In the Shadow of the Almighty

Psalm 91

You who live in the shelter of the Most High,

who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,

will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress;

my God, in whom I trust.”

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler

and from the deadly pestilence;

he will cover you with his pinions,

and under his wings you will find refuge;

his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.

You will not fear the terror of the night,

or the arrow that flies by day,

or the pestilence that stalks in darkness,

or the destruction that wastes at noonday.

A thousand may fall at your side,

ten thousand at your right hand,

but it will not come near you.

You will only look with your eyes

and see the punishment of the wicked.

Because you have made the Lord your refuge,

the Most High your dwelling place,

no evil shall befall you,

no scourge come near your tent.

For he will command his angels concerning you

to guard you in all your ways.

On their hands they will bear you up,

so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.

You will tread on the lion and the adder,

the young lion and the serpent you will trample under foot.

Those who love me, I will deliver;

I will protect those who know my name.

When they call to me, I will answer them;

I will be with them in trouble,

I will rescue them and honor them.

With long life I will satisfy them,

and show them my salvation.

In the Bible, specifically in the Psalms, there are several mentions of being under the shadow of God.  In the Volumes there are also these types of references.  In one reading I had been telling God that I really didn't understand the idea of the shadow that Luisa talks about in Vol. 16, March 22, 1924.  I told Him that I'd do my best at the round, but I didn't get the part about the shadow.

Finally, after long struggling, I found myself inside myself, in my bed; and my sweet Jesus, who continued to moan because He was suffering very much, stretching out His arms to me, told me:  “My daughter, give Me a little rest for I can take no more.”  And leaning His head upon my breast, He seemed to want to sleep.  But His sleep was not a peaceful one; and I, not knowing what to do, remembered about His Most Holy Will, in which there is full rest, and said to Him:  ‘My Love, I lay my intelligence in your Will in order to find your uncreated intelligence, so that, by laying mine within yours, I may shade all created intelligences, in such a way that You may feel your shadow placed before all created minds, and You may find rest for the sanctity of your intelligence.  I lay my word in your Fiat, in order to place the shadow of that omnipotent Fiat before the human voices, so that your breath and your mouth may be able to rest.  I lay my works in yours, to place the shadow and the sanctity of your works before the works of creatures, so as to give rest to your hands.  I lay my little love in your Will, to place You in the shade of your immense love, which I place before the hearts of all, to give rest to your weary Heart.’  As I kept saying this, my Jesus calmed Himself and fell into a sweet sleep.  Then, after some time, He woke up, but He was calm, and pressing me to Himself, He told me:  “My daughter, I was able to rest because you surrounded Me with the shadows of my works, of my Fiat and of my love.  This is the rest I spoke about after I created all things.  And since man was the last to be created, I wanted to rest in him – that is, by virtue of my Will acting in him, which formed my shadow in him, I was to find my rest and the fulfillment of my works.  But this was denied to Me, because he did not want to do my Will; and until I find someone who wants to live of my Will, which overshadows my image in the soul, not finding my shadow, I cannot rest, because I cannot complete my works and give the last divine brush stroke to all Creation.  This is why the earth needs to be purged and renewed – but with strong purges, such that many will lose their lives.  And you, have patience, and always follow my Will.

Vol. 16, March 22, 1924

So I did understand the general idea that the union of the Divine Will in the creature is the completion of his work, the seventh day where He finds His rest, but it really seemed like I was missing something big.  At mass the next day there was the gospel of Luke 1: 26-38.  It was this line that caught my attention mainly after reading a meditation on it in my daily missal.

And the angel said to her in reply,

"The Holy Spirit will come upon you,

and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.

Therefore the child to be born

will be called holy, the Son of God.

I've never given that line much thought before other than the face value of it.   In the meditation however instead of using the word overshadow it used the phase "...the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow..." what a difference a turn of the phrase makes!  It seemed to me that God was telling me that the shadow that Luisa speaks of in this round is the same shadow that overshadowed Mary.  The power of the Holy Spirit, the active Volition, the same Spirit which overshadowed Mary bringing about the Incarnation now reaching out through all creatures in the round of Luisa uniting all acts in the Divine Will, making them complete in this union and giving Jesus the rest He so craves.  The Incarnation of Jesus is from the mutual Fiat of Mary and God formed in the Divine Will and in the round of Luisa it is once again the mutual Fiat which joins the Divine with the human, causing the incarnation of a new Divine Life in each act completing the act as God wants, the seventh day of Creation where God takes His rest as His work is now complete.

In the Volumes it states that before the fall, Adam lived under the continuous Divine Paternity that overshadowed him, loving him from all sides.  He lived in a continuous state of love and rest in his Creator and I dare say God rested in the love of His creature as well.

..one who enters in Him, finds in act all that which innocent Adam did in Him, his love, his tenderness of son toward his Celestial Father, the Divine Paternity that overshadowed his son from all sides in order to love him,

Vol. 32, October 30, 1933

Luisa, when she became overwhelmed, was also given rest by Jesus in the shadow of the Divine Will, the breath of His Volition.

He placed His hand on my forehead and added:   “I leave you the shadow of my Will, the breath of my Volition.  Sleep.”

And I fell asleep.

Vol. 12, May 23, 1918

He came more than once, and I seemed to see Him as a Child, as though surrounded by a shadow.  He said to me:  “My daughter, don’t you feel the freshness of my shadow?  Rest in it, for you will find refreshment.”  And it seemed that we rested together in His shadow, and I felt all reinvigorated being close to Him.

Vol. 6, July 31, 1904

So the shadow of God is rest for the soul but the earthly shadow of the creature is our attachments, our human will that blocks the action of the Divine shadow.  God wants to overshadow all creatures in order to communicate all of Himself to them but because of sin most reject Him, blocking Him from doing any good.

one day He said to me:  “Everything that is of the earth, everything – everything you must remove, not only from your heart, but also from your body.  You cannot understand how harmful are the slightest earthly shadows, and how much they hinder love.”  Immediately I said to Him:  ‘If I have something else that must be removed, tell me, for I am ready to do it.’  But as I was saying this, I myself realized that I had a gold ring on my finger, portraying the image of the Crucifix; and immediately I said to Him:  ‘Holy Spouse, do you want me to take it off?’  And He told me:  “Since I Myself will give you a more precious, more beautiful ring, which will have my living image impressed on it, and every time you will look at it your heart will receive new arrows of love - this one is not necessary.”  And I promptly removed it.

Vol. 1, Last preparations and the Mystical Marriage.

“My daughter, I send pains to creatures, so that in the pains they may find Me.   I am as though wrapped within the pains, and if the soul suffers with patience, with love, she tears the wrapping that covers Me and finds Me.   Otherwise, I remain hidden in the pain, and she will not have the good of finding Me, and I will not have the good of revealing Myself.”

Then He added:  “I feel an irresistible force to spread Myself toward the creatures.   I would like to spread my beauty to make them all beautiful; but the creature, dirtying herself with sin, rejects the divine beauty and covers herself with ugliness.  I would like to spread my love, but, loving what is not mine, they live numb with cold, and my love is rejected.  I would like to communicate all of Myself to man, overshadow him completely within my own qualities, but I am rejected; and in rejecting Me, he forms a wall of division between Me and him, to the point of breaking any communication between creature and Creator.  But in spite of this, I continue to spread Myself - I do not withdraw, in order to find at least someone who would receive my qualities.  And if I find him, I double my graces for him - I increase them a hundredfold; I pour all of Myself into him, to the point of making of him a portent of grace.

Vol. 12, April 16, 1918

Knowledge of self is key to breaking down the walls that separate the creature from the Creator.  When someone acknowledges their nothingness they can then reach for the infinite power of the Divine Will.  The more the creature empties herself the more the Divine can fill her.

...not your will but mine alone must be in you.  It must be there and rule as a king in his royal palace.  Otherwise, the disagreements of an unsatisfactory love will make themselves heard at once, from which dark shadows will appear, giving rise in you to those discords and that dissimilarity of actions unacceptable to the mutual nobility which absolutely must reign between you, my spouse, and me.  This nobility will reign in you if, from time to time, you try to enter your nothingness, that is, if you come to the perfect knowledge of yourself – but not to remain there.  Once you have known your nothingness, without delay you must do everything in your power to enter into the infinite power of my Will.  From there you will draw all the graces you need in order to raise yourself up into me and do everything with me, with no regard to yourself; for I want you to completely disappear in me.”

Vol. 1, Jesus gives four rules of life to the soul.

The more the soul is empty and humble, the more the divine light fills her and communicates its graces and perfections to her.

As I was in my usual state, I saw little Baby Jesus with a fistful of light in His hand, and rays flowing out through His fingers.  I remained enchanted, and He told me:  “My daughter, perfection is light, and one who says he wants to reach it acts just like one who would want to clasp a body of light in his hand:  as he tries to clasp it, the light itself flows out through his fingers; except, his hand remains immersed in that light.  Now, the light is God, and God alone is perfect, and the soul who wants to be perfect does nothing but seize shadows - the little drops of God; and sometimes she does nothing but live in the light alone, that is, in the Truth.  And just as the light penetrates deeper and occupies more space the greater the void it finds, and the deeper the place is - in the same way, the more the soul is empty and humble, the more the divine light fills her and communicates Its graces and perfections to her.”

