Hierarchy in Creation

In one of today's readings it reminded me of the repeated pattern of God in all his works.  There is a Hierarchy, a pattern, which can be found in all things physical and spiritual and even repeated down on smaller and smaller levels or larger as well.  As I understand it, like a fractal, or maybe that's just another example as well.

 

 

⁴ Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; ⁵ and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; ⁶ and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. ⁷ To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. ⁸ To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, ⁹ to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, ¹⁰ to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.

¹² For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. ¹³ For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

¹⁴ Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. ¹⁵ If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. ¹⁶ And if the ear would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? ¹⁸ But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. ¹⁹ If all were a single member, where would the body be? ²⁰ As it is, there are many members, yet one body. ²¹ The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” ²² On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, ²³ and those members of the body that we think less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect; ²⁴ whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, ²⁵ that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. ²⁶ If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.

²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. ²⁸ And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues. ²⁹ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? ³⁰ Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? ³¹ But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.

 1 Corinthians 12:4-31

 

 

There's an interconnectedness between everything and everyone that makes us one through the differences even as the body is one.  The offices are different but as long as all is done in virtue of the Divine Will all share in the common reward.

 

 

     “My blessed daughter, every created thing has a distinct office that it occupies, and although the will of all is one, not all however do the same thing, it would not be order, nor virtue of Divine Wisdom, that one created thing might repeat that which the other does, but since one is the Will that dominates them, the glory that one receives, I give the other, because all the substance that they possess and the good and the value with which they are invested, is that they can say:  I am one continuous act of Will of my Creator, glory, honor, virtue more great he could not give me, than to be one single act of Divine Will, so much so that the little blade of grass, with its littleness, the little space that it occupies of the earth, it seems that it does nothing, no one looks at it, and yet, because thus my Will wanted it, nor does it seek to do more than that which a blade of grass can do, in order to do my Will equals the glory that the sun gives Me, that rules with so much majesty over the earth, that one can call it continuous miracle of all the Creation.  And since all created things are united between themselves, the sun with all its majesty, with its light kisses and warms, the little blade of grass, the wind caress it, the water waters it, the earth gives the little spot where to form its little life, and yet what thing does a blade of grass do?  One can say nothing, but since it possess my Will, it will hold its virtue of doing good to the human generations, because having created everything for love, and in order to do good to creatures, all hold a secret virtue to give the good that they possess.

     “You see therefore that everything is in doing my Will, to never go out from his Divine and interminable enclosures; already with doing my Will, although it seems that one does nothing, it is not true, already one finds oneself together with the Divine work and one can say:  that which God does, I do.  And to you it seems little?  God does everything and the soul takes part in everything.  So that it is not the diversity of the actions or of the offices that the creature can say that she does great things, but my Will that confirms, annuls them, puts them in the Divine order and puts there his image, as seal of his works.

     “In regards to the diversity of offices and of action instead it is order, harmony of my infinite Wisdom, also in Heaven there is diversity of choirs of Angels, diversity of Saints, one is martyr, one is virgin, one is confessor.  Upon the earth my providence maintains so many diverse offices, one is king, one is judge, one priest, one is people, one commands, one is under, if everyone might do one single office, what would be of the earth?  A complete disorder.  Oh!  If everyone might understand that only my Divine Will knows how to do great things, and although they might be little and insignificant, oh, how content everyone would be, and each one would love the little spot, the office in which God has put her, but since they let themselves be controlled by the human volition, they would like to give of themselves, to make great actions, that they can not do, therefore they are always discontent with the conditions or posts in which the Divine Providence has put them for their good.  Therefore content yourself to do the little united with my Will, and not the great without Him, more so than being immense you will find yourself in all his acts, and you will find yourself in his love, in his power, in his works, in a way that you can not do anything without Him, and He can not do anything without you.  Behold therefore that with living in my Volition such prodigies race together that it gives of the incredible, the nothing of the creature in the power of the all, the nothing in prey of a Will that can do everything.  What thing wouldn’t this nothing do?  She will do works worthy of a Supreme Fiat.  Hence the most beautiful act, most solemn, most pleasant for Us is the nothing of the creature, giving us freely in order to let us do that which we want.”

Vol. 33, Oct. 4, 1935


His lessons are all right before us, broadly displayed in the universe.  The harmony of the spheres that composers glimpsed, the uniqueness or certain souls, the difference between the creature acting in the Divine Will verses the creature acting under grace are all visible in his Creation.

 

