Sunday, May 12, 2013

Divine Will, true Mother

On this day where we recognize Mothers and all they do I had thought that I might post something on the Virgin Mary but in pouring through the Volumes I found that even before Mary's motherhood the first recognition must go to the Divine Will.  In order to begin to understand the important role of a mother Jesus gives an example of what a creature is like without a mother and what would become of them if separated from her.


“Beyond this you should know that the soul without my Divine Will is like a flower gathered from the plant. Poor flower! They have taken away (it’s) life because it is not tied to the root anymore, and detached it does not receive the vital humors(,) that as blood circulated and maintained it alive, fresh, beautiful, fragrant, because it has lost the root that as mother loved it, fed it and held it pressed to its bosom. And while the root remains under earth as buried alive in order to give life to the flowers, its children, and to make them beautiful in appearance, so much so as to attract the human attention with its sweet enchantment(,) but as [the flower] becomes gathered from the plant(,) as if it might have lost the mother(,) it seems that it becomes melancholy, loses its freshness and finishes by withering.
“Such is the soul without my Divine Will. She has been detached from the divine root that more than mother loved her, fed her; and while [the Divine Will] lives as buried, he lives in all her acts and in the depth of her soul in order to administer the divine humors, that as blood circulates in all hers acts in order to maintain her fresh, beautiful, perfumed by his divine virtues, as to form the most beautiful and sweet enchantment to the earth and all heaven. Hence as [the soul] becomes detached from my Divine Will she loses her true Mama, who guarded her with so many maternal cares, held her pressed to his bosom, defended her from everyone and from everything, and she finishes with disfiguring herself and withering to all that which is good, and [souls] arrive to feel the sad melancholy because they live without He who has generated them, without life, the caresses of their Mama, so that they can be called poor abandoned little orphans without guardianship, and maybe in the hand of enemies and tyrannized by the passions in themselves. Oh, if the root might have reason, how many excruciating cries of sorrow wouldn’t it emit in seeing the life of its flowers torn away, and that they have constrained it as a sterile mother to remain without the crown of its children! But if the plant doesn’t cry, my Will cries in seeing so many of his children orphans, but voluntarily orphaned, who feel all the sufferings of being orphaned, while their Mother lives and does none other than to lament and to call the crown of his children around himself.”
Vol. 30, Nov. 9, 1931


So even though the Divine Will may go as unseen he acts as more than a mother to creatures and it is only through this mother that the creature receives life, is fed, made beautiful and as perfumed, guarded and preserved.  This is the example of what a creature loses by withdrawing from the Divine Will to rely upon it's own.  But where a plant or an earthly  mother might not have the power to do more than mourn her loss the Divine Will has the power to act, save, redeem and restore her child.



“My daughter, so much is my love toward one who lives in my Volition, that I do, as a mama, that might have her child crippled and that might hold (the) power to give to her child the rarest beauty; the mother extends herself over him, warms him with her heat, and by way of kisses and embraces re-gives to the child the use of (his) members, makes him beautiful; and watching him she feels happy, as fruit of her maternal love; but the mama doesn’t hold this power, and therefore she will be always unhappy with her child.
 “But that which the Mother doesn’t hold (the power of) I myself hold it; my love is so much that, as one enters into my Will, I extend myself over her I warm her with my love in order to call her to new life, I kiss her, re-kiss her, I tie her to my heart in order to remove from her whatever evil that might be able to overshadow her and re-move (in) her the freshness and divine beauty; then I blow (on) her, I send my regenerative breath to her in order to generate her to new life and to give back to her the rarest beauty.  I am not yet content, I form the throne of all my works and put there upon it my Volition as king on his throne, reigning and dominant in this creature; I can say:  ‘What else could I do and didn’t I do?  Could I maybe love you more and have I not loved you?’
Vol. 36, July 6, 1938



The lengths to which this Divine Will goes and the depth of his love to accomplish all and restore all are beyond human comprehension.  Where a mother might tour the whole world Jesus states the Divine Will tours not only all the world but all centuries to put forth what remedies are needed.  But what are these remedies?  He states that they are the manifest knowledges on his Divine Will that will bring about the healing of all his children.




