ADAM BEFORE THE FALL
Book of Heaven, April 24, 1915: “How can those words spoken by Me in creating
man, ‘Let Us make man in Our Image and Likeness’, be explained? How could the
creature, so incapable, ever resemble Me and be my image? Only in my Will could he
arrive at this, because by making It his own, he comes to operate in a divine manner;
and through the repetition of these divine acts, he comes to resemble Me - to become
my perfect image.”
Book of Heaven, Jan. 3, 1922: …in creating man, We infused Our image and likeness
in him so as to overwhelm him with Our happiness and be reflected and delighted in
him.”
“…the Divine Will and the human will, which the creature shattered even from the
terrestrial Eden. And the soul who knows no other life but the Life of my Will, rebuilds It,
binds It again, returning to It all the relations which the creature had broken - relations of
creation, of origin of existence. These were bonds of union between Creator and
creature - relations of likeness, sanctity, science, power. Everything I contain I placed in
relationship with man - relations in the order of all created things, and to him I gave
primacy over everything.”
Book of Heaven, Sept. 10, 1928: “Now, you must know that, indeed, Adam possesses
a glory in Heaven which is given to no one else, as holy as he may be, except for my
Celestial Mama, because no one else possesses even one act in the unity of my Divine
Will. It was just and decorous for Our Divine Majesty that the first creature that came out
of Our creative hands possess more glory than all the others; more so, since the first
period of his life was carried out as We wanted. One can say that it was Our life, Our
Will and Our works that flew within him. How could We destroy this first period of the life
of Adam, since it was more Ours than his? It is useless even to think about it; whatever
is done in Our Divine Will remains untouchable – no one can touch it, because these
acts enter the divine and infinite order. And even though Adam slipped and fell, his acts
done up to that moment remained intact and beautiful, just as he did them. He was the
one who remained wounded, ill, Our image disfigured in him, because Our Divine Will,
which had taken on the commitment to keep him beautiful, fresh, strong, holy,
completely in order with Us, just as We created him, was no longer in him, because
Adam himself had rejected It. But his works done up to the moment in which he had the
misfortune to fall, and which possessed the unity of Our Fiat, suffered no change,
because We too were jealous of these acts which had glorified Us so much. They had
put Us in feast, as We saw that man, Our son, elevated himself up to Us in order to
absorb within him Our divine manners, Our likeness, and to bring Us joys, happiness’,
the return and the smile of all created things in the unity of Our Will. We were
enraptured in seeing Our dear son, the work of Our hands, live in Our Will as in Our
home; taking from Our own, he was able to bring Us new happiness’ and joys without
end.
So, by virtue of the first period of his life, innocent and carried out all in the unity of Our
Fiat, Adam possesses such glory and beauty that no one can equal him. At the mere
sight of him, all of the Blessed recognize how beautiful and majestic the creation of the
first man was, enriched with so much grace. In looking at him, they can see, in him, the
incalculable good of the Divine Will in the creature, and the joy and happiness that the
creature can possess. In him alone, as though within a mirror, the Blessed can see how
man was created, the exuberant love that We had for him, the abundance with which
We enriched him. We gave him everything, as much as a creature could contain, to the
point of overflowing outside and being able to flood the whole earth. If it were not so – if
the whole magnificence of Our creative hands could not be seen in Adam – then the
great things We did in the Creation, and that which the creature does and can do in Our
Divine Will would not be known even in Heaven. It is Our love that demands this, and
also Our justice that wants to keep, in Heaven, the reality of that image, as man was
created – and not another man, but the very one who came out of Our creative hands,
so that, if the earth does not know him, Heaven may know him. They look at their origin
in Adam, and, grateful, they thank Me and pray that my Fiat may come to reign upon
earth, and form more images, more beautiful than Adam, because he was not a
complete work in my Divine Will, but a period of life. Only the Sovereign Queen
possesses complete life and works in my Fiat, therefore there is no one who can equal
Her. My Will wants to make more complete lives in It, so as to repeat what It did in the
Creation, to make known to the earth the way and the order in which the creature was
created, and the great, beautiful, holy things that my Divine Will can do in her.
Moreover, you must know that, up to now, I have not manifested to anyone either the
great qualities of Adam, or his sublimity, greatness and sanctity as he lived his first
period of life in the unity of my Will; and by virtue of his acts done in It, the great glory
that he enjoys in Heaven. Many, on the contrary, believed that since he slipped into sin,
he could at most have a glory common to all the other Blessed, or perhaps even less
than the others. But wanting to restore again the Kingdom of my Divine Will, I feel within
Me a necessity of love to manifest the first epoch of Creation, and the first period of the
life of Adam - all of Divine Will - as well as the glory which he enjoys in Heaven by virtue
of It, so that, as the other creatures come to know a good so great, they may dispose
themselves and long for the Divine Fiat on earth as It is in Heaven.”
