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GRM 174

The Gospel as revealed to me

Detail

Chapter title: Sixth Sermon on the Mount: choosing between good and evil, adultery, divorce. The unwelcome arrival of Mary Magdalene.

Date of vision: Tuesday, May 29, 1945 (174.1-10); Saturday, August 12, 1944 (EMV 174.11-14); Tuesday, May 29, 1945 (174.15-22).

Calendar: Friday, February 18, 28 (5 Adar I 3788)

Locations (map): The Horns of Hattin

Cycle: Sermon on the Mount

Summary: There's a crowd. Thomas and Judas divide them into several groups: one for the sick, one for those waiting for an obolus, another for those waiting for Jesus' teachings. Peter is with children, some of the apostles like to bring the sick and infirm to the Lord, while Andrew and John collect alms from the faithful. They are accosted by a woman who needs to speak to the Master about personal concerns, neither health nor illness. John takes her to a tent while André goes to tell the Master, and two other unfortunates join the woman in presenting their miseries. Before going to them, the Master heals the sick and a little girl with a spinal injury. Then he goes to listen to these three souls who are waiting for him. The woman has her husband who has gone off with a prostitute: she obtains his conversion. The second has a daughter who became a lecher after a visit to Tiberias: the father went to Jeanne de Kouza and she invited him to find Jesus. The father obtained his daughter's conversion, but had to take it upon himself to forgive. Finally, the third tells of a quarrel with his brothers over their inheritance. They accuse him of stealing the money, but it was the deceased father who moved the cassette without warning them. Jesus tells him that his brothers found the money while he was away and that they have repented. But the man prefers to listen to Jesus rather than leave immediately.

Jesus then gives a sermon. The man has the choice of taking the path that leads upwards, i.e. towards God, or taking the path that leads downwards, i.e. towards Satan. He has free will. Of course, Satan tempts, but God tempts souls too, by his Word, by his promises, by his love. So if someone says they wanted to convert a soul, but allowed themselves to be corrupted by the evil of their neighbor, it's because their heart was conducive to welcoming that evil or sin. Christ therefore encourages us to resist sensuality, the world, science and the devil. We must seek not to be inconsistent and to choose only one Master, for we cannot serve God or mammon.

After briefly describing Eve and her corruption, Christ speaks of the body's lamp. If our eye is pure, everything will be pure. As for temptation, it is not an evil: we suffer for resisting it, but through victory we acquire an eternity of peace. That said, we must always be merciful to our fallen brothers and sisters.

Jesus is interrupted by the untimely arrival of Mary Magdalene, then a great sinner. She is accompanied by several men, including a Roman whom she seems to prefer. Lazarus' sister is really acting outrageously, and after looking at her for a moment, Jesus turns his head away and no longer looks at her. Instead, he resumes his discourse: he speaks of adultery, impurity, and reproaches the rich and wealthy. Mary Magdalene, offended, leaves under the murmurs of the crowd, and Christ announces that they are going to leave the Horns of Hattin, since they have been disturbed by Satan's whistling for two days. He indicates, however, that he will speak once more, after the crowd has taken shelter from the heat and restored themselves. Jesus then speaks briefly to Peter, then to Judas, to whom he renews his promise to go to Judea. Finally, Simon of Jonah forces his Master to eat.

As Bartholomew reminds us that it's the Sabbath in a few hours' time, Jesus urges those who do not trust in the Father's Providence to leave. Fifty people leave, and he resumes his speech. He again insists on adultery, divorce and repudiation, reminding them that only death can break a marriage. In fact, it's the children who suffer most when their father or mother remarries, so the Lord urges us to be faithful to our spouse.

Finally, to conclude his words, Christ encourages souls to charity and prudence: it's not a question of giving eternal truths to men who would distort them and play the prophet. Pearls should not be thrown to swine. Finally, he concludes by saying that he who puts his words into practice builds his house on rock, and he who does not listen to him builds his foundations on sand. Then he takes leave of the crowd, but they follow him and don't leave him...

