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GRM 74.1

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

74.1 It is an early bright summer morning. The sky seems painted with strokes of a pink brush by little thin clouds looking like strips of frayed gauze, dropped on a smooth turquoise carpet. The air is full of the songs of birds, exhilarated by the bright light… Sparrows, blackbirds, redbreasts whistle, chirp, brawl over a stem, a worm, a twig which they want to take to their nests, or eat, or use as a roost. Swallows dart from the sky down to the little stream to wet their snow white breasts, the tops of which are rust coloured, and after receiving the freshness of the water and catching a little fly still asleep on a little stem, they dart straight up into the sky as fast as the flash of a burnished blade, chattering joyfully.

Two blue-headed wagtails, dressed in pale ash-grey silk, are walking gracefully, like two little dames, along the bank of the stream, holding their long tails adorned with little velvet black spots well up, they look at themselves in the water, and, satisfied with their beautiful looks, they carry on walking, while a blackbird, a real little rogue of the wood, scoffs at them, whistling at them with his long yellow beak. In the thick foliage of a wild apple-tree growing all alone near the ruins, a nightingale is calling her mate insistently, and she becomes silent only when she sees him coming with a long caterpillar wriggling in the grip of his thin beak. Two city pigeons, which have probably escaped from a dovecot and have chosen a free dwelling place in the crevices of a ruined tower, give vent to their love effusion by cooing in such a way that the male seems to be endeavouring to seduce the modest female.

Jesus, with arms crossed, looks at all the happy little creatures and smiles.

GRM 80.2

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

«Here Christ prepared for His mission.»

«But there is nothing here!»

«You are quite right, there is nothing.»

«Who were You with?»

«With My soul and with the Father.»

«Ah! You stayed only for a few hours!»

«No, Judas. Not a few hours. Many days…»

«But who served You? Where did You sleep?»

«My servants were the wild asses that came to sleep in their caves, where I also had taken shelter. My maidservants were the eagles that said to Me with their harsh cries: “It’s daylight” and they flew away to attack their prey. My friends were the little hares that came up almost to My feet, gnawing at the wild herbs. My food and My drink were the same food and drink of the wild flower: the night dew and the sunshine. Nothing else.»

Detail

Jesus arrived at the Mount of Temptation. It is Judas who is speaking with him.

GRM 216.4 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

« Master… what do You think of Judas? Last year You wept with me because of him. Then… I do not know… Master, never mind those two dragonflies, look at me, listen to me. I would not say this to anybody. I would not tell my companions, my friends. But I will tell You. I am not successful in loving Judas. I must admit it. He rejects my desire to love him. He does not hold me in contempt, on the contrary he is even too courtly with the old Zealeat who he realises is more skilful than the others in knowing men. But it is the way he behaves. Do you think he is sincere? Tell me.»

Jesus is silent for a few moments as if He were enchanted by the two dragonflies that resting on the surface of the water form a tiny rainbow with their iridescent elytra, a precious rainbow as it attracts a curious midge, which is swallowed by one of the voracious insects, which, in turn, is immediately snatched and devoured together with the midge, by a toad or frog, lying in wait. Jesus stands up, as He had almost lain down to see the little tragedies of nature and says: «It is just like that. A dragonfly has strong jaws to feed on herbs and strong wings to catch gnats, and a frog has a large mouth to swallow dragonflies. Each has his own and makes use of it. Let us go, Simon. The others are waking up.»

«But You have not replied to me, Master. You did not want to.»

«I did! My old wise man, meditate and you will find…» And Jesus goes from the ditch towards His disciples who are waking up looking for Him.

Detail

Simon the Zealot and Jesus are alone and have gone to watch two dragonflies dancing on the water.

Annotation

Last year, you cried with me for him. See EMV 83.3/4.

“Think about it, and you’ll find the answer.” The key to understanding this lies in connecting it to the preceding sentence: “Every person has their own means and uses them” with the passage fromMatthew 12:33–35(a tree is known by its fruit) and the textin EMV 219.4andEMV 222.5

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Matthew 12:33–35

Mt 12:33–35: Either say that the tree is good and its fruit is good, or say that the tree is bad and its fruit is bad; for by its fruit the tree is known. You brood of vipers, how can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the abundance of the heart. A good person brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and an evil person brings evil things out of an evil treasure.