Letter 3.

About mysticism, suffering and the role of animals

TOTUS TUUS, MARIA !

Dear sister in Jesus and Mary, Since the Holy Virgin called me to Her service twelve years ago, I enjoyed the privilege of being shaped by Her on a broad mystical path. Ever since, She allowed me to see, hear and feel a lot of things, and She gave me explanations on a great many Mysteries, which keep unfolding themselves within me. Thus, both through the inspirations and through the many other paths on which She is shaping me in Divine Life, She has made me understand why different mystics sometimes say different things. Apart from the fact many mystics do not announce theses by Divine inspiration (Pope John Paul II once said that 90 per cent of those who allegedly interpret theses from above, are in fact false prophets and thus no mystics at all), authentic mystics as well sometimes pronounce views which seemingly do not correspond with the views pronounced by other authentic mystics. Especially in the initial years of my being shaped by Mary I often prayed my Heavenly Mistress for explanations on this score, and one day She said to me this fitted in with Gods Plan and is due to the fact that mystics who are truly chosen from above, have got different missions to accomplish, and that it is perfectly possible that, on account of the Plan Divine Providence has got with the souls, the emphasis of their announcements is on quite different things. Furthermore She assured me that all of this is going to fit in perfectly well with each other as soon as the fullness of time has come. Moreover, thus Mary said, not every mystic has got the mission to give extensive teachings. I must emphasize the fact that Mary has forbidden me to study the writings of other mystics, because She and I quote wants me to be perfectly pure at heart and with a mind like a blank sheet of paper and I am allowed to listen to HER voice only, meaning that I am not to pay attention to anything but the teachings and inspirations given to me by Her directly. Therefore I do not at all know the writings of Franoise. Yet I can tell you the following: This soul is right. I know perfectly well that in the Last Times the greatest conciliation will spring from Love. How is it then, that the Mistress of all souls stresses so much the redeeming value of suffering? A few things might become clearer to you if I tell you that in 1997 my vocation started with a long series of visions of Mary, during which the Holy Virgin initially showed Herself to me in Her overwhelming beauty as the glorious Queen (in those early days She already referred to Herself towards me as your Mistress, but not yet as Mistress of all souls),

but gradually She began presenting Herself ever more often as the Mother of Sorrows. As the Mother of Sorrows She started my mystical training, and She explicitly called me to a life of penance and coredeeming suffering, to which She gave many shapes, each of which was developed on the basis of various gifts or various tasks. She invited me to link my consent up with Hers, and to do so totally, unconditionally and eternally, for She had very special plans with me. Mary shaped my training in Her service ever more emphatically on the foundation of suffering, but... She also started to teach me systematically in the school of perfect Love. (...) On the basis of the things Mary taught me, I know that the greatest unity between suffering and Love is developed in the first place in the souls She has called Herself, yet God longs fervently for every soul to develop this unity to a certain extent. The soul will receive the ability to do this to the extent to which she actually longs for the accomplishment, within herself, of the unity with the suffering Christ and the coredeeming Mary, and to the extent to which she really loves Mary and Jesus above all, up to perfect self-denial. The wedding between God and the soul, as you call it in your mail, is the mystical wedding to which but few souls on earth are called, because the establishment of such a spiritual constitution does not work in every soul, for very different reasons and because only such souls will be called to this constitution, that have got very specific missions to accomplish: a mystical vocation usually entails missions in the field of teaching Gods Truth as well as of doing penance in unity with Jesus or Mary (sometimes with both). These missions require the ability and the willingness of the soul to deny herself in order that the cross of her vocation may truly become fruitful. Evidently Love is the highest form of conciliation: without Love every suffering is totally unfruitful. As a matter of fact Love is the essence of Divine Life. Jesus called Divine Life upon the souls through very different ways, among others through the Cross, which teaches us nothing else but the highest possible form of Love: self-denial up to death, with the intention that others may be better off for it in their souls, and Gods Plan may be accomplished. That is why Mary presents Herself to us all as the Mistress of all souls and the Teacher and Guide in the field of the Science of Divine Life. As to your second question: animal sufferings. Indeed, many animals suffer by the hand of man. God loathes this beyond expression: Animals, intended to be gifts of His Love, are despised and treated in endless ways like only the demons themselves could. What value does the suffering of animals have? Like the Most Blessed Virgin, the Mistress of all souls, teaches, the suffering of animals has not got a redeeming value in itself, because as such the animals are not actively part of the Divine Plan of Salvation, BUT... the animals are brought onto mans path of life with the intention that man should learn many things through his dealings with them. The way in which a soul deals with animals, shows God to what extent true Love has developed within this soul. Let us not forget that after this life on earth, the soul is judged according to the LOVE she has shown to her fellow creatures! As such, animal suffering is useless, so to speak, unless human souls conscientiously offer it up. The Most Blessed Virgin Mary emphasizes

