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GRM 174.15 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

Jesus resumes: «You are indignant at what happened. For two days our shelter, which is well above the mud, has been upset by Satan’s hiss. It is therefore no longer a shelter and we will leave it. But I wish to conclude this code of the “most perfect” in this wide and bright horizon. God really appears here in the majesty of the Creator and watching His marvels we can firmly believe that He and not Satan is the Master. The Evil One could not create even a blade of grass. But God can do everything. This should comfort us. But you are all already in the sun. And that is harmful. Spread out on the slopes where there is shade and it is cool. Have your meals, if you wish so. I will speak to you again on the same subject. Many things have delayed us. But do not be sorry about it. You are with God here.»
The crowds shout: «Yes, we are. With You» and they move under the thickets spread on the eastern side so that the slope of the hill and the tree branches shelter them from the sun, which is already too warm.

Detail

Mary Magdalene has shamelessly interrupted one of Jesus' speeches. She is now a great sinner, and Christ resumes speaking.

Annotation

For two days now, our refuge high above the mud has been troubled by Satan's whistling. Yesterday it was the interruption of a scribe, today it's Mary Magdalene.

Spread out on the slopes. It's shady and cool. Consistent: It's close to noon, the sun is in the south. The slopes inside the "saddle of Hattin's horns" are now in the sun. The slopes to the northeast are beginning to be in the shade.

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GRM 174.15 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

In the meantime Jesus tells Peter to take the tent down.
«Are we really going away?»
«Yes, we are.»
«Because she came?…»
«Yes, but do not tell anybody, especially the Zealot. He would be upset because of Lazarus. I cannot allow the word of God to be mocked at by heathens…»
«I see, I see…»
«Well, there is another thing you must understand.»
«Which, Master?»
«That it is necessary to be silent in certain cases. Please do not forget. You are so dear, but you are also so impulsive as to burst out into biting criticism.»
«I understand… You do not want for Lazarus and Simon…»
«And for others as well.»
«Do You think there will be any today?»
«Today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, always. It will always be necessary to watch the rashness of My Simon of Jonah. Go now and do what I told you.»
Peter goes away calling his companions to help him.

Detail

Following the arrival of Mary Magdalene, then a great sinner, Jesus announces their departure from the Horns of Hattin, where they had stayed for a few days.

Annotation

- Do you think there'll be any today?

- Today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, always.

Jesus is probably talking about the Pharisees here, who are out to make uncharitable observations.

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GRM 174.15 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

I cannot allow the word of God to be mocked at by heathens…

Detail

Jesus was interrupted by mocking and debauched Romans. Christ therefore announces their departure from the Mount of Beatitudes, and facing Peter, who is a little surprised, he says the following.

Annotation

Exactly in the spirit of "Give not your pearls to swine". A theme that Jesus develops a little further on.

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GRM 174.16 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

The Iscariot is pensive in a corner. Jesus calls him three times, but he does not hear. At last he turns around: «Do You want me. Master?» he asks.
«Yes, go and take your food and help your companions.»
«I am not hungry. Neither are You.»
«Neither am I, but for different reasons. Are you upset, Judas?»
«No, Master. I’m tired…»
«We are now going to the lake and then to Judaea, Judas. To your mother’s, as I promised you…»
Judas cheers up. «Are You really coming only with me?»
«Of course. Love Me, Judas. I would like My love to be such in you as to preserve you from all evil.»
«Master… I am a man. I am not an angel. At times I feel tired. Is it a sin to feel the need of sleep?»
«No, providing you sleep on My chest. Look over there how happy the people are and how beautiful the scenery is from here. All Judaea must be lovely in springtime.»
«Most beautiful, Master. But spring, there, on the mountains, which are higher than here, is later. But there are beautiful flowers. The apple-orchards are magnificent. Mine, which is looked after by my mother, is one of the most beautiful ones. And when she moves about in it, with the doves following her to get some corn, believe me, it is a sight that soothes your heart.»
«I believe you. If My Mother is not too tired, I would like to take Her to see yours. They would love each other, because they are both good.»
Judas, drawn by this idea, cheers up and forgetting that «he was not hungry and he was tired» runs happily to his companions and tall as he is, he undoes the highest knots without any trouble and eats his bread and olives, as happy as a child.
Jesus looks at him pitifully and then goes towards the apostles.

Detail

Mary Magdalene burst onto the Mount of Beatitudes. At the time, she was a great sinner. Following a speech by Jesus, she left in a rage. After her intervention, Jesus goes to see Judas.

Annotation

I promised you: Reminder of the promise made to Judas in EMV 139.1.

Only, over there on the mountains, which are higher than here, spring comes later. Exactly: the difference is 3 or 4 weeks.

If my Mother isn't too tired, I'd be happy to take her to yours. They'd love each other, because they're both good people. Jesus wants to associate the two mothers who will have so much to suffer.

