Our Nothingness and Knowledge of Self
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of
knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Prov.
1:7
Our Lord to St. Catherine of Siena: “Do you know, my daughter, who you are and
who I am? If you have this two-fold
knowledge you will be happy. You are she who is not, I am He who is. If you keep this truth in your heart, never
will the enemy be able to deceive you.
You will escape his snares. Never
will you consent to commit an act which is against My Commandments, and you
will readily acquire all grace, all truth, all clarity.”
Ven. Conchita de Armida (Diary, August
8, 1896): “…I can but
lower myself into the bottomless abyss of my nothingness. I close my eyes, I believe, and I
adore...! I believe there is no better
lesson of humility than this. How can
anyone believe, before God and in the presence of such grandeur, that he is
something of grandeur, miserable atom that he is? How can he think he is something good in
comparison with this goodness without limits?
How can he declare himself perfect in the presence of such a light on
these infinite perfections. How can he
esteem himself pure, in the face of this eternal Truth? Oh what fools we are, we others, poor beings
of this world, when we believe we are something or consider ourselves capable
of the least thing! In truth, after I
touched God and had an imperfect notion of His Being, I wanted to prostrate
myself, my forehead and my heart in the dust and never get up again!”
Excerpts from the Book of Heaven:
Volume 1
I begin, oh Jesus, in You, with You, and for You. I have no trust in myself, but I have faith
in You. Without You I can do nothing. May
this writing, from beginning to end, be done for your greater glory, for the
growth and increase of my love toward You, and for my great confusion.
Volume 1
You must be like an infant in swaddling bands who, unable to move by
himself, even to walk or move a hand, must rely on its mother for
everything. In that way, I want you to
remain near Me—like an infant—to always
ask for my help and assistance, acknowledging your nothingness and expecting
everything from Me.”
With this type of talk I became little, and I annihilated myself to the
point that I sometimes felt my whole being dissolved and dismembered—incapable
of taking a step or a breath without the sustenance and assistance of
Jesus. I therefore tried my utmost to
satisfy Him in everything by becoming humble and obedient.
Volume 1
He gave me other new insights regarding self—annihilation saying, "You are not, and should not consider
yourself more than a shadow that quickly passes by and eludes you as you try to
catch it. If, therefore, you want to see
something in yourself that is worthy of Me, consider yourself nothing; and
I, pleased with your true debasement, will pour my All into you." Saying
this, my good Jesus impressed on my mind and heart a self—annihilation of such
magnitude, that I wanted to hide myself in the deepest abyss. Knowing how impossible it was for me to hide
my shame from Him as I continued the destruction of my self-esteem, He would
say, "Get closer to Me, lean on my arm.
I will support you and give you strength to always work for Me and do
all for Me."
Volume 1
Luisa: Have You forgotten that I am wicked and that without You I can do
no good?
And Jesus sweetly and calmly answered; “I do this so you will understand what you are without Me. Do not despair. I am doing this to you for your greater good,
to prepare your heart to receive the new graces I shall bestow upon you. Until this time I have helped you visibly;
but now, invisibly, I will make you feel
your nothingness with your own hand. I
will cause you to sink into the most profound humility; and I will endow you
with my graces—the best ones—to prepare you for the high levels to which I want
to raise you. So instead of despairing,
be joyful with Me and thank Me, because the quicker you traverse this stormy
sea, the quicker you will reach the harbor of salvation. The severer the tests I will subject you to,
the greater the graces I will bestow upon you.
Have courage, therefore, for soon I shall come to console you in your
sorrow.”
Volume 2,
May 26, 1899
“Contempt of yourself is
praiseworthy when it is well invested by the spirit of Faith; but when it is
not invested by the spirit of Faith, instead of doing you good, it can harm
you. In fact, in seeing yourself as you are, unable to do anything good, you will
be discouraged, disheartened, without daring to take one step on the path of
good. But by leaning on Me – that is, by investing yourself with the spirit of
Faith – you will come to know and despise yourself, and at the same time, to
know Me, confident of being able to do anything with my help. And here is how,
by acting in this way, you will walk according to the truth.”
Luisa: “How much good these words of Jesus did to my soul! I comprehended that I must enter into my
nothingness and know who I am, but I must not stop there. Rather,
immediately after I have known myself, I must fly into the immense sea of God,
and stay there, to draw all the graces that my soul needs; otherwise, my nature
remains weakened and the devil will look for means in order to cast it
into discouragement.”