“My daughter, my Will is the gatherer of all his works. In his light he hides everything, with his light he defends them and puts in safety all his works. How much doesn’t this light do in order to put the creature in safety, the most beautiful work of our creative hands, and in order to make her return beautiful, specious as we brought her forth? He gathers you in his womb of light and casts there so much light above in order to make all the evil disappear. If she is blind, by way of light he gives her sight; if she is mute, by way of light he wants to give her the word. The light takes her from all sides, and gives her hearing if she is deaf; if lame, he straightens her; if ugly, by way of light he makes her beautiful. A mother doesn’t do as much as my Divine Will does in order to make his creature beautiful and restored; his weapons are of light, because there is no power that the light doesn’t hide and good that it doesn’t possess. What wouldn’t a mother do that having given to the light a beautiful child that enraptured her with his beauty, and the mother felt happy in the beauty of the child. But a misfortune strikes him and he becomes blind, mute, deaf, lame; poor mother, she looks at her child and doesn’t recognize him anymore. The dulled eye that looks no more, his silver voice that made her start with joy in feeling herself called mama, she listens to it no more; his little feet that raced in order to put themselves in her womb, with difficultly are dragged along. This child is the most transfixing sorrow for a poor mother; and what wouldn’t she do if she might know that her child might be able to return anew to his first features? She would turn the whole world if she might be able to obtain this and it would be sweet for her to put forth her own life, provided that she might be able see her child beautiful as she gave him forth to the light. But poor mother, it isn’t in her power to be able to restitute the first beauty to her dear child. And it will always be her sorrow and the thorn most transfixing for her maternal heart.
“Such has become the creature with doing her will: blind, mute, lame; our Will laments with tears of ardent light of our love, but that which the mother can not do for her crippled child, my Divine Will does not lack the power (to do). He more than mother will put at (her) disposition his capitals of light, which possess the virtue to restitute all the goods and beauty of the creature. He, tender Mother, lover and vigilant of the work of his hands, that more than dearest child he brought forth to the light, he will turn not all the world, but all the centuries, in order to prepare and give the powerful remedies of light, that revive, transform, straighten and embellish; and then he will stop when he will see (her) in his maternal womb, beautiful as she went forth, the work of his creative hands, in order to remake her from the so many sorrows and to enjoy himself with her forever.
“Are not perhaps the so many knowledges on my Will remedies? Every manifestation and word that I say is a fortitude that I put around the weakness of the human will, it is a food that I prepare, it is a bait, a taste, a light in order to make her reacquire the lost sight. Therefore be attentive and do not lose anything of that which my Will manifests to you, because in his time all will be served, nothing will be lost. Do you believe that He doesn’t hold account even of one single word of that which he says? All numbered and nothing lost; and if in your soul he has formed his chair/seat in order to deposit his truths, however the primary chair\seat holds it reserved in itself as the greatest treasure that belongs to him, in a way that if you disperse some word or manifestation that belongs to him, already the original is conserved in oneself, because that which regards my Divine Will is of infinite value and the infinite can not be nor is it subject to disperse; rather jealous he conserves his truths in the divine archives. Therefore you also learn to be jealous and vigilant and to appreciate his holy lessons.”
Vol. 30, Jan. 12, 1932



But he has need of the cooperation of the creature in order to accomplish this.  Each act done in the Divine Will is a Divine life that he has held within himself as a birth waiting to come forth only lacking the safe place, the correspondence of a creature who recognizes the value and calls his Divine Will to reign in her.



“My Will is as a tender mother, that feels in himself the long generation of his lives, that he wants to go forth to the light, in order to form the long generation of his children, that should form his kingdom, and therefore he goes finding one who lends her acts to him, but do you know why he goes finding the acts of the creature?  Having to descend in the depths of the human acts, in order to form his life, he wants to make himself through means of them a way in order to give his same life to creatures, more so that life can not be formed outside of persons, but always within, otherwise it would lack the necessary things, the vital humors, in order to form a life.  Thus my Will can not form his life from Heaven, nor outside of the creature, but must descend inside of them, and the human will must surrender the place to the Divine, must be concurrent, because we don’t want forced things.  And when we have found her, who can tell you that which we do?  the graces that we pour forth, the good that we want, it doesn’t deal with works but our life that we must raise, hence we don’t spare anything and one will know that which we have done only in Heaven.  Therefore be attentive and live always under the rain of my Volition, thus investing all your acts he animates them with his life, and thus you will give me so many children for how many acts you will do.”
Vol. 34, March 14, 1937



In this way we also become mothers, and brothers, and sisters of Jesus.


21 But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.” Luke 8:21

35 Whoever does the will of God is my brother, and sister, and mother.” Mark 3:35

Happy Mother's Day

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