Vol. 6, December 22, 1904

This Divine shadow not only can fill us but keeps us with Him to penetrate everywhere  and everything  concealed within Himself so that we are not only filled on the inside but in Him we embrace everything, everywhere, in all time.

in one instant, He made Himself seen all of a sudden, and told me:  “I keep you in the shadow of my Charity; and since a shadow penetrates everywhere, my love keeps you concealed everywhere and in everything.  What do you fear then?  How can I leave you while I keep you so sunken within my love?”  While Jesus was saying this, I wanted to ask Him why He was not making Himself seen as usual, but Jesus disappeared from me immediately, and did not give me the time to tell Him even one word.  Oh God, what pain!

Vol. 2, April 5, 1899

Don’t you feel Me within you?  Don’t you hear the echo of my prayer in your interior, as I embrace everything, letting no one escape Me, since all things and all generations are like one single point for Me, and for all do I pray, love, adore and repair?  And you, echoing my prayer, feel as if you were holding everyone and everything in your power, and you repeat what I do.  Is it perhaps you who does this, or your capacity?  Ah! no, no - it is I present in you; it is my Will that makes you hold everyone and everything as though in your power, and follows Its course within your soul.

Vol. 17, April 26, 1925

Although being in the shadow of Jesus' love allows one to go anywhere and penetrate everything if there is even the shadow of an earthly attachment it prevents the soul from entering His Heart.  Only complete unity can allow us to rest in Him and He in us.

“My daughter, what will happen to so many works, even good, done without purity of intention, out of habit and self-interest?   What shame will not fall upon them on the Day of Judgment, in seeing so many works, good in themselves, but made rotten by their intention, such that, their very actions, instead of rendering honor to them, as they would to many others, will give them shame?   In fact, I do not look at the greatness of the works, but at the intention with which they are done.  Here is all my attention.”

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Then Jesus continued, saying to me:  “Yet, it is so.  See, my Heart is so very large, but the door is very narrow.  No one can fill the void of this Heart but souls who are detached, naked and simple.  In fact, as you see, since the door is small, any hindrance, even the slightest – that is, a shadow of attachment, an intention which is not upright, a work done without the purpose of pleasing Me – prevents them from entering to delight in my Heart.   Much love of neighbor enters my Heart, but it must be so united to mine as to form one single love, in such a way that one cannot be distinguished from the other.  But as for the other love of neighbor which is not transformed into my love – I do not look at it as something that belongs to Me.”

Vol. 2, May 7, 1899

We can not come to truly know ourselves on our own.  The grace to know oneself is given by God and thereby the soul comes into a greater knowledge of both herself and also God.  By truly knowing that we are nothing we realize that we are also totally dependent on God for everything.  Then we can let go of any attachments that we might have to ourselves.  We have no abilities outside of God and without His light even the shadow of our very being would disappear.

my most sweet Jesus wanted to let me touch my nothingness with my own hands.  In the act in which He made Himself seen, the first words with which He addressed me were:  “Who am I, and who are you?”  In these two words I saw two immense lights:  in one I comprehended God, in the other I saw my misery, my nothingness.   I saw I was nothing but a shadow, just like the shadow formed by the sun in illuminating the earth:   it is dependent on the sun, and as the sun moves from it to other places, the shadow ceases to exist outside of its splendor.  The same for my shadow – that is, my being: it is dependent on the mystical Sun, God, who can dissolve this shadow in one simple instant.  What to say, then, about how I have deformed this shadow which the Lord has given me, which is not even my own?  The mere thought of it was horrifying; it was stinking, putrid, all full of worms.  Yet, in such a horrifying state I was forced to stand before a God so holy.  Oh, how content I would have been, had I been allowed to hide in the darkest abysses!

After this, Jesus told me:  “The greatest favor I can do for a soul, is to make her know herself.  The knowledge of self and the knowledge of God go together; the more you know yourself, the more you know God.  When the soul has known herself, as she sees that she can do nothing good by herself, her shadow, her being, transforms her in God, and it happens that she does all of her operations in God.  It happens that the soul is in God and walks beside Him, without looking, without investigating, without speaking – in a word, as if she were dead.  In fact, knowing the depth of her nothingness, she dares to do nothing by herself, but she blindly follows the trajectory of the operations of God.”

Vol. 2, June 2, 1899

Jesus uses the cross to reveal to the soul all it's imperfections and defects which makes her turn her gaze more and more to God and less upon herself.  He says that tribulations are necessary in order to keep the soul who would live in His shadow from being infected with earthly things.

Then He turned to me and told me:  “The cross communicates such splendor to the soul as to render her transparent.  Just as one can give all the colors he wants to an object which is transparent, in the same way, with its light the cross provides all features and the most beautiful shapes that can possibly be imagined, not only by others, but by the very soul who experiences them.  Furthermore, on a transparent object one can immediately detect dust, little stains, and even a shadow.  Such is the cross: since it renders the soul transparent, it immediately reveals to the soul the little defects, and the slightest imperfections, so much so, that there is no hand of master more capable than the cross in keeping the soul prepared, to make of her a residence worthy of the God of Heaven.”

Vol. 2, July 22, 1899

Tribulations are necessary for one who lives in the shadow of Jesus. (... to keep infectious air away.)

As I was all oppressed, I saw my adorable Jesus for just a little, and looking at me, He told me:  “My daughter, for one who lives in my shadow it is necessary that the winds of tribulations blow, so that the infectious air around her may not be able to penetrate into her, even under my shadow.   So, by always agitating this unhealthy air, the continuous winds keep it always far away, and make flow a most pure and salutary air.”   Having said this, He disappeared, and I comprehended many things about this, but it is not necessary to explain myself because I believe it is easy to comprehend the meaning.

Vol. 4, December 29, 1901

Only in those who live in the sanctity of the Divine Will does God see the shadow of His own sanctity.  Those who give without clamor, without notice, give to everyone without prejudice, give with no attachments to things of the earth or other creatures but live wholly supported by God alone.  They give with the power of His own Will demonstrating His attributes.  This is the sanctity of sanctities and is the closest to God.  He refers to it as a shadow of Himself.

“Now, the Sanctity in my Will will be symbolized by the sun.  The sun has always been, and will always be; and even though it had a beginning in illuminating the world, since it is light which takes origin from my Eternal Light, one can say that it has no beginning.  The sun does good to all; it extends to all with its light; it makes no exception with anyone.  With its majesty and dominion, it rules over all and gives life to all, even to the tiniest flower - but silently, without noise, and almost unobserved.  Oh, if a plant did a little something, a shadow of what the sun does, giving heat to another plant, all would shout ‘miracle!’  All would want to see it, and would speak about it with amazement.  But then, the sun gives life and heat to everything and is the continuous miracle, and nobody talks about it - there is no amazement.  This happens because man keeps his eyes always down below and on earthly things - never up high and on celestial things.

“Now, the Sanctity in my Will, symbolized by the sun, will come out from the center of my own Sanctity; It will be a ray delivered by my Sanctity, which has no beginning.  Therefore, these souls existed in my Sanctity; they exist, and will exist.  They were together with Me in the good I did; they never went out of the ray in which I had issued them to the light.   Since they never departed from my Will, I amused Myself with them, and I still do.   My union with them is permanent.  I see them floating over everything; human supports do not exist for them, just as the sun does not lean on anything - it lives up high as though isolated, but with its light it encloses everything within itself.  The same for these souls: they live up high like the sun, but their light descends to the deepest bottom and extends to all.   I would feel as if I defrauded them if I did not keep them aware of, and did not let them do what I do.   Therefore, there is no good which does not descend from them.

“In this Sanctity I see my shadows, my images, hovering over the whole earth, in the air and in Heaven.   This is why I love and will love the world: because I am waiting for my Sanctity to have Its echo over the earth, and for my rays to come out to the light and to give Me complete glory, returning to Me the love and the honor which the others have not given to Me.  However, just like the sun, they will be the most unobserved, without clamor at all.   And if anyone wants to look at them, my jealousy will be such that they will run the risk of remaining blinded, and will be forced to lower their eyes in order to regain their sight.  Do you see how beautiful is the Sanctity in my Will?  It is the Sanctity closest to your Creator.  This is why It will have primacy over all other sanctities.  It will enclose within Itself all other sanctities together, and will be life of all other sanctities.

Vol. 13, November 12, 1921

True virginity is the Divine shadow, virgin by nature, affections, heart, and thoughts.  It is in such unknown souls that God finds His Divine shadow where He can accomplish His greatest works.  Mary was such a soul, the first of the two virgins destined to aid mankind.  Luisa is the second.

I was thinking to myself:  ‘If Jesus loves so much that this way of living in the Divine Will be known - since It will be a new epoch that must bring so much good as to surpass the very goods of His Redemption - He could have spoken to the Pope who, as the Head of the Church, having the authority, could immediately influence the members of the whole Church by making known this celestial doctrine, and bringing this great good to the human generations.  Or to some authoritative people - to them it would be easier; but to me, poor ignorant one, unknown - how can I make this great good known?’  And Jesus, sighing and squeezing me more tightly to Himself, told me:  “Daughter so very dear to my Supreme Volition, it is my usual way to do my greatest works in souls that are virgin and unknown; and not only virgin of nature, but virgin of affections, of heart, of thoughts, because true virginity is the divine shadow, and only in my shadow can I fecundate my greatest works.  During the times when I came to redeem there were also pontiffs and authorities, but I did not go to them, because my shadow was not there.  Therefore I chose a Virgin, unknown to all, but well known to Me; and if true virginity is my shadow, it was divine jealousy that, choosing Her unknown, wanting Her all for Myself, kept Her unknown to all others.  But even though this Celestial Virgin was unknown, I made Myself known, by making my way in order to make Redemption known to all.