Volume 2,
June 2, 1899
This morning my sweetest Jesus wanted to make me touch my nothingness
with my own hands. In the act of showing
Himself, the first words that He directed to me were, "Who am I and who
are you?" In these words I saw two
immense lights. One contained God, and
in the other I saw my misery, my nothingness.
I saw myself to be nothing but a shadow as that shadow projected by
whatever object illuminated by the sun, shadow that ceases to exist when the
sun passes to other points.
Thus my shadow, thus my being, depends upon the mystical sun, God, Who
in a mere instant can dissolve this shadow that the Lord has given me, it not
even being mine. It causes horror to
think of it. Smelly, putrid and all
wormy, yet in this so horrid state I was constrained to be together with a God
so Holy. Oh, how I would have been
content if it were given to me to hide myself in the darkest abysses!
After this, Jesus said to me, "The
greatest favor that I can do for a soul is to make it know itself. The knowledge of self and the knowledge of
God go hand in hand. For as much as you
shall know yourself, this much shall you know God. The soul that has known itself, seeing
that by itself it can work nothing of good, transforms the shadow of its being
into God and it happens that in God it does all its operations. Then it happens that the soul is in God and
walks with Him, without looking, without investigation, without speaking. In a word, it is as if it were dead, for, knowing in depth its nothingness, it does
not dare to do anything by itself but it blindly follows the influences of the
operations of the Word. It seems to
me that to the soul that knows itself, it happens as to those persons who go by
train. Who, while they pass from one
point to another, without taking one step by themselves, make long trips, but
all in virtue of the train that transports them. Thus the soul, placing itself in God, as the
persons on the train, makes sublime flights in the way of perfection, knowing
fully that it is not of itself but in virtue of that blessed God Who carries it
in Himself. Oh, how the Lord favors, enriches and concedes the greatest graces to
that soul that attributes all, not to itself, but to God!"
Volume 2,
June 12, 1899
…Jesus seemed to clothe my soul with the
garment of Faith, of Hope and of Charity, and in the very act of clothing me,
Jesus whispered to me the way I was to exercise myself in these three virtues.
Now, while I was doing this, unleashing
another ray of light, Jesus made me understand my nothingness. Ah! I seemed to be like a grain of sand in
the middle of a most extensive sea, which is God; and this little grain went to
disperse itself inside that immense sea – but it was lost in God. Then He
transported me outside of myself, carrying me in His arms, and kept whispering
to me various acts of contrition for my sins. I only remember that I have been
an abyss of iniquities. Lord, oh, how many awful ingratitudes I have had toward
You!
Volume 3,
January 31, 1900
Jesus: “What is the passport to enter into the
kingdom of grace? It is humility. Through humility, by always looking at her nothingness and seeing that she is nothing but
dust or wind, the soul will place all her trust in grace, so much so, as to
make of it her master. And grace, taking dominion over all of the soul,
leads her along the path of all virtues, and makes her reach the summit of
perfection.”
Luisa:
What would a soul without grace be like? It seemed to me that she would
be like the body without the soul, which becomes stinking and spews worms and
rot from all parts, so much so, as to become an object of horror to the human
sight itself. In the same way, without grace, the soul becomes so abominable as
to be horrifying to the sight – not of men, but of God Trice Holy. Ah, Lord,
free me from such misfortune, and from the abominable monster of sin!
Volume 3, February
5, 1900
“My
daughter, sometimes the soul feels an encounter in some virtue, and plucking up
her strength, the soul overcomes that encounter; and then, that virtue becomes
more resplendent and rooted in the soul. However, the soul must be very
attentive in order to avoid that she herself might provide the little rope to
let herself be bound by lack of confidence; and she will do this by always restricting herself within the circle of
truth, without ever leaving it, which is the knowledge of her nothingness.”
Volume 3, May
20, 1900
“My daughter, all things have
their origin from nothing. If this very machine of the universe which you
are admiring with its great order had been full of other things before I
created it, I could not have put my creative hand to make it with such great
mastery and to render it so splendid and adorned. At the most, I could have
undone everything that might have been there, to then redo it according to my
liking. But we always come to this: all of my works have their origin from
nothing, and when there is a mixing with other things, it is not decorous for
my majesty to descend and operate in the soul. But when the soul reduces herself to nothing and rises to Me, and takes her
being within Mine, then I operate as the God that I am, and the soul finds true
rest. And here is how all virtues, from humility to the annihilation of
oneself, begin.”
