Demônio (Lúcifer, Satanás, Diabo, Maligno, origem do Mal, tentação)
       SUPLEMENTO: Revelações privadas de videntes católicos sobre o Demônio (Não reconhecidas oficialmente pela Igreja)
             Revelação da vidente Maria Valtorta

 O demônio não é uma fantasia; ele existe e é uma realidade

Jesus says:
"Among the many things which the world denies, puffed up with pride and incredulity as it is now, is the power and presence of the devil. The atheism which denies God of course denies Lucifer as well, the one created by God, the rebel against God, the adversary of God, the Tempter, the Envious One, the Crafty One, the Tireless One, the Emulator of God.
"I have already told you that Satan, who became such through a sin of pride-even now that he has plunged from the realms of the Most High, which he dared to assault, into the deep abyss where there is darkness and horror-has wanted to establish in that depth a copy of the heavenly court and have his ministers and his angels, his subjects and his children, and in his manifestations he camouflages himself as a spirit of light, covering his appearance and his thought as the Most Lowly One with deceitful sheaths copied from the Most High to draw you into error.
^[...] "Do not deny the existence of Satan, children who perish from always denying, denying everything. He is not a fantasy of silly women or a medieval superstition. He is a true reality. "Satan exists. And he is tireless in acting. Above, God is tireless in good. Below, Satan is tireless in evil. The words of the psalm are not a pretty pious phrase, and the ApostIe"s words are not the fine phrasing of an orator. Satan roams about you like a roaring lion and acts in darkness to carry you to himself. Although by now your incredulity, your indifference, and your atheism would allow him to act even in the light, openly, since you open the gates of your souls wide to him and with your unbridled desires say to him, "Come in. Provided I get what I want in this earthly hour, I"ll make you the lord of my self." If it weren"t that way, you could not arrive at that manner of life which you have reached and which causes God and his saints, servants, and children horror.
^[...] "After having tried to destroy the Christ by tempting Him, the Church by giving her periods of darkness, Christianity with schisms, and civil society with sects, now, on the eve of his manifestation preparing for the final one, he is trying to destroy your consciences after having already destroyed your thought. That"s right-destroyed. Destroyed not as the capacity for thinking as men, but as children of God. Rationalism and science separated from God have destroyed your thought as gods, and you now think as mud can think: on an earthly level. You do not see God impressed with his seal on the things your eyes see. To you they are stars, mountains, stones, waters, herbs, and animals. To the believers they are works of God, and with no need for anything else they immerse themselves in contemplation and praise of the Creator in the face of the numberless signs of his power which surround you and beautify your existence and are useful for your lives.
"Satan is now assailing consciences. He is offering the fruit of yore-pleasure, a greed for knowledge, pride, and the sacrilegious hope of managing to be gods ^{[on your own]}, gnawing at the flesh and at science. And pleasure makes you animals burned by lust, repellent, sick, and condemned in this life and the other one to the diseases of the flesh and the death of the spirit. And the greed for knowledge places you in the hands of the Deceiver, for, out of illicit thirst to know that which concerns the mysteries of God, in attempting to impose your will to know upon God you enable Satan to seduce you with his errors.
"You cause Me pity. And you cause Me horror. Pity, because you are madmen. Horror, because you want to be such and mark the flesh of your souls with the sign of the Beast, refusing the Truth in exchange for Falsehood.
"And can you believe that Satan will serve you? No. It is much more likely that God will grant you what you request, if it is something licit, than for Satan to give it to you. Satan has himself be served. And I assure you that for an hour he asks for your whole life, for one triumph, all of eternity.

  Vide também Vida e Obra de Maria Valtorta

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Nota sobre a fonte: Maria Valtorta foi uma mística católica italiana. Durante sua vida, ela foi agraciada com revelações de Jesus Cristo sobre o Evangelho, e também de Nossa Senhora, do Espírito Santo e de vários santos e anjos.