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    The Parable of the Sower:Rationalism as the Most Pernicicous Heresy

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    Notebook 1943
    Chapter: The Parable of the Sower:Rationalism as the Most Pernicicous Heresy.  The Thicket of Human Erudition. The Worshipers of Human Idols.  Those Imprudently Accepting All Doctrines.
    Page: 465

    November 10

    Jesus says:

    “Even if the Observation is made that I repeat Myself, I won’t change my mind. Men’s sins are also repeated, in spite of all the warnings, with discouraging monotony. I set my Voice of justice over against their voices of sin so that it will not be said that I have not spoken and I will not be accused of having left them in error.

    “My Voice has been saying the same things for twenty centuries, and such an accusation should not arise. But man, who finds it convenient to forget what is condemnation of his misdeeds, always says that he did not know this or that. It is an excuse which dishonors and debases him, for it is deceitful and, in being dishonest, it amounts to accusing his intelligence of being imperfect and his memory of being damaged.

    “How can the teachings repeated over and over not be remembered? You place yourselves beneath the beasts that learn what man teaches them. Do you, that are so proud, not reflect that this is a great disgrace for your pride?

    “Maria, write down the explanation of the parable of the sower once again. I will dictate it to you for a special group of persons whose error saddens Me. An error of imprudence in some; an error of pride in others; an error of rebelliousness in still others; and of scandal in the other group.

    “The parable states that one part of seed fell along the way and was eaten by birds. The second seed part fell upon stone and sank in roots, but it at once dried up because of a lack of moisture. The third part fell among brambles and died of suffocation. The fourth part, having fallen on good soil, brought forth fruit in different measures.

    “The Word of God is the seed of eternal life. But the Word is beset by many dangers. I will leave aside these many dangers and speak of one thing alone, which I would say is as deadly—perhaps more so --as sin itself. And let no faint-hearted spirit get scandalized if I say that it is perhaps more deadly than sin. It’s the truth.

    “The sinner whose mind is not corroded by the acid of rationalism has a ninety percent chance of being able to receive the Word and find Life. The rationalist has only a ten percent chance, and even less, of keeping himself capable of salvation through the Word.

    “Rationalism is worse than couchgrass. When its action is seen, at the moment when everything concerning the earth and men is made known, this heresy will be seen to have been the most pernicious one because it is the most subtle and penetrating of all. It is like a gas. You absorb it, and it kills you, but you don’t see it; you sometimes don’t even smell it, or, since this smell is pleasant, it is breathed in by you with pleasure. Rationalism is just like that.

    “The major heresies have contained two good things: first of all, they were originated by a faith. As erroneous as it may seem to you, as worthy of condemnation as you may think. But still a faith. They have thus had their martyrs, their tears, and their struggles to assert themselves, and upright souls have over the centuries embellished them with lights of holiness whose only disadvantage is to have blossomed on a wicked tree not grafted onto Christ. The second good thing about heresies is the loud noise produced by them, whereby whoever did not want to belong to them knew how to act so as not to belong to them. The struggles with the Church and with States were an indication to Catholics; they constituted a boundary beyond which one went only knowingly.

    “In rationalism this is lacking, and it penetrates unnoticed even where it is thought that it cannot enter. It enters through a thousand foramens, like a snake. It dresses in licit—indeed, admirable—clothing and acts underneath it, but against it. It is a virus. When one notices it, it has already spread through one’s own blood, and it is hard to get free of it.

    “The reaction of sin is violent under the ray of my Mercy. But that of rationalism is nil. Like a burning glass, it makes the way to grace impassable and rejects it. Indeed, it turns into a harmful burning to finish giving itself its own condemnation.

    “The rationalist makes the things of God serve his own purpose. He does not make himself serve God’s purpose. He bends, explains, and uses the Word in the light—poor light—of his disturbed mind and, like a madman who no longer knows the value of things and words, he gives them the sort of meanings which can emerge only from one whom the extremely crafty action of Satan has sterilized.

    “There are rationalists and rationalists.

    “I will begin with the greatest. The ‘supermen.’ The deniers of God. They want to explain creation, miracles, and the divinity according to their concepts filled with human pride.

    “Where there is pride, God is not present. Be sure of this. Where there is pride, Faith is not present. Satan is there, and Satan is the most skilled juggler in seducing men and making the leaf of tinfoil picked up in the mud appear to him to be pure gold.