The greater the work I want to do, the more I cover the soul with the appearance of the most ordinary things.  Now, since the people you mention are well-known people, the divine jealousy could not keep its watch; and the divine shadow – oh! how hard it is to find it.  And besides, I choose whomever I please.  It is established that two Virgins must come to the aid of Humanity - one to make man saved, the other to make my Will reign upon earth, so as to give man his terrestrial happiness, to unite the two wills, the Divine and the human, and make them one, so that the purpose for which man was created may have its complete fulfillment.  I Myself will take care of making my way in order to make known what I want.  What I most care about is to have the first creature in whom to centralize this Volition of Mine, and that my Will may have life in her on earth as It does in Heaven; the rest will come by itself.  This is why I always say to you:  ‘Your flight in my Will’ - because the human will contains weaknesses, passions, miseries, which are veils that prevent one from entering into the Eternal Volition; and if they are grave sins, they are barricades that are formed between one and the other.  And if my Fiat ‘on earth as It is in Heaven’ does not reign upon earth, this is precisely what prevents It from doing so.  Therefore, to you is it given to tear these veils, to knock down these barricades, and to make of all human acts as though one single act in the power of my Will, engulfing them all, and bringing them to the feet of my Celestial Father, as though kissed and sealed by His very Will; so that, in seeing that one creature has covered the whole human family with His Will, attracted, pleased, He may through her let His Will descend upon earth, making It reign on earth as It does in Heaven.”

Vol. 15, April 20, 1923

With the Fiat of Mary, God overshadowed her to incarnate the Divine Word within her womb communicating to her the divine fecundity so that she now overshadows all creatures and created things.  This is what makes her Queen and Mother of all.  Now God, with the second Fiat of Luisa, overshadows the second virgin soul.

Then He added:  “I asked the first ‘yes’ in my Fiat, of my dear Mama, and – oh, the power of Her Fiat in my Will!   As soon as the Divine Fiat met with the Fiat of my Mama, the two became one.   My Fiat raised Her, divinized Her, overshadowed Her, and with no human intervention, conceived Me, the Son of God.  Only in my Fiat could She conceive Me.  My Fiat communicated to Her immensity, infinity, fecundity, in a divine manner, and therefore the Immense Eternal Infinite One could be conceived in Her.  As soon as She said, ‘Fiat Mihi’, not only did She take possession of Me, but She overshadowed all creatures and all created things.  She felt within Herself the life of all creatures, and from that moment She began to act as the Mother and Queen of all.  How many portents does this ‘yes’ of my Mama not contain – if I wanted to tell them all, you would never stop listening.”

“Now, I asked a second ‘yes’ in my Will, of you; and you, though trembling, pronounced it.  This ‘yes’ in my Volition will accomplish its portents – it will have its divine fulfillment. You – follow Me, plunge yourself more deeply into the immense sea of my Will, and I will take care of everything.  My Mama did not think about how I would manage to incarnate Myself in Her; She just said, ‘Fiat Mihi’, and I took care of how to be incarnated.  So you will do.”

Vol. 12, January 10, 1921

The first Fiat poured forth billions and billions of stars in Creation.  With the second Fiat, united to Mary's Fiat Mihi, billions and billions of acts of grace, running to infinity, poured forth to give themselves to man forming the Redemption.  With the third Fiat, united to Luisa's, so will pour forth billions and billions of acts again, in every instant even to infinity.  Acts that tie together all of Creation and Redemption that will bring about Sanctification.  Acts which should have been done by innocent man now fallen.  Acts which will complete all the acts that man should have given back to God.  These three Fiats blend together and have equal value which can only be credited to God Himself.  Such is the creative power of the Divine Will in His complete act when He overshadows a creature who has given their Fiat.

“My daughter, surely in my Will there is the creative power.  Billions and billions of stars came out from one single Fiat.  Billions and billions of acts of grace which communicate themselves to souls, come out from the Fiat Mihi of my Mama, from which Redemption had Its origin.  These acts of grace are more beautiful, more shining, more varied than stars; and while the stars are fixed and do not multiply, the acts of grace multiply to infinity; they run in every instant, attract the creatures, delight them, strengthen them and give them life.  Ah! if creatures could see the supernatural order of grace, they would hear such harmonies, and see such an enchanting scene as to believe that that’s their Paradise.  Now, the third Fiat too must run together with the other two Fiats.  It must multiply to infinity, and in every instant It must give as many acts for as many acts of grace as are unleashed from my womb; for as many stars, for as many drops of water, and for as many created things as were unleashed by the Fiat of Creation.  It must blend with them and say:  ‘As many acts as you are - so many I do.’

“These three Fiats have the same value and power.  You disappear – it is the Fiat that acts, and therefore you too can say in my omnipotent Fiat:  ‘I want to create so much love, so many adorations, so many blessings, so much glory to my God as to compensate for everyone and for everything.’  Your acts will fill Heaven and earth; they will multiply themselves with the acts of Creation and of Redemption, and will become one.

“All this will seem astonishing and incredible to some; in this case they would have to doubt about my creative power.  And besides, when it is I who want it, and who give this power, every doubt ceases.   Am I perhaps not free to do whatever I want, and to give to whomever I want?  You - be attentive; I will be with you, I will overshadow you with my creative power, and I will accomplish what I want upon you.”

Vol. 12, February 2, 1921

Creation is an overflowing of the images of God which carry the shadows of His attributes.  Man is God's image and one who lives in the Divine Will lives within the womb of God.  So man does not just carry the shadows of God's attributes but shares in the act of bringing forth new images of God, which then continue to fill all of Heaven and earth.  Luisa is the first copy of the daughter of the Divine Will from which all other copies are to come forth.  

“Now, do you know what Our Divine Life is?  We amuse Ourselves very much in issuing from Us new images of Ourselves.  We are in continuous act of forming Our images, so much so, that Heaven and earth are filled with Our images - their shadows flow everywhere.  The sun is Our image, and Its light is the shadow of Ours, which covers all the earth.  The heavens are Our image, which extend everywhere and carry the shadow of Our own immensity.  Man is Our image, who carries Our power, wisdom and love within himself.  So, We do nothing other than continuously produce Our images, which resemble Us.  Now, one who must live in Our Will, living in Our womb, must form many other copies of Ourselves together with Us; she must be with Us in Our work; she must let copies and shadows of Us come out of herself, filling the whole earth and Heaven.

“Now, in creating the first man, We formed him with Our hands, and breathing over him, We gave him life.  Once We made the first, all the others take origin from the first, and are copies of the first.  Our power, flowing through all generations, reproduces copies of him.  Now, since We constitute you firstborn daughter of Our Will, it is necessary that you live with Us in order to form the first copy of the soul who lives in Our Will, so that, as she lives in Us, she may receive Our attitude, and may learn with Our power to operate according to Our way.  Once We have made of you the first copy of the soul who lives in Our Will, more copies will come.

“The road of Our Will is extremely long - it embraces Eternity.  And while it seems that one has navigated the road, much remains to do and to receive from Us in order to learn Our ways, and to form the first copy of the soul who lives in Our Will.  This is the greatest work We must do; therefore We must give you much, and it is necessary to dispose you much so that you may receive.  This is the reason for my repeated questions: it is to dispose you, to enlarge you and to elevate you in order to accomplish my designs.  I care so much about it, that I would leave everything aside to reach my purpose.  Therefore, be attentive and faithful.”

Vol. 14, April 13, 1922

God's truths are not just a shadow of Him but are the very substance of the goods within Him and as they speak they create copies of these truths within the soul who accepts them.  And then they continue to speak, through this soul, in order to produce more copies to continue to give themselves to others.

In an outpouring of love I issued the Creation; everything that can be seen in the whole universe was all inside of Me.  Love made the shadow of my light overflow from my interior, and I created the sun; the shadow of my immensity and of my harmonies, and I stretched out the heavens, harmonizing them with many stars and celestial spheres.  These and other things which I created were nothing other than shadows of mine which I issued from Myself; and my love had its outpouring, and I took great delight in seeing what was contained in Me, spread out in little particles hovering over all Creation.

Now, what will my joy be in manifesting my truths, which are not shadows of mine that come out of Me, but the substance of the goods that I contain within Me; and which speak of Me, not in a mute language like all created things do, but with clear, sonorous and eloquent voice; and which, since my word is creative, like a new creation create in the soul the truths that I manifest?  If with one Fiat I created many things, in manifesting my truths it is not just one Fiat that I pronounce, but as many words for as many as are needed in order to manifest and to have souls comprehend that which I want them to understand.  Imagine, then, what my contentment is in manifesting my truths to the soul who, not in a mute language, but with speaking voice, will manifest my goods, my truths, to others, in order to infuse in others the good she has received.  Therefore, in manifesting my truths, my love finds its outpouring and becomes festive, and I greatly love one who is willing to listen to Me.”