“My daughter, all the Creation symbolizes God, the order of the diversity of the Saints and of souls.  His harmony, the union that all the Creation possesses, the order, the inseparability, it symbolizes the Celestial Hierarchy with its Creator at (the) Head.  Look (at) the Sky that extends itself everywhere and holds under its azure vault all created things, reigning over everyone, in a way that no one can escape from its sight and from its empire; oh, how it symbolizes God, who extends his dominion everywhere and no one can escape from his sight!  This Sky while it contains all, one sees however a great diversity in created things, some are as immediate to the Sky, and they are the stars, that although from the base they appear little, beyond they are so very great and with such variety of colors and beauty, and they have a symphony in their dizzying course with all the Creation, as to form one of the most beautiful musics, their motion sounds so sweet and vibrating as to not be able to compare to any of the most beautiful musics of down here.  These Stars it seems that they live of the Sky, they are so identified with It, symbol of the souls that will live of the Divine Will:  they will be so very immediate and identified with God, as to receive all the varieties of the Divine qualities and to live of them in a way as to form the most beautiful ornament to Heaven of their Creator.  My daughter look still:  under this Sky, but as detached from it, between the Sky and the earth one sees the Sun, star put forth to the benefit of the earth; its light descends into the base and elevates itself on high as if it might want to embrace Heaven and earth, hence one can say that its light touching the Sky it lives of Sky, symbol of those souls chosen by God in order to make graces descend from Heaven, and to make them descend upon the earth in order to recall them to live in the Divine Will, and the first one is my Celestial Mama, unique as the Sun, who stretches forth her wings of light, and this light raises itself on high, descends into the baseness, in order to reunite God and man, in order to reconcile him and to conduct him through means of her light to her Creator:  the stars it seems that they live by themselves, united with the Divine Sky, instead the Sun lives of God but gives itself to everyone, and its mission is to do good to everyone; such is the Sovereign Queen, but this Sun won’t be alone, so many other little suns will arise that will draw light from this great Sun, and they will be those few ones that will have for mission to make my Divine Will known.  Whence the baseness of the earth, the sea, the plants, the flowers, the trees, the mountains, the forests in bloom, they symbolize the Saints, the good souls and all those that enter in the door of salvation.  But see the great difference:  the Sky, the stars, the Sun don’t have need of the earth, rather they give much to the earth, they give life to it, they sustain it; not only, but all things created by us that are in the heights are always at their post, they never change, nor do they increase nor do they decrease, because they have such fullness that they don’t need anything.  Instead the earth, the plants, the sea and so on, they change, now they take on a beautiful appearance and now they arrive to disappear entirely; they have need of everything, of water, of light, of heat, of seed in order to reproduce.  What difference, created things that are in the heights can give and they need God alone in order to be conserved; instead the earth not only has need of God but of everything, and if the human hand might not work it, it would remain sterile, without making any great good.  Such is the difference; one who lives in my Will feels only the need of God in order to live her life, instead one who doesn’t have His life for beginning goes begging support and help from everyone, and when she doesn’t find them she remains as earth, that doesn’t know how to produce anything great of good.  Therefore let your life and the beginning of all your acts be my Divine Will alone, if you want to feel only the need of your Jesus, you will always find me ready, I more desirous to give you him than you to receive him; instead the helps of creatures become given hardly and unwillingly, so much so that one who receives them feels the bitterness of the help that becomes given by the creature.  Instead my helps bring joy and happiness.”

Vol. 29, March 16, 1931

The Triumph of the Queen

Well I began today wanting to continue on the topic of the Creation and the hierarchy of God displayed within it and echoed on the spiritual level as well in the Redemption and Sanctification and the Choirs of the Angels too.  But in my study it seems that Jesus wants this one placed today.  There is so much in this reading; the desire of God to have the creature able to love with equal love, the elevation of the creature living in the Divine Will to the likeness of her Creator, the reason behind the greatness of Mary, the renewed pattern of the hierarchy of God endowed to the Queen manifest in the children of God living in the Divine Will (i.e. her triumph.)  I think this one by itself is more than enough to chew on.

     “Daughter of my Will, do not fear; (for) one who lives in him there is (the) highest accord in love.  Possessing his life in the creature, he duplicates his love: when he wants to love, he loves in himself and loves inside of the soul, because he possesses the life of her.

                “In my Volition love is in highest accord; the joys, the felicity of pure love, are in full vigor.

                “Our paternal goodness is so much for one who lives in our Volition, that we number the breaths, the heartbeats, the thoughts, the words, the movements, in order to exchange them with ours and to fill them all with love; and in our emphasis of love we say to them:  ‘She loves us, and we must love her’; and while we love her we make such a show of gifts and graces as to make heaven and earth dumbfounded.

                “We did this with our Queen, we showed off so much.  But do you know what this means our showing off?  We look at ourselves, and we want to give that which we are and that which we possess.  Dissimilarity would put us in pain, and the creature, seeing itself dissimilar from us, (there) would not be with us that trust of a daughter and that command of when one possesses the same goods, the same gifts.  This disparity would be an obstacle to forming only one life and to loving us with one love alone; while the living in our Divine Volition is just this, one Will alone, one love alone, common goods; and all that which could be missing from the creature we give of our own in order to supply everything for her and to be able to say:  ‘That which we want, she wants; our love and hers is one alone, and as we love her she loves us.’

                “My daughter, the force would be lacking to not elevate the creature to the level of our likeness and to make her possess our goods because she lives in our Will.  So very true (is this), that my Celestial Mother, since she lived, she possessed the life of my Divine Fiat, we love each other with one love alone, we love souls with a twin love.

                “And our love is so much for her that, as we hold the hierarchy of the angels in heaven, the diversity of the orders of the saints, with her being the Celestial Empress the heiress of the great inheritance of our Will, when this Kingdom will be formed on earth, the great Lady will call her children to possess her inheritance, and we will give the great glory to them to have them form the new hierarchy, similar to the nine choirs of the angels; so that it will have the choir of the seraphim, of the cherubim, and so on, as it will also form the order of the saints (that) lived in her inheritance; and after that (having) fully formed them on earth, she will transport them to heaven, surrounding herself with the new hierarchy, regenerated in the Divine Fiat, in her own love lived in her inheritance.

                “This will be the conclusion of the work of creation, our ‘consumatum est’, because we will have had the Kingdom of our Volition in creatures, in virtue of the Celestial Heiress, who wanted to give (her) life for each in order to make him reign.  And oh, how we will remain glorified, felicitated, because the Sovereign Lady holds her hierarchy as we hold ours; much more so ours will be hers and hers ours, because all that which one does in our Volition is inseparable.

                “If you might know how much this Celestial Queen loves souls!

