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Maria Valtorta (Itália, ano 1897-1961) - Obra: "Lições sobre a Carta de São Paulo aos Romanos" (1948-1950) The most holy Author
[The Holy Spirit] says,
[...] I said that from chaos, God created the Universe, by ordering the chaotic materials and elements into the perfect one of worlds, seasons, creatures and elements which has lasted for millions of centuries.
However, by observing Creation, few know how to meditate how creation is similar to an ascending scale, to a song which rises always more, note by note, until it touches the perfect and sublime note. How it is similar to a generating of lives that from the preceding one emerge always more complete and perfect until reaching perfect completeness.
Look: first from the solid molecules, from the disordered vapours and fires which were the primitive nebula, the Earth and the waters are formed, and in the Earth and in the waters still mixed with the future seas, lakes, springs and rivers, the minerals become sealed or diluted, whereas the solid molecules become the crust and furnace to the internal fires, to the internal sulphurs and metals and the bottom of the waters. The atmosphere purifies itself for some time, freed as it is in part by that which made the original nebula heavy, the chaotic nothing,
and the Earth, launched into its trajectory, still naked, sterile and mute, passes through the silent [regions of] space with the bald ridges of its mountains just emerging from the dark waters of the future basins.
Then there was light. Not solar, nor lunar, nor stellar light. The sun, moon and stars are creatures younger than the terrestrial globe. After their creation, the sky, that is, the element of "air", was cleansed of every residue of the primitive cloud, and the stars and planets shined by giving vital elements to the terrestrial globe with their splendour.
However, light existed before them. A particular light, independent from every other source that was not of the will of God. A mysterious light which only the angels saw work its mysterious operations in favour of the terrestrial globe. Because none of the things created by God is useless, nor has anything been created without a reason of perfect order. Thus, if before there was light and not the stars and the planets, it is a sign that the Perfection wanted this creative order for a useful and sensible reason. Then came the sun, the moon, and the stars.
And the element "air", deprived of toxic gasses and rich of those useful for life, favoured the persistence of new creatures: plants. Those which are still creatures enslaved in their roots but that already have motion in their foliage; those which, once created, already have within them elements in order to reproduce themselves, something which is not conceded to the dust of the Earth, to the minerals and waters. These three things can mutate their aspect and nature, from submerged wood becoming coal, from fires to sulphurs, from coals to gems, and by transforming waters into vapours and from these into waters, or they can burn out; however, reproduce themselves, they cannot.
The plant world can. In it, there is already the sap, the reproductive organs able to fecundate and be fecundated. Missing in them, however, is the free will, even instinctive. They obey seasonal, climatic laws and the will of the elements and of man. A palm cannot live and bear fruit in cold lands, nor can the polar lichen decorate the rocks of torrid zones. A plant cannot bloom outside of the flowering season, nor escape from a cyclone, fire, or from an axe. And yet,
plant life is already a prodigy of ascension from the chaos to the perfection of Creation.
An ascent which increases with animal life, free in its movements, in its instincts, and in the will of its creatures. There is also an order in it. However, the animal already enjoys the freedom of choosing for itself a lair and a mate, of escaping from the snares of man and from the elements; rather, it has an instinct, moreover, a magnetism of its own which warns it of an approaching cataclysm and guides it to look for safety, just as it has a rudimentary ability of thinking and deciding on how to feed itself, defend itself, offend, and on how to make man its friend and be a friend to man.
In the animal, beyond that of the creative perfection of the vital lymph (the blood) and reproductive organs as they are in plants, there are also the creative perfections of dust, stones and minerals. Do scientists perhaps not teach you that the skeleton, bone marrow, blood and organs are composed of and contain those substances called minerals of which the Earth that man inhabits and animals populate is composed after all?
Therefore, that which is in the lower kingdoms: minerals and plants, is already represented and perfected in animals.
And the scale ascends. The note becomes higher and purer, more complete, by magnifying God more.
And here is man; man to whom to the three preceding kingdoms – the first deprived of lymph [blood], the second, of motion, the third, of reason – the fourth kingdom is added: the one of the sensible creature endowed with the word, intelligence and reason. Reason which regulates instincts. An intelligence which opens the thought to comprehensions and visions that are more, sometimes infinitely, superior to those which give animals the capacity of thinking of a material good. The word which makes him capable of expressing his needs and affections, of understanding those of his fellow creature, and above all, of praising God his Creator and praying or evangelizing Him to whoever ignores Him.
In man, there is the mineral kingdom, the plant one, the animal one, the human one, and perfection in perfection, the spiritual one.
Here is the scale which rises to the supernatural order from the disorder of the chaos, by passing through the natural order.
Here is how the natural creature in which all the elements and characteristics of that which form other creations are represented and combined in synthesis, are combined and perfected; to the creature – meditate well – made with mud, that is to say, with the dust in which the mineral salts are fragmented, and with the element of water, endowed with heat (the element of fire), with breath (the element of air), with a natural and intellectual vision (the element of light), with blood and humour [aqueous], with glands and reproductive organs (lymph), with instincts and with thought, with motion, freedom and will, God infuses His breath, that is "the breath of Life".
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The soul is what distinguishes man from animals and makes him a god above all other created beings, the god-king who dominates, subjugates, understands, instructs, provides, and makes him a god by way of his origin and future destinies.
The soul, illuminated by its divine origin, is that which knows, wills, and can [do things], with its already semi-divine strength. A strength which God powerfully supports and assists the more a soul elevates itself in justice and man divinizes himself with a life of justice.
It is the soul that gives to man the right to say to God: "my Father".
It is the soul that makes of man a living temple of the Spirit of God.
It is the soul that makes of the creation of man the most perfect work of Creation.
And thus one could say, "And so it is with man, and the just man, that one has reached the last step of the ascensional scale, the highest note of this divine song, the perfection of creative perfection." No. All of this is creation of a sensible creation. It is procession by procession. It is the union of the natural creation with a supernatural creation. However, it is still not Perfection.
Perfection is Jesus. Perfection is the Christ. The Man-God. Perfection is the Son of God and of Man. He who for Divinity did not have but the Father
[the Holy Spirit of God], He who for Humanity did not have but the Mother
[the Immaculate Virgin].
He who in the garment of flesh enclosed the two Natures. Joined together in Him are these two natures, which an infinite distance that is between the perfection of even the holiest man and that of God, always keeps apart.
Only in Jesus are the divine and human nature joined and not confused, yet making up one sole Christ.
In Him, the Son of man, all of the sensible creation is represented just as in every man; the supersensible creation is represented: the spiritual nature; and lastly represented is the Uncreated, the Eternal: God, He who without ever having been generated, is, He who without any other work than His love, generates.
The Christ: He who divinizes matter, who glorifies it, and who restores to Adam his dignity; the Christ: the ring that rejoins that which has been broken, the Lamb who re-virginizes man in innocence which is Grace. Through His divine nature, He can do everything; through His human-divine love, He can do everything; through His will, He can do everything, because He gives everything.
Whoever knows how to contemplate Christ possesses Wisdom because He is not only divine Perfection, but He is also human Perfection. Whoever contemplates Him with wisdom sees the admirable person of the Son of Man in whom is the fullness of sanctity.

 

 
Vide também Vida e Obra de Maria Valtorta
Nota sobre a fonte: Maria Valtorta foi uma mística católica italiana. Durante sua vida, ela foi agraciada com revelações de Jesus Cristo sobre o Evangelho, e também de Nossa Senhora, do Espírito Santo e de vários santos e anjos.