Vol. 15, July 1, 1923

So the call to live in the Divine Will is to all of us.  Jesus will do everything to bring to completion this union of the human will with the Divine.  The creature becomes the shadow of Jesus which covers Him as He covers her, not of her own doing but all the Divine Will.

“My poor little one, what do you fear?  Courage, I am the One who will do everything in my little daughter; you will do nothing but follow me faithfully, won’t you?  You are right that you are too little and can do nothing, but I will do everything in you.  Don’t you see how I am within you, and you are nothing but the shadow that covers Me?  I am the One who will cross within you the eternal and unending boundaries of my Will; I, the One who will embrace all generations in order to bring them, together with your shadow, to the feet of the Eternal One, so that the two wills, the human and the Divine, may kiss each other, may smile at each other, and may no longer look at each other like strangers, being separated, scowling at each other, but one may be fused within the other, forming one single Will.  It is the power of your Jesus that must do this; you must do nothing but adhere.  I know, I know that you are nothing and can do nothing, and this is why you afflict yourself; but it is the strength of my arm that wants and can operate, and I like to operate great things in the littlest ones.

Vol. 16, November 10, 1923

God's love for the acts done in the Divine Will makes Him overshadow the creature with His light so that the act of the creature and His may be one.  The Divine Will becomes life and motion of each of these acts.  This is the triumph of the Divine Will and man does not have the ability to comprehend the enormity of this.

My beloved daughter, I love so much these acts done in my Will, that as soon as the soul enters into It in order to act, the shadow of my light surrounds her; and I run, so that my act and hers may be one.  And since I am the prime act of all Creation, without my prime motion all created things would remain paralyzed, without strength and incapable of the slightest motion.  Life is in the motion; without it, everything is dead.  I am the prime motion, and I give life and attitude to all other motions; so, at my first motion Creation begins to revolve.  It happens as to an engine:  at the touch of first motion of the first wheel, all other little wheels begin to spin.  See then, how it is almost natural for one who operates in my Will to move in my prime motion; and by operating in my motion, she comes to find herself and she operates in the motion of all creatures.  And as the creature flows in my own motion, I see her and I feel her in all motions of creatures, giving Me as many divine acts for as many offensive human acts as others do; and this, only because she has operated in my prime motion.  This is why I say that one who lives in my Will substitutes for all, defends Me from all, and places my motion – that is, my very Life - in safety.  And this is why to operate in my Will is the prodigy of prodigies, but without clamor, without human acclamations.  It is my true triumph over all Creation; and since it is a triumph fully divine, what is human remains silent, and has no equivalent words with which to acclaim the triumph of my Supreme Will.”

Vol. 15, April 9, 1923

God and all of Heaven are enraptured by the acts done in the Divine Will as each, in turn, is a copy of the Eternal Divine Will which possesses the seed of Divine Life.  These acts are each jealously guarded by thousands of Angels until they are ripened and taken as food by creatures who appreciate them and make them their own to further the Kingdom of the Divine Will.  

“My daughter, just as the sun does not leave the plant, but caresses it with its light, fecundates it with its heat until it produces fruits and flowers - and then, jealous, it makes them mature, it keeps them with its light, and when the farmer picks it to make of it his food, only then does it leave the fruit - the same for the acts done in my Will:  my love, my jealousy toward them is such that grace caresses them, my love conceives them, fecundates them and matures them.  I place thousands of Angels as custodians of one single act done in my Will.  In fact, since these acts done in my Will are seeds in order that my Will may be done on earth as it is in Heaven, everyone is jealous of these acts.  Their dew is my breath; their shadow is my light.  The Angels remain enraptured by them and, reverent, they adore them, because in these acts they see the Eternal Will, which deserves all their adoration.  Only when I find souls who, picking them as divine fruits make of them food for their own souls, then are these acts left.  Oh, fecundity and multiplicity of these acts!  The creature herself who does them cannot count them.”

Vol. 14, April 25, 1922

Repeated acts water and mature each virtue and with repetition grow the virtue into a beautiful plant that will produce it's fruit.  However by not processing the source of the life of all the virtues, that is the Divine Will, they are subject to the changes of circumstances and inconstancy.  When a soul lives in the Divine Will, however, God Himself takes on the initiative to overshadow her and repeat His Fiat over her in such a way that he kneads His Divine Life into her so that all the virtues spring forth naturally from His life within her.  She feels that He has given Himself into her power.  Because of the Divine Will that she possesses, she feels Him as her own little one and raises him with His own love and adoration.   He keeps her as absorbed in Himself with such fullness of love even to the point that she can not contain it and she longs to give the Divine Will to everyone as life to share in her joy.   Only in this way can God form His little Paradise in the creature where He can take his rest.

“My daughter, aren’t you happy that none of the ‘I love You’s’ that come out of you go lost, but all remain impressed in Me?  And then, do you know what good comes to you by repeating them?  You must know that when the soul decides to do some good, to exercise a virtue, she forms the seed of that virtue.  By repeating those acts, she forms the water with which to water that seed in the earth of her heart; and the more often she repeats them, the more she waters that seed, and the plant grows beautiful and green, in such a way that it quickly produces the fruits of that seed.  On the other hand, if she is slow in repeating, many times the seed remains suffocated; and if it comes out at all, it grows thin and never gives fruit.  Poor seed, without enough water in order to grow.  My Sun does not rise over that seed, to give it fecundity, maturity and a beautiful color to its fruits, because it is not fecund.  On the other hand, by always repeating those same acts, the soul contains much water with which to water that seed; my Sun rises over that seed every time It sees it being watered; and It delights so much, knowing that it has much strength in order to grow, that It makes its branches reach up to Me; and in seeing its many fruits, I pick them with pleasure, and I rest under its shadow.

Vol. 18, October 4, 1925

The Sky, the Sun, the sea, the wind and everything, narrate He who has created them, they show us, they make us known, they glorify us, but they don’t give us one of our lives, nor do they form for us another Paradise of ours, rather they serve she or he, that our Paternal goodness has taken the pledge to form our life in her, and it costs us so much, that our Fiat uses his working and repetitive virtue of his continuous Fiat over his fortunate creature in order to overshadow her with his power, in a way that one Fiat doesn’t await the other, in a way that if he blows on her he says Fiat, if he touches her he repeats Fiat, if he embraces her he uses his working Fiat and goes molding her and as kneading in her his divine life.  One can say that with his breath he forms his life in the creature and with his creative virtue regenerates her and forms there his Little Paradise, and what don’t we find in Her?  It is enough to tell you that we find all that which we want, and this is everything for us.  You see therefore the great difference that there is between the Divine Will as life, and that as effect; as life all the goods, the virtues, the prayer, the love, the sanctity, they convert themselves in the creature into nature, they are risings that form in her, that always rise in a way that she feels in herself the nature of love, of patience, of sanctity, as she naturally feels the mind that thinks, the eye that sees, the mouth that speaks, (with) not one effort in this, because God has given them in (her) nature, and she feels herself mistress to do with them whatever use she wants.  Thus with possessing the Divine Will as life, everything is holy, everything is sacred, the difficulties finish, the inclinations to evil don’t exist anymore, and in spite that she changes action, and now does one thing, and now another, the unitive virtue of my Will unites them together and they form one act alone, with the distinction of so many varied beauties for how many acts she has done, and she arrives to feel that her God is all hers, even to feel that in the excess of his love he has given himself into the power of the creature, in virtue of the Divine Will that she possesses as life, she feels him as her birth and raises him with such finesse of love and profound adoration, that she remains as naturally absorbed in her Creator, that is already all hers, and such is the fullness of love, the happiness that she feels, that not being able to contain it she would like to give the Divine Will to everyone as life in order to render everyone happy and holy.

“Not so, for one who doesn’t possess him as life, but only as virtue and effect, everything is difficulty and she feels the good by time and circumstances, the circumstance ceases and she feels the void of the good, and this void produces inconstancy, variety of character, tiredness, she feels the unhappiness of the human volition, she neither enjoys peace, nor does she know how to give peace to anyone, she feels in herself the good as if she might feel dislocated limbs or partly detached that she is not mistress with them serving her, and she must be subject to the others in order to make herself serve, not living of my Will is making oneself enslaved and to feel the whole weight of slavery.”

Vol. 32, October 15, 1933

The Creation has taken it's form from the shadows/attributes of God.  But the life that vivifies everything in Creation are not His shadows, but His Will, which is His life.  His Will is the foundation, support, life and preservation of everything.  The Divine Will is also the life, support, foundation and preservation of all and every act of the Redemption.  The Redemption is the tree, the Divine Will the root from which the tree is formed.  Now it must produce it's fruit of life.  Here is the image of the Trinity and each work gives a hand to the other so the triumph and the glory belongs to all three but all of these works are eclipsed by the Divine Will who reigns over all and is life of the Tree of Life. 