                “She, faithful copy of her Creator, looks in herself and finds his seas of love, of grace, of sanctity, of beauty, of light; she looks at creatures, and wants to give all herself with all her seas, so that they might possess the Mama with all her riches.  To see the children poor, while the Mother is so rich, and only because they don’t live in the inheritance of the Mother, is a sorrow.  She would like to see them in her seas of love, that they might love their Creator as she loves him, hidden in his sanctity, adorned with his beauty, full of his grace; and not seeing them, if she had not been in the state of glory, where sufferings have no place, for pure sorrow she would have died for each creature that did not live in the Divine Volition.

                “Therefore, she prays incessantly; she puts into prayer all her seas, in order to implore that the Divine Will be done as in heaven so on earth.

                “Her love is so much that, in virtue of our Volition, she bilocates herself into each creature in order to prepare the interior of their souls, she places them side by side to her maternal Heart, she embraces them between her arms, in order to dispose them to receive the life of the Supreme Fiat, and oh, how she prays in each heart (to) our adorable majesty, saying to us:  ‘Do it quickly: my love can no longer contain itself; I want to see my children living together with me in that same Divine Will that forms all my glory, my riches, my great inheritance.  Entrust yourselves to me, and I will know how to defend so many children in as much as your own Will which is also mine.’

                “The love of this Celestial Queen and Mother it is unsurpassable, and only in heaven will they know how much she loves creatures and what she has done for them; and her most exuberant, magnanimous and greatest act is wanting that they might possess the Kingdom of my Volition as she possessed it herself; and oh, what this Celestial Lady would do in order to obtain the intent!  You also, unite yourself with her and pray for a purpose so holy.”

Fiat!!!

Vol. 35, Aug 9, 1937

Divine Exposition

I wanted to return to the idea of God in Creation and in yesterday's mass and the priest's homily I seemed to see a connection to this.

Yesterday the priest was speaking of the three celebrated Epiphanies of the Lord.  This was in conjunction with the gospel reading.  The three are the Visit of the Magi where Jesus manifests himself to the Gentiles.  The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordon is the second in which he manifests himself to the world as the Son of God.  The third as found in yesterdays gospel is the wedding of Cana in which Jesus again manifests himself in the beginning of his public ministry.

1	On the third day there was a marriage at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there;
2	Jesus also was invited to the marriage, with his disciples.
3	When the wine failed, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."
4	And Jesus said to her, "O woman, what have you to do with me? My hour has not yet come."
5	His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
6	Now six stone jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
7	Jesus said to them, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them up to the brim.
8	He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the steward of the feast." So they took it.
9	When the steward of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward of the feast called the bridegroom
10	and said to him, "Every man serves the good wine first; and when men have drunk freely, then the poor wine; but you have kept the good wine until now."
11	This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

John 2:1-11

These Epiphanies, or manifestations, point towards the Divinity in the Humanity of Jesus.  They point toward God in the work of redemption.  These three were expositions of Jesus' divinity but there are other expositions of God in his Creation which we have with us on a daily basis but who is it that acknowledges them.

“My daughter, for you there is no need to expose [the Blessed Sacrament], because for whoever does My Will, It has the greatest and most continuous exposition in all of creation.  Actually, every created thing, because it is animated by It, forms as many expositions for as many things as exist.  What forms My Divine Life in the Eucharist?  My Will.  If the Sacramental Host were not animated by My Supreme Will, Divine Life would not exist within it; it would be a simple white host not meriting the adoration of the faithful.

“Now, My daughter, My Will has Its exposition in the sun, and just as My Will is veiled in the Hosts, hiding My Life, so It has the veils of light in the sun which hide My Life.  Yet who is it that genuflects, who sends an act of adoration, who says a ‘Thank You’ to My Will exposed in the sun?  No one - what ingratitude!  But even with all that It is not inhibited, It is always stable in doing good within Its veils of light.  It follows man’s steps, empowering his actions; whichever way he takes It’s light is to be found in front of and behind him, carrying him in triumph, carrying him in Its womb of light to do him good It is disposed to do him good and to give him light, even when he does not want it.

“Oh Will of Mine, how invincible, lovable, admirable, and unchanging in good, untiring without ever retreating [You are]!  Do you see the great difference between the exposition of the Eucharist and the continuous act of exposition which My Will has in all created things?  In the exposition of the Eucharist man must be bothered - he must go, draw near, dispose himself to receive the good; otherwise he receives nothing.  On the other hand in the exposition of My Will in created things It goes Itself to man to eliminate his bother, and in spite of the fact that he is not even disposed, My Will is very free and drowns man with Its goods.  But there is no one who adores My Eternal Will and all It’s expositions.

“The sun, symbol of the Eucharist, gives its light, its heat, its innumerable goods, but always in silence, it never says a word, never chastises, in spite of the many horrendous evils it sees.  In the sea, however, under the veils of the water, It gives Its exposition in a different way.  It speaks as It forms Its whisperings in the veils of the water, It strikes fear in the tumultuous breakers and in [the sea’s] rumbling waves.  If It overwhelms boats and people, It can bury them in the depths of the sea without anyone being able to resist.  My Will in the sea makes an exposition of Its Power and speaks in the whisperings, speaks in the breakers, speaks in the highest waves, calling man to love It and fear It, and seeing Itself not listened to makes an exposition of the Divine Justice, changing those veils into storms which unfurl unavoidably against man.

“Oh!  If the creatures paid attention to all the expositions which My Will makes in all of creation, they would need to stay always in an act of adoration to adore My Will exposed in the flowered fields with its radiant scents, in the loaded fruit trees with their variety of sweet flavors.  There is no created thing which does not have its special Divine exposition, and because the creatures do not bestow the honors upon [My Will in creation] as they should, it’s up to you to maintain perpetual adoration in the exposition that the Supreme Fiat has in all of creation.  My daughter, let it be you who offers herself as a perpetual adorer of this Will, for now It is absent of adorers and receives no exchange of love on the part of the creature.

