December 30, 1945prev home next
Before the dictation which follows on the next page,138 as I corrected what had been typewritten, the demoniacal face of Satan appeared to me. Just the face. He laughed extremely sarcastically, with all his features. He then concluded with a thunderous, wicked burst of laughter and disappeared. I went back to correcting and thought no more about it. This was at 10 a.m. When it was almost noon, Jesus dictated to me what follows on the next page. I thought it would be good to include this reference beforehand. Afterwards, though, I did not see the bronzelike face of Satan any more or hear his poisonous laughter, as if he had gone away forever. Jesus’ most recent words lead me to think he was not far off.
Jesus says:
“A little meditation to which what will happen today is not extraneous, either.
“In the Book of Joshua one reads of the stratagem used by the Gibeonites and of Joshua’s verdict: ‘Among your descendants there will always be those who cut wood and carry water in the house of my God.’139
“On the way of God, who fulfills his path over the centuries to reach the promised place at the established time - and the way of everything which is celestially supernatural is God’s way; that is, faith which proceeds by spreading throughout the world, or the rising up of just or inspired people or instruments of God: all the elements serving to lead humanity on a painful, long exodus to the Eternal Kingdom - isn’t it true that we often see creatures with an impure purpose coming towards the people of the saints? Some out of fear, some out of curiosity, and some - a greater sin - out of mockery. They approach, observe, and decide whether or not it is expedient to remain. Present or future interests always move them. Interest in profiting from friendship with an instrument of God or a minister of God. Interest in not getting their souls damned for deriding the supernatural. Finally, interest in serving the opposing side by going as spies into the midst of the holy army to wring out its secrets and reveal them to God’s enemies, who make use of them to harm God’s servants and works.
“These last and the ones they serve are entirely demoniacal in their way of acting; they are proliferations of the plant of Judas. God condemns them. But others, too, deem them to be extremely vile, and God properly takes into account their insincere respect for the supernatural or his ministers. They will not receive a complete condemnation, but neither will they obtain merit for this calculated respect of theirs. But especially those belonging to the category of Judas draw near, humble and innocuous in appearance, ‘having placed provisions on their donkeys in old sacks and broken, mended leather bags,’ dressed in ‘worn-out clothes and with shabby shoes covered with patches,’ carrying ‘hard, crumbling pieces of bread as a viaticum,’ as the Bible perfectly describes them in the Book of Joshua. They are the false humble ones, the false meek, the crafty exalters, the lying believers in the supernatural manifesting itself. Their words are daggers and, deception. And if only the daggers were visible! But they are wrapped in precious cloth. They say, ‘I am coming because I have heard. I want to be instructed by you, an instrument of God, for I am a sinner, an ignorant person, unfortunate, and you are a light, a force, a saint....’ They say, ‘We come from afar to make peace with you.... Having heard of the fame of your power, which is God’s..., we come to say, ‘Make an alliance with me.’
“Be careful, O servants of God! Do not believe everything which is said to you. Be careful! To protect the secret of the King and your souls. Because of your absolute faith itself, you are defenseless against the wiles of the serpents. Take care not to open the ‘closed city’ Take care not to let yourselves be poisoned with the poison which would paralyze you forever. The poison of self-satisfaction. ‘The populace’ - that is, ordinary, but honest souls - is often more wide awake than you in perceiving the moves of false allies and foreseeing the dangers which can come from them. For the ‘populace’ is halfway between you - entirely spirit - and the enemies of the spirit and is thus able to possess shadows and lights, wiliness and wisdom.... Be careful, my children! Satan never sleeps; his thought never pauses; his action knows no peace. He moves his armies, which are not only those of hell. He hurls them against you, fortresses, coffers, and books of God, to dismantle you, rape you, steal your treasures, and, above all, to write impure words with the red of his hell, with the black-red of his accursed pools, on God’s pages, to engrave his haughty characters on their spirit.
“Woe and woe again to the servant, the instrument, the voice who says Satan’s words: ‘I am’! Woe, too, if those persons say this to themselves by the movement of their thought alone! For if it is true that the Lord will punish the false allies of the supernatural, the punishment will not be less for those chosen to be ‘servants, instruments, or voices’ who become not lights, but ‘adversaries.’ Not Lucifers, but Satan. If the former are ordered to suffer like slaves with millstones and to remain in the last place in God’s review after a long expiation, you, as lights ceasing to be such, would not be allowed to remain, but you would be expelled forever. And that would be justice. For whoever is given more must give more.
“Oh, my little voice! Come, come here! Let me take your head in my hands, kiss you on the forehead, so that the teeth of Satan - and of the satans - may never ever bite and introduce pride into my violet, hidden and beloved. Here, little voice! Here.... And stay back, O Satan! I rise up in defense between her and you. Roam over the earth! Corrupt, bite, and rot! But not here, on my prey. My Cross is upon here. Go, accursed one! I am who I am, and you are the one defeated! Go away! Go away! Somewhere else! Go away! In the Holy Name, known to Me alone! In the Name of the One who is and who has stricken you with his lightning! Go away, in the Name of God and the King, of Jesus the Savior and Crucified One, and of Eternal Love!”
“I saw nothing demoniacal while Jesus dictated this page. But Jesus certainly did, as He had been holding my head in his hands since the beginning of this páge and then clasped it against his chest, defending me with his left arm while clearly gesturing with his right arm. And I am telling the truth: when I heard Him cry out like that, with all his might and so angrily, though I saw nothing and did not notice any disturbance from an evil spirit, I was nonetheless afraid. The wrath of God is terrible! I have perceived it like this on only one other occasion, in that far-off dictation against Mussolini and Hitler in January 1944, if I am not mistaken. I will look up the date: January 17-18, 1944.140 But today it was even more forceful. At the end his command was such as to burn someone to ashes. All the sounds in Heaven seemed to have joined together in his voice. But they were no longer the sweet songs, of indescribable beauty. It was the din of lightning bolts. In the last three sentences – “Go away! In the Holy Name, known to Me alone! In the Name of the One who is and who has stricken you with his lightning! Go away, in the Name of God and the King, of Jesus the Savior and Crucified One, and of Eternal Love!”
- I was wincing so much under those blasts of lightning which were striking the Evil One (I don’t know where he was) that I trembled like a leaf. But certainly not in the room, for I would have perceived him. And I also understood from Jesus’ posture that He seemed to be looking beyond the house, as if Satan wanted to approach my dwelling and Jesus did not want him to.
138 This annotation, though preceding the dictation which follows, seems to have been written afterwards, in writing compressed into the space remaining between the two dictations.
139 Cf. Joshua 9:23-24.
140 The date was later included. See the entry for January 17 in The Notebooks. 1944.