Is there life on other worlds? Yes!

The Almighty would be a very small and limited Creator if He had created the Earth as the only inhabited world!

 

Two overviews of private revelations to Maria of the Cross (Maria Valtorta). 

 

The Lord is speaking of the Book of the Apocalypse, and considers its most obscure point to be the identity of the “great Babylon.” [There are six references to this term in that book.] From a human viewpoint, commentators have exhausted their capacity to deduce with their many explanations the meaning of the “great Babylon.” But why have they never considered that this term refers to the whole Earth?

 

It is true that the Earth is really that great harlot that has fornicated with all the powers of earth and hell, and its inhabitants have prostituted themselves, body and soul, just for a moment of triumph in earthly time.

 

This Earth, of which we are so proud, is simply one of the bits of fine dust that rotates in the firmament, and it is not even the biggest one. However, it is certainly the most corrupt one.

 

With a pulse of His Will, the Almighty has brought forth a multitude of worlds from nothing, and cast them as luminous fine dust into the cosmos. Lives upon lives teem in the millions of worlds which we joyfully gaze upon during a peaceful, clear evening. The Lord God would be a very small and limited Creator if He had created the Earth as the only inhabited world!

 

And when our spirits are rejoined to God, the perfection of the Most High will appear to us, and we will be able to see the wonders of those worlds.

 

Based on Maria Valtorta, the Notebooks 1943, pp. 262-263.

 

[Note: From the context and tone of the Lord, these 'lives' are most likely plant and animal lives. When He says the Earth is the most corrupt world, this might be hyperbole to emphasize the degradation of the Earth. At any rate, man is still the apex of Creation.  See below in the second part, where the Lord states that humans are perfect creatures "superior to all beings living in time and in the world.  As an aside, it is guaranteed that as soon as scientists discover life out there, they will proceed to dogmatically inform us as to how it must have “evolved.”]

The Lord, speaking to Simon Peter, explains to him that the Earth is an altar, a huge altar. Like the other worlds strewn in the Creation, it ought to sing psalms to its Creator. It was to be an altar of unceasing praise to God, but it has become full of sin. Therefore, it must also be an altar of endless reparation, expiation, and sacrifice. 

 

Imagine the stars, planets and comets as celestial creatures that sing the praises of the Creator in a vast temple. The Earth too, like the sky, sings with its winds, streams, breezes and the voices of birds and animals. But if the praises of the celestial creatures are sufficient for the vault of heaven, the unconscious singing of the of winds, waters and animals is not sufficient for the temple of the Earth. That is because on Earth there is also man “the perfect creature, superior to all beings living in time and in the world.” 

 

Man has been gifted with matter and with spirit, and is destined to know and possess God, through grace now and in Paradise later. He has a mission and a duty that should bring him joy – to love God. To love God intelligently and voluntarily, to repay the Creator’s love that He gave to man by granting him life and a heavenly future.

 

The Lord asks Peter to consider what benefit and profit does God get from His Creation? The Lord Himself provides the Apostle the answer – none. God is infinite and Creation does not make Him greater. But God, who is “God-Love,” wanted to have love. That is why He created. What He receives from Creation is love, intelligently and freely offered by angels and men. This love is the glory of God, the joy of the angels, and the religion of men.

 

The Earth must be the Temple that loves and prays through its human inhabitants. If the great altar of the Earth should omit its praises and love, it would cease to exist. This is because once love is extinguished, expiation would also cease, and the “wrath of God” would destroy an Earth that had become a hell. “So the Earth must love in order to exist.”

 

Based on Maria Valtorta’s Poem of the Man-God, chapter 553. 

 

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Today, the salvation of the world is in Mary.

An overview of private revelations from Maria Valtorta’s Notebooks.

 

July 4, 1943. 

 

To those who in this world today still believe, Jesus says: “The salvation of the world is in Mary.”

 

We would tremble if we knew how God is withdrawing into the depths, in the face of the growing tide of crimes we commit. We are deicides, fratricides, lawbreakers, fornicators, thieves, and adulterers. We are a den of vice. We should tremble, but we have become fools. 

 

Previously, Jesus was the bridge between heaven and earth. But in the face of our obstinate evildoing, the Christ is withdrawing, just as He once withdrew from Jerusalem. For “the hour has not yet come,” and the Christ, awaiting His hour, is leaving us to our evil so that we may do it.

