Instruction of Holy Mary by Jesus

Vol 3 Bk 1 Chap 7

All free and voluntary causes must have some reasonable end or purpose, which move them to act, and having obtained a clear view of this end, they proceed to choose the means for obtaining it. This is certainly true of the works of God, who is the first and primary Cause, and who is infinite Wisdom Itself, disposing and executing all things and reaching from end to end in sweetness and power, as the wise man says. 

He does not seek the destruction nor annihilation of any creature, but all of them He has made in order that they may enjoy life and existence (Wis. 8, 1). The more wonderful and excellent the works of the Most High, so much the more admirable and exalted are the ends to which they tend. 

Although the ultimate end of all things is the manifestation of His own glory; yet all are ordained according to infinite knowledge and are connected one with each other like the links of a chain. Thus, all creatures succeed each other from the lowest to the highest and nearest to God, the Author of all. 

All the excellence and sanctity of our great Lady, Mary, is included in her having been molded by God as the image or living stamp of His own Son; being so well adjusted and refined in grace that She seemed another Christ by communication and privilege (Gal. 4, 4). Thus was established a singular and Divine intercourse between Her and her Son. 

She had given Him the form and existence of man, while the Lord gave Her that other highest spiritual existence of grace, so that there was a mutual correspondence and similarity of gifts. The ends which the Most High had in view, were proportionate to this rare wonder and to this, the greatest of all His operations in mere creatures. 

In the second and sixth chapter I have said something concerning the honor of Christ and its being bound up with the efficacy of His doctrines and merits: that His honor required their power to be made known in His most holy Mother, and that all the effects of the evangelical Law and the fruits of His Redemption should redound to His glory by being exhibited in Her. More than in all the rest of His holy Church, and in all the predestined, was this to be found in the sovereign Lady, His Mother.

The second end, which the Lord had in view in this work, concerned likewise the ministry of the Redeemer; for the work of our Redemption was to correspond with those of the Creation of the world, and the remedy of sin was to be correlative with its entrance among men. 

Therefore, it was befitting that, just as the first Adam had as a companion in sin our mother Eve, and was moved and abetted therein by her, causing the loss of the whole human race, so also, in the reparation of this great ruin, the second and heavenly Adam, Christ our Lord, was to have as a companion and helper, His most pure Mother. She was to concur and cooperate in the Redemption; although in Christ alone, who is our Head, existed the full power and adequate cause of the general Redemption. 

In order that this mystery might not want the proper dignity and correspondence, it was necessary that what was said by the Most High in the first formation of man, be also fulfilled in regard to Christ and His Mother: “It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself”(Gen 2, 18). This the Lord in His Omnipotence did, so that, speaking of the second Adam, Christ, He could say: "This now is bone of My bones, and flesh of My flesh; She shall be called Woman because She was taken out of Man"(Gen. 2, 23). I shall not detain myself in further explanation of this sacrament; for it is clearly seen by reason enlightened by Divine faith, and the resemblance between Christ and His most holy Mother is clearly manifest. 

Another motive for this mystery, though here mentioned in the third place, is first in regard to the intention; for it concerns the eternal predestination of Christ our Lord, which I have described in the first part of this history. The primary intention of the eternal Word in assuming flesh and becoming the Teacher of men, corresponds with the greatness of that very work, which was to be performed. This was the greatest of all His works, and it was really the end for which all the rest were to be executed. Hence the Divine wisdom so arranged matters, that among mere creatures there should be One, which fully met His desire of being our Teacher and adopting us as His children by His grace.

If the Creator had not thus formed the most holy Mary and furnished Her with a degree of sanctity like to that of His Divine Son (according to our coarse way of speaking), the adequate motive for His Incarnation, so far as it is manifest to us, would have been wanting. 

