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Maria Valtorta (Itália, ano 1897-1961) - Obra: "O Livro de Azarias" (1946-1947) Azarias
[the Guardian Angel of Maria Valtorta] says:
[...] "And now let us read Paul. He herewith comforts you with a holy word. Accept it because it is truth. Paul said it on Earth. But now it descends from the Heavens, confirmed by the approval of Him who suffered more than all others and, divinely glorious, manifests in his Body that He has suffered and that He is, therefore, glorious as a Man in addition to his glory as God. "I am convinced that the sufferings of the present time are not comparable to the glory which will be manifested in us."
That"s it. Many are the sufferings of the true children of the true God. But immeasurably superior is the glory they wil have in Heaven.
"The Word was God. His glory as God was, therefore, infinite, But He Himself was glory for Himself. He became Man and suffered in time, atrociously, completely. He then rose to Heaven and joined the glory of all the saved to his infinite glory. And every saint is an increase in glory which the Word has obtained for Himself by suffering in time. What would the Heavens have been without his suffering? The static glory of God would have filled them, it is true. But they would not have known the hosannas of the thousand and ten thousand blessed ones, of the one hundred and forty-four thousand of every tribe, nor would they have known the new canticle, supported by a sound similar to that of many waters and the rumble of thunder, similar to a concert of harpists playing their instruments, the new canticle of the virgins who follow the Lamb wherever He goes and bear on their forehead his Name and that of the Father, the canticle which only those who were rescued from the Earth, the first fruits of the Lamb and of God, can sing.
All of this glory which is multiplied around that of the Word for every saint comes to Christ, for He suffered in time and what He was shone through his sufferings and shines eternally in Him and in his glorified Body, as it does in his Divine Spirit.
""In fact, the creation is anxiously awaiting the revelation of the children of God."
Pay close attention, soul of mine. What does this sentence mean? What revelation is it talking about? Once I spoke to you of the two branches of Humanity: the branch of the children of the free woman and that of the children of the slave.
That explanation, then, helps you to understand this Sentence."
"Creation is awaiting to know the children of God to distinguish them from the children of sin. When will it know? When, at the end of time, all men have passed in the great review and, according to justice, the children of God are separated from the children of sin.
For the time being, it is a continuous, incessant labor to arrive at this revelation. Every creature must accomplish it in himself, and the union of all creatures and the knowledge of the labor of each one will yield the revelation of the children of God to be distinguished from those who did not want to be such.
"The life of each individual is similar to a tessera in a mosaic. And each can freely give it the color he wishes. When all the lives are gathered together in the final resurrection, the great picture of the history of humanity will be composed, of this side of the creation, the most select one, and, because it is the most select, the one most beset by the snares of the Adversary, who in your ancestors subjected all Mankind to vanity, with God"s permis Sion, to test their children and be able to reward them with multiplied merits for their sanctity, obtained by their own efforts and not by a gratuitous gift of God.
What ruinous pride man would have arrived at if, through a sin which in two ways was felicitous and propitious, he had not known humiliation at the dawn of his existence! Happy the fault because the Christ was obtained, happy because it mortified man before centuries of immunity had made him as proud as Lucifer, who, because he was without sin [at the time], believed himself to be like God.
"This falling of Humanity was also Providence, this sinking into mire, to remind himself that he is mire animated by God, in itself only mire, by the will of God: spirit in mire, to sanctify him, to give him an imprint, a likeness to the Unknown, the Perfect, the Spirit, the Eternal. This falling at the start of his day was Providence, so as to have a long expiation and be able to rise again the whole way, return to Heaven from the abyss, go back with good will, with the help of the Savior, with the battle against Temptation, with the fortitude breaking the chains of concupiscence, with Faith, Hope, Charity, with holy Humility and holy Obedience, to come to be deservedly glorious and free with the glorious freedom of the children of God.
Too often man sterilely curses the first sin and blasphemes against God as an imprudent Lord who has placed Man in temptation stronger than he is. But what would have happened if Man, instead of yielding to the Temptation leading him to believe that by eating the forbidden fruit he would become like God, if, without any tempter, he had come to believe himself to be God on his own, because he was sinless, without pain, without death?
"Then there would not have been any redemption, because Man would have been a new Lucifer – rather, a numberless legion of lucifers, for, in the course of the centuries, Mankind would have increased through all those begotten, and not one man and one woman, but all would have sinned by this sacrilegious heresy, and the whole race would have perished in an infernal punishment.
The Creator loved the most beautiful creature in creation. The one in whom the soul cast forth heavenly lights. And he wanted it in a condition to be saved still. So? Can man doubt that God could not have prevented Satan from entering Eden?
No, do not think this. But believe that God"s act was good, like all his acts, and the cause of an infinitely good act, as was the Incarnation of the Word for the salvation of man.
""We know that until now all creatures sigh and are in birthpangs."
In fact, each one must give birth to himself, the eternal self, the one born to Heaven or Hell at the moment the first death removes the soul and breath, and the first call, before Him who cannot be deceived, takes place. From matter, like fruit from a flower – from the matter that the Sacraments help to change (from a chain, a hindrance, a burden for sanctification to birth, Life as an immortal son of God, the blessed citizen inhabiting Heaven) – from matter, like fruit from the flower, the son of God, the brother of Christ, sharing in the divinity through the divine promise, will be begotten, with pains in his whole life, with the burden of gestation throughout life.
""You are gods" is written in Scripture and in the letters of Paul. Nor did Jesus deny that man, in becoming holy with a constant effort towards perfection, becomes similar to God his Father, in the measure of a son towards the Father, of the created spirit in relation to the Most Holy Uncreated Spirit.
But to arrive at this glorification it is necessary to sigh and suffer with patience and hope, with faith and love, just like a mother who for long months suffers and hopes, and willingly confronts pain provided she can give birth to her child.
"Do you see how good God is? He grants procreation to matter, almost being little creators. But He grants that all spirits may recreate themselves, for the soul, given by God, can recreate and supercreate itself, reaching the sublime dignity of children of God, sharing in the Father"s eternal glory.
"And not just these, but we, too, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, sigh inwardly, awaiting adoption as children of God and the redemption of our bodies, in Jesus Christ Our Lord."

 

 
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.