Volume 3, June
20, 1900
“As
for the rest, I do not want you to think about it, because the most perfect,
the most sublime humility is that of losing
every reason and of not discoursing on ‘why’ and ‘how’, but of undoing oneself
in one’s own nothingness. And while the soul does this, without realizing
it, she finds herself dissolved in God, and this produces in the soul the union
most intimate, the love most perfect toward her highest Good. This, however, to
the greatest advantage of the soul, because in losing her own reason, she
acquires divine reason, and in losing every discoursing about herself – whether
she is cold or warm, whether the things that happen to her are favorable or
adverse – she will be interested in and will acquire a language fully celestial
and divine. In addition to this, humility produces a garment of safety in the
soul, in such a way that, wrapped in this garment of safety, the soul remains
in the most profound calm, embellishing all of herself in order to be pleasing
to her dearest and beloved Jesus.”
Volume 3,
June 27, 1900
“My
daughter, what I want from you is that
you no longer recognize yourself in yourself, but that you recognize yourself
only in Me. So you will no longer remember yourself, nor will you ever
again have recognition of yourself, but you will remember Me, and
un-recognizing yourself, you will acquire the recognition of Me alone. According to how much you will forget and
destroy yourself, so will you advance in the knowledge of Me and will recognize
yourself only in Me. Once you have done all this, you will no longer think
with your mind, but with mine; you will not look with your eyes, you will no
longer speak with your mouth, nor will you palpitate with your heart, work with
your hands, or walk with your feet, but will do everything with mine. In fact, in order to recognize herself only in God,
the soul needs to go to her origin and to return to her beginning – God, from
whom she came - and to conform all of herself to her Creator. And anything
which she keeps of herself and which is not conformed to her beginning, she
must undo and reduce to nothing. Only in this way, naked, undone, can she
return to her origin, recognize herself only in God, and operate according to
the purpose for which she was created. This is why in order to conform to Me
completely, the soul must render herself indivisible with Me.”
Volume 3, August
3, 1900
“My
daughter, why do you look for Me outside of yourself, while you could find Me
more easily within yourself? When you
want to find Me, enter into yourself, go deep into your ‘nothing’, and there,
without yourself, in the most tiny circle of your ‘nothing’, you will see the
foundations that the Divine Being laid within you, as well as the factories It
raised in you. Look and see.”
I looked again and I
saw solid foundations and very high walls that reached up to the heavens; but
that which stupefied me was to see that the Lord had done this beautiful work
upon my nothing, and the walls were all walled up, with no openings. One could see
only one opening in the vault, which corresponded only to Heaven, and in this
opening dwelled Our Lord, upon a stable column that rose out of the
foundations, formed over nothing. Now, while I was looking, all stupefied,
blessed Jesus added: “The foundations
formed over nothing mean that the Divine Hand operates there where there is
nothing, and It never mixes Its works with material works. The walls
without openings around mean that the soul must have no correspondence with
earthly things, in such a way that there may be no danger that even a little
bit of dust may enter, because everything is walled up well. The only
correspondence that these walls allow is with Heaven – that is, from nothing to Heaven, from Heaven to
nothing; and this is the meaning of the opening made in the vault. The
stability of the column means that the soul is so stable in good that there is
no contrary wind that can move her. And my dwelling upon it is the sure sign
that the work done is fully divine.”
Volume 4, November
11, 1900
“Ah, my daughter, do not go out of my Will, because by going out of my Will, you come to lose the knowledge of Me, and not
knowing Me, you come to lose the knowledge of yourself. In fact, only in
the reflections of the light can one distinguish with clarity whether there is
gold or mud; if everything is darkness objects can easily be confused. Now, the light is my Will, which gives you the
knowledge of Me, and in the reflections of this light you come to know who you
are; and in seeing your weakness, your pure nothingness, you cling to my
arms and, united with my Will, you live with Me in Heaven. But if you want to
go out of my Will, first you would come to lose true humility, and then you
would come to live on the earth and would be forced to feel the earthly weight,
to moan and sigh like all the other unfortunate who live outside of my Will.”