Vol. 21, Feb. 26, 1921

It always amazes me that atheists can seem to be blind to the presence of God when surrounded by such magnificence and harmony in the Creation.  But I must also confess that I too can be so wrapped up in my own little existence that I too miss the opportunity to see truly the expression of God all around me.

The Fruitful Land

In today's first reading at mass I saw in the passage a glimpse of God's creature not only redeemed but sanctified and justified.  Jerusalem, the image of God's chosen spouse becomes his delight again.  God works tirelessly to win us back to him and vindicate us, taking us into a covenant of marriage.  We are the land and we become fruitful once again.

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,
and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
until her vindication shines out like the dawn,
and her salvation like a burning torch.
² The nations shall see your vindication,
and all the kings your glory;
and you shall be called by a new name
that the mouth of the Lord will give.
³ You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
⁴ You shall no more be termed Forsaken,
    and your land shall no more be termed Desolate;
but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her,
    and your land Married;
for the Lord delights in you,
and your land shall be married.
⁵ For as a young man marries a young woman,
so shall your builder marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so shall your God rejoice over you.
Isaiah 62:1-5

The land and earth are common images of the creature.  The name Adam means red/fair earth.  An even clearer example is found in the book The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will where she speaks of her birth.

'Child of my Heart, my birth was prodigious; no other birth can be said to be similar to mine.  I enclosed within Myself the Heaven, the Sun of the Divine Will, and also the earth of my humanity - but a blessed and holy earth, which enclosed the most beautiful flowerings.  And even though I was just newly born, I enclosed the prodigy of the greatest prodigies:  the Divine Will reigning in Me, which enclosed in Me a Heaven more beautiful, a Sun more refulgent than those of Creation, of which I was also Queen, as well as a sea of graces without boundaries, which constantly murmured:  “Love, love to my Creator.” '

The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will, Day 10

Mary was immaculate from the moment of her conception not containing the stain of original sin and therefore it's effects.  Because of this all her acts were holy and fruitful animated by the Divine Will as her human will was kept sacrificed to God.  These are the types of fruitful acts that we were created to do and because of original sin and it's effects we are then prevented from doing them so.

"You must know that I knew my human will only to keep it sacrificed in homage to my Creator.  My life was all of Divine Will; from the first instant of my Conception, I was molded, warmed and placed into Its light, which purified my human seed with Its power, in such a way that I was conceived without original sin.  Therefore, if my Conception was spotless and so glorious as to form the honor of the Divine Family, it was only because the Omnipotent Fiat poured Itself upon my seed, and I was conceived pure and holy.  So, if the Divine Will had not poured Itself upon my seed more than a tender mother, in order to prevent the effects of original sin, I would have encountered the sad destiny of the other creatures, of being conceived with original sin.  Therefore, the primary cause was, entirely, the Divine Will; to It be honor, glory, thanksgiving, for my having been conceived without original sin.

In the Our Father one line is often translated, "...on earth, as it is in Heaven."   If one looks at the King James Bible and in some other christian religions and languages that line is instead translated "...in earth, as it is in Heaven."  It's such a small word that it can be overlooked yet it has significant meaning.  We, ourselves, are the earth that Jesus is referring to in the prayer of the Our Father.  He is praying that his Kingdom will reign in the earth of each creature and in that way it will then become manifest upon the earth as well.

It is in allowing God permission to reestablish his Kingdom in us by giving him our will so that his might reign that we become fruitful again with our acts pleasing to God.  This also is the marriage of the creature to her "builder," God.  God can not live and reign in a divided kingdom but only in one where one Will reigns.  When this happens it is as marrying the creature and the permanent indwelling of God in his creature then occurs bringing with him all his manifold effects.

"My child, listen to Me:  look for nothing else, if you want to have everything in your power, and give Me the contentment of being able to make of you my true child, and child of the Divine Will.  Then will I take on the commitment of forming the marriage between you and the Fiat; and acting as your true Mother, I will bind the marriage by giving you the very Life of my Son as dowry, and my Maternity and all my virtues as gift."

The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will, Day 25

 

God in Creation

I awhile ago I worked with someone who had told me that he didn't consider himself religious, didn't go to church but felt he found God when he spent time in nature and in the woods.  I remembered that through the years and have often found God in creation myself.  It's in the volumes that I found the confirmation for this and even a greater meaning behind it.

“My daughter, look at the creation:  the sky, the countless stars, the sun, the wind, the sea, the flowered fields, the peaks and the valleys - they are all rooms which I formed, and in each room I formed My court so that I could live there.  This I did so as to give man the easy possibility of wherever he wanted to come he could find his God.  I made it easy to find [God] immediately, and everywhere.  And God placed Himself in each room in an act of waiting for him, [and] left all the rooms open so man wouldn’t have to bother with knocking, but thus could enter freely as often as he wanted; God was ready to receive him.

“The Creator of heaven and earth didn’t place Himself in one single place, but everywhere, so that man could find Him everywhere.  He placed these rooms very close together to form many shortcuts, because there must not be any distance between Creator and creature, but closeness and communion.  So all these rooms were and are relations, ties, and ways between God and man.

“But who was to have maintained these relations active, who was to have consolidated these ties, ordered the ways, and opened the doors?  Our Will reigning in the soul was to have had this responsibility so important in maintaining the order of creation just as we put it forth.  When man withdrew from the Divine Fiat, the relations were no longer active, the ties were undone, the paths barricaded, and the doors closed.  [Man] lost his dear inheritance, remaining stripped of all goods, and each step was a loose shoestring between his feet which made him fall.  Not doing Our Will he lost everything, and there was no good which remained.  By doing It he acquires everything; there is no good that is not restored to him.

