Chapter 17. The Disobedience of Eve and the Obedience of Mary.
5th March 1944.
Jesus
says:
«...Do
we not read in Genesis that God made man the overlord of everything
on the earth, that is everything except God and His angelical
ministers? Do we not read that He made the woman the companion of man
in his joy and his domination over all living beings? Do we not read
that they were allowed to eat of everything with the exception of the
tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil? Why? What is the meaning of
the words “that he might rule”? And what is the meaning of the
tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil? Have you ever asked these
questions, you man, who ask so many useless ones and never ask your
soul about heavenly truths? Your soul would tell you, if it were
alive, because a soul in grace is held like a flower in the hands of
your angel, and like a flower it is kissed by the sun and sprinkled
with dew by the Holy Spirit, Who warms and illuminates it, sprays and
decorates it with heavenly lights. How many truths your soul would
tell you, if you only knew how to converse with it, if you loved your
soul that makes you like God, Who is a spirit, as your soul is a
spirit. What a great friend you would have if you loved your soul
instead of hating it to the extent of killing it; what a great and
sublime friend with whom you could talk of celestial matters, since
you men are so eager to talk and you ruin one another with
friendships which, if they are not unworthy ones (as sometimes they
are), they are almost always useless and they turn into a vain and
damaging tumult of worldly words.
Did
I not say: “If anyone loves Me he will keep My word, and My Father
will love him, and we shall come to him and make Our home with him”?
The soul in grace possesses love, and by possessing love it possesses
God, that is the Father Who preserves it, the Son Who teaches it, the
Spirit Who illuminates it. It therefore possesses Knowledge,
Science, Wisdom, Light. Consider therefore what sublime conversations
your soul could hold with you. Such conversations filled the silence
of prisons, the silence of cells, the silence of hermitages, the
silence of the rooms of holy sick people. Such conversations were the
consolation of prisoners awaiting martyrdom, of cloistered monks and
nuns searching for the Truth, of hermits longing for an advanced
knowledge of God, of sick people in bearing, nay, in loving their
crosses.
If
you knew how to question your soul, you would be told that the true,
extensive meaning - as comprehensive as creation itself - of the
words “that he might rule” is this: “That man might dominate
everything, that is his three states. The lower state, the animal
one. The middle state, the moral one. The superior state, the
spiritual one. And all three of them are to be directed to one sole
aim: to possess God.” To possess Him by deserving Him through a
strict control which subdues all the power of one's ego and conveys
it to one only purpose: to deserve to possess God.
Your
soul would tell you that God had forbidden the knowledge of good and
evil, because He had already granted good to His creatures
gratuitously, and He did not want you to know evil, because it is a
sweet fruit to taste, but once its juice becomes part of your blood,
it causes a fever that kills you and produces a parching thirst, so
that the more one drinks of that false juice, the more thirsty one
becomes.
You
may object: “And why did He put it there?” Because evil is a
force that originated by itself like certain monstrous diseases in
the most wholesome body.
Lucifer
was an angel, the most beautiful of all the angels, a perfect spirit,
inferior only to God, and yet in his bright essence a vapour of pride
arose and he did not scatter it. On the contrary, he condensed it by
brooding over it. And Evil was born of this incubation. It existed
before man. God had hurled him out of Paradise, the cursed incubator
of Evil, who had desecrated Paradise. But he is the eternal incubator
of Evil and as he can no longer soil Paradise, he has soiled the
earth.
That
metaphorical tree proves this truth. God had said to the man and the
woman: “You know all the laws and the mysteries of creation. But do
not infringe on My right of being the Creator of man. My love will
suffice for the propagation of the human race and it will spread
among you and will excite the new Adams of the race without any lust
of the senses but with purely charitable pulsations. I have given you
everything. I am only keeping for Myself this mystery of the
formation of man.”
Satan
wanted to deprive man of this intellectual virginity and with his
venomous tongue he blandished and caressed Eve's limbs and eyes,
exciting reflections and a perspicacity which they did not have
before, because malice had not yet intoxicated them. She “saw”.
And seeing, she wanted to try. Her flesh was aroused. Oh! If she had
called to God! If she had hurried to Him saying: “Father! The
Serpent has caressed me and I am upset.” The Father would have
purified and healed her with His breath, which could have infused new
innocence into her as it had infused life. And it would have made her
forget the snake's poison, nay it would have engendered in her a
disgust for the Serpent, as it happens in those who bear an
instinctive dislike for diseases of which they have just been cured.
But Eve does not go to the Father. Eve goes back to the Serpent. The
sensation is a sweet one for her. “Seeing that the fruit of the
tree was good to eat and pleasing and agreeable to the eye, she took
it and ate it.”