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GRM 174.17 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

«Here is some bread, Master. And an egg. I got that rich man over there, the one wearing the red tunic, to give me it. I said to him: “You listen and you are hungry. He speaks and is exhausted. Give me one of your eggs. It will do Him much more good than it would do you”.»
«Peter!»
«No, Lord. You are as pale as a baby sucking from an empty breast, and You are becoming as thin as a fish after the mating season. Let me see to it. I do not want to have to reproach myself. I will put it under these warm ashes of the faggots I burnt, and You will eat it. Don’t You know it is… how many? most certainly weeks that we have been feeding on bread and olives and a little milk. H’m!… One could say that we are purging ourselves. And You eat less than everybody and speak for everybody. Here is the egg. Take it while it’s warm, it will do You good.»
Jesus obeys and seeing that Peter is eating bread only, He asks: «And what about you? Where are your olives?»
«Sss! I need them for after. I promised them.»
«To whom?»
«To some children. But if they are not quiet until the end, I will eat the olives and give them the stones, that is slaps.»
«Very good indeed!»
«Eh! I will never do that. But if we don’t say so… I got so many blows myself, and if they had given me all the ones I deserved for all my pranks, I should have had ten times as many! But they do you good. I am like this because I received them.»
They all laugh at the apostle’s sincerity.

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Simon-Pierre - Simon de Jonas (apostle)

GRM 174.17-18 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

«Master, I would like to remind You that today is Friday and that these people… I do not know whether they will be able to get food in time for tomorrow or reach their homes» says Bartholomew.
«That’s true. It is Friday!» several of them say.
«It does not matter. God will provide. But we will tell them.»
Jesus stands up and goes to His new place, in the middle of the crowds spread in the thickets. «First of all I wish to remind you that today is Friday. I say that those who are afraid they cannot reach their homes in time and are not in a position to believe that God will provide food for His children tomorrow, should go away at once, so that they will not be still on the road at sunset.»
Of all the crowd there, about fifty people get up. All the others stay where they are.
174.18
Jesus smiles and begins to speak.

Detail

The scribe John is in the crowd mentioned in this extract (as he will confirm in the next chapter).

Annotation

It's the eve of the Sabbath, and the law of Sabbath rest forbids travel after 6 p.m., the start of the following day. The scribe John is among those who go, as he explains in the next chapter.

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GRM 174.18-19 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

Jesus smiles and begins to speak.
«You heard that in the old days it was said: “You shall not commit adultery”. Those who among you have heard Me in other places know that I have spoken about that sin several times. Because, look, as far as I am concerned, it is a sin not for one person only, but for two or for three. I will make Myself clear. An adulterer sins with regards to himself, he sins with regards to his accomplice, and sins causing the betrayed wife or husband to sin, they may in fact be led to despair or to commit a crime. That with regards to the accomplished sin. But I will say more. I say: “Not only the accomplished sin, but the desire to accomplish it is already a sin”. What is adultery? It is to crave for him, who is not ours, or for her, who is not ours. One begins to sin by wishing, continues by seduction, completes it by persuasion, crowns it by the deed.
How does one begin? Generally with an impure glance. And that is connected with what I said before. An impure eye sees what is concealed from a pure eye and through the eye thirst enters the throat, hunger enters the body and fever the blood. A carnal thirst, hunger, fever. Delirium begins. If the person looked at is honest, the delirious looker-on is left alone on tenterhooks, or will denigrate in revenge. If also the person looked at is dishonest, he will reply to the look and the descent into sin begins.
I therefore say to you: “If a man looks at a woman lustfully, he has already committed adultery with her because his thought has accomplished the deed of his desire”. If your right eye should cause you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to be without one eye than to be thrown into the infernal darkness forever. And if your right hand should cause you to sin, cut it off and throw it away, for it will do you less harm to lose one part, than you to have your whole body sent to hell. It is true that it is stated[2] that deformed people cannot serve God in the Temple. But after this life, the deformed by birth who are holy and those who are deformed out of virtue, will become more beautiful than angels and will serve God, loving Him in the happiness of Heaven.
174.19
It has also been said to you: “Anyone who divorces his wife, must give her a writ of dismissal”. But that is to be condemned. for it does not come from God. God said to Adam: “This is the helpmate I made for you. Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and conquer it”. And Adam, full of superior intelligence, because Sin had not yet dimmed his reason made perfect by God, exclaimed: “This at last is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh. This is to be called woman, that is: another I, because this was taken from man. This is why a man leaves his father and mother and joins himself to his wife and the two become one body”. And in an increased splendour of light the Eternal Light approved smiling Adam’s word, which became the first indelible law. Now, if owing to the ever increasing hardness of man, the human lawgiver had to give a new law; if owing to the ever increasing inconstancy of man. the lawgiver had to put a restraint and say: “If you have dismissed her you cannot take her back”, that does not cancel the first genuine law, passed in the Earthly Paradise and approved by God.
I say to you: “Whoever divorces his wife, except for the case of fornication, exposes her to adultery”. Because what will the divorced woman do in ninety per cent of situations? She will get married again. With what consequences? Oh! How much there is to be said about that! Do you not know that you can cause involuntary incests by such system? How many tears are shed because of lust. Yes: lust. There is no other name for it. Be frank. Everything can be overcome when the spirit is righteous. But everything is an excuse to satisfy sensuality when the spirit is lustful. Woman’s frigidity, dullness, inability for housework, shrewish tongue, love for luxury, everything can be overcome, also diseases and irascibility, if one loves holily. But as after some time one does not love as on the first day, what is more than possible is considered impossible and a poor woman is thrown onto the road and to perdition.
He who rejects her commits adultery. He who marries her after divorce, commits adultery.
Death only dissolves a marriage. Remember that. And if your choice is an unhappy one bear the consequences as a cross, being both of you unhappy but holy, without making also the children unhappy, as they are innocent and suffer more because of such unfortunate situations. The love for your children should cause you to ponder one hundred times, also in the case of death of your partner. Oh! I wish you could be satisfied with what you already have had and to which God said: “Enough!” I wish you, widows and widowers, realised that death is not an attenuation but an elevation to the perfections of parents! To be a mother instead of a dead mother. To be a father instead of a deceased father. To be two souls in one and receive the love for the children from the cold lips of the dying partner and say: “Go in peace, without worrying for those who were born of you. I will continue to love them, on my own and on your behalf, I will love them twice and will be their father and mother and they will not suffer the unhappiness of orphans, neither will they feel the inborn jealousy that the children of a remarried consort experience with regards to him or her who takes the sacred place of mother or father called by God to a new abode”.

