The Gift of Infused Science

"The Gift of Infused Science"

Book of Heaven 

Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta

Volume 30, May 22, 1932

My poor mind swims in the immense sea of the Divine Will. In this sea it murmurs continually, but what does it murmur? Love, praise, thanksgiving, and the Supreme Being makes his murmur met with that of the creature and gives love in order to receive love. What sweet meeting between the Creator and the creature that they give love to each other, and in this exchange of love are formed the waves of love, of light, of indescribable beauties, [in] which the poor creature not being capable of enclosing all in herself, feels drown, and while she has taken who knows how much, the drowning that she feels impedes her from being able to repeat that which she feels in herself of the ineffable secrets of love, of light, of divine knowledges, that the murmur of the Eternal has enclosed in her soul. But while I lost myself in so many knowledges as to not know how to repeat them, I felt myself stutter, I lacked suitable vocabulary, and in order not to blunder I pass on.  And my amiable Jesus, compassionating my incapacity and littleness, squeezed me to himself between his arms and said to me:

“My blessed daughter, you have reason that your littleness feels drown under the immensity of my light, of my love and of the innumerable truths that our adorable and holy Being contains. But our Power and immensity delights itself to fill the creature so much with light, with love, with our various knowledges, with sanctity, even to drown her, and one of the most beautiful scenes is to see the creature as drowned in our immensity, that she wants to speak and she is drown with light, with love, with surprising truths. Oh, how beautiful it is that she wants to speak of that which she feels, and our waves invest her and reduce her to silence! However we with this way make a display of ourselves with our beloved creature, and we do as a Teacher that wants to make a display of his science with his little disciple. He puts forth all of that which he knows, and the disciple listens, it fills the mind, the heart. But since they’re so many things that [the teacher] has said, [the disciple] doesn’t know how to repeat anything, but however it serves to make her appreciate and love the teacher, and to hope for the heights where she can arrive of his science. Being under his direction, it serves the teacher in order to make himself known and to receive the attention and affection and fidelity of the disciple. Thus do we: in order to make ourselves known and in order to make ourselves loved, when we see the creature empty of everything, that she doesn’t want other than our Divine Will, we delight so much even to drown her with light, with love and with our truths that pertain to us, and then we go cutting it up for her little by little of that which we have infused all together, and thus we delight in adapting ourselves to her little capacity.”

“Now you should know that one who lives in the Divine Will will reacquire, between so many prerogatives, the gift of infused science, a gift that will be a guide for her in order to know our Divine Being, that will facilitate her carrying out of the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat in her soul. It will be (a) guide for her in the order of natural things, it will be as the hand that guides her in everything, and it will make known the palpating life of the Divine Volition in all created things and the good that it continually brings her. This gift was given to Adam in the beginning of his creation, together with our Divine Will he possessed the gift of infused science, in a way that he knew with clarity our divine truths. Not alone, but all the beneficial virtues that all created things possessed to (the) good of the creature, from the greatest thing, even to the littlest blade of grass. Now as he rejected our Divine Will with doing his, our Fiat withdrew his life and the gift with which he had been bearer of. Hence [Adam] remained in the dark, without the true and pure light of the knowledge of all things. Whence with the life of my Will returning in the creature, his gift of the infused science will return.”

“This gift is inseparable from my Divine Will as light from the heat is inseparable, and where He reigns he forms the eye full of light in the depth of the soul, which by looking with this divine eye she acquires the knowledge of God and of created things, for how much it is possible for a creature. Now my Will withdrawing himself, the eye remains blind, because He who animates the life has departed, that is he is no longer the working life of the creature. It happens as to the body: even to such that the eye is healthy she sees, she distinguishes the colors, the objects, the people. But if the pupil becomes dark and she loses the light she remains blind. Hence, she doesn’t know how to distinguish anything anymore. At the most she will be helped by way of feeling in order to know and understand something. But her light is spent and is finished. Perhaps she will have eyes, but no longer full of the life of light, but of dense darkness that are bearers of sorrow to the lost sight. Such is my Will. Where He reigns he centralizes in the soul this gift of infused science, that more than eye sees and understands, but without effort: divine truths, the most difficult knowledges of our Supreme Being, but with a marvelous facility, without artifice and without study. More so [for] the natural things, [of which] no one can know the substance, the good that there is within, if not he who has created them. Hence no wonder if our Divine Volition makes himself revealer of our Divine Being and of the things that He himself has created in the soul where he reigns and not reigning, everything is darkness for the poor creature. Our children are blind and don’t know nor do they love He who has created them, who more than Father loves them and longs for the love of his children. My Divine Will where he reigns he doesn’t go with empty hands, but brings all the goods that he possesses. And if ungrateful they constrain him to withdraw, he brings everything with himself, because he is inseparable from his goods. He does as the sun: as the morning rises, thus it gifts the earth with its light and its beneficial effects, and as the evening withdraws, it brings all the light with itself, nothing remains, not even a drop of light for the night. And why? Because it can not nor is it able to detach one single particle of light, because it is inseparable from its light, and where it goes with the fullness of light that it possesses it forms the full day. Therefore be attentive, because where my Will reigns he wants to do great things, he wants to give everything, nor does he adapt himself to do little things, but he wants to form the full day and to show off in gifts and with magnificence.”

