The
Seeds of the Kingdom
Jesus to Luisa: “Listen, I went around the earth over and over again; I looked at all
creatures, one by one, in order to find the littlest of all. Among many I found you – the littlest of
all.”
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“Whatever one does for God is
never lost; rather, the seed is formed,
which, in sprouting, makes Life be born again, more flourishing, strong and
beautiful. Everything you have done, both for yourself and for
others, is seeds that you have formed –
seeds which make the Life of the Divine Will be born again. However,
our cooperation is needed – our repeated acts in the Fiat, which like
beneficial water, water the seed in order to form the life. And once the
life has been formed, it takes our will united with His to make it grow; it
takes our continuous love in order to nourish it. Therefore, nothing is
lost for us if we really want to live from the Divine Will. This Life
exists within us, it did not escape; however, one must not abandon it, but make
it grow and nourish it. The trouble is, rather, for those who have not yet
known it, because knowledge is necessary in order to possess.” (from the Letters
of Luisa, #69)
Aug. 19, 1900 - “Do not want to
meddle in other people’s business; let us leave them alone, because everything
has its time. When the time of judgment comes, then will be the time to discern
all things, which will be sifted well, so that one will come to recognize the
grain, the straws and the sterile and noxious seeds. Oh, how many things that
appear to be grain will be found straws and sterile seeds on that day, worthy
only of being thrown into the fire!”
Jan. 28, 1905 - “My daughter,
the cross is seed of virtue, and just as one who sows harvests for ten, twenty,
thirty, and even one hundred - in the same way, the cross, being seed,
multiplies virtues and perfections, and it embellishes them in an admirable
way. So, the more crosses thicken around you, the more seeds of virtue are sown
into your soul. Therefore, instead of afflicting yourself when a new cross
comes to you, you should rejoice, thinking that you are acquiring another seed,
with which you can enrich, and even complete, your crown.”
October
28, 1915 - This morning, my always lovable Jesus, on coming, told me: “My
daughter, my life on earth was nothing but seeds sown, which my children will
harvest, as long as they remain on the same land in which I sowed these seeds.
And according to their attitude for harvesting, my seeds will produce their
fruits. Now, these seeds are my works, words, thoughts, and even my breaths,
etc.; and if the soul harvests them all, making them her own, she will be
enriched in such a way as to purchase the Kingdom of Heaven. But if she does
not, these seeds will serve as her condemnation.”
Dec. 10, 1921 - As I was in my
usual state, my always lovable Jesus came, telling me: “My daughter, how
great is an act done in my Will. See, if you asked the sun: ‘How many seeds
have you fecundated, how many of them have you multiplied from the moment you
rose above our horizon?’; neither the sun, nor any other creature, as learned
as he might be, would be able to tell you, even with an approximate number,
either how many seeds it fecundated or how many of them it multiplied.
Now,
an act done in my Will is more than sun, which multiplies, not human, but
divine seeds, to infinity. Oh! how greatly it surpasses the fecundity and the
multiplicity of the seeds which the sun has fecundated. An innovation in the
spiritual world takes place - such a harmony, that all are attracted. In
hearing this harmony, those who are most disposed get warm; thousands and
thousands of effects arise like many seeds; and since the act done in my Will
carries with itself the creative power, it fecundates those seeds in a way
which is incalculable to the finite mind. So, the acts done in my Will are
divine seeds which carry with themselves the creative power, and which, more
than suns, not only fecundate, but create seeds, and multiply them to infinity.
They give Me the field for new creations, set my power in motion, and are the
bearers of the Divine Life.”
January 25, 1922 - As I
was in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus, on coming, told me: “My
daughter, the more truths I manifest to you, the more specialties of beatitudes
I give to you as gift. Each truth contains within itself a distinct beatitude,
happiness, joy and beauty; so, each additional truth you know brings beatitude,
happiness, joy, beauty into yourself, with which you remain enriched. These are
divine seeds that the soul receives, and by manifesting them to others, she
communicates these seeds and enriches whomever receives them. Now, since the
truths that one has known on earth are divine seeds which sprout with
beatitudes, joy, etc. in Heaven, when the soul is in her Fatherland they will
be electric wires of communication through which the Divinity will unleash from
Its womb so many acts of beatitude for as many truths as she has known. Oh! how
she will remain inundated by them, as though by many different immense seas.