 

So now, Mary is the only bridge left. If she is also disdained as is her Son, we shall be crushed. For Jesus, the Son of God and Savior, will not allow the Woman, upon whom the Holy Spirit descended to conceive Him, to be disparaged. 

 

Mary clasps you to her breast, though you may be sick, unwashed and malnourished. But she cleanses you, nourishes you, and brings you to her First-Born, because she wants you to love Him. If it were not for the prayers and care of Mary, the human race would no longer exist! Jesus would have annulled it, for our way of life has touched, in truth, the depths of evil.

 

The Justice of God is wounded, and Divine Patience has passed all limits – punishment is at the ready. But Jesus, who can bring Paradise to its knees and make stars tremble, can do nothing against His Mother; for she is here, sheltering us under her mantle. 

 

He is her God, but He is also always her Baby. He rested on her Heart in the first sleep of His infancy, and at the sleep of His death. He knows all her secrets. Thus, He knows that punishing us would be a stabbing pain for Mary, the true mother of the human race, since she always hopes to lead us to her Son. He is her God, but she is His Mother. And Jesus, who is master of everything, is also the master in loving Mary.

Maria Valtorta at nineteen

June 19 and July 2, 1943.

 

The Mother does not differ from her Son, in neither human nature nor in the superhuman mission of the Redemption. Jesus, to touch the apex of pain, had to experience separation from His Father, in Gethsemane and on the Cross. This was pain carried to infinite heights and harshness. Mary too had to touch the apex of pain: during the three days of the Lord’s burial, she had to experience separation from her Son.

 

For on those days she was alone. She was left with faith, hope and charity, but her Son was absent. This was a sword that pierced and ransacked her Heart. To remain deprived of union with her Son and God was such a great agony for she who was Full of Grace, that a special grace was necessary to preserve her life. It was only by God’s will that she did not die from this separation. 

 

There are many secrets that we do not know concerning the life of the Most Pure Co-Redeemer. The secrets of Mary are in fact too pure and too divine for a human mind to know them and for man’s lips to repeat. In the Temple at Jerusalem only the Priest was allowed to enter into the Holy of Holies, where the Ark of the Covenant was. But in the Temple of the Heavenly Jerusalem, wherein dwells the Most Holy Ark that is Mary His Mother, only God Himself may go in and know the secrets therein. 

 

But the Lord will point out one of them for us, just enough to increase our veneration for the “Holiest One in Heaven, after God:” 

 

This most painful hour of her separation from God, in the great sea of sorrows which was the life of His Mother, was needed to complete what was lacking in His Passion. Mary is the Co-Redeemer, consecrated for supreme sorrow and supreme joy by her conception. Her pain, therefore, had to be such that the pain of no other human creature could ever equal it, since everything in her is inferior only to God Himself. 

 

It is arduous to strive to imitate Mary, so ask her to help you. What is impossible for man is extremely possible with God – if asked for in Mary, with Mary, and through Mary.

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Overview from Maria Valtorta, the Notebooks, 1943. Her three Notebooks are as important, if not more important, than the Poem of the Man-God. While in the Poem the Lord is speaking to the people of two thousand years ago, in the Notebooks, He speaks to the people of today. 

 

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Padre Pio and The Poem of the Man-God.

It is known that Padre Pio possessed the gift of the perfume of sanctity. Many have said or written that they received this gift from him, over great distances and even after his death. One day in 1942 a certain warrant officer who pitied the great sufferings of Maria Valtorta, spoke to Padre Pio about her. At that time, in between periods of his own persecution, one was allowed to speak to the saintly Friar outside of confession. The officer asked Padre Pio to obtain for her the grace of healing, or at least of lessening the suffering of the poor woman. Padre Pio replied that yes, he knows she suffers, but if he can do anything it will be for her soul. “But I can do nothing for her body, to relieve her afflictions.”

When he returned home, the warrant officer went to see Maria and told her what Padre Pio had said. Maria asked him at what time on what day had he spoken to the Friar. The answer corresponded to the moment that a great wave of perfume was felt in Maria’s home. Maria wrote in her published Notebooks: “And when not dreaming, but wide awake, I have noticed his fragrance. No garden packed with fully-blossoming flowers can emit the heavenly scents which flooded my room on the night between July 25 and 26, 1941 or the afternoon of September 21. 1942, precisely while a friend of ours was speaking to Padre Pio about me (I did not know he had left for San Giovanni Rotondo). On both occasions I later obtained the graces requested. The scent was also perceived by Marta [her aide]. It was so intense that it woke her up. It then ceased all at once, as it had come all at once.” [from Padre Pio and Maria Valtorta, pp 63-65.]

