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July 26, 1908. Volume 8. Obedience continuing in my usual state. Blessed Jesus came for just a little and told me, "My daughter, obedience is the ark of my dwelling in the soul. Where this ark of obedience is not present, I can say that there is no place for me in that soul, and I'm forced to remain outside."
July 26, 1921. Vol 13. The Divine Will is more than life for the soul. I, sweet Jesus, continue to speak to me about His holy will. "My daughter, if the sun is the king of the universe, if with its light it symbolizes my majesty and with its heat my love and justice, to the point that when it finds earth that does not want to dispose itself to fecundity, it ends up withering it and it renders it sterile with its burning breath. Water can be called queen of the earth because symbolizing my will, there is no point into which she does not enter, nor is there creature who can live without her. Maybe one could live without the sun, but nobody can live without water. Water enters into everything, even into the veins and the human bowels, as well as into these profound abysses of the earth. In mute silence, it follows its continuous course. One can say that water is not only queen, but it is like the soul of the earth. Without water, the earth would be like a dead body. So is my will. It is not only queen, but more than soul of all created things. It is the life of each heartbeat, of each fiber of the heart. My volition, like water, flows within everything. Now remaining silent and hidden, now palpitating, invisible. Mankins tract himself from my light, from my love, from my grace, but from my will, never. He would be like one who wanted to live without water. It is true, there may be some crazy one who hates water, but even if he hates it and does not love it, he will be forced to drink it. Hi there, water or death. The same form I will, since it is life of everything. Creatures will keep it with them, either with love or with hatred. But even though against their will, they will be forced to let my will flow in them like blood in the veins. And those who wanted to subtract themselves from my will would be like the suicides of their own souls. But still, my will would not leave them. It would follow the course of justice over them, since it could not follow for them the course of the goods that my volition contains. If man knew what it means to do or not do my will, hell would tremble with fright at the mere thought of subtracting themselves from my will for one single instant."
July 26, 1926. Volume 19. The four degrees of the living in the supreme will. I continue in my usual abandonment in the supreme volition, and my always lovable Jesus, on coming, told me, "My daughter, the light of the sun is not enjoyed equally by all, not because of the sun, since my works containing the universal good do good to all with no restriction of any kind, but because of creatures. Imagine a person who remains in his room; he does not enjoy all the vividness of the light, and if he enjoys a mild light, he does not enjoy its heat. There's someone else then who was outside of the built-up area; he enjoys more light, he feels the heat of the sun. The heat purifies and disinfects the putrid air, and didn't enjoying the purified air, he becomes stronger and feels healthier. So the second person enjoys more of the goods that the sun brings to the earth. But moved forward, there is a third person who goes and puts himself at that point in which the solar rays hit the surface of the earth. This one feels invested by its rays, he feels burned by the heat of the sun. The vividness of its light is such that his eyes, being filled with it, he can hardly look at the earth. He sees himself as though transfused, one could say, into the very light. He feels little of the earth, of himself, and only because he has his feet on the ground, but he lives only for the sun. See what a great difference exists between the first, the second, and the third. But moved even further, a fourth person takes flight into the solar race and rises up to the center of its sphere. This one remains burned by the intensity of the heat that the sun contains in its center. The intensity of the light eclipses him completely, in such a way that he remains dissolved, consumed within the sun itself. This fourth person can no longer look at the earth, nor think of himself. And if he does, he will look at light, he will feel fire. So for him, all things have ended; light and heat have taken the place of his life. What a difference between the third and the fourth. However, all this difference does not depend on the sun, but on creatures and on how they expose themselves to the light of the sun. Now, the sun is the image of my will, which more than sun shoots its rays to convert those who want to live in its kingdom completely into light and love. These people are the image of the four degrees of the living in my will. One can say that the first one does not live in its kingdom, but only in the light which from my kingdom, the sun of my will, diffuses to all. One can say that he is outside of its boundaries, and if he enjoys a limited light, it is because of the nature of light which diffuses everywhere. His nature, his weaknesses, and passions form as though a house around him; they form infected and putrid air, and in breathing it, he lives as sickly and without liveliness of strength and doing good. But in spite of all this, he is resigned; he bears to his best the encounters of life because the light of my will, mild as it may be, always brings its good. The second is the image of one who has entered the first steps of the boundaries of the kingdom of the supreme will. This one enjoys not only more light but also the heat; therefore, the air he breathes is pure, and in breathing it, he feels passions die within him. He is constant and good; he bears the crosses not only with resignation but with love. However, since he is at the first steps of the boundaries, he looks at the earth and feels the weight of the human nature. On the other hand, the third is the image of one who has advanced into the boundaries of this kingdom, and its light is such and so great as to make him forget everything. He no longer feels anything of himself; good, virtues, crosses change into his own nature. The light eclipses him, transforms him, and just barely allows him to look from afar at what no longer belongs to him. The fourth is the happiest because he is the image of one who not only lives in my kingdom but has acquired it. This one undergoes the total consummation in the supreme son of my will. The eclipses caused by its light is so intense that he himself becomes light and heat, nor can he look at anything else but light and fire, and all things convert for him into light and love. And therefore, there will be a difference of degrees in the kingdom of my will according to how much creatures will want to take from its goods, but the first degrees will be spurs and paths in order to reach the last one. For you, then, who must make it known, there is all the necessity to live in the last degree."