And
“she understood”. Now Malice was inside her and was gnawing at
her intestines. She saw with new eyes and heard with new ears the
habits and voices of beasts. And she craved for them with insane
greed.
She
began the sin by herself. She accomplished it with her companion.
That is why a heavier sentence is laid on woman. Because of her, man
has become rebellious towards God and has become acquainted with
lewdness and death. Because of her, he was no longer capable of
dominating his three reigns: the reign of the spirit, because he
allowed the spirit to disobey God; the moral reign, because he
allowed passions to master him; the reign of the flesh, because he
lowered it down to the instinctive level of beasts. “The Serpent
seduced me” says Eve. “The woman offered me the fruit and I ate
of it” says Adam. And the triple greed has ruled the three
dominions since then.
Only
Grace can relax the hold of this ruthless monster. And if Grace is
alive, nay thoroughly alive, and kept more and more alive by the good
will of a faithful son, it will succeed in strangling the monster and
will no longer have anything to fear. It will not be afraid of
internal tyrants, which are the flesh and passions; neither will it
be afraid of external tyrants, these are the world and the mighty
ones on the earth. It will dread neither persecutions nor death. It
is as Paul the Apostle says: “I fear none of these things, neither
do I care for my life more than I care for myself, provided I carry
out the mission and the ministry the Lord Jesus gave me, and that was
to bear witness to the Good News of God's Grace.” [...]
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8th March 1944.
Mary
says:
«
I obeyed in My joy, because when I understood the mission to which
God called Me, I was full of joy, My heart opened like a closed lily
and it shed that blood which was to become the soil for the Lord's
Seed.
The
joy of being a mother.
I
had consecrated Myself to God since My childhood, because the light
of the Most High had shown Me the cause of evil in the world and, as
far as it was in My power, I wanted to remove from Myself every trace
of Satan.
I
did not know I was without stain. I could not think I was. That
simple thought would have been presumption and pride, because, since
I was born of human parents, it was not right for Me to think that I
was the Chosen One to be the Faultless One. The Spirit of God had
informed Me of the pain of the Father because of the corruption of
Eve, who had lowered herself to the level of inferior creatures,
whereas she was a creature of grace. It was My intention to soothe
that pain by remaining unprofaned by human thoughts, wishes and
contacts and thus restoring an angelical purity in My body. The
palpitations of My heart were to be only for Him, and only for Him My
whole being.
But
if there was no passion of the flesh in Me, there was still the
sacrifice of not being a mother. Also Eve had been granted by the
Father Creator the gift of maternity, a maternity devoid of what now
degrades it. The sweet and pure maternity without a sensual burden! I
experienced it! Of how much did Eve divest herself by giving up such
wealth! More than immortality. And do not think that I am
exaggerating. My Jesus and I, His Mother, with Him, have experienced
the languor of death. I, the sweet languor of a tired person who
falls asleep, Jesus, the intense languor of who dies sentenced to
death. So we also experienced death. But only I, the new Eve,
experienced maternity without any kind of profanation, that I might
tell the world how sweet was the destiny of woman called to be a
mother without any bodily pain. And the desire of such pure maternity
was possible and actually existed in the Virgin wholly devoted to
God, because that maternity is the glory of woman.
If
you consider in what high esteem the Israelites held a mother, you
will realise even more what sacrifice I had made when I consecrated
Myself to virginity. Now the Eternal Good Father granted Me, His
servant, this gift, without divesting Me of the purity I had clothed
Myself in to be a flower on His throne. And I rejoiced with the
double joy of being the mother of a man and the Mother of God.
The
joy of being the Woman by means of Whom peace was reestablished
between Heaven and earth.
Oh!
What a joy to have desired this peace for the sake of God and of men
and to know that it was coming to the world through Me, the poor
handmaid of the Almighty! What a joy to say: “Men, do not cry any
longer. I have in Me the secret that will make you happy. I cannot
tell what it is because it is sealed in Me, in My heart, just as the
Son is enclosed in My inviolate womb. But I am already bringing it to
you, and the moment when you will see Him and hear His Holy name is
getting nearer and nearer.”
The
joy of having made God happy: the joy of the believer for his God
made happy.
Oh!
The joy of removing from God's heart the bitterness of Eve's
disobedience, pride and disbelief!
My
Jesus explained the fault with which the first Couple got stained. I
redeemed that sin by going up the same stages as they descended.