In 1961 the Holy Office had nullified the provision forbidding The Poem of the Man-God to be read by the faithful after the first edition was placed on the “Index,” by specifically granting permission to publish a totally-renewed second edition. Hence, one day in 1967, one of the spiritual daughters of Padre Pio asked him in confession for his advice on whether she should read Maria’s books. The saint replied that he does not just advise her to read them, her orders her to do so. “Non te lo consiglio, ma te lo ordino!”

Following is the complete letter written to the publisher of Maria’s books, in which the above incident is reported on page 68 of Padre Pio and Maria Valtorta:

For Dr. Emilio Pisani,

beloved in Jesus!

My name is Rosi Giordani, a spiritual daughter of Padre Pio. I am from Bologna, but have been living here for many years with my mother, who was born in 1887, like Maria Valtorta. Father has been at rest for twelve years in the cemetery of this town. In 1981 I was present with mother at the Basilica of the Annunciation in Florence [in which the remains of Maria Valtorta are venerated], for the anniversary of her death. I was with dear Domenico Fiorillo. I embraced Marta [Maria’s long-time aide and friend] and listened to her lovely talk.

I am writing particularly to tell you the following: a spiritual daughter of Padre Pio from the outset, Mrs. Elisa Lucchi, known as Malvina, from Forli, a year before Padre Pio’s death asked him in confession, “Father, I have heard mention of Maria Valtorta’s books. Do you advise me to read them?” Padre Pio replied, “I don’t advise you to – I order you to!”

San Giovanni Rotondo

January 7, 1989

Rosi Giordani

Following is a direct quote from the book Padre Pio and Maria Valtorta: “Padre Pio is said to have made a prediction one day concerning the recognition which Church authorities would grant to Maria Valtorta’s work. While the persecution persisted, he said, by way of reassurance, “Someone will come who will take care of everything.” [p.8.]

Could this prophecy of St. Pio refer to the 1362 page online opus A Summa and Encyclopedia to Maria Valtorta’s Extraordinary Work by Stephen Austin, updated in 2017? (Available Here.)

The following are some quotes from the Summa related to the Poem being placed on the Index:

“Because the placement of the first edition of The Poem of the Man-God on the Index was not due to any errors against faith or morals, the reasons for why it was placed on the Index were deemed by the Holy Office in 1961 as no longer applicable and they approved its publication.”

“. . . the Commissioner of the Holy Office, Fr. Giraudo, O.P., effectively repealed the 1959 censure of the Poem on the Index when he stated to Fr. Berti, in 1961: “Continue to publish this second edition. We will see how the world receives it.” In fact, even before Fr. Giraudo’s statement, Fr. Gabriel Roschini, Consultant of the Holy Office, stated in that same year that the new critical second edition of the Poem “was not to be considered to be on the Index, because it was totally renewed, conformed in all to the original, and provided with notes that removed any doubt and which demonstrated the solidity and orthodoxy of the work.”

Mr. Austin’s Summa refutes, and even utterly demolishes, the arguments put forth by the opponents of the Poem. There are some educated and well-meaning Catholics who oppose it, often because they have been misled by flawed articles about the Poem, and by excerpts taken out of context. A very few even stoop to personal attacks and innuendos about the authoress, Maria Valtorta, a woman who offered her sufferings, including the invisible stigmata, to the Lord as a victim-soul. 

Reference: Padre Pio and Maria Valtorta, by Emilio Pisani, Centro Editoriale Valtortiano, 2020.

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Mary is the Co-Redeemer.

An overview of a chapter from Maria Valtorta’s Poem of the Man-God.

 

(If you have been exposed to negative opinions about this book, please see the Nota Bene at bottom).

 

Jesus is with his apostles and some disciples at a town called Nob, not far from Jerusalem. He is talking about a woman who has been entrusted with a young boy. He remarks that she has a very womanly mission, that of bringing up this child. But this is not a child who needs milk, rather he is an infant in the faith. A woman, the Lord says, is always a mother and can do such things as bringing a child up in the faith. A woman is as good as a man, and has the power of maternal kindness to boot. 