July 26, 1927. Volume 22. How the Divine Will has two characters: incessant act and unshakable firmness. How the human action service straw for the wheat. I was lamenting because of the privation of my sweet Jesus and pouring out my intense sorrow, I said to myself, "How hard his abandonment is! I feel as though I am under a press, squeezed drop by drop. Oh Jesus, where are your promises? Where is your love? Where is the triumph of your divine will in my poor soul? And I feel as though betrayed by you. How bitter my end is! It is not the beginning that one must look at; it is the end that says everything." But while I was pouring myself out, my beloved good, moving in my interior, told me, "My daughter, my divine will has its triumph in you, and this is why it squeezes you drop by drop, hundreds divine press, so that not even a drop of your will may be left in you. Poor daughter, it is a divine and unshakable will that works you in order to lay its kingdom in you, even in your littlest acts. Therefore, patience, do not lose heart. My divine will has two characters: unshakeable firmness and incessant act. This is why when the soul has given herself to it, its work is incessant. Who don't you feel its continuous motion within yourself? And when I manifest to you a truth about it with a mastery that is all its own and divine, it places its incessant motion and attitude, and it repeats it continuously within you. And while repeating it, it triumphs because it doesn't you what it does within itself of its own nature. Is this not then the triumph of my will?" Then afterwards, he added, "My daughter, all human actions, working, taking food, sleeping, the pains, the encounters now of sorrow, now of joy, are nothing other than straw. Now, wheat cannot be formed without the straw. From the contrary, the straw defends the wheat from frost, from the burning rays of the sun, from the waters, from all the intemperances of the air. Like a garment, it covers the wheat and grows with it, and only when it has formed the wheat and given life to it, then does it detach from it. And the poor straw performs and receives this detachment by dint of after it has served the wheat and given life to it. Such are the human actions, from the littlest of the greatest; they are all straws. And if one lets the wheat of my will flow within them, they serve in an admirable way to hide and preserve the wheat of my divine volition. And the more the straw, the more wheat can one hope to possess. It is an enchantment, my daughter, to see a human action in closing within itself the most pure wheat and the refuge engulfed my divine will like straws. It seems that they have primacy over the wheat and they can boast, saying, 'It is true that we are straws, but we hide within ourselves a divine will that is more than wheat. We remain at its service and give it the field that it may be formed in our action.' On the other hand, if my will does not flow within them, the human actions remain as straws worthy of being burned because they have not formed within them the pure wheat that serves the celestial fatherland. Now, just as the straw is detached from the wheat by dint of threshing, in the same way, the human actions are detached from the pure wheat of my divine will by means of death that knocking down what it's human crushes the garment that kept the gold weed of my will clothes and letting it out, it manifests whether it was wheat or straw that the soul possessed. And therefore, it is not the human actions that indicate the value of them, but the will by which they are animated. How many actions, apparently beautiful and holy, will be found as full of mud if done for the purpose of interest, full of wind if done for the purpose of esteem and personal glory, full of rot if done to please creatures, full of smoke if done out of attachment to what is human. Now, many things do the straws of the human actions hide, but on the last day of life, when the threshing comes and crushes the straws, it will make known everything they kept hidden inside."
Afterwards, I continued my abandonment in the divine Fiat, and my always lovable Jesus, moving in my interior, told me, "My daughter, the human will rendered man like a cracked and collapsing factory that man had no virtue of being able to repair by himself. The divine maker was needed, who had built it with so much love and who, knowing the secrets of his art, could repair it and make the vital fluid of his divine repairing strength flow into the cracks so as to render it solid again, just as he had built it. But it is necessary that man draw near the divine repairer in order to receive the benefit of his art, that he let himself be handled by him, and that he no longer let the human will act the primary cause for his becoming a collapsing factory. Otherwise, in spite of the coming of the celestial constructor, man will always be a cracked and collapsing factory."
End of July 26. Fiat.