Bičovanie L.P. 1
16. 8. 2024
January 14, 1924 Volume 16
The Divine Will was everything for man, and with It he needed nothing. Before being scourged,
Jesus wanted to be stripped in order to give back to the creature the royal garment of the Divine
Will.
I was accompanying the mystery of the scourging, compassionating my sweet Jesus when He saw
Himself so confused in the midst of enemies - stripped of His garments, under a storm of blows. And
my lovable Jesus, coming out of my interior in the state He was in when He was scourged, told me:
“My daughter, do you want to know why I was stripped when I was scourged? In each mystery of
my Passion, first I occupied Myself with joining the split between the human will and the Divine, and
then with the offenses which this split produced. When man, in Eden, broke the bonds of the union
between the Supreme Will and his will, he stripped himself of the royal garments of my Will, and
clothed himself with the miserable rags of his will – weak, inconstant, impotent to doing anything
good. My Will was a sweet enchantment for him, which kept him absorbed within a most pure light,
which made him know nothing but His God, from whom he had come, and who gave him nothing
but innumerable happinesses. And he was so absorbed within the so much giving of his God to him,
that he would give not a thought to himself. Oh! how happy man was, and how the Divinity delighted
in giving him so many particles of His Being for as many as the creature can receive, in order to make
him similar to Himself. So, as soon as he broke the union of Our Will with his, he lost the royal
garment, he lost the enchantment, the light, the happiness. He looked at himself without the light of
my Will, and in looking at himself without the enchantment which kept him absorbed, he came to
know himself, he felt ashamed, he became afraid of God; so much so, that his very nature felt the sad
effects of this: he felt the cold and his nakedness, and felt the vital need to cover himself. Just as Our
Will kept him within the port of immense happinesses, so did his will put him in the port of miseries.
Our Will was everything for man, and in It he found everything. It was right that, having come out
of Us and living in Our Will as Our tender child, he would live of It; and this Will was to make up for
everything he needed. Therefore, as he wanted to live of his own will, he became needy of
everything, because the human will does not have the power to make up for all needs, nor does it
contain the fount of good within itself. So, he was forced to procure for himself, with hardship, the
necessary things of life. Do you see, then, what it means not to be united with my Will? Oh! if all
knew It, they would have one yearning alone: that my Will come to reign upon earth. So, had Adam
not withdrawn from the Divine Will, his nature also would have had no need of clothing; he would
not have felt ashamed of his nakedness, nor would he have been subject to suffering cold, heat,
hunger, weakness. But these natural things were almost nothing; rather, they were symbols of the
great good which his soul had lost.