Disobedience
was the beginning of the downfall: “Do not eat and do not touch of
that tree” said God. And man and woman did not respect that
prohibition, although as kings of creation they were allowed to touch
and eat of everything except of that tree because God wanted them to
be inferior only to angels.
The
tree: the means to test their obedience. What does obedience to God's
commands imply? It implies all possible good, because God commands
nothing but good. What is disobedience? It is evil, because it brings
about a rebellious mental state in which Satan can be active.
Eve
goes toward the tree, which, if avoided, would have caused her
welfare, if approached, would cause her ruin. She goes there led by
the childish curiosity of seeing what is special about it, and by a
rashness that makes her consider God's command a useless one since
she is strong and pure, the queen of Eden, where everything is
subject to her and nothing can hurt her. Her presumption is her ruin.
Presumption is the yeast of pride.
At
the tree she finds the Seducer, who sings his song of lies to her
inexperience, to her beautiful virginal inexperience, to her badly
guarded inexperience. “You think there is evil here? No, there
isn't. God told you because He wants to keep you as slaves under His
power. You think you are king and queen? You are not even as free as
wild animals. Animals can love one another with true love. You
cannot. Animals are granted the gift of being creators like God.
Animals generate little ones and see their families grow as much as
they like. You do not. You are denied this joy. Why make you man and
woman if you have to live thus? Be gods. You do not know the joy of
being two in one flesh, that creates a third one and many more. Do
not believe God when He promised you the joy of posterity seeing your
children forming new families, leaving their father and mother for
their families. He has given you a sham life: real life is to know
the laws of life. Then you will be like gods and will be able to say
to God: 'We are equal to You' .”
And
the allurement continued because there was no will to break it, on
the contrary there was the will to continue it and to learn what did
not belong to man. And the forbidden tree becomes really mortal for
the human race because from its branches there hangs the fruit of
bitter knowledge that comes from Satan. And the woman becomes a
female and with the yeast of Satanic knowledge in her heart, she
moves on to corrupt Adam. With their bodies and souls degraded and
their morals corrupted, they became acquainted with sorrow and the
death of both their souls deprived of Grace and of their bodies
divested of immortality. And Eve's wound engendered suffering, which
will not subside until the last couple on earth are dead.
I
went along the road of the two sinners, but in the opposite
direction: I obeyed. I obeyed in every way. God inspired Me to be a
virgin. I obeyed. When I loved virginity that made Me as pure as the
first woman before she met Satan, God asked Me to get married. I
obeyed, elevating marriage to the degree of purity intended by God
when He created the First Parents. I was then convinced that My
destiny was solitude in marriage and the contempt of people because
of My holy sterility, when God asked Me to be a Mother. I obeyed. I
believed that it was possible and that the word came from God,
because I was filled with peace when I heard it. I did not think: “I
deserved it.” I did not say: “Now the world will admire Me,
because I am like God, creating the flesh of God.” No, I did not. I
lowered Myself in My humility.
Joy
gushed out of My heart like the stem of a rose. But it was soon
decorated with sharp thorns and it was clenched in the tangle of
sorrow, like branches enveloped by the bearbines of convolvuli (1).
Sorrow for the pain of My spouse: it suffocated My joy. Sorrow for
the pain of My Son: a thorn that pierced My joy.
Eve
wanted pleasure, triumph, freedom. I accepted sorrow, humiliation,
slavery. I gave up My peaceful life, the esteem of My spouse, My own
freedom. I kept nothing for Myself. I became the maid of God in the
flesh, in morals, in the spirit, relying on Him not only for the
virginal conception, but also for the protection of My honour, for
the consolation of My spouse, for the means suitable to elevate him
also to the sublimation of marriage, so that we could restore man and
woman to their lost dignity. I embraced the will of the Lord for
Myself, My spouse and My Creature.
I
said “Yes” for the whole three, as I was certain that God would
not break His promise to assist Me in My sorrow of a spouse who
realises she is considered guilty, and of a mother who knows she is
generating a Son to deliver Him to sorrow. I said “Yes” and
nothing else. That “Yes” cancelled Eve's “No” to God's
command. “Yes, My Lord, as You wish. I will know what You want Me
to know. I will live as You want Me to live. I will rejoice if You
wish so. I will suffer for what You want Me to suffer. Yes, forever,
My Lord, from the moment Your ray made Me a Mother to the moment You
called Me back to You. 'Yes', forever 'Yes'. All the good voices of
the flesh, all the good passions of the spirit were under the weight
of My perpetual 'Yes'. And above, on a diamond pedestal, there was My
spirit, lacking wings to fly to You, but it was the master of the
whole 'ego' subdued and made Your servant. Servant in joy, servant in
sorrow. But smile, o God. And be happy. Guilt has been defeated. It
has been removed and destroyed. It lies under My heel, it was washed
in My tears and destroyed by My obedience. The new Tree will be born
of My bosom and it will bear the Fruit that knows all the evil
because It suffered it all in Itself and will give all the good. All
men will be able to come to It and I shall be happy if they take of
It, even if they do not remember that It was born of Me. Providing
man is saved and God is loved, let it be done to His handmaid what is
done to a clod of earth on which a tree is planted: a step to
ascend”.
