«Perfection is love. Love is harmony. Harmony is order.
There is no harmony where order is disturbed. There is no love where harmony is disturbed. There is no perfection where love is lacking.
This is what occurs in all things and works; in human ones, and above all, in superhuman ones.
One could not have truly harmonious music if the musician or players lack in the exact application of the musical laws of tempo and pitch. In the place of harmonious music, of a harmony, a discordant noise would result that would put the listeners to flight.
One could not have moral harmony if love were lacking amongst the members of a family, of a society, of a nation, and of a group of nations. Disaffection, disorder, rather, in interpersonal relationships would bring to the splitting and ruin of a family, to the end of a society, to the ruin of a nation and to war amongst nations.
One could not have a perfection of customs, of laws and of life, if love is lacking, that is, harmony and order which again form the basis of all that is good.
The infinite and eternal Perfection is Love, Order and super-perfect Harmony to the point of being One and Trine, without this bringing to an annulment or confusion of one Person or of the Persons who remain well distinct though being so harmoniously joined by Love to the point of being one perfect Unity. And this perfection is repeated in a different form but with equal order in the Word made Flesh, in whom Divinity and Humanity joined together without confusing or overwhelming each other and each of the two qualities remaining what they were, without the separation of the Son from the Father and without an abusive privilege of the Humanity of Christ for He being God. For this reason, the infinite and eternal Perfect One harmoniously created all things and created creatures, and all of Creation can be said to be a sublime harmony that has lasted from when it first existed, as far as the sempiternal laws which regulate the course of the stars and planets, the changing of the seasons and the continual recreation of the animal and plant species is concerned, so that the man-creature has all that is necessary for his earthly life.
Accomplished effortlessly because it was accomplished in an orderly way, creation would have continued without any effort on the part of creatures if disorder had not come to disturb the harmony of the Heavens with the rebellion of Lucifer and the harmony of Eden with the rebellion of the Man-Adam.
"Eden" was the name of the place where Man had been created and placed so that he could populate it with his companion. Just as "Heaven" was the name of the place where the angels and pure spirits had been placed after having been created by God in order to adore and serve Him forever and ever. Eden means "garden", that is, a place of delights. Heaven means "Kingdom of God", a place of holiness and joy. If order had not ever been voluntarily violated by the creatures to whom God had given life and places of joy and delight, Eden would have remained Eden for all the descendants of the Man-Adam, and Hell would not have existed.
However, the angel first, knowing the future mysteries and future works of the Lord through a sublime gift, mysteries and works which Lucifer, though the most sublime amongst the angels, could never have accomplished, in the place of contemplating by adoring the infinite Power and Love of his Creator - and this would have been "living in order and living in harmony with good intellectual impulses" - he rallied against his Lord in a foolish rebellion that stifled love, and therefore, harmony and order in him and in his followers; and he created. Yes, he too, created. But what? He created disorder, sin, and hell; that which only one who had separated himself from God could create.
The disorder in human impulses and instincts which God had given as good, ordered and harmonious amongst them, in order and in harmony for the final end for which God had created man, was brought into being by Lucifer, the rebel who for having been the "brightness of the morning" of the heavenly creation of the angels, believed himself to be "like the Most High" above whose heavens he attempted to "exalt his throne". (Isaiah 14)
Sin against love, that is, pride of the mind and of the heart of which the innocent Man-Adam became guilty, the tremendous sin of the I who wants to "become like God", (Genesis II) was brought into being by Lucifer who then seduced Man to this sin in order to make him [Adam] similar to himself in his rebellion to God.
Hell, the place of eternal and inconceivable torture in which those who obstinately live in hate towards God and His Law precipitate, has been created because of him, by the rebellious Archangel who was fulgurated with his followers by divine wrath and conquered by faithful angels, conquered, because he was by then stripped of the power of his state of grace, fulgurated and "brought down to the depths of the Pit" (Isaiah) in which his horrendous fire of hate, and his now horrendous light and flame, so different from the light and flame of grace and love with which God had endowed him when He created him, had lit the eternal and most atrocious fires.
Heaven remained Heaven, even after the rebellion and the fall of the rebels. Because in the Kingdom of God, everything is established by eternal rules and - having expelled the proud, the rebellious, and the self-idolators whose abode is the burning infernal pool - perfect holiness, joy, love, harmony, and order continue forever.
However, disorder existed at this point, and with it, sin, sorrow and death were able to pierce amongst the delights of Eden, disturbing order, harmony and love, spreading poison, corrupting the intellect, will, sentiments and instincts , arousing sinful appetites, destroying innocence and grace, grieving the Creator and making creatures who were, a little while ago supernaturally and naturally happy, both unhappy, one condemned to obtain his bread with [great] difficulty from the earth now cursed and bearer of tribulations and thorns, and the other condemned to giving birth in pain, to live in sorrow and in subjection to man, both condemned to sorrow over a son slain by the [other] son and the shame of being parents of a fratricide, and in the end, of being acquainted with the sorrow of dying.
All this millennial sorrow comes from a disorder created by a rebel in Heaven and by an acquiescence to the disorder proposed by the now accursed snake, in Eden, to the first two inhabitants of the Earth. Nor ever more could the first perfection, the first love, the first harmony, the first order, rise after an angel and two innocents voluntarily preferred Evil over the supreme Good.
Not even the Sacrifice of a God, who made Himself Man in order to redeem, served to re-establish the primeval state of order, harmony, love and perfection. Grace restores; however, the wound remains. Grace succours; however, the foments remain.
Whereas before it would have been sweet and effortless to reach Heaven, one now needs to "use violence" in order to attain the Kingdom of Heaven. Holy violence against evil violence. Because from the moment of the Sin, Good and Evil exist, and they contend with each other outside and within man.
God calls. Satan calls. God inspires. Satan inspires. God offers His gifts. Satan his. And between God and Satan is man; man in whom there are two natures already in battle against one another, one carnal in which the foments of the Sin dwell, the other spiritual in which the voices of Grace dwell. And if God turns in the direction of he who resembles Him because He is the Father who loves His sons and who wants to re-unite with them after their earthly trial, Satan, the Adversary, Hater of God and of Man son of God, turns in both directions and incites the carnal side while he attempts to seduce the spiritual side in order to conquer and prey on like a "roaring lion who wants to devour", of whom Peter the apostle speaks.»