 

Eliza, one of the female disciples who is present, looks a the Lord lovingly, and praises him for speaking so kindly about women. Jesus responds that He is simply being truthful. Israelis as well as other peoples have been accustomed to consider women as inferior beings. But it is not so. If she has been subjected to man, struck severely as punishment for Eve’s sin, if she has to carry out her mission with deeds and words that are veiled and not showy, nevertheless she is not less capable and not less strong than a man. 

 

Even without recalling the great women of Israel, Jesus continues, in the heart of a woman there is great strength – in her heart as in the intelligence of men. And the situation of women in the world is about to change, regarding customs and in many other things. And this will be justly so because grace and redemption will be obtained by a Woman, and particularly for women, as He will do for all men. 

 

An objection is raised by Judas Iscariot. With a mocking laugh he asks how can one expect a woman, a woman, to redeem?

 

Jesus replies by solemnly telling him that She is already redeeming. He asks the Iscariot if he knows what to redeem means. And Judas replies that of course he does, it means to remove from sin. 

 

The Lord answers yes, but just to remove from sin would not suffice, because the eternal Opponent would continue to keep laying snares. But the voice of God was heard in the earthly paradise saying “I will create enmity between you and the Woman; She will crush your head and you will lay snares for Her heel.” They will be nothing but snares, because the Woman will have within herself that which defeats the enemy. She has been redeeming with an active, but concealed, redemption even since She existed. She will soon come out in the open to the world, and women will be strengthened in Her. 

 

Judas says that he can accept that Jesus redeems, but as for a woman, he cannot accept it. 

 

The Lord asks does Jerusalem still have a Tabernacle in which God resides? Can the glory of God be present alongside the sins committed within the walls of the Temple? No, another holy Tabernacle was necessary in order to lead people who err back to the Most High God. That is accomplished by the Co-Redeemer, who will rejoice throughout the ages as being the Mother of the redeemed. 

 

Presenting the true hymn of the Co-Redeemer, the Lord begins to quote various scripture verses: “You shall shine with a bright light. All the peoples of the earth will prostrate themselves before You. The nations will come to You from afar bringing gifts and will worship the Lord in You . . . They will invoke Your great name . . . Those who will not listen to You will be among those cursed, and blessed will be those who gather round You . . . You will be happy in Your children because they will be the blessed ones gathered near the Lord.” 

 

Such is the true hymn of the Co-Redeemer, continues Jesus. She is the beginning of the new heavenly Jerusalem, and the angels who see are already singing. This is the truth, yet the world is not aware of Her. And the clouded minds of the rabbis of Israel do not know Her. 

 

The Iscariot asks the Apostle Philip, who is near him, just who Jesus is speaking of? Before Philip can reply, Eliza rather harshly responds that can’t he understand that Jesus is speaking of His Mother? 

 

Judas answers that the prophets only mention a Redeemer, and not a Woman martyr. He starts to say more but Eliza interrupts. She asks Judas if he thinks that there is only the torture of the flesh? For a mother that is nothing, compared to seeing her son die. Eliza says she does not know about the heart of Judas, but does not his mind, of which he is so boastful, tell him that a mother would undergo torture and death ten times in order not to hear her son moan? Continuing, Eliza says that although she is only a woman and he is a learned man, he is more ignorant that she is because he does not even know the heart of a mother!

 

Judas whimpers that she is offending him.

 

Eliza replies that no, she is older and is giving him advice. He should let his heart be wise, if he can, in order to avoid tears and punishment.

 

The frank, sharp words of Eliza to the Apostle who thinks he is so perfect elicit smiles on the lips of the other Apostles, who lower their heads to conceal their smirks, as they stealthily cast sidelong glances to each other. 

 

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An overview of Chapter 509 of the Poem of the Man-God by Maria Valtorta. 

 

Nota Bene: To anyone with concerns about reading the Poem, I recommend Stephen Austin’s 1300-page online encyclopedic Summa which refutes, and even utterly demolishes, the arguments put forth by the opponents of the Poem. See this Link. There are some educated and well-meaning Catholics who oppose it, often because they have been misled by flawed articles about the Poem. A very few even have recourse to personal innuendos about the authoress, Maria Valtorta, a woman who offered her sufferings to the Lord as a victim-soul. 