Mary,
we must always be steps so that other people may ascend to God. It
does not matter if they tread on us, providing they are successful in
reaching the Cross. It is the new tree that has the knowledge of Good
and Evil, because it tells man what is good and what is evil so that
he may choose and live and at the same time it is a medicine that
cures those who are intoxicated by the evil they wanted to taste. Let
our hearts be under the feet of men, that the number of the redeemed
may increase and the Blood of My Jesus not be shed fruitlessly. That
is the destiny of the maids of God. But then we deserve to receive
the holy Host in our hearts and to say at the foot of the Cross
drenched with His Blood and our tears: “Here is, o Father, the
immaculate Host which we offer to You for the salvation of the world.
Look at us, Father, melted with It and give us Your blessing for Its
infinite merits.”
And
I give you My caresses. Rest now, My dear daughter. The Lord is with
you. »
(1)
A genus of climbing plants, including the bindweed.
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Jesus says:
Jesus says:
«
My Mother's words should disperse all perplexity of thought also in
the minds most confused and muddled by pseudo science [...].
I
said: “metaphorical tree”. Now I will say: “symbolical tree”.
Perhaps you will understand better. Its symbol is clear: the
inclination to good and to evil of the two children of God, would be
understood by their behaviour towards the tree. Like 'aqua regia'
that tests gold and the scales of the goldsmith that weigh its
carats, that tree, by God's command, became a means of testing and it
gave the measure of Adam's and Eve's symbolic metal purity.
I
can already hear your objection: “Was the punishment not excessive
and the means used to condemn them not childish?”
Not
so. Actual disobedience in you, who are their heirs, is not so grave
as if it were in them. You have been redeemed by Me. But Satan's
poison is always ready to rise again, like certain diseases that
never disappear completely in the blood. The First Parents possessed
Grace without ever even nearing Disgrace. They were therefore
stronger and more firmly supported by Grace that generated love and
innocence. The gift given them by God was infinite. Much graver is
therefore their fall notwithstanding that gift.
Also
the fruit that was offered and eaten was symbolical. It was the fruit
of an experience they wanted to have at Satan's instigation to break
God's command. I had not forbidden men love. I only wanted them to
love each other without malice; as I loved them in My holiness, they
were to love each other in the holiness of affections unsoiled by
lewdness.
It
must not be forgotten that Grace is light, and whoever possesses it
knows what is good and useful to know. Mary, Full of Grace, knew
everything, because Wisdom taught Her, Wisdom that is Grace, and She
knew how to live in a holy way. Also Eve knew what was good for her
to know. But not more, because it is valueless to know what is not
good. But she did not have faith in God's word, and was not faithful
to her promise of obedience. She believed in Satan, she broke her
promise, she wanted to know what was not good, she loved it without
regret, she turned love into something corrupt and degraded, which I
instead had permitted as something holy. A sullied angel, she
wallowed in mud and litter , whereas she could have run happily
amongst the flowers of the earthly Paradise and she could have seen
her offspring flourish around her, like a plant that is covered with
flowers without bending its leaves into the mire.
Do
not be like the foolish children mentioned by Me in the Gospel; they
heard other children sing and they stopped their ears, they heard
them play the pipes and they did not dance, they heard them weep and
they wanted to laugh. Do not be narrow-minded, do not be deniers.
Accept the Light without malice and stubbornness, without irony and
disbelief. Enough said about that.
To
make you understand how grateful you must be to Him Who died to
elevate you to Heaven and to defeat Satan's concupiscence, I wanted
to speak to you, in this period of preparation for Easter, of what
was the first link of the chain by which the Word of the Father was
dragged to death, the Divine Lamb to the slaughterhouse. I wanted to
speak to you about it, because at present ninety percent of you are
like Eve intoxicated by Lucifer's breath and words, and you do not
live, to love one another, but to glut yourselves with sensuality,
you do not live for Heaven but for filth, you are no longer creatures
gifted with soul and reason, but dogs without soul and without
reason. You have killed your souls and perverted your reason. I
solemnly tell you that brutes surpass you in the honesty of their
love.»
