Desire (Good and Bad), Envy, Concupiscence

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    [[File:Brooklyn Museum - The Daughter of Herodias Dancing (Herodias dansant) - James Tissot - overall.jpg|thumb|The dance of the princess Salome (stepdaughter of [[Herod Antipas|Herod]), with the desire to obtain the death of John the Baptist - James Tissot - Brooklyn Museum.]]Truly I tell you, you yourselves are the greatest support of Satan when you desire and cultivate within yourselves "the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the Pride of life"[1], all things that do not come from the Father but from the world. For if you did not consent to prepare a favorable ground for the invasion of internal factors, they could not penetrate into you, disturb your innermost being and exacerbate the internal factors.[2]

    In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"

    • Desire always precedes action. "Do not covet another man's wife"[3]
    • "Do not desire what belongs to others." Immoderate desire leads to stealing. There is only one step from one to the other. Is every desire illicit? I do not say so [...] Envy separates from God, my children, and unites with Satan. Do you not think that the first who desired another's good was Lucifer?[4]
    • The desire for God always precedes the desire for the creature: "Aglae, how little you still know the Lord! This desire you have for Him is for you an evidence that God answers your love, that He is for you a friend, that He calls you, invites you, wants you. God is incapable of remaining inert before the creature’s desire, because this desire was lit in this Heart by Him, Creator and Lord of every creature.
      He lit it, He, because He loved with a privileged love the soul that now desires Him. The desire for God always precedes the creature’s desire, because He is the Most Perfect and His love is far more active and burning than the love of the creature."[5]
    • Good desires are inspired by God. If He inspires them, it is a sign that He wants them to become reality.[6]
    • Do you know by which path Satan arrives? Three are the generally beaten paths, and there is one that never fails. Three: sensuality, money, Pride of the spirit. Sensuality is the one that never fails. The messenger of the other lusts.[7]
    • "Oppose the desire for gold as you oppose the desire of the flesh, the carnal desire as you oppose the desire for power. That is what Satan offers you. Ah! His deceptive riches! Honors, success, power, money: these are as many impure goods that you buy at the price of your soul.
      Be content with little. God provides you with what is necessary. That is enough. He guarantees it to you, as He guarantees the birds of the air, and you are worth far more than birds. But He expects from you trust and temperance. If you trust, He will not disappoint you. If you are temperate, His daily gift will suffice you."[8]
    • Say that the Savior waits for those who wait and desire divine help, at Passover, in the Holy City. Say it to those who need it and also to those who are simply curious. From the impure movement of curiosity, the spark of faith in Me, the Faith that saves, may arise for them.[9]
    • God does not disappoint the "good" desires of man, because He Himself lights them in your hearts. It is He, foresighted and wise, who creates circumstances to favor the desire of His children and not only that, but to correct and perfect a desire to honor Him that moves through imperfect paths, and lead it to a desire to honor Him by following just ways.[10]
    • And how is it then that a Woman who leaves ten men indifferent, who look at her as a creature like themselves, who even see her as a beautiful work of Creation, but without feeling stirred within themselves by improper desires and obscene imaginations, disturbs the eleventh man and leads him to unworthy desires? It is because that eleventh man has corrupted his Heart and his thought, and where ten see a sister, he sees a female.[11]

    In the other works of Maria Valtorta

    The Notebooks of 1944

    The Notebooks from 1945 to 1950

    • Catechesis of February 18, 1947: Truly I tell you, you yourselves are the greatest support of Satan when you desire and cultivate within yourselves "the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life"[13], all things which do not come from the Father but from the world. For if you did not consent to prepare a favorable ground for the invasion of internal factors, they could not penetrate into you, disturb your innermost being, and exacerbate the internal factors.[14]

    In the fundamental Christian texts

    In the Bible

    • Several kinds of people accumulate sins, but some especially attract the divine wrath: their passion burns like a Fire and will not be extinguished until it is exhausted. He who yields his body to debauchery will not cease until he consumes himself in it.[15]
    • O God, you are my God, I seek you; my soul thirsts for you. My whole being longs for you like a parched land, dried up, without Water.[16]

    In the Catechism of the Catholic Church

    Notes and references

    1. ↑ 1 John 2:16
    2. ↑ Catechesis of February 18, 1947
    3. ↑ EMV 128
    4. ↑ EMV 131
    5. ↑ EMV 200.3
    6. ↑ EMV 531
    7. ↑ EMV 420
    8. ↑ EMV 98.11
    9. ↑ EMV 534
    10. ↑ EMV 565
    11. ↑ EMV 567
    12. ↑ Catechesis of January 2, 1944
    13. ↑ 1 John 2:16
    14. ↑ Catechesis of February 18, 1947
    15. ↑ Ecclesiasticus/Sirach 23:16
    16. ↑ Psalm (62)63
    17. ↑ CEC 27 and following
    18. ↑ CEC 1852
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