In Creation, the Divinity issued from Itself the shadows of Its light, the shadows of Its wisdom, of Its power; It touched the whole Creation lightly with Its whole Being.  So, the beauty, the harmony, the order, the love, the goodness of God, which can be seen in the whole Creation, are divine similes – shadows of the Supreme Majesty.  On the other hand, my Will – not a simile or a shadow of Ours – came out into the field of Creation as the life of all created things; and so It is life, foundation, support, vivification and preservation of everything that came out of Our creative hands. Therefore, everything is owed to the Supreme Will; my Redemption Itself bent Its knees before It, to implore that It would constitute Itself life of each act, heartbeat and suffering of mine - and even of my breathing, so as to let vital aids flow within the creatures in order to save them.  My Redemption can be called the tree, whose root is the Divine Will; and since It has produced the trunk, the branches, the leaves, the flowers of all the goods which are present in the Church, It must therefore produce the fruit of life, which the root of this tree contains.  Moreover, the Creation came out from Ourselves with the only purpose that Our Will be known and loved more than life itself; and therefore Our Will constituted Itself life of everything, so as to be fulfilled.  All the other things created by Us, and even Redemption Itself, were given as aids in order to facilitate Our purpose.  So, if We do not obtain Our primary purpose, how can We obtain Our complete glory, and how can the creature receive the good established by Us?

“Furthermore, Creation, Redemption and the Fiat Voluntas Tua on earth as It is in Heaven, symbolize the Sacrosanct Trinity.  In fact, just as the Divine Persons are inseparable from one another, so these works are inseparable from one another: each one gives the hand to the other; each one helps the other – the triumph, the glory, belongs to all three of them.   And since Our Will has held the primary place in all Our works, Creation and Redemption remain eclipsed and as though dissolved within the immensity and the endlessness of the Supreme Will.  Our Will envelops everything and keeps the very things done by Us as Its throne, from which It reigns and dominates.  So, if Our Will is everything, why are you surprised that It will produce greater fruits than Our other works?  And man will receive that Life which he has, but does not know, because he keeps It as though compressed, drowned, weakened, while It moans and sighs, because It wants to carry out Its Life, but It is not allowed to do so.

Vol. 19, March 19, 1926

The Divine Will is reestablishing of the tree of Life which will produce it's fruit of life to be given to all who will receive it with Good Will.  For Redemption God needed a Virgin Mother, pure and holy without the shadow of original sin.  Now for the epoch of the Kingdom of the Divine Will God needs a second mother but now in the order of grace.  She is chosen from common stock but raised so high in the order of grace such that there is not a single earthly infected shadow remaining in her so that the Life of God's Will reigns.  Just as the Humanity of Jesus, which came from the Virgin Mary, now gives Himself to all who want Him for salvation so will the Life of God's Will, formed in Luisa, give Itself to all who want the Kingdom of His Will to reign in them.   The Redemption served to plant the tree of the Divine Will which was watered by His blood, cultivated with His innumerable pains and fertilized with the Sacraments so that this tree would mature, bloom and bear fruit.  All of this time and effort was needed to not only allow this tree to mature but to dispose creatures so that they return to their origin.  So by fully knowing the evils of their will acting separate from the Divine Will they will banish them and eat of the Celestial fruit of the Divine Will which will remove all the disordered passions of her will, and give dominion to the Divine Will. 

“Now, in order to form Redemption I needed a Virgin Mother, conceived without the shadow of original sin, because, having to take on human flesh, it was decorous for Me, Eternal Word, not to take an infected blood to form my Most Holy Humanity.  Now, in order to make my Will known, so that It might reign, I do not need to have a second mother according to the natural order, but rather, I need a second mother according to the order of grace.   In fact, in order for my Will to reign, I have no need of another Humanity, but to give such knowledge of It that, drawn by Its prodigies, by Its beauty and sanctity, and by the immense good that comes to them, creatures may submit with all love to Its dominion.   Therefore, in choosing you for the mission of my Will, I took you from the common stock according to the natural order, but for the decorum of my Will I had to raise you so high according to the order of grace, that not one infected shadow might remain in your soul, because of which my Will might feel reluctant to reign in you.  Just as the pure blood of the Immaculate Virgin was needed to form my Humanity, to be able to redeem man, so was the purity, the candidness, the sanctity, the beauty of your soul needed to form in you the Life of my Will.  And just as by forming my Humanity in the womb of my Mama, this Humanity gave Itself to all – it is understood, to those who want It – as means of salvation, of light, of sanctity; in the same way, this Life of my Will which has been formed in you, will give Itself to all, to make Itself known and to acquire Its dominion.

“Had I wanted to free you of original sin as I did with my Celestial Mama, so that my Will might take life in you, no one would have given a thought to letting my Will reign within himself.  They would have said:  ‘One needs to be a second Mother of Jesus and to have Her privileges so that the Life of the Supreme Will might reign in us.’  On the other hand, by knowing that you are from their stock, conceived just like them, if they want it, helped by their own good will they too will be able to know the Supreme Will – what they must do to let It reign within them, the good that comes to them, the terrestrial and celestial happiness prepared in a distinct way for those who will let my Will reign.  My Redemption was to serve to plant the tree of my Will which, watered with my Blood, cultivated and hoed with my sweats and unheard-of pains, fertilized with the Sacraments, first would make the tree develop, then would make the flowers bloom, and finally would make the celestial fruits of my Will mature.   And in order to make these precious fruits mature, the course of my thirty-three years was not enough, nor were the creatures prepared and disposed to receive a food so delicate, all of Heaven, which I was giving.  Therefore I contented Myself with planting the tree, leaving all possible means to make it grow, beautiful and gigantic; and at the appropriate time, as the fruits are about to mature and so that they may be picked, I chose you in a way all special, to make known to you the good it contains, and how I want to raise the creature back to her origin.  Banishing her will, the cause for which she descended from her happy state, she will eat of these precious fruits, which will give her such taste as to remove from her all the infection of passions and of her own will, and give back the dominion to my Will.  Embracing everything as though in one single embrace, my Will will unite everything together:  Creation, Redemption, and the fulfillment of the purpose for which all things were created - that is, that my Will be known, loved and done on earth as It is in Heaven.”

Vol. 19, June 6, 1926

God extends His shadow over his creature and she finds rest in it but God wants more.  To be in the Shadow of the Almighty is to be wrapped in the glory of the Holy Spirit and all the attributes of God.  It is safety, protection, sanctification, rest, nourishment, light.  It is home.  It is that same love that innocent Adam was wrapped in continuously.  But God also wants to find His own rest and that can only be found in a complete act, as in the seventh day of Creation where God took His rest.  When we live and act in the Divine Will the union of the human with the Divine becomes the complete act.  This is the purpose for which God created all the universe and man in particular.  Here is where God can finally find His rest.

 God's purpose is the perfect union with His beloved creature, sin from the human will is the only obstacle that can stop even God.  Only when the creature fully knows herself and her nothingness and comes to know her God as well and how He creates her and holds her in His love and maintains her all for love, only then can she fully embrace the Divine Will and let go of her own.  The overshadowing of the Virgin Mary brought forth the Incarnation of Jesus, the second person of the Trinity.  We are all called to an intimate union with God.  This total union of man with God forms the complete act which results in copies of His Divine Lives - not a simple shadow of His attributes but His full Image which shares in His fecund act to bring forth new images of God.  These acts penetrate and bind all Creation and all creatures of all times.  All epochs are bound together like a tree, root, tree and fruit and the creature nourishes herself on it's fruit.  This tree is the image of the Trinity, the tree of Life and it's fruit are Divine lives which carry with them the gift of the life of God and all His attributes which spring forth form this life.   It is only in the shade of this tree, this Image all His own which springs from the union of the human will and the Divine Will that now God takes His rest.   

Man's God Given Free Will

It seems more and more today that I hear how man's free will is used as justification for people doing some of the most truly insane and awful things.  It's true that God gave man the gift of free will, a crowning gift and God never takes back what he gives, but free will was given for the good of man not for his detriment.  Simply put if man had been using his free will in the manner in which it was intended to be used and for it's correct purpose God would have never had needed to establish the law or the Sacraments.  But man fell and his intellect became darkened and his will no longer was aligned with that which was best for him. So I wanted to take the time to explore this gift of free will from God's perspective as revealed in the Volumes and how it is meant for our good and not for evil and what happens when one uses it to act without God. 

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church man's free will is to be used to direct man towards his true good.

1704 The human person participates in the light and power of the divine Spirit. By his reason, he is capable of understanding the order of things established by the Creator. By free will, he is capable of directing himself toward his true good. He finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good."

Catechism of the Catholic Church,

The Catechism also states that free will is meant to be a tool to shape one's own life.  A means to grow in maturity, truth and goodness when directed toward God.  But man can choose not to direct himself to God and thereby chose evil.  His free will is his ability to choose good or evil.

1731 Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one's own responsibility. By free will one shapes one's own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude. 1732 As long as freedom has not bound itself definitively to its ultimate good which is God, there is the possibility of choosing between good and evil, and thus of growing in perfection or of failing and sinning. This freedom characterizes properly human acts. It is the basis of praise or blame, merit or reproach. 

Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Jesus tells Luisa that free will was given to man so that they could choose whether they wanted to be true children of God or not.  He will never take it away but it is only through the Divine Will that man will find all his good and happiness.

 I will never take free willing away from the human will – a great gift, given to man in creating him, which makes creatures distinguishable as to whether they want to be my true children, or not.  But, rather, with the light of the knowledges about my Will, I will form more than solar rays, and whoever wants to know them and look at them, will be invested by this light; in such a way that, eclipsed, the human will will take delight and love in looking at this light, and will feel fortunate that the action of the light takes the place of its own.  And it will lose love and delight for other things.  This is why I am saying so much about my Will – to form the strong light, because the stronger it is, the greater is the eclipse it forms in order to occupy the human will.