the importance and the tremendous value of consecrating animal sufferings onto Her. This value is based on the principle that the sight of a suffering animal, if this sight causes pain in the human soul seeing it, sets a mechanism in motion through which Love starts flowing: the soul now suffers for the animal, as a substitute, so to speak, in other words: the soul draws the animals suffering into her own being, i.e. into the soul, which does play an active part within Gods Plan of Salvation. Thus the suffering is as it were transferred from a non participating vital germ (from the animal) to a participating soul (the human). Thereby this suffering is fully integrated into the Divine Plan of Salvation. Tremendously valuable and marvelous would be, and I would like to call upon all souls emphatically to do so, if a soul that witnesses the sight of a suffering animal, either in daily life, or on television, or even while hearing stories told about animal suffering, would immediately focus her heart on Mary and pray to Her fervently as follows: Mary, Queen of all creatures, I offer You all my heartache about this animals suffering, so that it may go through this suffering in the experience of Divine Love, and that this suffering may, on the merits of my heartache and my love towards this creature of God, be transformed into graces for the world. If it is obviously about suffering caused through human intervention, one might add: May the human who provoked this suffering, be through this prayer be delivered from all darkness, and be healed through the effusion of true Love. A true spiritual offensive against animal abuse (in all of its so often disguised and even legalised forms) would consist herein, that numbers of souls should say such a prayer regularly to Mary, especially on each such occasion. I wish you a blessed Easter time. May the experience of the past days of Passion bring us all the resurrection from the grave of our darkness, and may we all accomplish within ourselves the highest degree of consecration to Mary, which indeed consists of our flowing over into Her so totally as to make our ego die completely in order to be born again of Mary after the Spirit, like a resurrection from the grave of human imperfections for the beginning of true Divine Life. Lovingly, and at the service of the Mistress of all souls, Your Myriam

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Letter 32. About the animals (1)

TOTUS TUUS, MARIA! Dear sister in Jesus and Mary, I infer from your letter that there must be some misunderstanding as to the words Heaven has spoken about animal sufferings. First of all I want to make perfectly clear that the Most Blessed Virgin very strongly disapproves of any suffering caused to animals by members of the human race. In order for everything to be understood the way it was actually intended, I should make the following points very clear: 1. Evidently the Church says that animals are living souls. Neither the Most Blessed Virgin nor myself have ever contradicted this. You must not forget that the phrasing in these revelations is based on the Latin word anima, which, however, can mean soul as well as vital principle. On this score Mary makes a clear distinction, in the sense that man possesses a soul in the narrow meaning of the word, whereas animals have got a vital principle. The soul in the narrow sense of the word is typical of man, because the soul is the steering principle directing life while the human being is still on its way to God. Man alone participates in the Mystery of Redemption in an active way, and can be sanctified. This leads us to the second point: 2. If Mary says the sufferings of animals do not have a redeeming value as such because animals are not active participants in the Plan of Redemption or in Gods Plan of Salvation, She thereby least of all means that man would be free to abuse animals or to cause them any suffering, quite on the contrary! By saying this She actually emphasizes the fact that man must take up his responsibility, because: a) in that animals do not have a soul in the actual, narrow sense of the word, they can not sin. Therefore man is held responsible towards God whenever anything in any relationship or contact between man and an animal does not run in accordance with Gods Law, i.e. whenever this relationship or contact is not a bearer of genuine Love. I take it this will among other things appear very clearly from Marys Teaching The Fire from Heaven (which you can also find on this website www.myriam-van-nazareth.net) as well as from several revelations given by the Mistress of all souls; b) God foresaw man to be His representative towards all creation. This unmistakably means that man is supposed to represent towards the animals the following Divine properties: unconditional Love, the sense of caring, tenderness, softness, warmth and Light. c) God created the animals out of Love for man, in order that man might rejoyce in the animals, and for the animals as living beings of a different nature to serve man as sources of instruction in the experience of virtue. Mary says so unequivocally. This simply means that any man who abuses animals, will be called to account for his behaviour before the Divine

