Divine Will for every day of the year - August 10, 1931 Volume 29

…So, I was thinking to myself:  “How ugly the human nature is without the Divine.”  And my sweet Jesus told me:  “My daughter, ugly is the human nature that lives without My Will, because it was created by the Supreme Being to live united together with the Divine Fiat.  So, by living without It, a shift takes place in the human nature; in this shift, the order, the strength, the love, the light, the sanctity, the very reason, are shifted.  All of these beautiful qualities are present in the creature, because they were placed by God as within a sacrarium; but they are present outside of their place—all in disorder; and since they are out of place, one is against the other:  passions fight sanctity, weakness fights strength, human love fights the Divine, the creature the Creator, and so forth.  The human nature without the Divine Will transforms itself into ugly, it turns upside down, and in its disorder it wages war against its Creator.  It happens as with the soul and the body, which were created by God to live life together:  if the body wanted to live separate life from the soul, would it not have the sad lot of undergoing such transformation as to no longer be recognized from what it was?  As Our Divinity created man, Our Infinite Wisdom concurred with It, which, as the Artisan and as the Expert who possesses the whole science of the art of being able to Create, in Our All-Seeingness saw that, in order for this man to be Our Honor and a work Worthy of Our Creative Hands, and Our Glory and also his, he was to be formed as body and soul; and We gave charge to Our Will as primary life of the soul and of the body.  So, what the soul is to the body, Our Will was to be for both one and the other.  Therefore, the creature was created, and had in her beginning: body, soul, human will and Divine Will—all together, that were to live life in common, with highest accord.  And Our Will, that held the primacy, was to make Itself nourisher and preserver and dominator of this creature.

“So, if without Our Divine Will the human nature is ugliness, united with Ours it is of a rare and enchanting beauty.  In its creation, the seed of light was placed in it by Us, and Our Fiat, more than most tender mother, extends with Its wings of light over this seed, and caresses it, delights it, kisses it, nourishes it, makes it grow, and communicates to it, with Its heat and light, all the varieties of the Divine Beauties.  And the human nature receives the participation, remains under the mighty and continuous influence of a Strength, of a Sanctity, of a Love fully Divine, and it grows beautiful, lovable and admirable to all.  Therefore, the human nature, the way it was created by Us, is not ugly, but beautiful, nor do We know how to do ugly things; but it can render itself ugly by not keeping to the ways in which it was created and wanted by Us.  See, then, how necessary it is that creatures do and live in Our Will—because It enters the first act of their creation.  …”