In a message given to Luz de Maria Jesus says that part of the strategy of evil is to cause man to fear to cast aside his rags. I heard this interpreted as referring to the face masks which have been mandated and the distancing from one another for fear of spreading disease. Truly this may be so but I also believe that there is another meaning to this message which has a deeper more profound level as is often the case with God.
This is the strategy of evil, expressed by those who represent the Antichrist, who is sending you the winds of his presence on Earth. He is spreading the fear of fraternal encounter during this time of walking towards the culmination of the fulfilment of the Mission that My Father entrusted to Me for the Redemption of the human race: fear so that My People would not leave behind the disgusting rags with which they are laden and which they flaunt.
Luz de Maria – You Are So Close to the Events
In messages given to Luisa Piccarreta, Mary refers to the rags of one's human will as being the cause of fears and doubts. Jesus confirms that fears and doubts can not come from the Divine Will but only from the human will referring to them as miserable rags.
Now, my child, listen to your Mama. Oh! how my Heart grieves in seeing you weak, poor; nor do you have the true dominion of dominating yourself. Fears, doubts, apprehensions, are the things that dominate you – all miserable rags of your human will. But do you know why? Because the life of the Divine Will, intact, is missing in you, which, putting to flight all the evils of the human will, may render you happy and fill you with all the goods It possesses.
The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will, Day Three, The Third Step of the Divine Will in the Queen of Heaven.
I was feeling oppressed, and a thought wanted to disturb the serenity of my mind: ‘And if you found yourself at the point of death, and doubts and fears came to you about the way you conducted yourself during your life, to the point of making you doubt about your salvation – what would you do?’ But as I was thinking about this, my sweet Jesus gave me no time to reflect any further, or to answer my thought. Moving in my interior, He made Himself seen shaking His head; and as though saddened by my thought, He told me: “My daughter, what are you saying? To think about this is an affront to my Will. Neither fears, nor doubts, nor any danger at all, can enter into It. These are things which do not belong to It; rather, they are the miserable rags of the human will. My Will is like a placid sea that murmurs peace, happiness, safety, certainty; and the waves It releases from Its bosom are waves of joys and of contentments without end. Therefore, in seeing you think about this, I was shaken. My Will is not capable of fears, of doubts, of danger, and the soul who lives in It becomes estranged to the miserable rags of the human will. And besides, what could my Will fear? Who can ever raise doubts about Its operating, if before the Sanctity of my operating Will all tremble and are forced to lower their foreheads, adoring the operating of my Will?
Vol. 17, June 29, 1925
Jesus states that anything that comes from the human will is tattered and can only bring dishonor to the soul and is an insult before the Divine Will. God wants to endow the creature with all of his riches in his Divine Will but she must lay down all her rags and wash herself first. This is the truth of "blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven," Matt 5:3 for only by recognizing our poverty can we lay down our rags and be filled with God's kingdom.
I was all concerned, with the addition that I saw myself as so bad that only Jesus can know the miserable state of my soul. And my sweet Jesus, all goodness, told me:
“My daughter, why do you oppress yourself? Do you know how one’s own things are in my Will? They are like many miserable rags and tatters, which give more dishonor than honor to the soul, and remind her that she used to be a poor one, and possessed not even one garment that was whole. When I want to call a soul into my Will, that she may establish her dwelling in It, I act like a great lord who would want to take one of the poorest women into his palace, so that, laying down her clothes as a poor one, she may be clothed according to his condition, living together with him, and sharing in all of his goods. Now, this lord goes around all the streets of the city, and as he finds one of the poorest women, homeless, without a bed, covered only with filthy rags, he takes her and brings her to his palace as triumph of his charity. However, he orders her to lay down her rags, to clean herself and to clothe herself with the most beautiful garments; and in order to keep no memory of her poverty, to burn her rags. In fact, since he is extremely rich, he does not admit anything into his house which gives of poverty. Now, if the poor one sadly misses her rags, and afflicts herself because she has brought nothing of her own, would she not offend the goodness, the magnanimity of that lord?
“So I am; and if that lord goes around one city, I go around the whole world, and maybe all generations; and wherever I find the littlest, the poorest one, I take her and place her in the eternal sphere of my Volition, saying to her: ‘Work together with Me in my Will. What is mine is yours. If you have something of your own - lay it down, because in the sanctity and in the immense riches of my Will, it is nothing but miserable rags.