“What did the Paternal goodness of the Creator not do in creation for love of man?  Not only did He form many rooms but they were different one from another so that He could be found in many different ways, by [man] whom He loved.  In the sun He let Himself be found invested in light, all majesty, burning with love, waiting for man to give him His light, to make Himself understood, [and] to give him His love so that man, entering into this room to find his God, would himself become light and love.  In the sea He let Himself be found as the strong God to give man strength.  In the wind He let Himself be found ruling and dominating so as to give man rule and dominion.  In other words, in each created thing God was waiting for man so that He could make him participate in all of His qualities.”

Vol. 21, May, 26, 1927


Each aspect in the Creation contains a specific attribute of God made manifest for the purpose of teaching man about God.  Each created thing is as a book which when we study brings us further knowledge of God and therefore closer to Him and not only that but this is designed so that we might possess these attributes in ourselves in order to make us more like our Heavenly Father.  In the Divine Will we can enter these rooms, learn and grow, and then return to God all that he has given us in each room for ourselves and all people and generations.

“Besides that, all Our Divine qualities are spread out in creation, and each created thing occupies an office of Our Attributes.  One is a child of Our Power, another of Justice, another of Light, another of Peace, another of Goodness - each created thing is a child of one of Our Attributes.  So when you bring Me all of creation, you are the bearer of My happiness which is scattered in it, and I recognize My child of the light, of the sun, and my child of justice.  In the sea I recognize the child of the surging wind, and the child of peace in the flowering earth.  In other words I recognize each part of My Attributes in all created things, and I rejoice in recognizing My children which the little daughter of My Volition brings to Me.  I do just as that father who has many children and each one of them occupies an office of love ‑ one is prince, one is judge, one is a representative, one is a senator, one is a governor.  The father feels happier as he recognizes each of these offices in the very fruit of his loins, and the honored nobility of his own children.

“All things were created to flow before and delight the children of the Supreme Fiat, and as I see you bring back to Us Our works We recognize in you Our design; and oh, how We rejoice seeing you make your rounds to gather together all Our works to again give Us Our joy which is dispersed in all of creation.  So let your flight in My Will be continuous.”

Vol. 21, Feb. 3, 1927


"...Such is our Divinity, we have extended our Paternity in an infinite way in all the Creation, as Father we are all eyes over our children, so that they lack nothing, our arms feel the extreme need of love of pressing her to our bosom in order to give her love and to receive love, and when we see the creature who races to us, wants our embraces, oh, how happy we feel that our Paternity is recognized and can develop the office of Father for our children!  Our generation is almost innumerable, and yet few children surround us, all the others are distant from us, distant with heart, with will, far from our likeness, and in our sorrow in seeing few children around us we say:  ‘And our other children where are they?  How (is it that) they don’t feel the need to have a Celestial Father, to receive our Paternal caresses, to possess our goods?’  Therefore be attentive, recognize our goods, our works, and you will feel our Paternity in the Sky bombarded with stars, that calls you daughter in their gentle twinkling and attests to you of the love of your Father.  Our Paternity extends itself in the Sun, that with its vibrant light calls you daughter and says to you:  ‘Recognize in my light the great gift of your Father, that loves you so much, that he wants that you be the possessor of this light.’  Our Paternity extends itself everywhere, in the water that you drink, in the food that you take, in the varieties of beauties of all nature, [our works] have a common voice, that all call you daughter of the great Celestial Father, and as his daughter they want to be possessed by you.  Now what would be our contentment, if in all things created by us, to our tender voice (that) calls you daughter, we might hear your voice that might call us Father, and might say to us:  ‘This is gift of my Father, oh, how he loves me!  And I want to love him a great, great deal.’”
Vol. 29, June 23, 1921


Each created thing is as a book, full of the knowledge of the Divine Will, of God himself.  And the interior of the creature is to be a great volume, a mirror of all the Creation and the Redemption and of Sanctification.  He desires that we be full and complete.

“My daughter, one who does my Will and lives in Him forms in her soul the book of the Divine Fiat, but this book must be full, no void, or else some (partially) written page; if it is not full she will immediately finish reading it, and not having that to read she will occupy herself with other, and hence the life of my Divine Will will be interrupted and as broken in the creature. Instead if she is full, she will always hold (something) to read, and if it seems that she finishes, I will add on other pages more sublime, in order to make that she never lacks the life, the always new knowledge and the substantial food of my Divine Volition.  So that the interior must be as so many pages in order to form this book, pages the intelligence, pages the will and the memory, page the desire, the affection, the heartbeat, page the word that must know how to repeat that which has been read, otherwise it will remain a book that won’t do good for anyone, while [for] one who forms a book the first purpose is to propagate it.  Hence the entire interior must be written with pages of my Divine Will, and this book must be so very full, as to not be able to find other to read if not my Will alone.  Now when the soul has her interior book full, she will know much good (of) the exterior book of the Divine Will:  all the Creation is none other than (a) book of Him, every created thing is a page that forms a most great book and of many volumes.  Whence having formed her interior book and (having) read it very well, she will know how to read very well the exterior book of all the Creation, and in all things she will re-find my Divine Will in act to give her his life, his most high and sublime lessons, and his dainty and holy food.  It will happen, to one who has formed in her interior this book of the Divine Fiat and read it very well, as [to] one who has possessed a book, has read it and reread it, has studied well the most difficult things, has smoothed out all the difficulties, made clear the most obscure points, in a way that she has consumed her life over that book, if a person of outside might bring her another similar book, she will most certainly know it and will recognize in that book hers.  More so that my Divine Will has enclosed the creature in his Most Holy circle and has put in the depth of (her) soul the book of his Fiat, and in the Creation he has repeated his divine book, in a way that the one makes the echo in the other and they understand each other admirably.  Behold therefore it is necessary to recognize the book of the Divine Fiat in the depth of one’s own soul, to read it very well in order to make perennial life of it, and thus with facility she can read the beautiful pages and the great book of my Will of all the Creation.”

