(Excerpted from THE NOTEBOOKS 1943 of Maria Valtorta, December 20th)
Jesus says:
"One of the points at which your
pride founders in error--which, above all, degrades precisely your
haughtiness by giving you an origin that, if you were less corrupted by
pride, you would repudiate as degrading--is that of Darwin's theory.
In order not to admit God, who, in
His power, was able to have created the universe from nothing and man
from the already created mud, you take the paternity of a beast as your
own.
Don't you realize you are diminishing
yourselves, for--consider this--won't a beast--no matter how exemplary,
selected, improved, and perfected in form and instinct, and, if your
wish, even in mental formation--always be a beast? Don't you realize
this? This testifies unfavorably regarding your pride as
pseudo-supermen.
But if you fail to realize, I will
not be the one to waste words to make you aware of it and converted from
the error. I ask you only one question which, in your great numbers,
you have never asked yourselves. And if you can answer Me with facts, I
will no longer combat this degrading theory of yours.
If man is a spin-off from the monkey,
which by progressive evolution has become man, how is it that over so
many years in which you have maintained this theory you have never
succeeded, not even with the perfected instruments and methods at
present, in making a man from a monkey? You could have taken the most
intelligent offspring of a pair of intelligent moneys and then their
intelligent offspring, and so on.
You would now have many generations
of selected, instructed monkeys cared for by the most patient,
tenacious, and sagacious scientific method. But you would still have
monkeys. If there happened to be a mutation, it would be this: the
beasts would be physically less strong than the former ones and morally
more degenerate, for, with all your methods and instruments, you would
have destroyed that perfection of the monkey which My Father created for
these quadrumans.
Another question. If man came from
the monkey, how is it that man, even with grafts and repugnant forms of
cross-fertilization, does not become a monkey again? You would be
capable even of attempting these horrors if you knew that it could give
approvative sanction to your theory. But you do not do so because you
know that you would not be able to turn a man into a monkey. You would
turn him into an ugly son of man, a degenerate, perhaps a criminal. But
never a real monkey. You do not try because you know beforehand that
you would get a poor result and your reputation would emerge therefrom
in ruins.
For this reason you do not do so.
For no other. For you feel no remorse or horror over degrading a man to
the level of a beast to maintain a thesis of yours. You are capbable
of this and of much more. You are already beasts because you deny God
and kill the spirit, which distinguishes you from the beasts.
Your science causes Me horror. You
degrade the intellect and like madmen do not even realize you are
degrading it. In truth, I tell you that many of the primitive are more
men than you are."
Written by Maria Valtorta