DARKNESS AND HOPE (Azariah says:) After the darkness the light. Always. In the creation of the world. In the birth of the day after the night. In the succession of epochs and eras. Corruption generates elements of life from death… Like the grain cast in the furrows, and covered with manure in the gloomy winter months. That grain seems degraded, buried under layers of dirt and the stench of dung. It seems lost to the sun, and the sun to it. But precisely because it is there below, mortified, pressed down, and overwhelmed by the dust and the wheat, it can take root. It is no longer a tenuous grain which the passer-by can crush with his foot, the wind carry elsewhere, or the bird swallow. It may become a stable, cheerful, useful, prosperous plant, multiplied in value and power, beneficial, and victorious under the intense sun of the loveliest months. Light seems to grow dark, and death comes. Corruption spreads, and overflows with its burdensome waves. Fear not. It’s what’s needed to rouse the drowsy, and make them desirous of voices from on high. Struggle is useful to keep the athlete strong. The nausea of corruption prompts the desire for what is pure. Darkness spurs people to seek the light… The era of the spirit will return after this time of materiality. The era of the Light will return after the current concealment. The era of Life will succeed the almost mortal agony. The era of God will arise to be a force in the final struggle. The era of God will reign over that of Satan. On your feet, O Christians, in the fullness of your charity for God, for your neighbour, for yourselves. God has sent you His Son and your Brother, through the Mother, so that He would be your Master and Redeemer, and you would be Children of God. And since you are children, God has infused the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, and through you He cries out, ‘Abba! Father! Man, even the most perfect man, would never be able to pray with that loving violence which obtains miracles, all miracles. And so it is, then, that the Spirit of God prays in you, through you, to obtain what is useful and necessary for you, and what – as holy – is suitable for sanctifying you… What, then, are you afraid of?… Courage then, and do not be afraid of the things that pass… (AZ: 304-5) (Mary says:) « Have faith. Be at peace. There is no misery which My Son cannot turn into riches, there is no solitude which He cannot replenish, and there is no fault which He cannot cancel. The past no longer exists, once love has cancelled it. Not even a dreadful past. Are you going to be afraid, when Disma, the robber, was not? Love, and be afraid of nothing. » (Vol. 3: 133)
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