She already has the seed, and by having the seed, she has the void in which to
be able to receive these immense seas of happiness, of joy and of beauty. One
who does not have the seed, who has not known a truth while on earth, lacks the
void in order to be able to receive these beatitudes.”
Feb. 21, 1922 – “This is
precisely the virtue of my Love: to make Me die and, from my consummation, form
many seeds, to place them in the hearts of all creatures, so as to make Me rise
again and form with them one single life with Me.”
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.” And I: ‘My Love, am I one of these?’ And He: “No, no - one who
does my Will is not subject to forming earth that suffocates my seed; rather,
many times I find not even humility, but only their nothingness, which produces
little earth, and I can only place one layer of it over my seed. And the Sun of
my Will quickly fecundates it; and it germinates, and I make great harvests, to
then quickly return to sow my seed again. And besides, you can be sure of this;
don’t you see how so very often I return to sow new seeds of truths into your
soul?”
Sept. 20, 1922 – “And if the
soul did not have the seeds of all goods, she could not receive the goods which
my Will contains. And if - may this never be - she had some seeds that are not
good, she would be an intruder, without nobility and decorum. Therefore, she
herself, feeling ashamed, would go out of It, nor would she get any taste and
contentment, keeping within herself things which are extraneous to my Will.
This is why I have marked even the drops of your blood, your bones, your
heartbeats; and the marks are these eyes of light, so that nothing - nothing
may come out of you which is not holy, and which is not directed to Me.”
June 18, 1925 – “The seed sowed
by the sower under the earth wants its return: that the seed generate more
seeds - ten, twenty, thirty times more. The tree planted by the farmer wants
the return of the generation and multiplication of the fruits. The water drawn
from the fount gives the return of quenching one’s thirst, of washing and cleaning
the one who has drawn it. The fire that is lit gives the return of warming. In
the same way, all the other things created by God, who has the power to
generate, contain the virtue of regeneration; they multiply and give their
return. Now, is only this Will of Ours, which came out of Us with so much love,
with so many manifestations and with so many continuous acts, to remain without
Its return of the regeneration of other human wills into Divine? A seed gives
more seeds, a fruit generates another fruit, man generates another man, a
teacher forms another teacher. Is Our Will alone, powerful as It is, to remain
isolated, without return and without generating Our Will in the human will? Ah!
no, no - this is impossible. Our Will will have Its return; It will have Its
divine generation in the human will; more so, since this was Our first act for
which all things were created – that Our Will transform and regenerate the
human will into Divine. Will is what came out of Us – will is what we want. All
other things were done in the secondary order, while this was done,
established, in the primary order of Creation.”
Aug. 2, 1925 - “My daughter,
come with Me to work in this garden. We must plant in it celestial and divine
flowers and fruits. It is now almost empty, and if there is any plant at all,
it is terrestrial and human; therefore, we have to root them out, so that this
garden may be fully pleasing to my Son Jesus. The seeds which we must plant are
all my virtues, my works, my pains, which contain the seed of the Fiat Voluntas
Tua. There was nothing I did which did not contain this seed of the Will of
God. I would have contented Myself with doing nothing, rather than operating or
suffering without this seed. All my glory, the dignity of Mother, the height of
Queen, the supremacy over all, came to Me from this seed. The whole of
Creation, all beings, recognized Me as dominating over them, because they saw
in Me, reigning, the Supreme Will. Therefore, we will unite everything I did
together with everything you have done with this seed of the Supreme Volition,
and we will plant it in this garden. So, we fused the seeds which my Celestial
Mama had, which were many, together with the few mine, which I don’t know how I
found; and we began to form little holes in which to place the seeds.”
Dec.