Judge, who has made him the guardian of all creation, and consequently the guardian of all animals. 3. In a revelation the Mistress of all souls very clearly says that man is responsible for anything that goes wrong in creation, even in the animal world. On account of mans sins certain animal species are aggressive; on account of mans sins animals devour each other; on account of mans sins the relationship between man and animals has become so heavily distorted that many animals have not got faith in man, mistrust him and take flight when being approached by a human being, etcetera... Even on account of mans sins many animal species only or mainly eat meat! All of these words were spoken by Mary Herself. Dear brother, my heart bleeds when seeing how animal suffer from the cruelty and indifference of man. My heart also bleeds if messages and teachings from the Heavenly Queen of creation and of Love are so misunderstood that souls might even regard these Heavenly words as justifications for the cruel behaviour of people towards animals! Mary never argues in favour of the fact that people who cause animals suffering should be allowed to continue to do so, quite on the contrary. Dear brother, if you should be granted the mystical grace of being fully one with the Heart of the Most Blessed Virgin for one single second while She experiences the sufferings caused to animals by man, so may God stand by you to survive this second. If ever a soul should believe the Queen of Heaven to be heartless as to the relationship between man and animals, so may God come to this souls rescue in the hour of the judgment passed on her life after Divine Mercy has allowed this soul to experience the fullness of Truth, as regards the behaviour God expects from man towards the animals... Dear brother, I have always loved animals very dearly. Ever since the day the Mistress of all souls began to grant me mystical visions on series of elements from the Mysteries of Gods Heart, the fire of this love towards the animals has been flaring up in my heart even higher, because now I have had the privilege to experience the Love in Marys Heart towards the animals. I was allowed to experience this love for no other reason but to enable me to grasp the depth of Marys intentions in the exactly right words while writing down Her Teachings. The fact Mary keeps calling upon mankind for a radical turnaround of mans state of heart towards the animals, should prove to you how important it is to Her that people should dramatically change their attitude in their relationships with animals. I am not acquainted with any other revelations apart from those which Mary sends to the souls through my own soul. However, word has it that Heaven has never before expressed Itself so clearly on this subject as is currently the case through Myriam van Nazareth. This ought to make us understand a few things, viz.: 1. that the relationship between man and animals is extremely important to Heaven; 2. that the relationship between man and animals must be MUCH MORE important for the developments within Gods Plan of Salvation than most people tend to think, and

3. that the current state of affairs in this field must have grown increasingly worse in our day and age. Dear brother, Mary calls upon mankind to turn to a totally new, unconditionally loving behaviour towards the animals, and She keeps stressing time and again what major positive change the atmosphere of living on earth would experience if man were indeed to represent God towards the animals the way He actually is: as sources of Love. That is why I extremely regret all and any misunderstandings that might rise on this subject, as they tear my heart apart. I fervently hope these words, which they too were inspired to me by the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, may reassure you, and that you may thereby find back peace of heart. I suggest that, as of today, you and I would unite in our hearts and souls in fighting this so extraordinarily important battle for the establishment of unconditional Love towards the animals, sacrificing ourselves totally to Mary, the Mistress of all souls and Queen of creation. Be assured that I, for one, would give my life for the animals. That is the extent of the vow I made towards the Mistress of all souls, as She Herself is the One who burnt this attitude into my heart. The hour has now really come for mankind to stop and reflect upon the damage it is causing to the effects of Divine Love by dealing with the animals the way man is currently doing (commercially, but also way too often in private life). Love is the fuel of true Life. There is no way for a soul that despises this Love or denies it in her own behaviour, to justify this in Gods eyes. Everything which is created by God, is a bearer of elements of Divine Love. Woe unto those who try to maim the Works of God. Thus it says in Gods Law. Lovingly, and at the service of the Mistress of all souls, Your Myriam

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Letter 33.

About the animals (2)

TOTUS TUUS, MARIA!