Chapter contents: 174.1: The horizon on a spring morning. 174.2 : Jesus asks the apostles to gather together those seeking help. 174.3: The apostles bustle about in the crowd. 174.4: Andrew warns Jesus that three people in particular want to see him. 174.5: Jesus reassures a woman abandoned by her husband. 174.6: He promises a father his daughter's conversion. 174.7 : He guides an inheritance dispute towards a solution. 174.8 : You cannot belong equally to God and Mammon. 174.9 : How Satan seduced Eve. 174.10 : Do not be led into temptation and be merciful to the sinner. 174.11: The same morning blossomed on the mountain. 174.12: Mary Magdalene's pompous and provocative arrival. 174.13 : Woe betide you, you wealthy and enjoyers! 174.14: Under indirect reproach, Mary Magdalene flees. 174.15: Jesus gives the crowd time to rest. 174.16: Judas, troubled by the Magdalene, is comforted by Jesus, who goes to his mother in Judea. 174.17: Peter makes Jesus drink an egg. 147.18: Teaching on adultery. 174.19 : Whoever sends away his own wife, exposes her to adultery. 174.20 : Engrave in your hearts the Sermon on the Mount, it is your guide. 174.21 : Listen to my words and put them into practice. 174.22 : Jesus and the crowd go down to Capernaum.

Former edition: Volume 3, chapter 34

GRM 174.9 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

You already know how Eve was corrupted and how Adam became corrupt through her. Satan kissed the woman’s eyes and bewitched them, so that every aspect, so far pure, became impure for her and aroused strange curiosities. Then Satan kissed her ears and opened them to the words of a new science: his own. Eve’s mind also wanted to know what was not necessary. Then Satan showed her eyes and mind, now awake to Evil, things that previously they had not seen or understood, and everything in Eve became sharp and corrupt. And the Woman went to the Man, revealed her secret and persuaded Adam to taste the new fruit, so beautiful to the eye and so strictly forbidden so far. And she kissed him and looked at him with mouth and eyes already fouled by Satan’s gloomy disorder. And corruption penetrated Adam who saw, and through his eyes he craved for what was forbidden and he bit it with his helpmate and fell from such height into mud.

A corrupt person will draw another person to corruption, unless the latter is a saint in the true sense of the word.

Watch your eyes, men. Both the eyes of your bodies and the eyes of your minds. If they are corrupt, they can but corrupt all the rest. The eye is the light of the body. Your thought is the light of your heart. But if your eye is not pure — because since the organs are subject to thought, a corrupt thought will corrupt also senses — everything in you will become obscure, and a seducing haze will create impure phantasms in you. Everything is pure in him who has a pure thought which causes a pure look, and the light of God descends as a master where there is no obstruction of senses. But if out of ill will you have accustomed your eyes to disorderly visions, everything will become darkness in you. In vain you will look at the most holy things. In the darkness they will be nothing but blackness and blackness will be the deeds accomplished by you.

GRM 174.10 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

« I say to you…»

(And here Jesus tells me that you must copy the vision dated 12th August 1944, from line 35 to the end, that is to the departure of Mary Magdalene.)

GRM 174.12 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

[22th May 1945] 169.4 Jesus speaks slowly, gesticulating quietly. His face looks paler, as it emerges from His dark blue tunic and also because it is lit up by the rays of the new moon, which illuminates the spot where He is, a small spot of a moon in the sky, a ray of light that caresses the Master of Heaven and earth.

[12th August 1944.] 174.12 There is much excitement amongst the people who crowd around the path leading to the tableau. The people closest to Jesus turn their heads around. Everybody’s attention is distracted. Jesus stops speaking and turns His eyes in the same direction as the others. He is serious and handsome in His dark blue tunic, His arms folded on His chest while the first rays of the sun rising above the eastern peak of the hill shine on His head.

Detail

Comparison between EMV 169.4 and EMV 174.12 concerning Jesus' garment. See annotation.

Annotation

Remarkable consistency: the same garment is described at the beginning of this chapter, in a vision received on May 22, 1945, ten months after this one.

Moreover, the observation about the "eastern flank of the hill" is consistent, as the two peaks of the Hattin horns are oriented northeast/southeast.

GRM 174.13 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

I told you to be faithful to the Law, to be humble and merciful, to love not only your brothers by the flesh but also those who are brothers because they were born, like you, of man. I told you that forgiveness is better than hostility, that compassion is better than stubbornness. But now I tell you that you must not condemn unless you are free from the fault you wish to condemn. Do not behave like the Scribes and Pharisees who are severe with everybody except themselves, who call impure what is exterior and can only contaminate what is exterior and then they receive impurity in the very depths of their hearts.