 

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“Do Not be Afraid, Little Flock.”

An overview of a chapter from Maria Valtorta’s Poem of the Man-God. 

 

Jesus is on a hill near the western edge of the Sea of Galilee, teaching his apostles and disciples. He continues to speak to them while they take some food and rest in a thicket. He says that man should only worry about becoming rich in virtues rather than in worldly goods, progressing without anxiety or fearful haste. If he makes an error, he should remain peaceful; being angry with oneself is a symptom of pride and lack of confidence. Be humble and serene, even if defeated by some weakness. Be active in spiritual matters the way worldly people are with their bodies. 

 

In fact, as far as your bodies are concerned, do not imitate those who are always trembling about their future. They worry about being taken ill, about dying, about losing their goods to enemies, or about lacking things that are superfluous. Do not be anxious about what to eat or drink or wear and other necessities of life. The spirit is more important than the body, and the body is worth more than the garments that clothe it. The mortification of your bodies will help your souls to attain eternal life. Only God knows how long He will let your souls remain in your bodies, and until the hour of separation He will provide for what is necessary. 

 

He does so even for crows, which eat the carrion of dead animals. And their reason for being is to remove such putrefying matter. These impure birds have neither larders nor granaries, yet God takes care of them. So how could God neglect you, even in the matter of clothing? The lilies of the valleys perform no work except to raise their pleasing scent to the Most High, yet the Lord gives them growth and garbs them more beautifully than any of the robes of Solomon [Luke 12:27]. 

 

On your own, you cannot add a tooth to a toothless mouth, or lengthen a shortened leg by even an inch, or make an eye see brighter. If you cannot do such things, how can you think that by yourselves you can hold back miseries and disease, or turn the dust of the earth into food. No, you cannot do such things, but do not be lacking in faith, because you will always have what your need. 

 

So stop worrying like worldly people, who only strive to satisfy their pleasures. Your Father in Heaven knows what you need. Seek first the Kingdom of God and His justice, and all these things shall be added to you [Luke 12:31; Matt. 6:33].

 

Do not be afraid, little flock. Our heavenly Father has been pleased to call you to His kingdom. Therefore, aspire to it, and assist Him with your good will and holy deeds. Thieves cannot break into heaven, and its treasures and purses never fail. Wood-worms cannot reach them. Keep heaven in your hearts, and your hearts in heaven, near your true treasures. 

 

Jesus is silent for a moment. Peter has been listening so intently as to forget to finish his food. He takes advantage of this silence to ask the Lord if this teaching is for everyone, or just the apostles and disciples. The Lord responds that while it is for everybody, it is primarily for those who have been chosen as stewards of the Master. They are to be twice as vigilant, both as stewards and as simple believers.

 

The more one is aware of the will and the mind of his Teacher, the more one is expected to fulfill it faithfully. Much is asked of him who has been given much. The more that is entrusted to his care, the more he must return. The stewards of the Lord will be held to account even to the soul of an hour-old infant. 

 

Jesus explains that to be His follower does not mean relaxation in the cool air of a flowery wood. He has come to bring fire upon the earth, and what else does He desire except that it be ignited. This is why He tires Himself, and wants His followers to also tire themselves, even until their death, until the entire earth is a “celestial bonfire!” He is to be baptized with a baptism, such that He is distressed until it is accomplished. But through it He will be able to make His followers and stewards fire-bearers and yes, agitators, who will act in and against every social stratum, to make of it one thing only, the flock of Christ. 

 

Truly, it is not restful to serve the Lord, according the worldly meaning of that word. Heroism and unwearying effort are required. But at the end it will be He Himself who will gird His waist and serve His disciples. He will sit with them at the eternal banquet where all labors and sorrows are forgotten. 

 

An overview of part of Chapter 275 of the Poem of the Man-God by Maria Valtorta. 

 

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When Jesus Bilocated

Popular writings of the mystics of the Church on the life of Jesus and Mary propose many additional details on their lives. For example, in the The Life of Jesus Christ by Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich we read that on the way to Calvary, Jesus fell or collapsed a total of seven times, not just three. The Mystical City of God by Venerable Maria Agreda states that Mary was taken up to the empyrean Heaven right after her birth, and Luisa Piccarreta reports this occurred even while Mary was in St. Anne’s womb.

