“And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the Woman, who brought forth the Man-child...” Rev.12:13)
When the ancient serpent saw the most unhappy place and state to
which he had fallen, and that he was hurled from the empyrean heaven, he broke
out in so much the greater rage and envy, like a wild beast tearing its own
entrails. Against the Mother Jesus Christ he conceived such a furious rage, as
no human tongue or intelligence can ever describe or understand.
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| Lucifer saw himself falling from heaven |
From Adam God formed Eve so similar to the Blessed Virgin Mary, that she
like unto Her in personal appearance and in figure. God looked upon these
two images of the great Originals with the highest pleasure and benevolence,
and on account of the Originals He heaped many blessings upon them, as if He
wanted to entertain Himself with them and their descendants until the time
should arrive for forming Christ and Mary.
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| God forming Eve from Adam |
However, Lucifer was not permitted to witness the formation of Adam and
Eve, as he had witnessed the creation of all other things. Here Lucifer was
deceived; for the Lord had from the beginning mysteriously manifested to him,
that, Christ was to assume human nature in the womb of the Most Blessed Virgin
Mary, but not how and when, and thus He had also concealed the creation of Adam
and Eve in order that Lucifer might from the beginning labour under his
ignorance concerning the mystery and the time of the incarnation. As his wrath
and watchfulness has been so signally forestalled in regard to Christ and Mary,
he suspected that Adam had come forth from Eve, and she was the Blessed Virgin
Mary and Adam was the Christ.
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| Adam was similar to Christ and Eve was similar to blessed Mary |
His suspicions grew, when he felt the divine
power, which prevented him from harming the life of these creatures. On the
other hand he soon became aware of the precepts of God, for these did not
remain concealed from him, since he heard their conversation in regard to them.
Being freed more and more from his doubt as he listened to the words of the
first parents and sized up their natural gifts, he began to follow them like a
roaring lion (I Pet. 5, 8), seeking an entrance through those inclinations,
which he found in each of them. He dread the confusion of being
conquered by the Queen who was to be a mere creature and not God.