Annotation

"You have heard that it was once said, "Do not commit adultery. "In Exodus 20:14 and Deuteronomy 5:18, see below.

Those of you who have heard me elsewhere know that I have spoken of this sin on several occasions. That's right: in Bethsaida, in connection with the Belle de Corozaïn (Cf. EMV 96.3); in Ptolemais at the time of Avea's repudiation(EMV 104.4); at Belle Eau(EMV 131.4 and EMV 131.5); and right here a few hours earlier.

I say to you , "Whoever sends away his own wife, except in the case of well-established adultery, exposes her to adultery. " Matthew 5:32; 19:9; Mark 10:11-12; Luke 16:18. (see below). Jesus recalls this teaching in EMV 473.9, in a vision of August 17, 1944, one year earlier!

Book of Exodus 20, 14

Ex 20, 14: You shall not commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 5, 18

Dt 5, 18 : Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, nor his field, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that belongs to thy neighbor.

Gospel of Matthew 5, 27-32

Mt 5, 27-32 : You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery. Well, I say to you, every man who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to fall, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of your limbs than to have your whole body cast into hell. And if your right hand causes you to fall, cut it off and cast it from you, for it is better for you to lose one of your limbs than to have your whole body cast into Gehenna. It has also been said: If anyone sends his wife away, let him give her a deed of repudiation. Well, I say to you, every man who sends away his wife, except in the case of an illegitimate union, leads her to adultery; and if anyone marries a woman who has been sent away, he is an adulterer.

Gospel of Matthew 18, 8-9

Mt 18, 8-9 : If your hand or your foot is a stumbling block for you, cut them off and throw them away: it is better for you to enter life maimed or lame, than to be thrown, having two feet or two hands, into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to fall, pluck it out and cast it from you: it is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to be cast, having two eyes, into the Gehenna of fire.

Gospel of Mark 9, 42-47

Mk 9, 42-47 : If your hand causes you to fall, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life with one hand maimed, than to be cast with two hands into Gehenna, into unquenchable fire, where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched. And if your foot causes you to fall, cut it off: it is better for you to enter life lame, than to be cast, with two feet, into the Gehenna of unquenchable fire, where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched. And if thine eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than to be cast with two eyes into the Gehenna of unquenchable fire, where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

Gospel of Mark 10, 11-12

Mk 10, 11-12 : "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against the first. And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery. "

Gospel of Luke 16, 18

Lk 16, 18 : Whoever sends away his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries the woman sent away by her husband commits adultery.

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GRM 174.18 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

An adulterer sins with regards to himself, he sins with regards to his accomplice, and sins causing the betrayed wife or husband to sin, they may in fact be led to despair or to commit a crime. That with regards to the accomplished sin. But I will say more. I say: “Not only the accomplished sin, but the desire to accomplish it is already a sin”.

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GRM 174.18 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

What is adultery? It is to crave for him, who is not ours, or for her, who is not ours. One begins to sin by wishing, continues by seduction, completes it by persuasion, crowns it by the deed.
How does one begin? Generally with an impure glance. And that is connected with what I said before. An impure eye sees what is concealed from a pure eye and through the eye thirst enters the throat, hunger enters the body and fever the blood. A carnal thirst, hunger, fever. Delirium begins. If the person looked at is honest, the delirious looker-on is left alone on tenterhooks, or will denigrate in revenge. If also the person looked at is dishonest, he will reply to the look and the descent into sin begins.

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GRM 174.18 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

(...) I therefore say to you: “If a man looks at a woman lustfully, he has already committed adultery with her because his thought has accomplished the deed of his desire”. If your right eye should cause you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to be without one eye than to be thrown into the infernal darkness forever. And if your right hand should cause you to sin, cut it off and throw it away, for it will do you less harm to lose one part, than you to have your whole body sent to hell.