Compare with this what is said of Moses, when he received the tablets of the Law written by the finger of God: he broke them as soon as he saw the people in their idolatry, judging them too faithless to be worthy of such great benefit. Afterwards the Law was written on other tablets made by the hands of man, and these were preserved in the world. The first tablets, made by the hands of God and having written upon them Law of the Lord, were broken by the first sin; and we would not have had any evangelical Law, if there had not been other tablets, Christ and Mary, formed in another way; She in the ordinary and natural way, He by the consent and of the substance of Mary. If this great Lady had not concurred and cooperated as a worthy instrument, we other mortals would now be without this evangelical Law. 

In the plenitude of this Divine science and grace, Christ our Lord attained all these sublime ends by teaching the most blessed Mother the mysteries of the evangelical Law. In order that She might be proficient in all of them and at the same time understand them in their different aspects; in order that She might afterwards be Herself the consummate Teacher and Mother of wisdom, the Lord used different means of enlightening Her. Sometimes by abstractive visions of the Divinity, with which during this part of her life She was more frequently favored; at other times by intellectual visions, which were more habitual though less clear. In the one as well as in the other She saw the whole militant Church, with all its history from the beginning of the world until the Incarnation; and what was to be its lot afterwards until the end of the world, and later on in eternal beatitude. 

This knowledge was so clear, distinct and comprehensive, that She knew all the just and the saints, and those who were to distinguish themselves afterwards in the Church: the Apostles, Martyrs, Patriarchs of the religious orders, the Doctors, Confessors and Virgins. All these our Queen knew in particular with all their merits and graces and the rewards apportioned to them.

She was acquainted also with the Sacraments, which her Divine Son was to establish in the Church; their efficacy, the results in those that receive them, varying according to the different dispositions of the recipients, and all their strength flowing from the sanctity and merits of her most holy Son, our Redeemer. She was also furnished with a clear understanding of all the doctrines, which He was to preach and teach; of the new and old Testament, and of all mysteries hidden under its four different ways of interpreting them, the literal, moral, allegoric and anagogic; and all that the interpreters of the Scriptures were to write in explanation. 

But her understanding of all these was much more extensive and profound than theirs. She was aware that all this knowledge was given to Her in order that She might be the Teacher of the whole Church; for this was her office in the absence of her most holy Son, after His Ascension into heaven. In Her the new children of the Church and the faithful engendered by grace were to have a loving Mother, who carefully nourished them at the breasts of her doctrines as with sweetest milk, the proper food of infant children. Thus the most blessed Lady during these eighteen years of her hidden intercourse with her most holy Son fed upon and digested the substance of the evangelical doctrines, receiving them from their Author, Christ, the Redeemer. Having tasted and well understood the scope and efficacy of this law, She drew forth from it sweet nourishment for the primitive Church, whose members were yet in their tender years and unfit for the solid and strong food of the Scriptures and the perfect imitation of their Master and Redeemer. 

Besides these visions and instructions concerning her Divine Son and His human nature, the great Lady had also two other sources of information which I have already mentioned. The one was the reflection of His most holy Soul and its interior operation, which She saw as in a mirror and in which was included at the same time a reflex image of all His knowledge of things created; so that She was informed of all the counsels of the Redeemer and Artificer of sanctity and also of all the works, which He intended to undertake and execute either by Himself or by His ministers. 

The other source of information was His own spoken word; for the Lord conversed with His most worthy Mother about all things concerning His Church, from the greatest to smallest, including also all the happenings contemporary with and bearing upon the different phases of the history of the Church. On this account the heavenly Disciple and our Instructress was so imbued with His doctrine and so proficient in the most perfect practice of it, that the perfection of her works corresponded with her immense wisdom and science. Her knowledge was so clear and deep, that it comprehended everything and was never equaled by any creature, nor can it be conceived in its full extent either in thought or words. Neither was there anything wanting that is necessary, nor was there anything added that was superfluous, nor did She ever mistake one thing for another, nor was She in need of discourse or inquiry in order to be able to explain the most hidden mysteries of the Scriptures, whenever such explanation was necessary in the primitive Church. 

INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO ME BY THE HEAVENLY MOTHER, OUR LADY. 

