4th Round in the Divine Will - - Eden and the Creation of Man - Part 2

4th Round in the Divine Will Part 2 - - Eden and the Creation of Man

                                   

https://secundumscripturas.com/2020/06/02/some-brief-thoughts-on-the-image-of-god/

 

I now enter into the unity of your Will, in that same unity of love that man, your precious jewel, possessed, so that my will may be one with yours – one in love. In this unity [of your Will] that embraces all things, my voice resounds in the sky, it permeates all creation, penetrates the deepest abyss, and calls and cries out: “May the Kingdom of your Divine Will come. May the Kingdom of your Divine Will come! Fiat, Fiat Voluntas Tua on earth as it is in heaven!” In this unity of the Divine Will I unite myself to innocent Adam’s holiness, glory, adoration, thanksgiving, thoughts, gazes, words, works and steps, and I make them my own 18 to offer You the repetition of his acts. For in beholding in me the operation of your own Divine Will [that operated in Adam], you will grant me the grace of establishing your Kingdom on earth.

18 The reoccurring expression, “…make them my own”, signifies Luisa’s desire to fuse herself with the acts of others in order to requite God for the glory they failed to give him, to increase his accidental glory, to enliven all creation and to hasten the reign of his Divine Will on earth.

                               

https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/bible-stories-lessons/1/god-made-adam-and-eve/

 

In Eden there was unending rejoicing between the Creator and his creature. Man had become the divine recreation with whom God was at play – the joy and the greatest delight of the Heavenly Father. In the unity of the Divine Will that Adam possessed, he enjoyed primacy over all created things. Everything was order and harmony: The sky, the stars, the sun and the sea were honoured to serve and obey his every nod. Adam was the smile and the joy of all creation; all things reminded him of his Creator, and God, who was very attentive to him, saw that nothing was lacking to his complete happiness. Indeed, in seeing Adam alone, God wanted to redouble his happiness: He made him fall asleep in his arms. During that profound ecstatic sleep, He removed a rib from him and made out of it a woman of his likeness, and gave her to man as his companion; He did this for him to make his happiness full.

 

Oh, how this first mother [of all the living] Eve, who also remained in the unity of the Divine Will, vied with Adam in forming huge waves of captivating love from the seas of love that they possessed; they did so in order to plunge their own loving waves in God’s interminable and captivating divine seas of love, so as to obtain [from God] yet greater seas of love and divine grace. In so doing, their own waves of love, rising up and gently falling, expanded their seas of love [throughout creation]. O my Jesus, I immerse my poor soul in the unity of your Divine Will, and in Adam and Eve’s own huge waves of love who, with so much love, adored and glorified your adorable majesty. I shall never come out of these huge waves; by continuously remaining in them, I make them my own [and, like my first parents, continuously impact] the heavens, the sun and the earth, in order to place at the foot of your throne on high all the love, praise, glory and adoration that was unleashed from your adorable bosom throughout all creation. Within these very captivating waves of love I incessantly exclaim: “Thy Kingdom come! May Thy Will be known!” [Jesus] My love, how happy I am in this [Garden of] Eden. Here there are my first parents in whom I experience the power of the unity of your Divine Will that makes of their many acts one [single] act with their Creator.19 This unity places all of God’s benefits at the human creature’s disposal, whereby they are shared in common.

 

O my Jesus, I realize that your joy and bliss are also their joy and bliss. And I, the little daughter of your Will, wish to begin my life anew in this unity of .your Will along with my parents, Adam and Eve. In these seas [of joy and bliss], I desire to establish my dwelling place and there form my captivating waves of joy and bliss which, plunging themselves in your eternal seas, offer You [greater] joy and bliss. In this way I will see You always pleased and always happy.20

19 This phrase of Luisa underscores the dynamism of our first parents manner of operating in Eden: They did not operate, but cooperated with God’s one eternal operation. While grace in all the baptized (habitus remote operativus) does not impart to the soul the act, but rather the disposition to perform supernatural and meritorious acts, the gift of Living in the Divine Will that empowered prelapsarian Adam and Eve’s acts imparted to them the act itself – the Father, Son and Holy Spirit continuously operated respectively in their human will, intellect and memory; heart, blood flow and breath (cf. L. Piccarreta, volume 14, April 8, 1922; volume 20, December 19, 1926; volume 28, April 18, 1930; volume 36, February 26, 1937)




20 The original Italian manuscript reads, “…always smiling and always happy.”