Vol. 29, July 6, 1931


It calls for attention and gratitude and so love springs forth and God's game of love continues in us.


"...Therefore, my daughter, if you will be attentive to always live of my Will, He will entrust all the secrets of the story of the Creation to you, he will make the deposit in your soul of all his joys and his intimate sorrows, and as his secretary, with his vibrant light, transforming itself into brush he will paint in you the Sun, the Sky, the stars, the sea, the beautiful flowerings.  Because when He speaks he is not content with words alone, to his inextinguishable love and his interminable light words are not enough for him, but he wants to do deeds, and therefore with his creative virtue, while he entrusts his secrets, he speaks and forms the new creation in the creature, he is not content to speak his secrets, but he wants to make for her works that contain his secrets.  Hence new Heavens, Suns more brilliant than the Creation itself will be seen in the creature that lives in my Will.  Because you should know that He holds a longing, an ardent desire to always want to work, but he goes finding one who wants to listen and one who wants to receive his creative virtue, in order not to expose his works to uselessness, and in order to be secure he goes finding his same Will in the soul, and finding him he finds his works guaranteed by his same Divine Fiat, therefore he does not spare anything and he makes for you the most beautiful works and the greatest prodigies.  Oh, Power of my omnipotent Volition, if everyone might know you, they might love you and might let you reign, earth would be changed into Heaven!”
Vol. 29, Aug. 22, 1931

The Fall

I was looking at Mary's blog, http://openingthefloodgatesofmercy.blogspot.com/ where she was talking about her reaction to this line that she heard on the radio.

"Who were you before Satan rained down his blows upon you?"

I was thinking this over and felt that there was a deeper reason even beyond our own personal encounters for which this resonates with people going back to the original fall of man and the inherent loss that we all suffered from that separation from God.

Here it talks about the tremendous fall original sin actually was and how it was a miracle that he didn't die from it.

'I was thinking to myself:  “How is it that Adam, by withdrawing himself from the Divine Will, fell from such heights to such a low place?”  And Jesus, moving in my interior, said to me:

 

“My daughter, as in the natural order, whoever falls from a high place either dies or remains so broken and deformed that it is impossible for him to regain his original state of health, beauty, and position; he will remain a poor cripple, curved and lame.  And if this person is a father, he will produce a generation of cripples - blind, deformed, and lame.

     “Likewise is it in the supernatural order.  Adam fell from a very high place; he had been placed by his Creator at such an elevated point, that it surpassed the limits of the sky, the stars, and the sun.  Living in My Will he lived above everything - in God Himself.  See from where he fell?  Falling from such heights, it is a miracle that he didn’t totally perish.  But if he didn’t die, the blow he received in falling was so strong that it was inevitable that he remain crippled, broken, and deformed in his rare beauty.  He was left with all his goods smashed; [he was] left indolent in his actions, dulled in his intellect, suffering from a fever which weakened him, withered in all the virtues, and he no longer felt the strength to dominate himself.  Man’s most beautiful asset, dominion of self, had vanished, and the passions had taken over to terrorize him, to render him restless and melancholy.  Because he was the father and head of the human generations, he produced a family of cripples.  Many think that not doing My Will is of little importance; instead it is the total ruin of the creature, and for as many acts (as the creature) commits of his own will, by so many times do his evils increase, along with his ruin, and he only continues to dig an abyss ever deeper for him to fall into.”'

Vol. 21, April 8, 1927


But it's not just the shame, confusion and sorrow that man has experienced in the fall but also the sorrow God feels in seeing man stripped from him and living in exile.  Only in man did God receive the unique joy of a creature who could reciprocate with him and return the love he lavished upon him.

“My blessed daughter, as you offered our acts in creating man, and those of innocent Adam, in order to impetrate the kingdom of my Divine Will, thus you have repeated joys that we experienced in creating man, and you have formed new bonds of union between the Divine Will and man, they are our same acts that formed the place where to create man and they administered life to him in order to animate him, thus our same acts will form the way to make him reenter into our Will.  Therefore the offering of our acts are armed with power, that make us decide to give that which the creature asks, more so that they are carriers of joys, but so much so that it put us in feast, and who does not know that in feasts one abounds in giving gifts not ever given?  Now you should know that in not one other thing created by us did we experience such joy as in creating man, but do you know why[?] we gave power to be able to give our heartbeat, our life, our love, if we gave, we gave ourselves, but neither the Sky, nor the Sun, nor the stars, nor the wind nor all the rest had any power to give us anything, therefore the joy of receiving, no, it didn’t exist in the other created things, at most the joy of giving, that (there) not being the exchange, the joy remain isolated and without company.  Instead in creating man we gave him the power of giving us our life, our eternal heartbeat, that beats and gives love, such was our joy to give this power to man, to feel our heartbeat in him and to give our life at his disposition in order to be able to love us with a Divine life, so that man could felicitate us and exchange us with his joys, and joys that can remain equal with ours.  Now in seeing our life in him, in feeling our heartbeat beat in him, we felt such joy that we remained ecstatic before a portent so great as the creation of man, and now offering us these our acts we feel repeated the joys and the sweet memory of his creation.  Therefore repeat your offerings if you want to give us joys and to incline us to give our reigning Will upon the earth.”

