The whole universe is buzzing with some kind of melody of sounds and notes without number, beyond our perception. Someone holds the universal organ in His hands, starts it at His will, listens and hears everything.

Our ear is not designed to perceive all sounds, but to discard almost all of them and perceive only a small part. And our eye is not made to discern all colors and all forms, but to limit our vision to a very modest measure. And our nose is not designed to smell all smells, but only some: either attractive or repulsive.

If man were given only a moment to hear all the sounds in the universe, and to see all the colors and shapes, and to smell all the smells, and to know all the invisible beings around him, all his senses would explode and he would go mad.

And what do you think would happen to a person if he were given to see into the future, into the future events and events of near and distant times, into the final drama of his life, or the lives of his relatives and friends, or his people, with all the cataclysms and horrors that must come? Truly, there are few people with a sufficiently strong mind and strong nerves who, seeing the bottomless abyss of horrors before them, would not become nervous or would not go mad.

Even beauty, which surpasses our ordinary experience, terrifies us, what then can we say about ugliness? The Prophet Daniel saw a beautiful Angel of God, clothed in linen clothes with a belt of pure gold. His body is like topaz, he says, his face is like lightning; his eyes are like burning lamps. What sublime beauty! But this beauty exceeds the usual human idea of beauty. That is why the clairvoyant was so much frightened by this manifestation of heavenly beauty; He says: there is no strength left in me, and the appearance of my face has changed enormously, there is no cheerfulness in me... in a daze I fell on my face and lay with my face to the ground (cf. Dan. 10:8, 9).

Saint Anthony the Great was vouchsafed by the feats of fasting, prayer and vigil to see invisible beings and spirits around him. And he told his disciples how great the number of evil spirits around a person, like a swarm of wasps, and how frighteningly ugly their appearance is. If the spiritual sight of an ordinary person, who had not been prepared by a long monastic feat, were suddenly opened, he would immediately go mad. Thus spoke Saint Anthony.

We know from experience that all those to whom any supernatural, i.e., supersensible, vision is revealed must suffer from it.

In the history of the human race there have been many true prophets and true seers, but all of them are against Christ as servants against master, or disciples against teacher. Never since the beginning of the world has such a seer, clairvoyant, seer and prophet walked on the poor earth as the Messiah of the world, the Lord Jesus Christ. He clearly saw the drama of the world in the past from the beginning of time; he saw everything that was happening at the present time among people and in people, and he foresaw what would still happen before the end of the great world drama. Both in small and in great. And he possessed mental and nervous powers, superhuman powers, to see all this and calmly endure and discreetly reveal it to people.

Calling the fishermen to Him as His first disciples, He said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men."

He said this in the early days, at the beginning of His Messianic ministry in the world. And this eventually came true completely. His apostles became fishers of men, catching them in the net of the truth of the kingdom of heaven, just as they had once fished in their fishermen's nets on the lake.

Nathanael, when he first met Jesus, was greatly frightened by His words: "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you; was so greatly frightened by the sagacity of Him Whom he had just denied before Philip, that he exclaimed: Rabbi! You are the Son of God, you are the King of Israel.

Jesus sees a man's thoughts, knows what a man thinks in his heart. When He performed one of the miracles, some of the scribes said to themselves, "He blasphemes." And Jesus, seeing their thoughts, said, Why do you think evil in your hearts?

And again, on another occasion, when the Jewish Pharisees thought of Him that He cast out demons with the help of a demon, Jesus, knowing their thoughts, began to answer their thoughts with words (Matt. 12:25).

The Evangelist John wrote down the following testimony about Jesus: "He had no need for anyone to bear witness to man, for He Himself knew what was in man" (John 2:25).