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You shall not commit impurity

Theme: The Decalogue and the Commandments

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GRM 67.3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

Love. I say nothing else. Love your neighbour as the Lord God of Israel prescribes. Do not always be of Cain’s blood. And why are you so? For the sake of a few coins, you who might have become murderers. For a few palms of land. For a better position. For a woman. What are such things? Are they eternal? No. They last less than a lifetime, which lasts an instant of eternity. And what do you lose if you follow them? The eternal peace promised to the just, and which the Messiah will bring you together with His Kingdom. Come on to the way of Truth. Follow the Voice of God. Love one another. Be honest. Be moderate. Be humble and fair. Go and meditate.

GRM 123

The Gospel as revealed to me

Detail

It's raining in Belle-Eau. The veiled woman is still present and Peter is watching over her. Jesus gives a discourse on the Commandment: "Thou shalt not commit impurity". He talks about marriage, adultery, fornication, abortion and homosexuality. Finally, he addresses Aglaia, who repents, but his speech could be addressed to any soul who wants to regain its former purity. Finally, there are the Pharisees who resent Aglaia's presence with the Master. They spit the drool of their hatred. Jesus is not present, but the apostles defend him: Peter is very funny at one point, and Jude gives them a magnificent reply. Jesus then thanks them, but says that if Aglaé's soul is redeemed, her joy will more than make up for all this criticism.

GRM 132.2

The Gospel as revealed to me

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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.

God does not stay with the impure. Because impurity corrupts what is the property of God: souls, and in particular the souls of children who are angels spread over the earth. Woe to those who tear off their wings with the cruelty of devilish beasts and throw those flowers of Heaven into the mire, by letting them taste the flavour of material things! Woe… It would be better if they died struck by thunderbolts rather than commit such sin!

Woe to you, rich and fast living people! Because it is amongst you that the greatest impurity thrives and idleness and money are its bed and pillow! You are now sated. The food of concupiscence reaches your throats and chokes you. But you will be hungry. And your hunger will be terrible, insatiable and unappeasable forever and ever. You are now rich. How much good you could do with your wealth! Instead you do so much harm both to yourselves and to other people. But you will experience a dreadful poverty on a day that will have no end. You now laugh. You think you are triumphing. But your tears will fill the ponds of Gehenna. And they will never cease.

Where does adultery nestle? Where does the corruption of young girls hide? Who has two or three licentious beds, in addition to his own matrimonial one, on which he squanders his money and wastes the strength of a healthy body given to him by God that he may work for his family and not to wear himself out through filthy unions which place him below unclean beasts? You heard what was said: “You shall not commit adultery”. But I tell you that he who looks at a woman lustfully, that she who wished to go with a man, has already committed adultery in his or her heart, simply by that. There is no reason which can justify fornication. None. Neither the abandonment nor the repudiation of a husband. Nor pity for the repudiated woman. You have one soul only. When it is joined to another soul by a pact of faithfulness, it must not lie. Otherwise the beautiful body for which you sin will go with you, o impure souls, into the inexhaustible fire. Mutilate your body, rather than kill it forever by damning it. Come to your moral senses, o rich men, verminous sinks of vice, so that you may not disgust Heaven…»

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.