India - the Mother

September 13, 1967

(About the Christian conception of hell.)

... The amount of harm that conception has done in the world is frightening, frightening: the idea that if you commit a serious fault, it means hell for ALL ETERNITY, do you hear!

It's horrible.

It's a dreadful, monstrous notion.

When you look at it as it is, outside all routine, when you look at it as it is, it's a monstrous notion—I don't know what demon invented it.... If you were told, "You'll have to spend a few years in hell to expiate," that would do—it's not charitable, not generous, but anyway it's acceptable; but that idea of "all eternity"—an ETERNITY OF HELL—is something monstrous! It's a wholly diabolical idea.

And that's what frightens them. Even when consciously they don't accept it, it's there in the subconscious.

It is said ... (but I am not sure about this, because it was simply repeated to me), a Catholic panjandrum to whom I spoke my mind quite plainly, answered me, "In the College of Cardinals, they are taught the truth and told this is not true." I said, "God bless the cardinals, but their first duty should be to destroy this ... monstrous formation."

Mother's Agenda: September 13, 1967