Flower of Devotion

Venerable Mary of Jesus describes in her and in her apparitions the commission of original sin as follows:

The state of happiness in which God created the first parents of the human race lasted only a short time, for the jealousy of the serpent of hell was awakened against them, and he awaited their creation with intense curiosity.
Lucifer saw miraculous and all other creatures surpassing the creation of human nature, as well as the beauty of Adam and Eve in soul and body. When he saw with what fatherly goodness the Lord looked upon them, and how he had exalted them to be lords and rulers of all creation, and that he had promised them eternal life, he was inflamed with a fierce wrath such as he had never burned before. No tongue could describe the anger with which the dragon arose; his jealousy moved him to kill them, and he would have done so as a ravenous lion, had not the power of God hindered him. He pondered and pondered the means by which he could deprive them of the grace of the Most High and incite them against God.
In a short time, he learned about God’s commandments to his first parents; he could hear Adam and Eve talking. Now he began to eavesdrop on their conversations, to spy on their faculties, to circle them like a hungry lion,
and to enter their souls through the tendencies he had discovered in each of them.
Now accosting them with the commandments that Adam and Eve had received, Lucifer began to tempt them. In doing so, he used the well-known alluring lie as a weapon and began to resist and act against God’s will with all his might. But he did not turn first to the man, but to the woman, for he saw that her nature was more delicate and weaker. So he took upon himself the form of a serpent, and in that form he spoke to Eve. Eve also allowed him to speak with her. She should not have done this, for from listening to his words and giving him answers, she had come to believe him. She transgressed the commandment herself, and finally persuaded her husband to do the same to own misfortune and to the misfortune of all men, so that our first parents lost for themselves and for us the happy state in which they were when the Most High created them.