“Wanting to have one’s own merits is of servants, of slaves - not of sons and daughters. What belongs to the father, belongs to his children. Besides, what are all the merits that you could acquire compared to one single act of my Will? All merits have their own little value, weight and measure, but who could ever measure one single act of my Will? No one - no one. And then, what are your merits compared to mine? In my Will you will find them all, and I make of you the owner. Aren’t you happy?
Vol. 13, January 20, 1922
More than just being clothed in miserable rags, doing one's own will causes one to not only loose the likeness of God but the creature even acquires a diabolical likeness instead.
I comprehended with such clarity what an act of human will means, compared to an act of Divine Will, and how the soul, by doing her own will, loses the physiognomy of her Creator; and stripping herself of the beauty with which she was created, she clothes herself with miserable rags, she barely drags herself in good, she acquires the diabolical likeness, she feeds herself with dirty foods. My Jesus, give us all the grace never to do our own will, which is like calling all passions back to life.
Vol. 18, February 11, 1926
It is like a king who abandons all his riches to live in squalor or what I believe is even worse living of the human will causes one to grow without the likeness of God instead reinforcing the reflections of themselves.
...one who lives of human will is always turned toward herself, and by her looking at herself, the human will keeps uncovering for her what is human, and places her in the reflections of what exists in the low world, in such a way that it can be said that she lives of earth and grows without the likeness of the One who created her. There is such difference between one and the other, that if creatures could see it, all would love and yearn to live in my Fiat, and they would abhor living of human will, and would hold it as the greatest misfortune, which makes them lose the purpose and the origin for which they were created. It would happen as to a king who lays down his crown, his royal garments, descends from his throne, and clothes himself with dirty rags, feeds himself with filthy foods and lives in a stable together with the beasts of his passions. Would the lot of this one not to be cried over? Such is the one who lets himself be dominated his human will.”
Vol. 27, February 6, 1930
And again Jesus states that first a creature must lay down her rags, be purified, sanctified, and embellished before admitting her into his Volition, to restore the Divine likeness in her in order to live with her and in her.
“Now, you must know that we love the creature a great deal, but in spite that we love her we don’t tolerate that she be together with us indecent, dirty, without beauty, nude, or else covered with miserable rags, it would not be worthy of our Supreme Majesty to have children that don’t resemble us and that in some way are dressed well, with the regal attire of our Fiat. It would be like a king that holds his army and his subjects poorly dressed, covered with filth to make one disgust to look at them, some blind, some lame, some deformed; would it not be (a) dishonor to this king to be surrounded by an army of miserable ones to make one pity? Would not one condemn the king who did not take care to form an army worthy of him, in a way that everyone should admire not only to look at the majesty of the king, but also the order, the beauty of the army, the flowering of the young people, the way how they are dressed? Would it not be (an) honor of the king to be surrounded by ministers, by (an) army that one takes pleasure in looking at them?
“Now our invincible love, with infinite wisdom, wanting to deal with the creature face to face, has disposed to give my Will to her, so that with his light he embellishes them, with his love he dresses them, with his sanctity he sanctifies them. You see, therefore, how necessary it is that our Will reign in the creature, because he alone holds (the) power of purifying her and embellishing her, in a way as to form our divine army; and we will feel honored in living with them, and in them; they will be our children who surround us dressed with our regal attire, embellished with our likeness.
“Therefore our Will first purifies, sanctifies, embellishes and then he admits them into our Volition to have life together with us. More so that, as the creature enters into our Volition so much is our love, that our divine being rains on her his rain of love, and in seeing her so very loved by us everyone races around her: angels, saints, in order to love her. The creation itself exults with joy in seeing our Will triumphant in that creature and rains love on her. And oh, how beautiful it is to see, that everyone loves her! And she feels so thankful in seeing herself loved by everyone, that she loves everyone.”
Vol 36, December 28, 1938
Jesus' true aim in the Redemption was always the rejoining from the split between the human will and the Divine and then repairing and healing the effects of the offenses themselves. Jesus allowed himself to be stripped of his own garments and even of his skin to repair for original sin where man stripped himself of his royal garments to clothe himself in the miserable rags of his human will. He lost the enchantment which allowed him to look at nothing but his God and turned his focus to himself. Jesus poured out enough blood in this scourging in order to wash man, warm him and clothe him in the new garment of His own blood to dispose him to receive again the royal garment of the Divine Will.
