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March 27th, 2002
Received by H.
Cuenca, Ecuador.
My dear brother, as I have promised you, I am going to continue
with the account of Jesus’ life.
After our return to Jerusalem, I stayed with Peter and Andrew in
their house, while the other disciples returned to their respective
homes.
One day, we heard loud knocks at the door. It was Matthew, very
emotional, so much so that he could hardly speak:
"A new miracle has happened!" he hollered.
"The Master has just healed once again!"
"Is the Master here?" Peter asked full of surprise. "I
thought that he had left for Nazareth with his family."
"Yes, it’s true," Matthew panted. "But he has
done it again... he did it! Come with me!"
Having said that, Matthew ran down the street toward the mayor's
house, and we followed him.
In front of the house, there was a great multitude of people, all
discussing and speaking at the same time, a real fuss. And we saw
the mayor, his face radiant with happiness, like the selfsame sun,
singing hymns of praise to the Lord.
We tried to find out what really had happened, and little by little
we gathered the information. Here is what the Bible tells us (the
Gospel according to John):
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So Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee, the place where he
had made the water into wine. At Capernaum there was an official
whose son was very ill.
When he heard that Jesus had left Judaea and had arrived
in Galilee, he went off to see him and begged him to come
down and heal his son, who was by this time at the point of
death.
Jesus said to him, "Will you never believe unless you
see signs and wonders?"
"Sir," returned the official, "please come
down before my boy dies!"
"You can go home," returned Jesus, "your son
is alive." And the man believed what Jesus had said to
him and went on his way.
On the journey back his servants met him with the report
"Your son is alive and well."
So he asked them at what time he had begun to recover, and
they replied: "The fever left him yesterday at one o’clock
in the afternoon."
Then the father knew that this must have happened at the
very moment when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is
alive." And he and his whole household believed in Jesus.
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Later, Jesus' companions would tell us the whole
story.
The Master had accompanied his family to Nazareth, where he was
received with honor and reverence. There was no mockery anymore
on the part of the people, which Jesus had experienced the previous
times. There was one or other who hated him, who looked at him with
hostile eyes. But there are always such people, who only know how
to hate, whose wickedness suffocates their souls. However, the atmosphere
had changed completely.
After a few days, Jesus said good-bye to “Joseph Jr.”,
Joses, who had to stay in order to take care of the business. The
Master's sisters, all married, had already gone back to their husbands
and homes.
First, the men went to Cana, which was very close, to stop over
there in order to meet up with Nathanael bar Tolmai. He convinced
them that they should stay overnight in his house, enjoying his
hospitality. It was understandable. Poor Nathanael, he wanted to
extend his "home vacations” a little more.
And then, on the following day, they prepared to return to the
lake. They were still near Cana, when a group of horsemen came closer,
galloping, their horses puffing foam and covered with white sweat.
It was the mayor of Kpar Nahum with some of his servants. And you
can read the rest of the story in the Bible.
Jesus and his disciples arrived many hours later. They had spent
the night under the open sky, and they had walked slowly. The whole
village gave them a tremendous reception.
The Master and we soon took refuge in Peter's house, blocking the
door, so great was people's insistence and eagerness. Only then
did we feel "safe" from the hugs, screams and pushes.
Everybody wanted to touch us, or rather, the Master, in order to
get a cure for their diseases, and we were pushed, hit and pawed
severely, but with great affection. [Judas is smiling]
On that same day, when we were entrenched in Peter's house and
people had us besieged, another interesting event happened. But
of that, we will speak in our next message.
However, what I would like to tell you right now, in the context
of the healing of the mayor’s son, is the following:
In the first place, Jesus had definitively conquered the heart
of the villagers. It is true; people needed signs to believe in
him. But finally, they believed in his words. There would be other
places, where people would not believe, in spite of the Master's
signs.
And in the second place, we asked the Master, of course, how he
had been able to perform such an act. Today you would call it "distance
healing." But then, for us, it was something unheard of, something
that we had never witnessed. There were other people who cured,
who had the gift of "channeling healing energies", to
express myself in a modern language. However, a healing at a distance
of many miles, without imposing hands and murmuring magic formulas,
we had never seen.
And it was then, when Jesus tried to explain to us that the healing
of a sick person does not depend so much on the healer's power,
but on the disposition and will of the sick people, of their faith.
He also told us that all men could obtain the power of healing,
which only depended on the development of their souls. As in art,
there were people with an innate gift for healing, but that the
supreme healing power lay in the Father's Love, which stood at everybody’s
disposition. Once again, he urged us to pray, an advice which we
followed with little enthusiasm.
Do you wonder why we did not feel more enthusiasm for prayer? Well,
I will tell you what happened in my case.
Actually, when the Master spoke to us so much of prayer, I tried
it. Yes, I prayed. But when after some weeks I could not detect
a drastic change inside me, when I did not feel filled with powers
and wisdom, my efforts weakened. There were entire weeks when I
did not pray, especially when the Master was not with me. I simply
forgot. Prayer had never become a "matter of basic necessity"
for me. Remember how often the Bible teaches that Jesus looked for
a quiet place and prayed there. He prayed constantly.
The Father does not ask much from us. But something that He does
insist on, is perseverance. We need perseverance in all we do, and
mainly in prayer.
Remember what the Master said: “Everything you ask for in
prayer, if you have faith, you will receive.”
This is true. Faith and prayer are the two sisters whose forces
unite and bring us the Father's blessings. You will not always receive
exactly what you are asking for. If you want to move from place
A to place B, God does not lift you up into the air and let you
fly from one place to another. No, you have to walk, but He shows
you the way, He teaches you how you may overcome the obstacles.
He helps you, but you have to walk.
Yes, at the moment of my death, I had some Divine Love in my soul.
Are you surprised? I want to tell you that the possession of a small
quantity of God’s Substance will not save you from hell, if
you are not able to activate this Love and to live It. You have
already read that in many cases people possess the Love of God,
but they forget about It, and it is as if It does not exist. It
is like the leaven in the batch of dough. If you place it in a cold
place, it will not die, however, it will never ferment. And I will
tell you another thing: I received a great part of the small portion
of Love in my soul, when I was about to commit suicide. When the
mind in its desperation is no longer able to formulate coherent
thoughts, the soul clamors for help, in all sincerity, with all
its force, with all its thirst. In other words, it is a very intense
prayer.
The Love in my soul did not save me from hell. It virtually did
not exist, because soon my mind recovered its ascendancy and subjected
me to a deep depression. Only when Andrew, through the warmth of
his love, was able to melt the ice in my soul, the Love within me
could start Its work of fermentation.
I tell you, my dear friend, is not so difficult to obtain the Love,
it is more difficult to keep it active and radiant. This is what
I referred to when saying that "you have to walk." This
is why we have spoken so often of people who “rest in the assurance
of their beliefs,” because people who activate their love never
rest, and they are aware that what they know is nothing more than
the tip of an iceberg.
God has given man curiosity, so that he investigate, He has given
him intelligence, so that he study and learn, and He has given him
a soul, so that he be brought ever nearer to Him.
I leave you now with my blessings. Tomorrow I will speak of the
surprise that we received from above.
May God bless you,
Judas
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