Vol. 32, Aug. 6, 1933


Even though in sinning Adam lost the life of the Fiat God did not withdraw his light from him in order to keep him alive.  This gives man the necessary means, support and guidance to work towards the day where he can be reunited with God as he was originally created to be.

"Now, my daughter, the love in Adam before sinning was perfect, total, my Will held his life in a way that he felt Him more than his own life, as he sinned, the life of my Fiat withdrew himself and the light remained (to) him, because He without Him could not live, he would have returned into the nothing.  In creating him we did as a Father that puts his goods and his life itself in common with (his) own child.  Now this disobedience, to rebel (against) one’s own Father, the Father with sorrow is constrained to put him outside of his residence, not letting him possess in common anymore neither his goods, nor his life, but so much is his love that although distant he doesn’t let him lack the necessary things, the means of strict necessity, because he knows that if the Father withdraws himself, the life of the child is finished.  Thus my Divine Will did, he withdrew his Life but left his light, as help, support and as necessary means so that his child might not perish entirely.  Now with withdrawing his Life, all things and works of God remained, veiled for man.  He himself, veiled the intelligence, the memory, the will, he remained as those poor unhappy dying ones, that covering the pupil of the eye with a thin veil, they don’t see clearly anymore the life of the light.  My Divinity itself in descending from Heaven in earth, veiled itself with my Humanity.  Oh!  If creatures might possess as Life my Will, immediately they would have known Me, because He himself would have revealed who I was, my Volition in her and that same Divine Volition in Me they would have immediately known, loved each other, they would have made crowds around Me, nor would they have been able to separate from Me, recognizing me under the likeness of their cast offs as Word Eternal, He who loved them so much, that he had dressed himself as one of them.  So that I would have had no need to manifest myself, my Will residing in them, would have revealed Me, nor would I have been able to hide myself instead I had to tell them who I was, and how many did not believe Me?  Therefore even to such that my Will doesn’t reign in creatures everything is veiled, the Sacraments themselves, that more than (a) new Creation with so much love I left in my Church, are veiled for them, how many surprises, how many beautiful secrets, and marvelous things a veiled pupil impedes (one) from understanding, from seeing, from tasting, more so that this veil is the human volition that forms and impedes her from seeing the things that are in herself.  Whence my Will reigning in creatures as life will take away this veil and all things will be revealed, and then they will see the caresses that we make them through means of created things, the kisses, the loving embraces, in every single created thing they will feel our ardent heartbeat that loves them, they will see in the Sacraments our Life flow, in order to give itself continually to them and they will feel the need of giving themselves to Us.  This will be the great prodigy that my Divine Will will do, to break all the veils, to abound with unheard of graces, to take possession of souls as proper life, in a way that no one will be able to resist him and thus he will have his kingdom upon the earth.”

Vol. 33, Nov. 24, 1935

God has already made us his solemn promise in the Our Father that His Kingdom will come and reign again.  Done deal.  But even before this kingdom becomes manifest upon the earth we have the chance to begin anew the games of love with God and return to him all the lost joys that were found in the creation of man.  And what do you think this means to God, it means the triumph of his love, of his infinite patience with man, of his heights of wisdom and of his Most Holy Will.

“My daughter, in his state of innocence, possessing the life of my Divine Will, Adam possessed the universal life and virtue. Therefore, I found the love of everything and of everyone centralized in his love and in his acts, and all the acts were unified together – not even my works were excluded from his act. I found everything in the works of Adam; I found all the shades of beauties, fullness of love, unreachable and admirable mastery, and then, everything and everyone.
Now, one who lives in my Will rises into the act of innocent Adam, and making the universal life and virtue her own, she makes his act her own. Not only this, but she rises into the acts of the Queen of Heaven, in those of her very Creator, and flowing in all the acts, she centralizes herself in them and says: ‘Everything is mine, and I give everything to my God. Just as His Divine Will is mine, so everything is mine – everything that came out of It. Having nothing of my own, with Its Fiat I have everything, and I can give God to God. Oh, how happy, glorious, victorious I feel in the eternal Volition! I possess everything and I can give everything, without exhausting anything of my immense riches.’ So, there is no act, either in Heaven or on earth, in which I do not find one who lives in my Will.”
Vol. 24, August 12, 1928

Even though our senses have been veiled from original sin and our memory and intellect dulled I don't think there is anyone out there that doesn't on some level cry out in themselves that there should be more.  There should be something better.  I believe it is on this level that the phase; "Who were you before Satan rained down his blows upon you?" holds such a deep resonace with us.  It echos our own cry to return to the order, the place the purpose for which we were created by God.

The Circumcision

Just eight days after being born is when a baby in Jesus' day was circumcised.  It has many levels of meaning.  From the bonding and pledging of the Israel people to God, to the first wounding of humanity in the original sin, and transformed by Jesus into making the Divine Will re-enter into the human generations.  Here are the accounts I found in the writings.

Firstly by Mary,

"Now, dear child, you must know that the eighth day arrived after the Celestial Baby had been born to the light of the day, and the Divine Fiat sounded the hour of sorrow, commanding us to circumcise the charming little Baby.  It was a most painful cut which little Jesus was to undergo.  It was the law of those times that all the firstborn had to undergo this painful cut.  It can be called the law of sin, but my Son was innocent and His law was the law of love; but in spite of this, because He came to find, not the man-king, but the man degraded, in order to make Himself his brother and to elevate him, He wanted to lower Himself, and He submitted Himself to the law.

