THE BLESSING, THE HOLY THING  AND
THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

[Adapted and excerpts taken from Marian Apparitions and Apocalyp­tic Research by Diamond Star Research; from the chapter, “God’s Plan For Man Versus Satan’s Conspiracy,” from the subchapter, “The Redemption and Restoration of Man.”] 

Man was made in the image and likeness of God but after the Fall, man was corrupted, the Germ of the Divine Blessing that was given him was taken from him. His great aura of light and subsequent powers over creation became diminished; his glory (his aura of light) ruined (and made invisible), and his powers of mind were greatly diminished.

The “Blessing” which was given to Adam, was taken from him at the Fall.  This “Blessing” was to be a part of Man in his perfected state before the Fall. Due to the Original Sin, it was taken from him. This Blessing is a part of Man’s priesthood given him by God as a part of his nature. Since the Fall the priestly powers had to be effect­uated through the Blessing and actuated through the Sacrament of Holy Orders. That this priesthood of God already existed we see in this revelation: “I saw Melchiesedech as an angel and a type of Jesus, as a priest upon this Earth; inasmuch as the priesthood is in God, he was an angel-priest of the eternal hierarchy.” (The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations (Anne Katherine Emmerich), Vol. 1, p 18).

The Blessing and the Priesthood of Melchisedech are directly link­ed to the redemption and restoration of Mankind. Melchisedech was seen in history, “preparing, founding, building up, and separating the human family, and acting toward them as a guide.” (Ibid, p 18). These divine powers of the priesthood were a foreshadowing of God’s redemption plan.

One of the greatest and most beautiful of mysteries, one that is central to the Christian faith and to God’s Divine Plan is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It is imperative to the Christian that both the history and the science of this most important sacrament be under­stood.

Christ instituted the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass after the Levitical order or the Order of Melchisedech. Adam had given sacrifice to God as did Noah. In the revelations of Venerable Catherine Emmerich we learn more of the significance of the Sacrifice of Melchisedech. “The ceremony reminded me of the Holy Mass.  I saw him elevate the bread and wine, offer, bless, and break. He reached to Abraham the Chalice used...” later at the first Mass instituted by Christ. Abraham became more luminous and drew strength and new life after partaking of bread and wine. The bread and wine were shining and luminous.

Abraham was ordained a priest by Melchisedech. He spoke over him these words: “The Lord said to my Lord, sit thou at My right hand, Thou art a priest forever according to the order of Melchisedech. The Lord hath sworn, and He will not repent.” At the time of this ordina­tion of Abraham, God gave him the “Blessing.”

The “Blessing” was passed from Patriarch to Patriarch, from Abra­ham to Isaac and from Isaac to Jacob. Only the one that received the “Blessing” knew of the Mystery and was to him as the Blessed Sacrament is to us, not fully understood. This “Blessing” was later taken from Jacob in his struggle with the angel but later given to his son, Joseph.

This is the same “Blessing” given to Adam before the Fall and the same “Holy Thing” of the Ark of the Covenant.

“I always regarded the Ark of the Covenant as a church, the Holy Thing as the altar with the Most Blessed Sacrament, and the vessel of manna as the lamp before the altar. When I entered a church in my childhood, I used to associate its different parts with the correspond­ing parts of the Ark of the Covenant. The Mystery, the Holy Thing of the Ark, was to me what the Blessed Sacrament is to us, only not so full of grace, although it was something full of strength and reality. It made upon me a more obscure, a more awe-inspiring impression, but still one very sacred and full of mystery. It always seemed to me that all in the Ark of the Covenant was holy, that all our salvation was in it, as if rolled up in a ball, as if in a germ. The Holy Thing of the Ark was more mysterious than the Most Blessed Sacrament. The former seemed to be the germ of the later, the later, the fulfillment of the former.” (The Life of Christ and Biblical Revelations, Vol. 1, p 113).

Catherine Emmerich’s revelation further states, that the germ of the “Blessing” or “Holy Thing” of this Ark was “...in a form, in a kind of veil, as a substance, as an essence, as strength. It was bread and wine, flesh and blood; it was the germ of the Bless­ing before the Fall. It was the sacramental presence of that holy propagation of man before he fell. It was preserved to man by reli­gion.” (Ibid, p 113).

In the restoration and salvation plan of God for man, succeeding generations could be purified through piety and the following of God’s Will as ordained in His Divine Order. This purification (leading to the restoration of Man) reached perfection in the Blessed Virgin Mary. Thus She received the Spirit of the Holy Ghost and became the Mother of God, and as revealed at Lourdes, is the Immaculate Conception. 

So there is an important history of the “Blessing” and the “Holy Thing” playing a key part in the redemption and restoration of Man. It now becomes certain that the destination of this “Blessing” which later became the “Holy Thing,” was to be Jesus Christ:

“When I saw the Lord teaching in Sichar, the people questioned Him as to what had become of the Holy Thing of the Ark of the Coven­ant. He answered them that mankind had already received a great deal of it, that it was even then among them. The fact of their no longer possessing it as they once did, was a proof that the Messiah was born.”

Furthermore, it is explained that “Joachim through an angel re­ceived the Holy Thing of the Ark of the Covenant, and Mary was con­ceived under the Golden Gate of the Temple. At Her birth, She Herself became the Ark of the Holy Thing which then reached its destination, and the wooden Ark in the Temple was deprived of its presence.

“When Joachim and Anne met under the Golden Gate, they were sur­rounded by dazzling light, and the Blessed Virgin was conceived with­out Original Sin. A wonderful sound was heard; it was like a voice from God.

“The ancestors of Jesus received the germ of the Blessing for the Incarnation of God; but Jesus Christ Himself is the Sacrament of the New Covenant, the fruit, the Fulfillment of that Blessing, to unite men again to God.” (Ibid, p 115. Emphasis editor’s).

One comes to understand why Mary is called the “Ark of the Coven­ant” and that Christ is the fulfillment of this Blessing. When Christ instituted the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, this Blessing which had become the Holy Thing, then became the Blessed Sacrament.

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