Perhaps the most thorough life of Christ and Mary written by a mystic is Maria Valtorta’s Poem of the Man-God, which asserts that Jesus often bilocated. It should come as no surprise that our Lord bilocated during His earthly life. Quite a number of Catholic saints, most notably Padre Pio, have received this gift, and Jesus is the “Saint of saints.”

In the visions she received for the third year of Christ’s public life, Valtorta describes what she saw and heard on the day Jesus read, to some of His apostles, a letter He received from a fervent disciple. This letter from Antioch (written on a scroll) was relayed by a trusted follower to the Lord in Judea. The writer was an aged disciple known as John of Endor. He had been a murderer and was an escaped convict from a Roman prison. He had been forced into exile from Israel by fear of the Sanhedrin Pharisees, who were persecuting Jesus for consorting with unsavory characters and non-Israelites. Joining old John in his exile was a young Greek girl, also converted by the Lord, who had formerly been pressed into slavery. Both were doing what they could to spread the message of Jesus, the message of love, forgiveness and mercy, to the unbelievers in the area of Antioch.

John was very weak and knew that death was approaching. One of his greatest desires was to have Jesus present to comfort him as he passed away. Jesus in fact had promised that He would be present at the man’s death. Nevertheless, John had been despairing, and had begun to doubt that this would be possible since he was an exile in Syria, while the Lord was preaching the Gospel in Israel. But in the letter, he now rejoices that his doubt has gone. He writes that he truly knows that distance is no obstacle to Jesus. Neither seas nor mountains can prevent Him from giving the comfort of His “tangible presence” to those whom He loves. He knows the Lord will be there when he breathes his last, and asks Him to come soon to lead him to peace!

After Jesus finishes reading John’s letter to the Apostles, they bombard Him with questions regarding His presence to John. They wonder whether it is possible, how is it possible, and did the woman who was exiled with John know anything?

But the Lord proceeds to unroll the scroll sent by the Greek woman, whose name is Syntyche. She is still young and healthy and has been looking after the ailing John of Endor. She writes that upon returning from visiting a sick person, she found John transfigured and in ecstasy, and heard the words he was speaking to someone she could not see. Yet she prostrated herself, realizing that it was Jesus Who was present. She writes that she does not regret that she did not see Him, since everything He does and gives is good and sufficient. It is right that old John has Jesus visibly, while she has Him in her soul only.

About a day later, when some of the Apostles were alone with Jesus, they resumed their questioning about this mysterious event. Simon Peter said that he had been thinking about the extraordinary grace given to John, but not to the Apostles. He told Jesus that it would have been a great comfort to them when they were sent out into the world – to have even a word from Him, to clear up doubtful points. But why does He appear to him and not to them? Peter would like to know three things: why is it granted to John; whether it is a grace for him only; and whether one day it can happen to the Apostles – to see Him miraculously and be told what should be done?

In answer to the first question, the Lord explained that John of Endor is a willing spirit, but because of his past adventures and life he has some weaknesses hidden in his flesh, in his interior. He had been penetrated by the poisons of the world for years, and though his spirit is strong, his body is debilitated. He needs help in his purification, and for his resistance over his resurgent past. John’s suffering is bitter, and He solaces him the best He can, because he deserves it.

Peter is satisfied with this answer, and proceeds to the second question, does He appear to John only? The Lord answers no, there are others, even far away, who are laboring to build up their holiness all alone. As to who they are, there is no need to know that.

James (the Lesser) asks what about the Apostles – when they are harassed and tormented by the world, will they be helped by His presence? The Lord replies that they will be sent the Paraclete. Simon Peter objects that he does not know Him and will never succeed in understanding Him, since Peter considers himself such a blockhead. This Paraclete is too difficult for a poor fisherman, He will be a passing whiff, and who will perceive Him? Peter begs the Lord to promise the Apostles that He Himself will appear to them as He is in flesh and blood, so that they may see and hear Him.

But Jesus warns that He might appear in order to reproach them. The Apostles John and James, concur with Peter that it does not matter, at least they will know what is to be done. The Lord then promises them that He will appear, to tell them to be ready for this or that, or to do this or that. Although he feels better now, Peter pleads with Jesus to come often, otherwise he will be like a poor, lost child, and he almost begins to weep.

Overview from The Poem of the Man-God, Chapters 365 and 368.

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