25, 1927 – “Now, one who has sowed has the right to harvest; and since it is
a divine field, I am the owner of it - not only to harvest, but to sow it
again. So, I am doing nothing other than sowing it again. Don’t you see how I am
all intent on the work of sowing seeds of light into this field, so that, as
they germinate, the new suns of the knowledges on my Will may come out? And
work brings silence, and my silence is warmth, maturation and fecundity, in
order to transform the little seeds of light into more refulgent suns. I work
in you always, either in one way or in another; the work of my Divine Will is
long, and therefore I am always occupied and I keep you occupied.”
June
25, 1928 – “As man withdrew from my Will, his lot changed; and I wanted to go
into the desert in order to call back the blessings of my Celestial Father and,
by calling my Will to reign, restore the earth, populate it everywhere and
fecundate it, in such a way that the earth will produce more seeds, and more
beautiful ones, such as to increase it a hundredfold, rendering it more fecund
and of radiant beauty. How many great things will do the Kingdom of my Divine
Fiat! So much so, that all the elements are all in waiting – the Sun, the wind,
the sea, the earth and the whole Creation – to deliver from their womb all the
goods and effects which they contain. In fact, since the Divine Will that
dominates them does not reign in the midst of creatures, they do not put out
all the goods which they enclose within them, giving them only what they have
to as alms, and as to servants. So, the earth has not produced all the seeds;
the Sun, not finding all the seeds, does not produce all the effects and goods
It contains; and so with all the rest. This is why all await the Kingdom of the
Fiat – to show creatures how rich they are, and how many admirable things the
Creator has placed in them for love of the ones who were to be the children of
His Will.”
Sept.
8, 1929 The Birth of the Virgin - “This Celestial Baby Girl, by keeping Our
Divine Will intact within Her soul, without ever doing Her own, reacquired all
the rights of Adam innocent before Her Creator, and the sovereignty over all
Creation. Therefore, all felt themselves being reborn in Her, and We saw in
this Holy Virgin, in Her little Heart, all the seeds of the human generations.
So, through Her, humanity reacquired the rights lost, and this is why Her birth
was the most beautiful, the most glorious birth. From Her very birth, She
enclosed within Her maternal little Heart, as though in-between two wings, all
generations, as children reborn in Her virginal Heart, so as to warm them, keep
them sheltered, and raise them and nourish them with the blood of Her maternal
Heart. This is the reason why this tender Celestial Mother loves creatures so
much – because all are reborn in Her, and She feels the life of Her children
within Her Heart. What can Our Divine Will not do wherever It reigns and has
Its Life? It encloses everything and everyone, and makes one the provider of
good to all. So, all feel, under Her blue mantle, the maternal wing of their
Celestial Mother, and they find in Her maternal Heart their little place in
which to take cover.”
March
9, 1930 - “My daughter, the knowledges on my Divine Will are the ways which
can lead creatures into the arms of light of my Divine Fiat. The knowledges are
the seeds, and this seed makes the beginning of the Life of my Divine Fiat be
born in the creature; the knowledges – each of them will be like many sips of
life, which will form in the creature the maturation of this Divine Life.”
March
12, 1930 – “These seeds are not light, but they symbolize, some the flower,
some the fruit, some a little plant, and some a precious gem; and I feel the
homage of the flower, of the fruit, and so forth – but not the homage of a sun.
And as all these acts are gathered, to enclose them in my Fiat, they remain as
they are – each one with the nature that the seed gave it; and they appear as
acts that the creature can do, not as acts that my Divine Will can do with Its
seed of light in the acts of creatures. The seed of Divine Will is not given by
It, if not when the creature lives in It, and gives It the first place of honor
in her acts.”
June
8, 1931 – “You must know that everything good, holy, that is done in my
Divine Will is nothing other than seeds that germinate in the field of the
soul, placing as though many seeds of divine light, which set a beginning that
will have no end. In fact, everything that is done in my Divine Will is sown, germinates,
grows in an admirable way on earth, while one is living, but the completion
will be formed in Heaven; the final development, the variety of the beauties,
the shades, the most beautiful and striking tints, will be given to her in the
Celestial Fatherland.”
