The Book of Heaven
—Unofficial Version—

November 13, 1904

The creature would never have been worthy of Divine Love without a free will.

As I continue in my usual state, my bitternesses keep increasing more and more because of the almost [total] privations and silence of my Most Holy and only Good.  All is shadow and flash that escape.  I feel crushed and dazed, I don’t understand anything anymore, because the One who contains the light is far away from me, and is like a flash that, though it lights up, then becomes darker than before.  The only and sole inheritance left to me is the Divine Will. 

Then, after struggling very much, I felt I could not go on anymore.  He came for a little and said to me:  “My daughter, since I was Man and God, my Humanity could see, present, all sins, chastisements and lost souls.  It would have wanted to seize all this in one single point, destroy sins and chastisements, and save souls; It would have wanted to suffer, not one day of Passion, but all days, to be able to contain all these pains within Itself and spare the poor creatures.  But in spite of the fact that I would have wanted to, and could have done it - because I could have destroyed the free will of creatures and I would have destroyed these heaps of evils – yet, what would have happened to man without his own merits, without his own will in operating good?  What impression would he ever have made?  Would he ever have been an object worthy of my creative wisdom?  Certainly not.  Oh, would he not have been like a foreign son in someone else’s home, who, not having worked together with the other sons, has no right and no inheritance?  This son is always full of blushes if he eats or drinks, because he knows that he has done not one favorable act to prove his love for that father, therefore he can never be worthy of the love of that father for him.  So, the creature would never have been worthy of Divine Love without a free will.            

On the other hand, my Humanity was not supposed to violate my creative wisdom; It was supposed to adore it, as It did adore it, and It resigned Itself to receiving the voids of Justice within Itself – but not in the Divinity, because these voids of Divine Justice are filled by the chastisements of this life, by hell and by Purgatory.  So, if my Humanity resigned Itself to all this, would you perhaps want to surpass Me and not receive any void of suffering upon yourself in order not to let Me chastise the people?  Daughter, conform to Me and remain peaceful.”