Vol. 20, Oct. 13, 1926

God didn't establish laws for man in the beginning.  Initially the only thing that man needed to make himself holy and happy was God's Will.  It is only because man fell from his origin that God established laws as a means to bring him back again but still man became lost and Jesus in the course of time instituted the Sacraments as a stronger means to save him.  But so many use the law and the Sacraments badly and condemn themselves instead of saving themselves.  Only the Divine Will places man in safety and secures his beginning, means and end.

“My daughter, my Will is everything and contains everything; and then, It is beginning, means and end of man. This is why, in creating him, I did not give him any law, nor did I institute Sacraments, but I gave man my Will alone, because, as he would find himself in the beginning of It, It would be more than sufficient so that he might find all the means to reach, not a low sanctity, but the height of the Divine Sanctity, and therefore find himself in the port of his end. This means that man was to need nothing but my Will alone, in which he was to find everything in a surprising, admirable and easy way, to render himself holy and happy in time and eternity. And if I gave him a law, after centuries and centuries of creation, it was because man had lost his beginning, and therefore he had lost the means and the end. So, the law was not beginning, but means. But in seeing that, with all my law, man was getting lost, in coming upon earth I instituted the Sacraments as stronger and more powerful means to save him. But, how many abuses, how many profanations. How many use the law and the very Sacraments to sin more and to fall into hell - while with my Will alone, which is beginning, means and end, the soul places herself in safety, she rises to Divine Sanctity, she reaches, in a complete way, the purpose for which she was created, and there is not a shadow of danger that she might offend Me. So, the safest way is only my Will. The very Sacraments, if they are not received in order with my Will, can serve as means of condemnation and of ruin. This is why I inculcate my Will so much – because, the soul being in her beginning, the means will be favorable to her, and she will receive the fruits which they contain. On the other hand, without It, the Sacraments themselves may be a poison for her, which may lead her to eternal death.”

Vol. 17, June 10, 1924

Jesus could have destroyed free will, thereby stopping all chastisements and sufferings but he would have had to go against his own Divine Wisdom, something which he can not do, and man would be left without any merit, always ashamed of himself and he would not be worthy of Divine Love without his free will to love God in return.

“My daughter, since I was Man and God, my Humanity could see, present, all sins, chastisements and lost souls.  It would have wanted to seize all this in one single point, destroy sins and chastisements, and save souls; It would have wanted to suffer, not one day of Passion, but all days, to be able to contain all these pains within Itself and spare the poor creatures.  But in spite of the fact that I would have wanted to, and could have done it - because I could have destroyed the free will of creatures and I would have destroyed these heaps of evils – yet, what would have happened to man without his own merits, without his own will in operating good?  What impression would he ever have made?  Would he ever have been an object worthy of my creative wisdom?  Certainly not.  Oh, would he not have been like a foreign son in someone else’s home, who, not having worked together with the other sons, has no right and no inheritance?  This son is always full of blushes if he eats or drinks, because he knows that he has done not one favorable act to prove his love for that father, therefore he can never be worthy of the love of that father for him.  So, the creature would never have been worthy of Divine Love without a free will.            

On the other hand, my Humanity was not supposed to violate my creative wisdom; It was supposed to adore it, as It did adore it, and It resigned Itself to receiving the voids of Justice within Itself – but not in the Divinity, because these voids of Divine Justice are filled by the chastisements of this life, by hell and by Purgatory. 

Vol. 6, November 13, 1904

Man's true freedom lies in his interior.  His free will gives him the ability to love, internal acts that can't be controlled or taken away.  This is where one sees the true likeness of God in being free and untouchable.  Man's greatest merits and victories come from suffering for love of God and mankind.  This is where love grows and man conquers God.

“My daughter, my executioners were able to lacerate my body, insult Me, trample upon Me…, but they could touch neither my Will nor my love; these I wanted free, so that, like two currents they might run and run, without anyone being able to hinder them, pouring Myself out for the good of all, and also of my very enemies.  Oh, how my Will and my love triumphed in the midst of my enemies!  They would strike Me with scourges, and I would strike their hearts with my love; and with my Will I would chain them.  They would prick my head with thorns, and my love would turn on the light in their minds to make Me known.  They would open wounds on Me, and my love would heal the wounds of their souls.  They gave Me death, and my love gave life back to them; so much so, that as I breathed my last on the Cross, the flames of my love, touching their hearts, forced them to prostrate themselves before Me and to confess Me as true God.  Never was I so glorious and triumphant as I was in my pains during the course of my mortal life down here.

“Now, my daughter, in my likeness, I made the soul free in her will and in her love.  So, others might take possession of the external works of the creature, but no one – no one can do so with her interior, with her will and her love.  I Myself wanted her to be free in this, so that, freely, not being forced, this will and this love might run toward Me; and immersing herself in Me, she might offer Me the noblest and purest acts which a creature can give Me; and since I am free, and so is she, we might pour ourselves into each other and run - run toward Heaven to love and glorify the Father, and to dwell together with the Sacrosanct Trinity; run toward the earth to do good to all; run into the hearts of all to strike them with our love, to chain them with our will, and make of them conquests.  Greater dowry I could not give to the creature.  But where can the creature make greater display of this free will and of this love?  In suffering.  In it love grows, the will is magnified, and, as queen, the creature rules over herself, she binds my Heart, and her pains surround Me like a crown, they move Me to pity, and I let Myself be dominated.  I cannot resist the pains of a loving soul, and I keep her at my side like a queen.  In the pains, the dominion of this creature is so great, that they make her acquire noble, dignified, ingratiating, heroic, disinterested manners, similar to my manners; and the other creatures compete to let themselves be dominated by this soul.  And the more the soul operates with Me, is united with Me, identifies herself with Me, the more I feel absorbed in the soul.  So, as she thinks, I feel my thought being absorbed in her mind; as she looks, as she speaks, as she breathes, I feel my gaze, my voice, my breath, my action, step and heartbeat being absorbed in hers.  She absorbs all of Me, and while she absorbs Me, she keeps acquiring my manners, my likeness; I keep gazing at Myself in her continuously, and I find Myself.”

 Vol. 11, December 30, 1916

Free will was given to man so that he might always grow in beauty, wisdom and virtue as much as he wanted.  He was the crowning of Creation but his fall in sin made him horrid to even look at.

So I tried, as much as I could, to go around through all created things, to give to my God the requital of love, of glory, of gratitude, for everything He had done in Creation. I seemed to see in all created things the requital of love of my Empress Mama and of my beloved Jesus. This requital formed the most beautiful harmony between Heaven and earth, and bound the Creator to the creature. Each requital of love was a key, a little sonata of enrapturing celestial music. And my sweet Jesus added: “My daughter, all created things were nothing other than an act of Our Will that issued them; nor can they move, or change the effects, the position or the office which each of them received by its Creator. They are nothing other than mirrors in which man was to admire the reflections of the qualities of his Creator: in some the power, in some the beauty, in other created things the goodness, the immensity, the light, etc. In sum, each created thing preaches to man the qualities of its Creator, and with mute voices they tell him how much I love him. On the other hand, in creating man, it was not just Our Will, but an emanation that came out of Our womb - a part of Ourselves that We infused in him; and this is why We created him with a free will – that he might grow always, in beauty, in wisdom, in virtue. In Our likeness, he could multiply his goods, his graces.

Oh! if a sun had a free will and could make two suns from one, four suns from two, what glory, what honor would it not give to its Creator, and how much glory also to itself? Yet, what the created things cannot do, because they are without a free will, and because they were created to serve man, man can do, because he was to serve God. So, all Our love was centralized in man, and this is why We placed all Creation at his disposal, all ordered around him – that man might make use of Our works like as many stairs and ways in order to come to Us, to know Us, and to love Us. But what is Our sorrow in seeing man below Our created things - even more, his beautiful soul, given by Us, transformed into ugliness by sin, and not only ungrown in good, but horrid to the sight? Yet, as if everything that was created for him were not enough to Our love, in order to preserve this free will, We gave him the greatest gift, which surpassed all other gifts: we gave him Our Will, as preserver, as antidote, as prevenience and help for his free will. So, Our Will placed Itself at his disposal, to give him all those aids which man might need. Our Will was given to him as primary life, and as the first act of all his works. Having to grow in grace and in beauty, he needed a Supreme Will, which would not only keep company with his human will, but would substitute for the operating of the creature. But this great gift also he despised and did not want to know. See, then, how Our Will enters the primary life of the creature; and as long as It maintains Its first act, Its life, the creature grows always in grace, in light, in beauty; she preserves the bond of the first act of her creation, and We receive the glory of all created things, because they serve Our Will operating in the creature – the only purpose of all Creation. Therefore, I recommend to you – let Our Will be more than life for you, and the first act of all your actions.”

Vol. 18, August 9, 1925

Only man, who was given the great liberty to be able to freely love God has left the highest post of honor above all creation, drawing away from union with God and descending to the lowest place below all creation, becoming the most unhappy.