GRM 174.20 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

My children, My sermon is drawing to its end, as the day is nearing its end while the sun is setting in the west. I want you to remember the words of this meeting on the mountain. Engrave them in your hearts. Read them over and over again and very often. Let them be your everlasting guidance.

GRM 175

The Gospel as revealed to me

Detail

Chapter title: The leper healed at the foot of the Mountain. The generosity of the scribe John.

Date of vision: Wednesday, May 30, 1945

Calendar: Friday, February 18, 28 (5 Adar)

Location (map):Horns of Hattin

Cycle: Sermon on the Mount

Summary: A leper approaches the crowd and Jesus as they descend the mountain. The crowd is terrified, but Jesus calms them and the sick man begs Christ for mercy. He heals him, and as the poor man possesses nothing, the crowd offers him some of their possessions from afar: sandals, a cloak... The miraculous man then goes to present himself to the priest, and Jesus asks him not to tell the priest that it is He who has healed him.

The Sabbath begins and the apostles are worried because they have nothing to give the crowd to eat. But Jesus is calm and confident, and assures them that the Father will not fail to help his Messiah. Indeed, the scribe John comes to see the Master and tells him that he left the day before to prepare bread for the crowd. The Lord accepts his gift and John withdraws without telling him who he is. Someone in the crowd gives it to him later. Once the conversation with the people is over, Jesus takes the Twelve aside and reproaches them for their lack of faith. He then goes off to pray to the Father, thanking him for his kindness.

Chapter contents: 175.1: Healing of a leper lost among the flowers. 175.2 : The crowd showers the leper with charity. 175.3: As evening falls, the remaining crowd has run out of food. 175.4 : The scribe John offers to feed the crowd by himself. 175.5 : Jesus reproaches the apostles for their unbelief and retires to pray.

Previous edition: Volume 3, chapter 35

GRM 176

The Gospel as revealed to me

Detail

Chapter title: During Sabbath break, the Last Sermon on the Mount: loving God's will.

Date of vision: Friday, June 1, 1945

Calendar: Saturday, February 19, 28

Location (map): Plain of Gennesaret (near the Horns of Hattin)

Cycle: Sermon on the Mount

Summary: Jesus has gone to pray and is joined by his apostles. When they question him, the Master tells them that his strength is nourished by prayer, and that he has prayed for John and the Precursor's disciples. His friends want to console him, for Jesus is distressed, and he asks them to love him, above all to love God's will. Thomas points out that if everything comes from her, the errors themselves will come from her, and Jesus replies that this is not the case. But they go to meet John, the scribe, who is feeding the crowd, and then, at his request, he speaks to those present.

After declaring that it is right to keep the Sabbath holy, Jesus points out that all of Creation can be a place of prayer. Then he returns to Thomas's remark and declares that a father cannot want his child to err and be guilty. If the father is just and shows the good to be followed and the evil to be avoided, he is not responsible if his children do not listen to him and are guilty of wrongdoing. So it is with God, who advises but does not force. And those who know God's will but act contrary to it are not doing what the Father desires.

Jesus then returns to the Kingdom of God, stating that not everyone will enter. Not everyone who says "Lord! Lord!" who will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and to follow this up, Christ speaks of the end of the world. He will then be a Judge, who will gather together the sheep steeped in truth, those who have mixed truth and error, and those who have wilfully willed error. And when they say to him, "But Lord, have we not prophesied and acted in your name?", he will reply that they have dared to return to his name to make themselves appear holy, but that they will in fact have been satanic. His true servants are not like that, but bring God to souls and do the Father's will, being humble, gentle, peaceful and orderly. He will therefore send away these servants of iniquity.

His discourse ends, with John the scribe at his side, and the cycle on the mountain is thus complete.

Chapter contents: 176.1: Jesus prayed all night for his disciples ... and for himself. 176.2: Children flutter around him. Scribe John arrives with his food. 176.3 : Creation is also a place of prayer where we can praise God. 176.4 : It is not those who say to me, "Lord! Lord!" who will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but those who do my Father's will. 176.5 : There will come a day when I will be Judge. 176.6 : The cycle of the Sermon on the Mount is complete.

Previous edition: Tome 3, chapter 36