Volume 4,
December 24, 1902
“My daughter, one who believes himself to be something before Me and before men, is
worth nothing. One who believes himself
to be nothing is worth everything – first, before Me, because if he does
something, he does not think he does it because he can do it, having the
strength and the capacity, but rather, because he receives from God the grace,
the helps and the lights; therefore it can be said that he does it by virtue of
divine power, and one who has divine power with him is already worth
everything. Second, before men, because this acting by virtue of divine power
makes him operate in a completely different way, and he does nothing but send
forth the light of the divine power he contains within himself, in such a way
that the most perverted ones, without wanting it, feel the strength of this
light and submit to his volition; and here is how he is worth everything also
before men. On the contrary, one who believes himself to be something, in
addition to being worth nothing, is abominable to my presence, and because of
his ostentatious and particular manners - for he believes he is something and
makes fun of others - men keep him pointed out as an object of derision and of
persecution.”
Volume 8, November 18, 1907
Luisa: ‘My sweet life, how bad I
have become – I feel I am reduced to
nothing. I no longer feel anything in me, everything is empty; I just feel
an enchantment in my interior, and in this enchantment I wait for You, so that
You may fill me. But in vain do I wait for this filling; on the contrary, I
feel I always return to nothing.’ And Jesus: “Ah, my daughter! And you afflict yourself for you feel reduced
to nothing? Rather, I say to you: the more the creature is reduced to nothing,
the more she is filled with the All. And if she left even one shadow of
herself, that shadow would prevent Me from giving all of Myself, completely, to
the soul. Your constant returning to nothing means that you are dissolving your
human being to reacquire the Divine.”
Volume 9, December
22, 1909
I felt my
very nature being consumed and melted into nothingness. Those seeds of
strength, of light, of knowledge which I seemed to feel – everything turned
into nothing. I felt I
was dying; yet, I live. In the meantime He came back, and taking me in his
arms, He seemed to sustain this nothingness of mine, telling me: “Do you see,
my daughter, how, as the little seed of your strength, the little lamp of your
light, the little knowledge of Me that you have, and all of your other little
qualities dissolve, my strength, my light, my wisdom, my beauty and all of my
other qualities take over and fill this nothingness of yours? Aren’t you happy?”
Volume 11,
Good morning to Jesus
Jesus,
Jesus, may our will be one; one our love, one our contentment. Never leave me alone, for I am a nothing,
and the nothing cannot be without the All.
Volume 11,
4th July, 1912
“My daughter, what is the matter? Do you want to waste time? Do you want
to go out of your nothingness? Stay in
your place - in your nothingness - so that the All may keep Its place in you.
Know, however, that you must die completely in my Will: to suffering, to
virtues - to everything. My Will must be the tomb of the soul; and just as in the tomb one’s nature is
consumed to the point of disappearing completely, and through that very
consummation it will rise again to new and more beautiful life - in the same
way, the soul, buried in my Will as though inside a tomb, will die to
suffering, to her virtues, to her spiritual goods, and will rise again in
everything to Divine Life.”
Volume 12, June
14, 1917
“My daughter, the more
the soul strips herself of herself, the more I clothe her with Myself. The more
she believes she can do nothing, the more I act in her, and I do everything. I
feel all my love, my prayers, my reparations, etc. being placed in act by the
creature; and to give honor to Myself, I listen to what she wants to do. Love?
I go to her and love together with her. Does she want to pray? I pray together
with her. In sum, her stripping and her love, which is mine, bind Me and force
Me to do with her whatever she wants to do. And I give to the soul the merit of
my love, of my prayers and reparations; and to my highest contentment, I feel
my Life being repeated, and I make the effects of my operating descend for the
good of all, because it is not of the
creature, who is hidden in Me - but it is mine.”
Volume 12,
December 6, 1917
“So, how could other things, outside of my
Will, ever please Me, as beautiful as they might be? They are always low, human
and finite acts. Instead, the acts in my Will are noble, divine, without end,
infinite - as it is my Volition. They are similar to mine, and I give them the
same value, love and power of my own acts; I multiply them in everyone; I
extend them to all generations, to all times. What do I care if they are small?
They are always my acts being repeated, and that’s enough. And then, the soul places herself in her true nothingness - not in
humility, in which she always feels something of herself. And, as a nothing,
she enters into the All, and she operates with Me, in Me and like Me -
completely stripped of herself, not caring about merit or self-interest, but
all intent only on making Me content, giving Me absolute lordship over her
acts, without even wanting to know what I do with them. Only one thought
occupies her: to live in my Will, praying Me to give her the honor. This is why
I love her so much, and all my predilections, my love, are for this soul who
lives in my Will. And if I love others, it is by virtue of the love which I
have for this soul, and which descends from her - just as the Father loves the
creatures by virtue of the love He has for Me.”