“My blessed daughter, how much more one understands of my Volition, so much more one enjoys his beauty and sanctity, and so much more one participates in his goods, and the abandonment in Him destroys all the obstacles and keeps the soul so very pressed in his arms, that without effort, my Fiat, can regenerate his Divine life in the creature.  True and full abandonment says with deeds:  do with me that which you want, my life is yours, and of mine I don’t want to know anything more of it.  So that the abandonment holds (the) virtue to put the creature in the power of my Divine Will.  Because you should know that all things and the human nature itself takes from the Eternal motion of God, in a way that everything turns around him, all the Creation, the breath, the heartbeat, the circulation of blood, they are under the empire of the Eternal motion, and since everyone and everything, have life from this motion, they are inseparable from God and as they have life, thus with an unanimous course, they turn around the Supreme Being.  So that the breath, the heartbeat, the human motion it is not in their power to breathe, to palpitate, to move themselves, if they want, or don’t want, being incessant the motion of the Eternal they also feel the incessant act of the breath, of the heartbeat and of the motion, one can say they have life together with God, and with all created things, that they turn around him without ever stopping.  Only the human will, having created it with the great gift of free liberty/will, so that she might be able to say to us that freely she loved us, not because she is constrained as is constrained the breath to breathe, the heart to palpitate and to receive the motion of her Creator, but with wanted will, not forced she can love us and be together with Us in order to receive the working life in our Volition, it was the honor and the greatest gift that we gave to the creature and she ungrateful drew away from our union and inseparability, and hence from the union of everyone and everything, and therefore lost herself, degraded herself, weakened herself, lost the unique strength, and is the only one that in all the Creation, who lost her course, her post of honor, her beauty, her glory, and she goes wandering moved from her post, that she holds in our Will, that calls her, longs for her to her post of honor, so that everyone has a post, also the breath and the human heartbeat, and since everyone and everything have a post, they never lose the life and their incessant motion, no one feels poor, weak, but rich in the Eternal motion of their Creator.  Only the human will, because she doesn’t want to be in the regal post of our Divine Volition she is the lost one and the poorest of everyone, and since she feels poor, she feels unhappy, and is the disturber of the human family.  Therefore if you want to be rich, happy, never descend from your post of honor, that is inside of our Will, then you will have everything in your power, strength, light, and also my Will himself.”

 Vol. 33, May 12, 1934

God placed his entire Divine Will at the disposition of the creature just to receive the little "I love you" from her.  But she did not want to give her love to God and thereby bankrupted herself, rejecting all the Divine assets.

“My daughter, for whoever lives in My Will there are no acts of Our’s that cannot be present.  There are no acts of Our’s which we have put forth that cannot be received; so now (I give) to you My Breath, and Our outpouring of love.  How great was Our pleasure in this first act of man’s creation.  We had created Heaven and earth, but We felt nothing new in Ourselves.  Yet in creating man, it was much different.  One was the will which was created - this free will and in it we enclosed Our own (Will), placing It as in a bank to earn interest in the love, glory, and adoration that was due to us.  Oh how love overflowed in us, how we trembled with joy in putting, forth this free will so that we could hear it said to us:  ‘I love you.’  And when man, full of that which was Ours, let burst forth from his breast his first word ‘I love you,’ Our pleasure was immense, because it was as if he returned to Us the interest of all the goods that we had placed in him.  This free will which We created was where We deposited the capital of a Divine Will, and We were satisfied if We could - receive a small interest, without ever again claiming the capital.  So the fall of man was a great sorrow for Us, because he refused Our capital so [that] he would not have to pay the small interest.  His bank was left empty, and since his enemy had made a deal with him, he filled man with passions and miseries - and the poor thing was left a failure.

Vol. 21, April 22, 1927

The problem lies in  the fact that with the fall of man his three powers became obscured deforming the image of God in him.   He can no longer sense the breath of God in him or feel his love.  So as God originally created him by breathing into him and giving him life, God will again re-breathe into him so strongly as to make him feel once again the palpating life of God in himself.

“My good daughter, it is decreed in the Consistory of the Most Holy Trinity that my Divine Will will have his Kingdom upon the earth; and how many prodigies there are needed, we will do them; we will not spare anything, in order to have that which we want.  But we, in the work, always use the simplest, but powerful ways, to overwhelm heavens and earth, (and) all creatures, in the act that we want.

“You must know that in the creation, in order to infuse life into man, not was needed from us but our omnipotent breath; but how many prodigies in that breath!  We created the soul, endowing her with the three powers, true image of our adorable Trinity.  With the soul she had the heartbeat, the breath, the circulation of blood, the motion, the heat, the word, the sight.  What thing was needed from us in order to make all these prodigies in man?  Our simplest act, armed with our power, that is our breath, and from the race of our love, that not being able to contain it, it raced, raced toward him, even to make of him the greatest prodigy of all the creative work.

“Now, my daughter, with man not living in our Divine Volition, his three powers have been obscured, and our adorable image deformed in him, in a way that he has lost the first heartbeat of love of God in his divine breath in his human breath; that is, not that he has lost it: he does not sense it, hence he does not feel the circulation of divine life, the motion of good, the heat of supreme love, the word of God in his, the sight to be able to look at his Creator.  All has remained obscured, weakened and perhaps even deformed.

“Now, what thing is needed from us in order to renew this man?  We will return again to breathe in him with more strength and growing love.  We will breathe into the depths of his soul, we will breathe forth more strongly into the center of his rebellious will, but so very strongly as to shake off from him the evils by which he is bound; his passions will remain knocked down and petrified before the power of our breath, they will themselves burn from our divine fire, and the human will will feel the palpitating life of his Creator, by which he, as veiled, will hide in him, and he will return to be the bearer of his Creator.

“Oh, how happy he will feel!  With our breath we will renew him, we will restore him to health; we will do as a most tender mother that, having her child crippled, she pours herself upon him by way of breath, by breathing forth, by puff of breath, and then she allows him to breathe forth when he has been restored to health and made beautiful as she wanted him.  The power of our breath will not leave him; then we will cease blowing (in) him when we will see him returning into our fatherly arms, (as) beautiful as we want him, and then we will feel that the child has recognized our paternal goodness, that we love him so much.

“You see therefore what is needed from us in order to make our Will come to reign upon the earth: the power of our omnipotent breath.  With it we will renew our life in him.  All the truths that I have manifested, the great prodigies of living in my Volition, will be the most beautiful properties, most great, of which I will make a gift to him.  Even this is a certain sign that his Kingdom will come upon the earth, because if I speak, first I do the deeds and then I speak; my word is the confirmation of the gift, of the prodigies that I want to do.  Hence, to what gain is it to expose my divine properties, make them known, if his Kingdom should not come upon the earth?”

Vol. 35, Dec. 21, 1937

The creature can only use it's free will within the limitations of it's reason and understanding meaning it's three powers of memory, intellect and will.  These are the links of communication with God that are meant to guide and encourage man in operating his free will correctly.  When all three powers work in harmony with God the creature becomes raised to the likeness of her Creator and the links of communication with the Holy Trinity are open and secure.

“My daughter, man was created by God with three powers:  memory, intellect and will; and this, so that he might have the links of communications with the Divine Persons of the Sacrosanct Trinity.  These were like paths along which to ascend to God, like doors through which to enter, like rooms in which to form the continuous dwelling – the creature for God, God for the creature.  These are the royal paths of both of them, the gold doors which God placed in the depth of the soul through which the Supreme Sovereignty of the Divine Majesty might enter; the safe and unshakeable room in which God was to have His celestial dwelling.  Now, in order to be able to form Its Kingdom in the inmost place of the soul, my Will wants to find these three powers, given to the creature to raise her to the likeness of the Creator, in order with the Father, with the Son and with the Holy Spirit.  My Will would not go out of Its dominions if these three powers of the soul were in order with God, and Its reigning would be happy and as though natural, because, her three powers being in order with God, the creature would have order within herself and outside of herself, and the Kingdom of the Will of God and that of the creature would not be a divided Kingdom, but a single one, and therefore Its dominion and regime would be one.  More so, since my Will does not know how to reign where there is no order and harmony - inseparable qualities and indispensable properties of the Divine Persons; and the soul can never be ordered and harmonize with her Creator if she does not have her three powers open to receive from God His qualities ordered and His properties harmonized, in such a way that, finding the divine harmonies and the supreme order of the Divine Kingdom and of the human kingdom, my Will may make them one and reign in It with Its full dominion.“

Ah! my daughter, how much disorder reigns in the three powers of the human soul.  One can say that they have shut the door on Our face, they have barricaded the paths to prevent Our passing and to break the communications with Us, while it was the greatest gift We gave man in creating him.  These three powers were to serve him to comprehend the One who had created him, to grow in His likeness, and, his will being transfused in that of his Creator, to give Him the right to let It reign.  This is why the Supreme Volition cannot reign in the soul if these three powers – intellect, memory and will – do not hold hands in order to return to the purpose for which God created man.  Therefore, pray that these three powers may return to the order and the harmony of their Creator, so that my Supreme Will may reign with Its full triumph.”
Vol. 19, August 12, 1926

When the creature uses her free will to allow God's Will to reign and work in her she then becomes the great wonder of Creation and this is the greatest honor to God that a creature can give.  This can only happen with a free will.  Forced love can at most be slavery.

