you
can walk uninterruptedly among miles and miles of shops and galleries,
above ground and underground, all of them fully illuminated for the
‘Kwishmush’ season, that starts in September in the Philippines, (a poor
country hosting the largest shopping malls in the world).
Why on earth should one contemplate, and worse, meditate on Hell
amidst so many diversions? Babylon is truly great and prosperous. “Sedeo
Regina”: I seat as a queen, over all the people of the earth, I shall go from
prosperity to prosperity, good times to no end. It’s more by mercy than
justice that God decides to precipitate the succeeding Babylons “in one
hour,” all of a sudden, at different times of History.
To be sure, the Devil would prefer people to go to Hell by a greater
degree of malice, but for most, he must content himself with the simple
oblivion of God. “No deep-seated malice, but just defect of Heaven?”
“at will do,” says he.
“Si quis ignorat, ignorabitur,” if you ignore God, He will ignore you,
and you will hear “In truth I say to thee, I know thee not.” If, as says Our
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Lord, “this is Eternal Life, that they may know Thee and the One thou has
sent,” Eternal Death is that they know Thee not. “That will do!”, says the
Prince of Darkness. “The way of the sinner is tenebrous, and they ignore
where they shall fall” (Prov. 4:19).
The Death of Collot d’Herbois
Collot d’Herbois is a well-known figure of the reign of Terror of the
French Revolution, going around France with a guillotine to cut the head
of anyone still believing or being suspected of believing in God. He was
particularly cruel against the city of Lyon, and openly confessed that
since men have no souls they can be killed like animals. And so he did
kill, by the thousands.
Accused as an accomplice of Robespierre, he was not executed with
him but sent to the tropical territory of Cayenne, in April 1795. As he
got there, loved neither by the white nor by the local blacks who called
him “bourreau des hommes et de la religion;” “executioner of men and
religion.” Seeing this he exclaimed: “I am punished! This abandonment
is Hell to me.”
Then his fever started. A mysterious re invaded all his members,
burning his whole body with unspeakable torments. A soldier asked
him why he was invoking the God he was mocking a few days before,
and he replied: “Ah, my friend, my mouth lied to my heart!” He was
crying constantly: “I am in Hell! I am in Hell!” For that reason, he was
sent to the most retired room of the hospital, but to no avail. To ease his
suffering, they tried to bury him to his neck in cool soil, only to find him
dead in that state.
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