Eternidade, Imortalidade e Vida eterna
       SUPLEMENTO: Revelações privadas de videntes católicos sobre Eternidade, Imortalidade e Vida eterna (Não reconhecidas oficialmente pela Igreja)
             Revelação da vidente Maria Valtorta

 Deus é eterno, porque não teve começo nem fim, diferentemente do homem, que apesar de não ser eterno, é imortal por tem começo

^{[the Scribe says to Jesus:]} «So Israel must die? Is it a wicked plant?»
^{[Jesus says:]} «It must die to rise again.»
^{[the Scribe says:]} «A spiritual reincarnation?»
^{[Jesus says:]} «A spiritual evolution. There is no reincarnation of any kind.»
^{[the Scribe says:]} «Some believe in it.»
^{[Jesus says:]} «They are wrong.»
^{[the Scribe says:]} «Hellenism has spread such beliefs among us as well. And learned people feed on them and are proud of them as if they were a most noble nourishment.»
^{[Jesus says:]} «An absurd contradiction in those who cry anathema when one of the minor six hundred and thirteen precepts is neglected.»
^{[the Scribe says:]} «It is true. But that is how things are. People like to imitate even what they hate.»
«Well, imitate Me, seeing that you hate Me. And it would be better for you.»
^{[Maria Valtorta comments:]} The scribe cannot help laughing at Jesus’ witty remark. The people are listening open-mouthed and those who are farther away ask those who are near Jesus and the scribe to repeat their words.
^{[the Scribe says:]} «But, in confidence, what do You think of reincarnation?»
^{[Jesus says:]} «That it is an error. I told you.»
^{[the Scribe says:]} «There are some who maintain that the living originate from the dead and the dead from the living, because what exists cannot be destroyed.»
^{[Jesus says:]} «In fact, what is eternal cannot be destroyed. But tell Me. According to you, has the Creator limitations to Himself?»
^{[the Scribe says:]} «No, Master. To think that would be an abatement.»
^{[Jesus says:]} «You are right. Can, then, one think that He allows a spirit to reincarnate because no more than so many spirits can exist?»
^{[the Scribe says:]} «One should not think so. Yet there are some who believe it.»
^{[Jesus says:]} «And what is worse, Israel believes it. The thought of the immortality of the spirit — which is already a great one, even if it is joined to the error of a wrong evaluation by a pagan as to how such immortality takes place — ought to be perfect in an Israelite. Instead it becomes a small, low, guilty thought in those who believe in it in the terms of the heathen thesis. It is not the glory of a thought which proves itself worthy of admiration by coming close to the Truth by itself and which therefore testifies to the composite nature of man, as it is in heathens, because of their intuition of an eternal life of the mysterious thing that is called soul and distinguishes us from brutes. But it is a degradation of the thought, which being acquainted with Divine Wisdom and the True God, becomes materialistic even in so highly a spiritual thing. A spirit transmigrates only from the Creator to the being and from the being to the Creator, to Whom it presents itself after this life to receive a sentence of life or of death. That is the truth. And it remains forever where it is sent.»
^{[the Scribe says:]} «Do You not admit Purgatory?»
^{[Jesus says:]} «Yes, I do. Why do you ask Me?»
^{[the Scribe says:]} «Because You say: "It remains where it is sent". Purgatory is temporary.»
^{[Jesus says:]} «That is why in My thought I assimilate it to eternal Life. Purgatory is already "life". Stunned, tied, but always vital. After the temporary stay in Purgatory, the spirit reaches perfect Life, without any limitation or ties. Two things will remain: Heaven – the Abyss. Paradise – Hell. Two categories: the blessed – the damned. But from those three kingdoms that now exist, no spirit will ever come to clothe itself with flesh ^{[there will be no reincarnation]}.
And that until the final resurrection, which will end forever the incarnation of spirits in flesh, of the immortal in the mortal.»
^{[the Scribe says:]} «Not of the eternal?»
^{[Jesus says:]} «God is Eternal. Eternity is to have no beginning and no end. And that is God. Immortality is to continue to live since when life began. And that is the spirit of man. That is the difference.»
^{[the Scribe says:]} «You say: "Eternal Life".»
^{[Jesus says:]} «Yes. From the moment man is created to live, because of his spirit, through Grace and his own will, he can reach eternal Life. Not eternity. Life implies a beginning. We do not say "the Life of God", because God had no beginning.»
^{[the Scribe says:]} «And what about Yourself?»
^{[Jesus says:]} «I will live because I am also flesh and to My divine spirit I joined the soul of the Christ in the flesh of man.»
^{[the Scribe says:]} «God is called [for example in Jeremiah 10:10] the "Living God".»
^{[Jesus says:]} «In fact He does not know death. He is Life. The endless Life. Not Life of God. Just Life. Only that. They are nuances, O scribe. But Wisdom and Truth clothe themselves in nuances.»

  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.