(Warning to all parents: Guide your young children from early youth in faith, hope and love: Demons are always watching to root these out, to eventually win them over into eternal perdition away from God)

"The Most High, who in sheer goodness and bounty has given existence to all creatures and denies His providential care to none, faithfully supplies all souls with light, by which they can enter into the knowledge of Him and of eternal life, provided they do not of their own free will prevent and obscure this light by sin or give up the quest of the kingdom of heaven. 

To the souls, whom, according to His secret judgments, He calls to His Church, He shows himself still more liberal. For with the grace of Baptism He infuses into them not only those virtues, which are called essentially infused and which the creature cannot merit by its own efforts; but also those, which are accidentally infused and which it can merit by its own labors and efforts. These the Lord gives freely beforehand, in order that the soul may be more prepared and zealous in the observance of His holy Law. In other souls, in addition to the common light of faith, the Lord in His clemency grants supernatural gifts of knowledge and virtue for the better understanding of the evangelical mysteries and for the more zealous practice of good works. In order that you may be well instructed and informed, I wish to warn you as a solicitous and loving Mother, of the cunning of satan for the destruction of these works of the Lord.

From the very moment in which mortal children begin to have the use of their reason, each one of them is followed by many watchful and relentless demons. For as soon as the souls are in a position to raise their thoughts to the knowledge of their God and commence the practice of the virtues infused by Baptism, these demons, with incredible fury and astuteness, seek to root out the Divine seed; and if they cannot succeed in this, they try to hinder its growth, and prevent it from bringing forth fruit by engaging men in vicious, useless, or trifling things.

Thus they divert their thoughts from faith and hope, and from the pursuit of other virtues, leading them to forget that they are Christians, and diverting their attention from the knowledge of God and from the mysteries of the Redemption and of life eternal.

Moreover the same enemy instills into the parents a base neglectfulness and carnal love for their offspring; and he incites the teachers to carelessness, so that the children find no support against evil in their education, but become depraved and spoiled by many bad habits, losing sight of virtue and of their good inclinations and going the way of perdition. 

But the most kind Lord does not forget them in this danger and He renews in them His holy inspirations and special helps. He supplies them with the holy teachings of the Church by His preachers and ministers. He holds out to them the aid of the Sacraments and many other inducements to keep them on the path of life. That those who walk in the way of salvation are the smaller number, is due to the vice and depraved habits imbibed in youth and nourished in childhood. For that saying of Deuteronomy is very true : "As in the days of your youth, so also shall be your old age" (Deut. 33, 25). 

Hence the demons gain courage and increase their tyrannical influence over souls in the early years of man's life, hoping that they will be able to induce men to commit so much the greater and the more frequent sins in later years, the more they have succeeded in drawing them into small and insignificant faults in their childhood. 

By these they draw them on to a state of blind presumption; for with each sin the soul loses more and more the power of resistance, subjects itself to the demon, and falls under the sway of its tyrannical enemies. The miserable yoke of wickedness is more and more firmly fastened upon it; the same is trodden underfoot by its own iniquity and urged onward under the sway of the devil from one precipice to another, from abyss to abyss (Ps. 41, 8) : a chastisement merited by all those, that allow themselves to be overcome by evildoing in the beginning. 

By these means Lucifer has hurled into hell so great a number of souls and continues so to hurl them every day, rising up in his pride against the Almighty. In this manner has he been able to introduce into the world his tyrannical power, spreading among men forgetfulness of death, judgment, heaven and hell, and casting so many nations from abyss to abyss of darkness and bestial errors, such as are contained in the heresies and false sects of the infidels. 

Therefore beware of this terrible danger, and do not let the memory of the law of your God, His precepts and commands, and the truths of the Catholic Church, and the doctrines of the Gospels, ever fail in your mind.

Do not let a day pass in which you do not spend much time in meditating upon all these; and all those who listen to you, to do the same. For your enemy and adversary is laboring with ceaseless vigilance to obscure your understanding in forgetfulness of the Divine law, seeking to withdraw your will, which is a blind faculty, from the practice of justification. This, you know, consists in acts of living faith in Christ, trustful hope for eternal life, ardent love of God, all coming from a contrite and humble heart "(Ps. SO, 19).