And my lovable Jesus, coming out of my interior in the state He was in when He was scourged, told me: “My daughter, do you want to know why I was stripped when I was scourged? In each mystery of my Passion, first I occupied Myself with joining the split between the human will and the Divine, and then with the offenses which this split produced. When man, in Eden, broke the bonds of the union between the Supreme Will and his will, he stripped himself of the royal garments of my Will, and clothed himself with the miserable rags of his will – weak, inconstant, impotent to doing anything good. My Will was a sweet enchantment for him, which kept him absorbed within a most pure light, which made him know nothing but His God, from whom he had come, and who gave him nothing but innumerable happinesses. And he was so absorbed within the so much giving of his God to him, that he would give not a thought to himself. Oh! how happy man was, and how the Divinity delighted in giving him so many particles of His Being for as many as the creature can receive, in order to make him similar to Himself. So, as soon as he broke the union of Our Will with his, he lost the royal garment, he lost the enchantment, the light, the happiness. He looked at himself without the light of my Will, and in looking at himself without the enchantment which kept him absorbed, he came to know himself, he felt ashamed, he became afraid of God; so much so, that his very nature felt the sad effects of this: he felt the cold and his nakedness, and felt the vital need to cover himself. Just as Our Will kept him within the port of immense happinesses, so did his will put him in the port of miseries. Our Will was everything for man, and in It he found everything. It was right that, having come out of Us and living in Our Will as Our tender child, he would live of It; and this Will was to make up for everything he needed. Therefore, as he wanted to live of his own will, he became needy of everything, because the human will does not have the power to make up for all needs, nor does it contain the fount of good within itself. So, he was forced to procure for himself, with hardship, the necessary things of life. Do you see, then, what it means not to be united with my Will? Oh! if all knew It, they would have one yearning alone: that my Will come to reign upon earth. So, had Adam not withdrawn from the Divine Will, his nature also would have had no need of clothing; he would not have felt ashamed of his nakedness, nor would he have been subject to suffering cold, heat, hunger, weakness. But these natural things were almost nothing; rather, they were symbols of the great good which his soul had lost.
Therefore, my daughter, before being tied to the pillar to be scourged, I wanted to be stripped in order to suffer and repair for the nakedness of man when he stripped himself of the royal garment of my Will. I felt such confusion and pain within Me in seeing Myself stripped in the midst of enemies who were mocking Me, that I cried over the nakedness of man and I offered my nakedness to my Celestial Father, so that man might be clothed once again with the royal garment of my Will. And as ransom, so that this would not be denied to Me, I offered my blood, my flesh torn to shreds, and I let Myself be stripped not only of my garments, but also of my skin, to be able to pay the price and satisfy for the crime of this nakedness of man. I poured out so much blood in this mystery, that in no other did I pour so much – so much as to be enough to cover him with a second garment, a garment of blood, so as to cover him again, and then warm him and wash him, to dispose him to receive the royal garment of my Will.”
Vol. 16, January 14, 1924
In the message to Luz Jesus states that people are in fear of leaving behind the disgusting rags with which they are laden. I believe that the deeper meaning of this is man's fear to leave behind the rags of his human will, the rags of his needing to be in control, the rags of his needing to understand and of his pride in needing to be seen and acknowledged for his efforts.
fear so that My People would not leave behind the disgusting rags with which they are laden and which they flaunt.
Luz de Maria – You Are So Close to the Events
In Eden we cast aside the royal garments of the Divine Will to live with the sad effects of the rags of the human will casting aside the likeness with our God as well. Although I do believe that we must stand up against the schemes of the devil we must also accept all things as either coming from the active or permissive Will of God. It seems to me that in losing the likeness of our Creator it is a just consequence/chastisement that we would now cover our our faces and lose our own likenesses behind ridiculous cloth masks. All things can be used to repair the breech and we can use this too, joined to Jesus' Reparations especially in his strippings and the scourging to repair for the lose of the royal garments of the Divine Will and to restore the Kingdom of His Divine Will.