Volume 12,
December 10, 1918
I was saying to my sweet Jesus: ‘See, I don’t know how to do anything, nor do I
have anything to give You, but I want to give You also my trifles. I unite
these trifles of mine to the All, as You are, and I ask You for souls.
Therefore, as I breathe, my breaths ask You for souls; the beating of my heart,
with an incessant cry, asks You for souls; the motion of my arms, the blood
that circulates in me, the batting of my eyelids, the moving of my lips - are
souls that I ask of You. And this I ask united with You, with your love and in
your Will, so that all may hear my incessant cry that, in You, always asks for
souls.’
Volume 12,
December 26, 1919
“…And besides, what do the Sacraments do if
not unite the soul with God? What is to do my Will? Isn’t it perhaps to unite
the will of the creature with her Creator? To
dissolve oneself in the Eternal Volition - the ‘nothing’ ascending to the
‘All’, and the ‘All’ descending into the ‘nothing’. It is the noblest, the most
divine, the purest, the most beautiful, the most heroic act that the creature
can do.
Volume 14,
March 3, 1922
“My daughter, now it is appropriate that I
set to work again, to work the soil of your soul, so as to be able to sow the
seed of my word in order to nourish you. I act like a farmer when he wants to
sow in his field: he forms little trenches, makes some furrows, and then sows
in them the seeds, and again he covers with earth the little trenches and the
furrows in which he has sown the seeds, so as to keep them sheltered and give
them the time to germinate, to then harvest them increased a hundredfold, to
make of them his food. But he is careful not to put too much earth over them,
otherwise he would suffocate his seeds and would make them die under the earth,
and he would run the risk of remaining on an empty stomach. Now, so I do: I
prepare the little trenches, I form the furrows, I enlarge the capacity of her intelligence to be able to sow my divine
word, and therefore form the food for Me and for her; then I cover the little
trenches and the furrows with earth - which is humility, nothingness, the
annihilation of the soul, some little weakness or misery of hers. This is
earth, and it is necessary that I take it from her because I lack this earth;
and so I cover everything and I wait with joy for my harvest. Now, do you want to know when too much
earth is placed over my seed? When
the soul feels her miseries, her weaknesses, her nothingness, and she afflicts
herself. She thinks about it so much as to waste time; and the enemy uses this
in order to cast her into disturbance, discouragement and despondency. This
is all earth in excess over my seed. Oh! how my seed feels itself dying – how
it struggles to germinate under this earth. Many times these souls tire the
Celestial Farmer, and He withdraws. Oh! how many are the souls such as these.”
Volume 16, November
10, 1923
“My dear little one, I have chosen you
little, because the little ones let one do with them whatever he wants. They do
not walk by themselves, but let themselves be guided; even more, they are
afraid to place one foot on their own. If they receive gifts, feeling incapable
of keeping them, they place them on the lap of their mama. The little ones are
stripped of everything, nor do they care about whether they are rich or poor;
they are concerned with nothing. Oh! how beautiful the tender age is - full of
grace, of beauty and of freshness. Therefore, the greater is the work I want to
do in a soul, the littler I choose her. I like childlike freshness and beauty
very much; I like it so much that I
preserve these souls in the littleness of the nothingness from which they came.
I let nothing of their own enter into them, so as not to let them lose their
littleness, and therefore preserve the divine freshness and beauty from which
they came.”
Volume 19, April
16, 1926
"My daughter, all that you experienced, your full abandonment into
the arms of your Heavenly Father, your no longer feeling your own life is the
image of living in my Will, because, to live in it, one must live more of God
than of himself; rather, the nothing must cede its life to the All in order to
do all and to have his act at the head of the acts of every creature.
And I: my Love, console Yourself.
I promise it; I swear it; and You must promise me of keeping me always
in your arms and engulfed in your Will.
Nor, must you leave me if you want that I be always and forever the
little daughter of your Will who trembles and fears herself; much more, that
for how much more You speak of this Supreme Will so much more do I feel that I
am no good; and the insignificance of my nothingness is more strongly
felt. And Jesus, sighing, added:
"My daughter, this feeling more of your nothingness is not opposed to
living in my Will, rather it is your duty.
All my works are formed upon nothingness; and, therefore, the All can do
that which He wishes. If the sun had
reason and was asked, 'What good do you do?
