The Origin of Evil
January 20, 1946
As I was sewing, I mentally contemplated the moral figure of Jesus Christ. I thought that if I could have a painting of Him–ac cording to my indications and, therefore, as close as possible to what his Most Holy Face as a Man was like-I would have a phrase written underneath to represent "all" that Jesus of Nazareth was I thought of "Come to Me," “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life " and "It is I-do not fear." But I felt that all of this was still not what my soul wanted to indicate “the Christ.
St. Azariah spoke to me: "Jesus is the Compendium of the love of the Three. Jesus is the Compendium of what the Most Holy Trinity and Unity of God is. He is the Perfection of the Three summarized in One alone. He is infinite, multiform Perfection summarized in Jesus. An abyss of Perfection before whom the heavenly forces and the blessed multitudes of Paradise prostrate themselves in adoration. An abyss of Love that could and can be comprehended and accepted only by those who possess love.
"Consequently, we can here explain how the archangel who was a benign, holy spirit–but not holy to the point of being entirely love-was able to become the Spirit of Evil. It is the mea- sure of love, which one possesses in oneself, that provides the measure of one's perfection and refractoriness to all corruption. When love is complete, nothing more can come in to corrupt. The molecule which does not love is an easy breach for the infiltration of the first elements which are not love. And they force, dis- tend, invade, and submerge the good elements, to the point of killing them. Lucifer had an incomplete measure of love. Self- satisfaction occupied a space in him, a space in which there could be no love. And it was the breach through which his ruinous depravation came in. Because of it, he could not comprehend and accept Christ-Love, the Compendium of the infinite, single, Triune Love. And the fact that nowadays the heresy denying the Divine Humanity of the Second Person and making Him a simple man who is good and wise is vaster may be readily explained with this key: lack of love in the human heart, incapacity for love, poverty in the possession of love.
"Observe, soul of mine, that in both the time of Christ and your era, there have always been two points concerning which man's arrogant intellect, which cannot believe unless it is humble and loving, has been most obstinate: that Christ was God and Man, performing exclusively spiritual actions because of which He was hated even by those closest to Him and thus betrayed, and that He created the Sacrament of Love. Then, now, and always, the 'loveless’ heretically said and will say that God cannot be in Jesus and that Jesus cannot be in the Most Holy, Adorable Eucharist.
"Accordingly, soul of mine, if you were to have words written under the portrait of the God-Man, you should have this written:’ I am the Compendium of Love.'
And St. Azariah grew silent, in adoration.
What peace! What peace in me, what light, and what a feeling of mental well-being, of thought being calmed by a reply convincing it entirely, were produced during and after the angelical lesson! With my treasure I closed the notebook and went back to manual work, while my contented mind contemplated the lesson received.
I later reread, meditated, and concentrated on the phrase "Lucifer, not holy to the point of being entirely love." With my sublime idea of the angels, I was unable to grasp how a spirit like the spirit that is an angel could have committed faults. I had always been invincibly astonished at the angels' sin! And no one had ever offered me an explanation as to how spiritual beings-created by the perfect will of God, in a creation lacking the element of “Evil,” which had still not taken shape—contemplating Eternal Perfection, and that alone, had been able to sin. Now the phrase “not holy to the point of being entirely love” halted me, again prompting my “How could this be so?”
St. Azariah said to me:
“The angels are superior to men. I say ‘men’ to refer to all free beings designated in this way, composed of matter and spirit. We are then, superior, entirely spirit. But remember that when Grace lives in man and the Blood of the Mystical Body, whose head is Christ, circulates, while the seven Sacraments confirm him from birth to death, in every state and every stage of life, we then see the Lord in you, ‘living temples of the Lord,’ and worship Him in you, and you are then superior to us—you are ‘other Christs’—and have what is called the ‘Bread of angels’; but Bread is for men alone. A mystical, insatiable hunger for the Eucharist which is in you and makes us cling to you, when you feed on It, to perceive the divine fragrance of this perfect Food!
“But, to go back to the initial point, I tell you that in the angels, different from you in nature and perfection, there is free will as in you. God has created nothing as a slave. At the origin there was only Order in the creation. But Order does not exclude freedom. Rather, in Order there is perfect freedom. Nor is there in Order fear—as a constraint—of an invasion, an intrusion, or anarchy of other wills which may produce secret pacts and ruins penetrating into the orbit and trajectory of other beings or created things. The whole Universe was liked that before Lucifer abused his freedom and by his own will introduced the disorder of passions into himself to create disorder in the Universe. If he had been entirely love, he would have had no room in himself for anything that was not love. He instead had room for pride, which might be termed, ‘the disorder of the intellect.’
“Could God have impeded this event? He could have. But why violate the free will of the very handsome, intelligent archangel? Wouldn’t He, the Most Just, then have introduced disorder into his orderly Thought by no longer willing what he had previously willed—that is, the archangel’s freedom? God did not oppress the disturbed spirit by violently making it possible for him to sin. He not sinning would then have lacked any merit. For us too, it was necessary ‘to be able to will the Good’ in order to go on deserving to enjoy the vision of God, infinite Blessedness!
“God since He had wanted the sublime archangel to be at His side in the first operations of creation and wanted him to be aware of the future of the creation of love, so he wanted him to be aware of the adorable and painful necessity which his sin would impose upon God: the Incarnation and Death of a God to counterbalance the ruin of Sin which would be created if Lucifer did not overcome pride in himself. Love could only speak this language. The first annihilation of God is in this act of wanting to induce the proud one gently—almost begging him, with the vision of what his pride would impose upon God—not to sin so as to lead others to sin.