    “These deniers of God, who think they degrade themselves by humbly accepting what they are unable to explain through their mental capacity alone and have slain the capacity to love in themselves, are the giants of rationalism.

    “I am not giving a speech to men and thus do not cite names. You can include the names on your own. For Me they are dead stars which have plunged into the mud in bits and pieces. They no longer have a name or have one alone which shall be engraved in fire upon their arrogant brows and their hearts more arid than flint on the Day of Justice. They spend their lives devastating. They are worse than an avalanche or a hurricane, worse than dementia, worse than a fever. They kill wherever they arrive.

    “The Word does not descend at all into these. Too many things remain upon them to act as an obstacle to the Word. They belong to the category of ‘spiritually Dead.’ Rebellious and scandalous.

    “The second category are the humanly learned. These do not deny God. But over divine simplicity—which has become such so that even the humblest can grasp it in the light of love—they set a whole thicket of human erudition. They dress themselves in it like peacocks proud of their tails with a hundred eyes, and, like peacocks, they are beautiful only in appearance: they are unable to walk; they are unable to sing on the way and in the praises of the Lord.

    “They lack the love which is a sinew for the wing to fly towards God and a string for the lyre to bless God. The Word descends upon them and sinks in roots. But it latter dies because they oppose and choke it under the useless leaves of their human knowledge.

    "Do you know how they hear the Word? Like one hearing someone else speak in another language unknown to him. He hears the voice and sees the movement of lips, but understands nothing. They also resemble one who, hard of hearing, howls while another speaks softly. In the end the roar of his words covers over the other's voice. They create Babel in themselves because of too many words. Because of too much knowledge they do not accept the lights, so simple and pure, which God has established so that man will see the way leading to the Father. And they create Babel and darkness for others, too.

    "The third category involves those who have paved their hearts with the stones of the rationalism of others to make them less ignorant. They are the worshipers of human idols. They are unable to worship God with their whole self, but are able to remain ecstatic before a poor man who poses as superman. They close the door to the Divine Word with distrust, but accept the explanations of one of their fellow men who is famous for being learned.

    "It would be enough for them humbly to ask Grace to illuminate and instruct them on the value of those notes, and Grace would make them see how those explanations and those doctrines rest upon props whose base is corroded by woodworms and mold and how these voices are jarring and in disagreement with those of God.

    "They want to be cultured and supermen and take the first food they see. And the idols have pompous clothing and promise deity to all. It is the voice of the Serpent: "Eat this fruit, and you will be like God.' And in their ignorance they eat.

    "There is one fruit that makes you gods, O men. The one hanging from my Cross.

    "There is one who says to your minds. 'Epheta.' The Christ.

    "There is one who fecundates the mystical soil of your hearts so that the seed will rise there. My Blood.

    "There is one sun that warms the ear of grain of eternal life in you and makes it grow. Love

    "There is one science that, like a ploughshare, opens and till your glebe and makes it fit to receive the seed. My Science.

    "There is one Master: I, the Christ. Come to Me if you want to be instructed in Truth.

    "There fourth category is that of the imprudent. They are open ways over which everything passes. They do not surround themselves with a holy defense of faith and fidelity to their God. They receive the Word with great joy and open themselves to receive it, but they also open themselves to receive any doctrine under the specious pretext that one must be condescending.

    "Yes. So condescending with one's brothers and sisters. Not to disdain anyone. But severe with the things of God. To pray for one's brothers and sisters, instruct them, forgive them, and defend them against themselves with a true supernatural love. But not to become accomplishes of their errors. To remain as granite over against the crumbling of human doctrines. Nothing passes without leaving a trace. And it is great imprudence to place a sharp point against the heart. It might take your lives or ingrain wounds that heal with difficulty and always leave a scar.

    "Blessed are those who are only God's terrain and remain such by assiduous vigilance. Blessed are those who, as soft as sod which has just been dug up, do not have stones for their brothers and sisters or rocks for the Word.

    "Love makes them souls worshipping the Word and souls merciful towards those straying far from the Word. But love is their most beautiful defense, and no work of evil can harm their spirit, in which the Word of Life grows like a copious ear of grain. The vaster love is them, the more He grows there, yielding fruit--sometimes thirty, sometimes fifty, and sometimes one hundred.

    "For those who possess Him absolutely, the Word becomes their own word, for they are no more, but are one with God, their love.

    Peace be with you always
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