Feb.
24, 1933 – “You should know that my truths are seeds that I the Celestial
Farmer continue to sow in souls, and if I make my seeding, with certainty I
must gather the fruit. Many times it happens to Me as to the poor sower that
casts his seed in the earth, which for lack of moisture the earth doesn’t hold
the strength to eat the seed in order to digest it and to convert it in earth
and give the substance that it has absorbed from the seed and give the ten, the
twenty, the one hundred of the seed that it has eaten. Other times while he
casts the seed, for lack of rain the earth is made hard over the seed and the
substance of the seed that it encloses doesn’t find the way in order to make
life go forth, and the poor farmer must have patience to receive the harvest of
his seeds. However, with having sowed the seed he has already done a thing and
can have hope of who knows that a rain might give moisture to the earth, which
possessing the substance of his seeds, it will put forth that which he has
sowed, or else taking away the hardness and shifting it forms the ways in order
to let his seed reproduce. So that the sower in spite that the earth doesn’t
produce immediately, the multiplicity of the seed that it received, the time,
the circumstances, the rain, can produce a most abundant harvest that he didn’t
expect. Now if the farmer in spite of all the difficulties of the earth, can
hope to receive an abundant harvest, more so I, Celestial Farmer, having put
forth from my Divine bosom, so many seeds of Celestial truths, in order to sow
them in the depth of your soul, and from the harvest I will fill the whole
world.”
Sept.
17, 1933 – “All things possess the virtue to reproduce similar things, the
seed produces other seeds, the flower other flowers, the bird other little
birds, and so on with the rest, not producing similar things is to go against
divine and human nature. Therefore, not having the creature similar to us, is
one of our greatest sorrows, and only one who lives of our Will, can be joy, and
bearer of glory and of triumph for our creative work.”
April
4, 1938 - “My good daughter of my Will, my love was so great in the creation
of man that I gave him my Will as his own primary Life and as absolute
necessity, to the extent that he couldn’t do any good without It. The earth
cannot produce anything without water, since water is like the soul of the
earth. But without the sun which fecundates, purifies and embellishes the earth
with its light and heat, the water would serve only to make the earth moldy,
rendering it like a muddy sewer, which would release a contagious air capable
of infecting the earth. But these three elements - water, earth and sun - are
not enough. Seed is needed to produce, from the earth, the most beautiful
blooms, plants and fruits which delight the farmer and form the food for all
the human generations. You see, if only one of these elements was missing, the
earth would be so sterile, gloomy, and obscure as to be frightening. It is the
necessity of the union of these elements that forms the beauty, the utility,
the goodness and the fecundity of our Creative Works. Separated, they can be
harmful and noxious to the poor creatures - united, they can do a world of
good.
In the same way, I created the strong necessity of my Will in the creature. I created the soul, like water for the earth, which had to flow - more that water - in the earth of the body. I created my Will in it, like Sun, light and heat, which had to vivify, fecundate and embellish it, but with so much beauty as to continuously enrapture Us for love of her. Then, just as the farmer throws the seeds into the earth to make it produce, my Will assumed the commitment of throwing many divine seeds into the creature, which had to rise like many Suns, one more beautiful than the other, to produce blooms and celestial fruits, which had to serve as food for the creatures, and even as food for their Creator; for our Food - our Life - is our Will. Do you see then, the necessity of the union of acts which, like seeds, are formed by the creature?”
June
12, 1938 – “Now, you must know that every knowledge I manifest and every act
done in my Will, thanks to this knowledge, is like a divine seed acquired by
the soul. This seed will produce new divine science. Oh! how she will be able
to speak the language of her Creator. Every truth will be a new celestial
language with the virtue of being understandable to those who listen and want
to receive this divine seed. This seed will produce new life of sanctity, new
love, new goodness, new joy and happiness. These seeds of truth will be as many
divine properties acquired by the soul.