“It was an act of love. Lucifer, already turned into a devil, took it to be fear, weakness, and offense, a declaration of war; and he waged war against the Perfect One be saying, ‘You are? I, too, am. You made what You made through me. There is no God. And if there is a God, I am, I worship myself. I hate You. I refuse to recognize one who is unable to overcome me as my Lord. You should not have created me so perfect if you did not want rivals. Now I am and I am against You. Defeat me, if you can. But I do not fear You. I, too, will create, and because of me your Creation will tremble, for I will shake it like a bit of cloud seized by the winds because I hate You and want to destroy what is yours to create what will be mine over the ruins. I do not know or recognize any other power except myself. And I will no longer worship, I will no longer worship anyone but myself.’
“Truly, in the Creation, in the whole Creation, down to the very depths, there was then a horrendous convulsion out of dread at the sacrilegious words. A convulsion the likes of which will not be seen at the end of Creation. And from it there arose Hell, the realm of Hatred.
“Soul of mine, do you understand how Evil arose? From free will—respected as such by God—of one who was not ‘entirely love.’ And believe that upon every sin committed since then there stands this judgment: ‘Here love does not exist entirely.’ Complete love forbids sinning. And without effort. Whoever loves does not labor to reach justice! Love takes him high above all mire and danger and purifies him minute by minute of the barely perceptible imperfections which are still present in the final degree of consummate holiness, in that state wherein the spirit is so advanced that it is truly a king, already united by spiritual marriage to the Lord; God gives and reveals Himself to such a point to his blessed son, who enjoys only a single degree less than what the life of the blessed in Heaven is.
“Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.”
Peace be with you always
Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:28 pm by Poem
» The Eucharist
Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:25 pm by Poem
» The Eternal Father’s Lesson on the Name of His Son
Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:45 pm by Poem
» Find the Good in Evil
Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:26 am by Poem
» Christ the Redeemer
Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:54 pm by Poem
» Pay Attention to the Words of The Voice
Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:50 pm by Poem
» To Love Is This
Sun Mar 31, 2024 7:36 pm by Poem
» Serve the Lord with Love and Obedience
Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:49 pm by Poem
» Freedom From Attachment to One's Humanity
Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:48 am by Poem
» True Knowledge Explanation
Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:27 pm by Poem
» How Sin Originated
Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:17 pm by Poem
» Modernism From Christ
Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:20 pm by Poem
» 1943 Chapter: The Will of God Works On Us In A Thousand Different Ways
Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:46 pm by Poem
» Notebook 1943 Victors Over the Beast
Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:33 pm by Poem
» Victory over Satan
Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:21 pm by Poem
» Book 4 523. Sabea of Bethlechi.
Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:08 am by Poem
» What Happens Quite Often When Talking to the Lord
Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:28 am by Poem
» Notes to the Believers
Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:57 pm by Poem
» Recollections of Spiritual Growing Pains
Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:43 pm by Poem
» The Father Never Ceases to Call His Children Home. Our Souls
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:55 pm by Poem
» Defintion of Soul
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:02 pm by Poem
» Book 4 520. Arrival at Jericho. Zacchaeus' Apostolate.
Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:10 am by Poem
» You will find many Judases and very few Jesus' in your apostolic ministry.
Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:10 pm by Poem
» Referencing St. Peter's Tomb
Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:53 am by Poem
» Book 4 512. The Undecided Young Man. Miracles and Admonitions at Beth-Horon.
Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:44 pm by Poem
» Book 2 274. The Deeds of Corporal and Spiritual Mercy.
Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:12 am by Poem
» Book 2 264. Instructions to the Apostles at the Beginning of Their Apostolate.
Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:04 am by Poem
» Book 2 157. Instruction to the Women Disciples at Nazareth.
Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:01 am by Poem
» Book 2 153. Jesus Speaks to His Disciples of Women's Apostolate.
Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:58 am by Poem
» Book 2 147. Instruction to the Apostles and the Miracle of the Woman of Sychar.
Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:53 am by Poem
» Book 2 149 Jesus Teaches the Apostles
Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:50 am by Poem
» The Fifth Evangelist -- The Fount of Christ
Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:26 am by Poem
» Around the Birth of Christ and Adoration of the Shepherds. But About the Angels that Came to Adore
Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:45 am by Poem
» A Lesson From Jesus which Includes King Solomon
Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:08 pm by Poem
» Words of Wisdom
Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:46 pm by Poem
» What is the True Role of the Clergy?
Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:03 am by Poem
» No Title Just Some Thinking
Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:14 am by Poem
» The Signs Are Becoming Clearer
Sun Feb 04, 2024 3:01 pm by Poem
» The Infant Jesus, Child Jesus Speaks Today
Sun Feb 04, 2024 2:37 pm by Poem
» The Parable of the Wise Rich Man and Poor Ignorant Young Boy
Sat Feb 03, 2024 6:23 pm by Poem
» One Can Only Give What One Possesses - Supernatural and Natural
Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:09 pm by Poem
» Jesus Comments On 'Ten Just Men'
Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:09 pm by Poem
» Among the Ruins of a Destroyed Village. What Truly Happens When Happy People Forget the Lord
Mon Jan 29, 2024 8:57 am by Poem
» Site News
Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:40 am by Poem
» Greetings Brchrys Wonderful Site News
Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:38 am by Poem
» Website for Naju, S.Korea
Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:02 am by Poem
» An Issue where the Actual Book, Prayers, Notebooks Link is misdirected
Wed Jan 24, 2024 9:33 pm by Poem
» St. John the Apostle and Evangelist
Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:31 am by Poem
» A Simple prayer of Faith asking the Father to see Jesus.
Tue Jan 16, 2024 1:55 am by Poem
» The Church of Rome at the End Time
Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:16 pm by Poem