“All are waiting on your acts,” and while he breathed, He gathered in Himself all my acts done in his Divine Volition, and continued:

 “My daughter, the acts done in my Volition are mine, so I came to take them with my breath.  And as I was breathing upon your breast, all of your acts, being mine, are being waited for by all so that I, going to diffuse them into all of creation, will be able to receive from all the universe the honor of the free act of a creature.  This will of the creature freely, not under force, comes into my Will and - works, and I receive the honor of a free will, which is the greatest honor for me, and which is suitable for a me as God.  A free will that loves me and that voluntarily annihilates itself for Me and operates in [My Will] is the great wonder of creation.  All things were created because they should be at the service of this free, unforced will loving Me; and this will, having dominion, over all and enjoying all of creation, should have served as a will for all created things, because created things do not have a will, and the creature was to have served as a will for them.  Thus her will and her free love for her Creator would have been in each created thing.  It is only in my Will that the human (will) can defend us entirely, in order to give this great love to her Creator.

“My daughter, a will which doesn’t love me freely, but under force, says distance between creature and Creator; it says slavery, and servitude; it says dissimilarity.  Instead, a free will which does my Will says union between the soul and God; it says inheritance; it says that that which is of God, is also of the creature; it says similarity in sanctity and love, in such a way that that which one does the other does also, and where one is to be found the other is there also.  So I created man with freedom of will so that he could receive this great honor that is fitting for a God.  A will that is forced to love me and which sacrifices itself - I do not know what to do with it.  On the contrary, I don’t even recognize it, and neither does it merit any reward.  So you can understand why my eyes are fixed on the soul who, of spontaneous will, lives in my Will.  Forced love belongs to men, not God; they content themselves with appearances and do not descend into the depths of gold found in the will, so that they might have a sincere and loyal love.

            “As the king is content with the subjection of the subjects because he holds formed his army, and he doesn’t mind if his soldiers have a distant will form him, if this is distant he will have the army but he won’t be secure, it could be an army that plots his crown and life.  A lord may have many slaves, but if they do not serve their master freely, but out of necessity - for gain, for fear, or just to receive their pay - these servants that eat the master’s bread may be his first enemies.  But your Jesus, who sees into the depths of the will, is not content with appearances, so if this will spontaneously wants my Will and wants to live in It, my glory and all of creation is placed into safety because they are not servants, but my children who possess It and who love to see the glory of their celestial Father [such] that they would be ready and would feel honored to give their lives for love of Him.”

Vol. 21, April 3, 1927

Acts done in the Divine Will will be the counter poison to the sad effects of the human will.  Only these will restore the freshness, the beauty, the order, as the human will was originally created.  A Divine act for every human act is needed in order to restore the Divine empire.

We are inseparable from Our works, and We like them so much that We delight in doing them continuously, and this is why they maintain themselves majestic, beautiful, fresh, as if, there and then, they were receiving the beginning of their life. Look at them – how beautiful they are; they are the narrators of Our Divine Being and Our perennial glory. But amid so much glory of Ours, look – there is the black speck of the human will. Loving man with greater love, We endowed him with a free will, but, abusing, he wanted to breathe and palpitate in his human will, not with Ours, and therefore it changes continuously to the extent of blackening, losing its beauty and freshness, and it reaches the point of losing the Divine Life in its human nature.

So, who will put to flight the thick darkening of the human will? Who will give back to it the freshness, the beauty of its creation? The acts done in Our Divine Will. They will be light which will dispel the darkness, and heat which, molding it with its heat, will destroy in it all the bad humors that have rendered it ugly. The acts done in my Will will be the rebound to all the human acts done with the human will. This rebound will restore the freshness, the beauty, the order, as the human will was created. Therefore, many acts are needed, done by the creature in Our Divine Volition, in order to prepare the counterpoison, the beauty, the freshness, the act opposite to everything evil that the human will has done. Then will Our works in Creation appear all beautiful; the black speck will disappear, and it will convert into a point, the most luminous one, in the midst of the magnificence of Our created works; and Our Divine Will will take the dominion of all, and will reign on earth as It does in Heaven. Therefore, be attentive to operate in my Divine Will, because for each human act, the divine act is needed which, with empire, knocks down, purifies and embellishes the evil done by the human will.”

Vol. 26, August 12, 1927

Ultimately God will win man over and renew him without taking away his free will but by drawing him to himself, face to face and enchanting him so much that he will not withdraw ever again.

Then, moved to tears and sorrowful for poor man, He kept silent; and I thought to myself: ‘How can we return to the original state of Creation since the human will has made man fall into an abyss of miseries, almost deforming him from the way in which he was created?’ And my sweet Jesus added: “My daughter, my Will can do anything. Just as It made man from nothing, so It can draw the new man from his miseries – and without changing method from the way in which we created him. Leaving him his free will, We will use another loving device: the light of Our Will will unleash Its most refulgent rays more powerfully; It will draw near him, in such a way as to look at his human will face to face, which will receive the enchantment of a penetrating light that, while dazzling it, draws it sweetly to Itself. And the human will, attracted by a light so radiant and of rare beauty, will have the desire to see what is so beautiful in this light. In looking, it will undergo the enchantment, it will feel happy and will love - not being forced, but spontaneously - to live in Our Will. Does the Sun not have this virtue – that if one wants to stare at it, the pupil of the human eye remains dazzled within its light; and if it tries to look, it will see nothing but light, as the power of the light prevents the pupil from looking at the things around? And if man is forced to lower his eyes to be freed of the light, it is because the excessive light bothers him and he does not feel happy; but if he felt happy, he would not easily withdraw his pupils from within the light of the Sun. On the other hand, the light of my Will will not bother the pupils of the soul; on the contrary, she will have the good of seeing the very human acts converted into light, and will yearn for this light to unleash its rays more powerfully so as to see her acts with the enchantment and the beauty of this divine light. My Will has the power to solve the problem of man, but It must use a more excessive act of greater magnanimity of Our Supreme Fiat; therefore, you, pray and plead for a cause so holy on behalf of poor creatures.”

Vol. 24, June 12, 1928

Each act done in the Divine Will is a light which further enlightens the creature drawing it every further and further into the dazzling light of God which eclipses the human will allowing the Divine Will to reign.  But the great gift of free will will never be taken away.  It's the gift which allows us to choose whether we want to be God's true children or not.

“My daughter, each act, prayer and pain which the soul makes enter into the light of my Will, becomes light and forms one more ray in the Sun of the Eternal Volition.  These rays form the most beautiful glory that the creature can give to the Divine Fiat, in such a way that, seeing Itself so glorified by Its own light, It invests these rays with new knowledges which, converting into voices, manifest to the soul more surprises about my Will.  But do you know what these knowledges of mine form for the creature?  They form the eclipse for the human will.  The stronger the light is, the more the rays are, and the more strongly the human will remains dazzled and eclipsed by the light of my knowledges; in such a way, that it almost feels impotent to act, and it gives field to the action of the light of my Will.  The human will remains occupied within the action of my Will, and it lacks the time, the place, to make its own will act.  

It is like the human eye when it stares at the sun:  the strength of the light invests the pupil, and lording over it, it renders it impotent to look at other things; but in spite of this, the eye has not lost its vision.  It is the strength of the light that has this power:  it takes away any other object from one who looks at it, and allows him to look at nothing but light.  I will never take free willing away from the human will – a great gift, given to man in creating him, which makes creatures distinguishable as to whether they want to be my true children, or not.  But, rather, with the light of the knowledges about my Will, I will form more than solar rays, and whoever wants to know them and look at them, will be invested by this light; in such a way that, eclipsed, the human will will take delight and love in looking at this light, and will feel fortunate that the action of the light takes the place of its own.  And it will lose love and delight for other things.  This is why I am saying so much about my Will – to form the strong light, because the stronger it is, the greater is the eclipse it forms in order to occupy the human will.

Vol. 20, Oct. 13, 1926

It's true that in creating us and giving us the gift of free will we are all God's children but this gift gives us the ability to be able to say "yes" or "no" to God.  That in itself is mind boggling.  We can choose not only this but how close we want to be to God, whether we want to be not just His adoptive children through the law and the Sacraments but whether we want to be his true legitimate children with all the features of His likeness.  God is waiting for this generation of His true children and the world will not end until they come forth.  Children who will live in His Will effortlessly, naturally, as easy as the breath, and the heartbeat and the circulation.   

...only those who will have preserved intact within themselves the purpose of Creation will be my true legitimate children. By doing my Will, they have preserved within themselves the pure blood of their Celestial Father, who has given them all the features of His likeness, and therefore it will be very easy to recognize them as Our legitimate children. Our Will will preserve them noble, pure, fresh, all love for the One who created them. And as Our children, who have always been in Our Will, and who have never given life to their own, they will be as though the first to be created by Us, giving Us the glory and the honor of the purpose for which all things were created. This is why the world cannot end: We are waiting for the generation of Our children who, by living in Our Will, will give Us the glory of Our works. These will have my Will alone as life; it will be so very natural in them to do the Divine Will - spontaneous, effortless, just as natural is the heartbeat, the breathing, the blood circulation. They will not keep It as law, because laws are for rebels – but as life, as honor, as the beginning and as the end. Therefore, my daughter, may you take to heart my Will alone; be concerned with nothing else, if you want your Jesus to fulfill in you and enclose in you the purpose of the whole Creation.”

Vol. 16, March 2, 1924

Hebrews 8:10

This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord:  I will put my laws in their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.