The
joy we receive when the soul operates in our Will is such that we communicate
it to all the Blessed. You must know that as many are the divine seeds which
the soul acquires by knowledge of my Fiat, so many more degrees of our
knowledge and glory will we extend to her when, having finished her life down
here, she will come to our Heavenly Fatherland. To each knowledge acquired on
earth will correspond a double knowledge of our Supreme Entity in our Celestial
residence. To each Divine seed a degree of glory, joy and happiness”.
Nov.
26, 1938 - "My blessed daughter, my Will wants to give, but It wants to
find the soul disposed. It is like the earth for the farmer: no matter how many
seeds he may possess, if there were no earth on which he could throw those
seeds, and if the earth had a mind and was not disposed to receive his seeds,
the poor farmer would feel as if those seeds, meant to enrich the earth, were
thrown back in his face and his eyes. Such is my Will: It wants to give, but if
It doesn't find the soul disposed, It cannot find a place for Its gifts. With
great pain, It would feel as if they were being thrown back in Its face; so if
It wants to talk to her, It would find her deaf. Therefore, disposition
prepares the soul, opening divine doors and providing the sense of hearing. But
if the soul first hears what my Will wants to give, she is placed in
communication so that she may love It and long for what she is about to
receive. If she is not disposed we don't give anything, because we do not want
to expose our gifts to uselessness.
On
the other hand, disposition is like the earth which surrenders to the farmer -
surrenders to anything he wants, letting him work, hoe and plow, to safely
cover the seeds with which he fills it. In the same way, if our Supreme Being
finds the disposition, We do our works. We prepare her, we participate in her,
and with our creative hands we prepare the place for our gifts and form our
most beautiful works. But if she is not disposed, with all our power we can do
nothing, because her interior is cluttered up with stones, thorns, wicked
passions; and since she is not disposed, she does not allow us to take them
out. How many sanctities go up in smoke for lack of disposition. Further, if
she is not disposed, she does not adapt herself to living in our Divine Will.
On the contrary, it seems that It is just not for her. Its sanctity floors her;
Its purity makes her feel ashamed; Its light blinds her. But if she is
disposed, she flings herself into Its arms, and she lets us do whatever we want
with her. She even remains there like a tiny little baby receiving our works
with so much love as to feel enraptured. And what does our Will do? It makes
flow in her Its divine motion, and with this divine motion she finds all our
works in action; she kisses them, hugs them and invests them with her little
love. She finds my conception and my birth in action, and with her love she
wants to be conceived and reborn with me. And not do only I let her do this,
but, finding one who is reborn together with me, I feel such a joy as to be repaid
for having come upon earth.
But she doesn't stop here. The divine motion she possesses makes her run
everywhere to find all that my Humanity - like a fierce army - did: my tears,
my words, my prayers, my steps, my pains; she takes, she kisses, she adores -
everything. There is nothing I did that she does not invest with her love. What
does she do then? She makes everything her own, and, in a manner all childish
and graceful, she locks all things up inside her womb. Then she rises high. She
comes before our Divinity, places these things all around us, and with emphasis
of love she says: 'adorable Majesty, how many beautiful things I am bringing to
you. All are mine and I bring you all, because all love you, adore you, glorify
you, and return to you the great love that you have for me and for all.'”
Vol. 15, May 8, 1923
Ah! my daughter, I had created man
like a flower, which was to grow, acquire color and fragrance, in my very
Divinity. By withdrawing from my Will, it happened to him as to a flower that
is snatched away from a plant. As long as it remains in the plant, the flower
is beautiful, lively in its color and fragrant in its perfume; once it is
snatched away from the plant, it withers, it fades, it becomes ugly, and
reaches the point of giving off a bad odor. What a lot this was for him, and
what a sorrow for Me who, with so much love, wanted to grow this flower in my
Divinity, to delight and amuse Myself with him!
Now, by my omnipotence, I want
this detached flower to bloom again, by transplanting it once again into the
womb of my Divinity; but I want a soul who would want to live in the womb of my
Volition. She will be the seed that she will lend to Me, and my Will will do
all the rest. In this way, my delights of Creation will come back, I will
amuse Myself with this mystical flower, and I will be repaid for Creation.”
Lynne Bauer Dec. 22, 2017
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