What are your effects? How much light and heat do you contain?' It would
respond: 'I do not do anything; I only know that the light given me by God is
invested by the Supreme Will; and I do what It wants; I extend myself where It
wants, and I produce the effects that It wants; and while I do so much I remain
always in nothingness, and the Divine Will does everything in me.'
And so, with all my other works, all their glory is to remain in
nothingness, to give the entire field to my Will, of letting It operate. Only man wants to do without the Will of his
Creator. He wants to let his nothingness
operate, believing himself good for something; and the All, feeling Himself
placed behind the nothing, went out from man who reduced himself from being
superior to all to being beneath all.
Therefore, see to it that your nothingness be always at the mercy of my
Will, if you want that the unity of Its light operate in you and recall the
purpose of Creation to new life."
Volume 20, May
8, 1932
After this He added: "My
daughter, only then does the soul feel the true Life within herself, when she enters into the Divine Will,
because only in It can she see with clarity her nothingness; and how this
nothingness feels the need of the All, that is of He Who drew her out of
nothing. Only then will the All fill
her with Himself, and the soul, having the possession of true Life, see herself
in immediate contact with the holiness, goodness, power, Love and wisdom of
God. She will recognize in herself the
power of the creative action, Its palpitating Life and the extreme need of this
Divine Life."
VOL 19 May
27, 1926
And I: my Love, console Yourself.
I promise it; I swear it; and You must promise me of keeping me always
in your arms and engulfed in your Will.
Nor, must you leave me if you want that I be always and forever the
little daughter of your Will who trembles and fears herself; much more, that
for how much more You speak of this Supreme Will so much more do I feel that I
am no good; and the insignificance of my nothingness is more strongly
felt. And Jesus, sighing, added: "My daughter, this feeling more of
your nothingness is not opposed to living in my Will, rather it is your duty.
All my works are formed upon
nothingness; and,
therefore, the All can do that which He wishes.
If the sun had reason and was asked, 'What good do you do? What are your effects? How much light and
heat do you contain?' It would respond: 'I do not do anything; I only know that
the light given me by God is invested by the Supreme Will; and I do what It wants;
I extend myself where It wants, and I produce the effects that It wants; and
while I do so much I remain always in nothingness, and the Divine Will does
everything in me.'
And so, with all my other works, all their glory is to remain in
nothingness, to give the entire field to my Will, of letting It operate. Only man wants to do without the Will of his
Creator. He wants to let his nothingness
operate, believing himself good for something; and the All, feeling Himself
placed behind the nothing, went out from man who reduced himself from being
superior to all to being beneath all. Therefore, see to it that your nothingness
be always at the mercy of my Will, if you want that the unity of Its light
operate in you and recall the purpose of Creation to new life."
Vol 19 June
15, 1926
How full of defects I am and how much
wickedness there is in me." And
Jesus, all goodness and tenderness, said to me:
"My daughter, do not be afraid, I am there who watches over you;
and I am in custody of your soul so that not even the least sin might enter
into your soul. Where you or others see
defects and wickedness in you, I do not find any; much more, I see that your
nothingness feels the weight of everything, because the more you raise yourself intimately to Me, and I make you know what the
All wants to do with your nothingness, so much more do you feel your
nothingness. And, almost frightened,
crushed under the All, you would want to flee from manifesting and, much less,
write on paper what the All wants to do with this nothing; much more that for
how much reluctance you feel I always win and make you do what I want. That
happened to my Celestial Mamma as well, when it was said to Her: "I salute
you Mary full of grace; You will conceive the Son of God."
She, in hearing that, was afraid; She trembled, and said: "How can that happen?" But She ended by saying: "Fiat Mihi
secundum verbum tuum." She felt all
the weight of everything upon her nothingness; and, naturally, She was
afraid. So, when I manifest to you what
I want to do with you, and your nothingness is afraid; I see repeated the
fright of the Sovereign Queen; and I, compassionating you, comfort your
nothingness, reinforce it, so that it can
withstand to support the All.
Therefore, do not give thought to that, but think rather of letting the
All operate in you."
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January 1927
"How beautiful is the Kingdom of my Will! By Its
means It has the nothing dispersed in the All, the All fused with the
nothing. The lowliness of the
creature is raised to the Divine Summit; the Divine Highness descends into the
depth of the creature. God and the
creature become two beings so charmed with one another, so inseparable, so
transfused and identified, as to scarcely distinguish that in them are two
lives which palpitate together.