My child, Saint Joseph and I felt a shiver of pain, but intrepid and without hesitating, we called the minister and we had Him circumcised with a most painful cut.  At the bitter pain, Baby Jesus cried and flung Himself into my arms, asking for my help.  Saint Joseph and I mixed our tears with His; we gathered the first Blood shed by Jesus for love of creatures, and we gave Him the name of Jesus – powerful name, which was to make Heaven and earth tremble, and even hell; a name which was to be balm, defense, help for every heart.

Now, my child, this cut was the image of the cruel cut that man had done to his soul by doing his own will; and my dear Son allowed Himself to be given this cut in order to heal the harsh cut of the human wills, and, with His Blood, to heal the wounds of the many sins which the poison of the human will has produced in the creatures.  So, each act of human will is a cut that is given, and a wound that opens; and the Celestial Baby, with His painful cut, prepared the remedy for all the human wounds."

The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will, Day 23


As Jesus states in Vol. 3 it is also a lesson in humility and how in humbling ourselves we draw closer to the truth and therefore closer to Jesus who is the truth.

 

Being very afflicted because of the privation of my highest and only Good, after much waiting and waiting, finally I saw Him come out from within my heart, crying, and making me understand with His eyes that He was hurting from the wound received in the Circumcision.  So He cried and expected me to dry the blood that was pouring from that wound, and to sweeten the pain of the cut.  I felt all compassion and confusion together, so much so that I did not dare to do it; however, drawn by love, I don’t know how I found a little cloth in my hand, and I tried as much as I could to dry the blood of Baby Jesus.  While doing this, I felt I was all full of sin, and I thought that I was the cause of that pain of Jesus.  Oh, how sorry I felt for Him!  I felt absorbed in that bitterness; and the blessed little Baby, compassionating my miserable state, told me:
“The more the soul humiliates herself and knows herself, the closer she draws to the truth; and being in the truth, she tries to push herself along the path of virtues, from which she sees herself very far away.  And if she sees herself on the path of virtues, immediately she realizes how much there is left for her to do, because virtues have no end – they are infinite, as I am.  So, being in the truth, the soul always tries to perfect herself, but she will never arrive at seeing herself perfect.  And this serves her, and it will make her work continuously, striving to perfect herself more, without wasting time in idleness.  And I, pleased with this work, keep retouching her little by little, in order to portray my likeness in her. 

"This is why I wanted to be circumcised – to give an example of highest humility, which rendered the very Angels of Heaven stunned.” 
Vol. 3, Jan. 1, 1900


Jesus also states how this is an example of how the creature must chose to put an end to the human so that the Divine might have life.  It is not an end to the human will however but a new beginning.  When transformed by Jesus in his Divinity a wounds brings healing not injury just as his death brings life.

"Now, you must know that one who puts an end to her will, returns into the origin from which she came, and the new life, the life of light, the perennial life of my Will, begins in her.  See, when I came upon earth, I wanted to give many examples and similes of how I wanted the human will to end.  I wanted to be born at midnight, so as to break the night of the human will with the refulgent day of Mine.  And even though at midnight the night continues, it does not finish, it is yet the beginning of a new day; and my Angels, to give honor to my birth and to point out to everyone the day of my Will, from midnight on, gladdened the vault of the heavens with new stars and new suns, such as to turn the night into more than daylight.  This was the homage that the Angels gave to my little Humanity, in which resided the full day of the Sun of my Divine Will, and the calling of the creature into the full day of It.  Still little, I submitted Myself to the so very cruel cut of circumcision, which made Me shed bitter tears for the pain – and not only Me, but with Me cried my Mama and dear St. Joseph.  It was the cut of the human will that I wanted to make, so that creatures might let the Divine Will flow within that cut, and so that a broken will might have life no more - but only Mine, which had run within that cut in order to begin Its life again." 

Vol. 20, Jan. 1, 1927


After this, I was thinking about the bitter pain which little Baby Jesus suffered in the circumcision. It is only eight days since He was born, and He submits Himself to a cut so painful. And Jesus, moving in my interior, added:

“My daughter, in the first epoch of his life, by sinning, Adam made a wound to his soul, through which the Divine Will went out and, in Its place, darkness, miseries, weaknesses entered, which formed the wood worm to all the goods of man. So, if he has any good without my Divine Will - if he has any at all, they are worm-eaten, moldy, without substance, therefore without strength and without value. And I, who love him so much, in the first days of my life down here, wanted to submit Myself to the circumcision, suffering a most cruel cut, to the point of snatching my baby tears. And by this wound I opened the door to the human will, to let it enter again into Mine, so that this wound of mine might heal the wound of the human will and might enclose man once again in my Divine Fiat, which would remove from him the wood worm, the miseries, the weaknesses, the darkness; and by virtue of my omnipotent Fiat, all of his goods would be redone and restored. Daughter, from the moment I was conceived and from the very first days of my being born, I occupied Myself with the Kingdom of my Divine Will and with how to place It in safety in the midst of creatures. These were my sighs, my tears, my repeated sobs, my pains, all directed toward reestablishing the Kingdom of my Fiat upon earth. In fact, I knew that no matter how many goods I might give him, man would never be happy, nor would he possess the fullness of goods and of sanctity, or have the insignia of his creation which constitute him king and dominator; he is always the man-servant, weak, miserable. But with my Will, and by making It reign in their midst, I would give him, in one single stroke of fortune, all goods, his royal palace and his lost dominion.
Vol. 25, Jan. 1, 1929

Jesus himself states that without his Will reigning within the creature despite any gifts God could give him otherwise man will always be an unhappy servant and not the king he was created to be.