Dear sister in Jesus and Mary, It gives me joy that a few issues as to the fate of animals have been solved. As regards your most recent question about what happens to animals after their life on earth has come to an end, I can share the following knowledge with you, which I acquired through the Queen of Heaven. I perfectly understand your concern at the thought that animals would not benefit themselves from the fact their sufferings can favour human souls (provided there are souls that produce much Light through their total surrender to God and their fervent prayers). I myself used to be very sad at the same thought. However, when a few years ago I was granted some remarkable (beautiful) experiences with several animals, I felt so strange about all this that I started praying very ardently to the Mistress of all souls for an explanation as to the questions which had come up in my heart. I would like to share with you the essence of the answers I received regarding a cat, because it is definitely important. One day one of my cats was taken ill. It occurred to me this animal suddenly started to display a rather peculiar behaviour: It seemed as though this animal wanted to show me things, to give me some kind of signs, one after the other. After persistent pleading on my part, Mary explained that this cat, in her illness, was truly used from above to make clear to me certain things about her inner being and about the extent to which God Himself even works through an animal. On Fathers Day, a day I regard as being the feast of the Eternal Father in Heaven, I consecrated this cat to the Eternal Father, out of gratitude for the extraordinary experiences I had been granted so far during her illness. On the stroke of midnight (so, in the moment in which the day of the Eternal Father came to an end) she died, lying in my lap, while I was incessantly praying to Mary and whispering little words of love to the cat, to which she responded with a remarkable quiet. This hour of death seemed to me like a token for the fact Mary had accepted my consecration of the cat and of all experiences from the past days related to this pet, and that She wanted to confirm it all this against the background of the things Mary had been teaching me in the course of those days. A peculiar thing was the fact the cat, having regard to the nature of her sudden illness and to the symptoms thereof, should actually have suffered quite heavily, yet came across as unusually peaceful and quiet, up to and including the hour of her death. What had Mary said? Mary said to me that a suffering animal bears its suffering quite differently from the way most people do. Man easily lets himself be led by ration, so that his own rational faculties soon become his worst enemies: his suffering increases manifold through his brooding over

it or his analyzing it, and his tendency to imagine all kinds of vision about his future. The animal, on the contrary, allows its being connected to Gods Heart, just like that. It suffers, indeed, but it deals with this very differently, so that the sufferings get a completely new meaning, so to speak. One might almost say: Unconsciously and unwittingly the animal sacrifices its sufferings to God from the bottom of its heart. It is self-evident that this does in no way justify the ill behaviour of a human being that causes an animal to suffer. On the contrary: God not only experiences Himself the pains and burdens of the suffering animal, but the origin thereof as well. This means the animals suffering is poured into the Heart of God, provided as it were with the signature of the human being causing this suffering. This is a Mystery one might express like this: God, although He embodies the fullness of glory, suffers terribly from all this. His infinite Love has provided for some compensation in the sense that the suffering animal, which is connected to Gods Heart in a pure way anyway, and experiences His Love in a pure way, is taken up into Gods Heart even more deeply. What happens, then, when the animal dies? Mary said to me that, when an animal dies, it returns to its Creator, loaded with everything it has received from human beings. The vital principle (the animals soul so to speak Latin animus/anima) returns into Gods Heart forever, and in a manner of speaking experiences there in its own way that which, for human souls, is called Heaven. In the animals God shows us, more than in anything else, how great His concern for His creatures actually is. The animals understand this intuitively, and do so much quicker and much deeper than most human souls do. The human souls can learn so much from the animals, yet so often despise them. Even on this score it can not be denied that God prefers to speak through the uncomplicated and to hide His Secrets in it. The great lesson for human souls is undoubtedly this: that they should come down from their throne of conceit in order to find back the connection with God and the mysteries of true happiness by learning to have eyes for the real wonders of creation: not for that which is chased after by science and technology, but for that which God has hidden as incredibly many-sided treasures of Love in the small living beings (animals, flowers...). Let us pray together for the beam of light like the one that hit Saul on his way to Damascus. May this beam burn an inextinguishable mark on all our hearts, so that we may discover true Love, which makes itself noticed in so many things on the path of our life, even in the smallest flower, in a stray dog, in a house cat, etcetera... To express it by an image: With every element of a Divine Mystery which is revealed to a heart, a new layer of the rose of Gods perfect Love for His creation unfolds. How is it, then, that of all creatures the human soul, the crown of creation, often stays blind to all of this, her whole life long? Gods Love is as marvelous as the human soul has turned blind. May God heal our blindness, so that our hearts, too, may be healed. He has given us treasures way beyond measure. Almost all of them have been buried by us under the earth of our worldly attachments. Lovingly, and at the service of the Mistress of all souls,

Your Myriam

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