January 25 Daniel, Chapter 7 Jesus says: “Daniel is the one who has the same note as John, and John is the one who gathers in and amplifies Daniel’s initial note. That is why you, little John, like him so much. “ Like a fish in a clear fishpond, you are happy when you move in the atmosphere of your Christ, who will have his supreme triumph in the hour when Satan, his son, and his courtiers are rendered powerless forever. And in Daniel this atmosphere is present. If Isaiah is the pre-evangelist who speaks of my coming into the world for the salvation of the world,112 Daniel is the pre-apostle, the pre-John who announces the glories of my eternal triumph as King of the everlasting Jerusalem. “ Now see the way the signs of the diabolical ministers of the Apocalypse113 are foreshadowed in the four beasts described by Daniel.114 The commentators have labored to provide a historic-- human meaning for those four monsters.
But it is necessary to project one’s gaze much further
ahead and much higher. When you meditate on the holy books, lift yourselves above the earth, detach yourselves from the present moment, and project your gaze into the future and the supernatural. The key to the mystery is there.
“ The four beasts: the four errors which will precede the end. The four errors which will be four
horrors for mankind and which will give birth to the final Horror.
“Man was a demigod through Grace and Faith. Like an eagle and a lion, he was able to
face and overcome the dangers of
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111 Daniel 12:13
112 Isaiah 2:1-5; 7:10-17; 9:1-6; 11:1-9.
113 Revelation 13; 17; 19:11; 20:10.
114 Daniel 7:1-8, 11-12, 15-25.
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sense and raise himself to soar in the atmosphere of God, where the soul is joined to her Lord
in a supernatural marriage, in continual, swift unions of burning passion, from which she descends
to the earth each time renewed in strength, joy, and charity, which she pours upon her
brothers and sisters, and she then rises again, even more impetuously, towards God, for every
union is an increase in perfection which is fulfilled when union becomes eternal in my
Paradise.