a beautiful woman stares at Jesus and inquires deeper meaningful questions to Jesus..find out
- At the door there is a young woman impudently dressed. She is beautiful.
- « My
Lord, do you wish to come into the house? Come in.
- »
Jesus stares at her as severe as a judge, but does not speak.
- But Judas [iscariot] does, supported by all the others. « Go back in, shameless woman!
- Do
not desecrate us with your breath, ravenous bitch.
- »
The woman blushes and lowers her head. She is about to disappear abashed and
scoffed at by urchins and passersby.
- « Who is so pure as to say: “I have never desired the apple offered by Eve?” »
asks Jesus severely and He adds:
- « Show Me him and I will call him a holy man.
Nobody? Well, then, if not out of disgust, but out of weakness, you feel unable
to go near this woman, you may withdraw.
- I will not force weaklings into
unequal struggles. Woman, I would like to come in. This house belonged to a
relative of Mine and is dear to Me.
- « Come in, my Lord, if You do not loathe me. »
- « Leave the door open, that the world may see and may not tattle… »
Jesus enters serious and solemn.
- The woman, subdued, bows down before Him
and dares not move.
- But the quips of the people cut her to the quick.
- She runs
away to the end of the garden, while Jesus goes as far as the foot of the staircase.
- He looks in through the half open doors but does not go in. He then goes to the
place of the sepulcher, where there is now a kind of small pagan temple.
- « The bones of the just, also when dry and scattered, ooze a purifying balm and
spread seed of eternal life.
- Peace to the dead who lived doing good! Peace to the
pure who are sleeping in the Lord!
- Peace to those who suffered, but knew no
vice! Peace to the real great ones of the world and of Heaven! Peace!
- »
The woman has reached Jesus, walking along the hedge that protects her.
- « I never heard it. I am Roman: a mime and dancer. I am an expert only in lust.
What is the meaning of Your name?
- My name is Aglae and… and it means:
vice. »
- « How do You save? And whom? »
- « Those who are anxious to be saved. I save by teaching to be pure, to prefer
sorrows to honors, to desire good at all costs, » Jesus speaks without bitterness,
without even turning towards the woman.
- « I am the One seeking who is lost. »
- « I am the One who gives Life. »
- « I am filth and falsehood. »
- « I am Purity and Truth. »
- « You are also Bounty, You do not look at me. You do not touch me, You do
not tread on me. Have mercy on me »
- « First, you must have mercy on yourself. On your soul. »
- « It is what makes a god of man and not an animal. Vice and sin kill it, and once
it is killed, man becomes a repulsive animal. »
- « Will it be possible for me to see You again? »
- « Who looks for Me, finds Me. »
- « Where hearts need doctors and medicines to become honest again. »
- « In that case… I will not see You again… I live where no doctor, medicine nor
honesty is wanted. »
- « Nothing prevents you from coming to where I am. My name will be shouted in
the streets and will reach you. Goodbye. »
- « Goodbye, my Lord. Allow me to call You “Jesus”. Oh! Not out of familiarity! But that a little of salvation may come to me. I am Aglae, remember me. »
- The woman stays at the end of the garden, Jesus comes out of it severe. He
looks at everybody. He sees perplexity in His disciples and hears jeers from the
Hebronites.
- A servant closes the door.
Jesus goes straight along the road. He knocks at the synagogue.
- A resentful old man looks out. He does not even give Jesus time to speak.
- « The
synagogue is forbidden, in this holy place, to those who deal with prostitutes.
Go away. »
- Jesus turns away without replying and continues walking along the road. His disciples follow Him. They begin to speak when they are outside Hebron.
- « You asked for trouble, Master » says Judas [Iscariot]
- « A prostitute, of all people»
- « Judas, I solemnly tell you that she will surpass you. And now, since you are
reproaching Me, what do you say of the Judaeans?
- In the most holy places in
Judaea we have been scoffed at and driven away… That is the truth.
- The day
will come when Samaria and the Gentiles will worship the true God, and the
people of the Lord will be soiled with blood and a crime… a crime in
comparison with which the sins of prostitutes who sell their bodies and their
souls, will be a very small thing.
- I was not able to pray on the tomb of My
cousins and of the just Samuel. It does not matter.
- Rest, holy bones, rejoice,
souls, that dwelt in them. The first resurrection is near. Then the day will come
when you will be shown to the angels as the souls of the servants of the Lord. »
-
Jesus stops speaking and the vision ends
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