Satan, leader and animator of the Revolution, shrieks: “There is nothing beyond me and I hate myself because I am.” The devil wishes to precipitate [versnellen] the creation of nothingness and cast himself into nothingness. The mysterium iniquitatis is the mystery of the urge of evil towards nothingness, without the ability to reach that goal.
If this total suicide could be accomplished, the Revolution would have prevailed over God, since annihilation is the supreme act of dominion, possible only for God, but also because evil exists only as the privation of good, and without the good it cannot exist, just as disease cannot exist without the body of the diseased person attacked. Death signifies the end not only of the diseased person, but also of the disease.
This is why the journey of the Revolution towards nothingness cannot achieve its purpose, namely the radical and definitive destruction of the Church and Christian civilisation. The good which remains, and which the Revolution needs to survive, is the germ of its defeat.
We perceive this principle in history...
where God always uses a small number of the truly faithful...
to achieve the grand return of the truth and the good.
An eminent biblical scholar, Mons. Salvatore Garofalo, has devoted an exhaustive study on the prophetic notion of the “Remainder of Israel”, in which he shows this concept to be the cornerstone of the prophetic tradition. This principle is expressed as: residuum revertetur. In fact, God wishes to make use of the weak and the small before men, and defeat the powerful.
The self-destructive march of the Revolution...
is destined to shatter against a remnant of truth and good which is the principle and prerequisite of its defeat. Where there is a candle which burns, light shines, with greater or lesser intensity, depending on the flame of love which consumes it. The, albeit minimal, remnant of light which shines in the night contains in itself the irresistible force of dawn, the potential of a new day as the sun rises.
Light penetrates, illuminates, warms and revives, as does the good, by nature communicable, fertile and extensive. Evil is by nature sterile and barren. The drama of evil is this: it cannot extinguish the final remnant of the good which survives.
Evil can certainly be propagated. However, its strength is not intrinsic, but extrinsic. It is propagated through the actions of the wicked, men and demons, and imposes itself through cunning and violence, not through the peaceful and conquering force of the truth and the good. It is in this sense a “nihil armatum”.
Jesus says “I am the light of the world”...
“He who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” [John 8:12]
The devil wishes to extinguish the light of the world, plunge the world in darkness, in the image of his kingdom. But darkness does not contain in itself the strength to defeat the light entirely and definitively, because it is from the light that darkness draws its existence.
The infernal world is the world of dark chaos, expressed in the malformed creatures sculpted on the outside of mediaeval cathedrals and the grotesque figures depicted by Hieronymus Bosch.
The image of Heaven cannot be portrayed in a painting. Perhaps only a Gothic or Romanesque cathedral can give us a distant reflection. If a cathedral burns, this means hell has penetrated it, because the language of symbols does not, even in the twenty first century, lose its expressive force.
~bron~
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