Volume 33, December 10, 1933

     … “You see therefore the beginning of the life of Adam was an act full of love toward God with all his being, what sublime lesson, as the beginning of love should race in all the work of the creature. The first lesson that he received from our Supreme Being, in the exchange of his I love you, was that while he loved tenderly responding to him I love you, he gave him the first lesson on our Divine Will and while he instructed him he communicated the life to him of Him and the infused science of what our Divine Fiat means and every time that turn he said to us I love you, our love prepared for him other more beautiful lessons on our Volition. He remained enraptured and we delighted ourselves in conversing with him and we made flow over him rivers of love and perennial joys, so that the human life became enclosed by Us in love and in our Will.

    “Therefore my daughter, there is no greater sorrow for Us, than to see our love as broken in the creature and our Will impeded, smothered, without his working life and as subject to the human volition. Hence be attentive and in all things have for beginning love and my Divine Will.”

 Volume 36, June 26, 1938

    "... united with my Will, inside of her, she will hold the Teacher to her disposition, (so) that he will teach her the highest and most difficult sciences, the most beautiful arts, so much so as to be able to be a portent of science on earth and in heaven. The human will united with mine, will hold human legs and divine feet that will make it race in the way of good without ever tiring; it will hold human arms and divine motion that will hold (the) virtue of doing the greatest works, that resembles her Creator; with our divine motion she will embrace eternity, she will hold us always courted and pressed to her heart; united with our Will, she will hold the human mouth, but the word, the voice will be divine. And oh, how well we will speak of our supreme being! In short, she will hold our eye, through which, looking at all created things she will recognize in them our life, our love, and how she must love us; united to ours she will hold divine reason, she will feel a species of infused science, which will form an ordered man, all in order with her Creator; everything will convert into good, rather, there is no good that she won’t possess if she lives in our Will. She is the true failure of all the evils, of all the misfortunes, and recalls to life all the goods, because she possesses the source of it.

    “Beyond this, for one who lives in our Volition, every motion, breath, heartbeat, all that which one can do, are continuous conquests that she does, and divine conquests; I can say that living in my Volition, one breathes with my breath, one moves to my motion, one beats with my eternal palpitation. So that she acquires the conquering act in all her acts and this becomes given to her with justice and with exuberant love, because with living in ours, giving no more life to her volition, with right she should be in the celestial region, in order to feel happy and to enjoy our felicitating Will. Now, in order to live in our Will on earth, the poor daughter deprives herself of the joys of heaven; this is the most heroic act, the most intense love, which all heaven, our divinity, the Sovereign (Lady) of heaven, remain wounded and love the heroism of this creature, and oh, how everyone loves her!

    “And our love, that never lets itself be conquered by anyone, cedes/surrenders in every breath of hers, to her little motion, if she thinks, if she looks, if she speaks, the conquering and divine act. The conquests are innumerable; we feel that it is not the creature that breathes, that moves, but us, and we give it the value that our breath and motion contains, that all the possible and imaginable values contains. So that she is the conqueror of our life and acts. This happy creature, with her conquering act, becomes our outlet of continuous love, our own happiness, our rest; and her conquests are continuous signatures on our decree of the coming of the Kingdom of our Volition upon the earth; these conquests shorten the time; more so that our working life is no longer estranged upon the earth, but already exists and has formed his Kingdom in this fortunate creature. Hence be attentive; never stop yourself, and I will keep count of everything, even of (your) breath, in order to love you more and in order to have you make so many conquests, one more beautiful than the other.”

    Afterwards he added: “My daughter, as the creature lets me make I am of her will in order to live in mine, I make for her (a) gift of mine. But do you know what my Will does before giving himself? He pours himself upon the act of her, he embellishes it, forms the day, sanctifies it, puts there his divine joys, and then encloses himself in the act of the creature. As my Fiat works in this act, all created things receive new life, new creation, they feel renewed in beauty, in love, in the joy of one’s Creator; and as he completes his divine act, the act remains of the creature and everyone remains in expectation in order to see what the creature does with this act, because it is an act that encloses everything, and everyone feels enclosed in that act; and the happy creature, what does she do? She enjoys it, she kisses and embraces it, and knowing that an act so great cannot remain for herself alone, she says in her emphasis of love of joy: ‘Adorable Will, you have given me Divine Will, and I give you Divine Will, in order to make you the exchange, the thanksgiving, the glory, the joy, the love that you have given me; I am incapable of being able to contain it! ‘Therefore, this act races to everyone, sanctifies, embellishes, felicitates, gives honor to everyone. This is the most beautiful act that the creature can give me; no one can equal this act, that is to give my Will in order to receive it and to give it again.”

 “Now you should know that one who lives in the Divine Will will reacquire, between so many prerogatives, the gift of infused science, a gift that will be a guide for her in order to know our Divine Being, that will facilitate her carrying out the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat in her soul."

  "Where He reigns He centralizes in the soul this gift of infused science, that more than eye sees and understands, but without effort: divine truths, the most difficult knowledges of our Supreme Being, but with a marvelous facility, without artifice and without study. More so [for] the natural things, [of which] no one can know the substance, the good that there is within, if not he who has created them."