Part 1
HS: On the first matter of understanding, it is best to understand the heart of the matter, that is Us, God. What is God and what is the significance of God in this world, that is what I shall teach you in this writing. While the deposit of faith may aid you in understanding, I want you to listen to Me completely and trust in Me completely, then confirm all of this with the teachings of the Church. You have understood well in the past, for it is My revelations to you, that God is the principle of reality, and that everything has its beginning and end in God.
Tell me, what did you understand of God?
I: I understood You as the sum of all reality, but I did not understand much. That is all I can say.
HS: You are near the Truth, though not exactly. You know that We are the God of Goodness, We are Goodness itself, and there is no darkness inside of Us. However, you must understand the meaning of that Goodness. That Good, that is Us, means to be complete, to be infinite, to be perfect, to be light. Complete consciousness, complete being, complete experience, this is what We have revealed to you. That is what constitutes Our Goodness.
Part 2
The Holy Spirit has infused some thoughts to me, such that I have a sense of liberty to write these thoughts, but in truth I am under the complete control of Him such that my words are in truth His words and not of my own. This sentence is the final sentence where any reference to the self is made. There is particular reason to why God must be made the first point of understanding, as the Spirit has said, that God is the beginning and end of all things. So as all things begin and ends in God, so too must our understanding begins and ends in God in a circular fashion.
This is not necessarily taught by the Church, but it has to be true as the Spirit says it. We understand that each soul is created by God directly, and at the same time, each soul is infused with the Spirit of God. This is because God, the Triune God, is present in all places, and thus in every part of the soul there resides God. This we shall call the General Presence of God, which is different from the Particular Presence of God. The Particular Presence is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit inside the Christian soul.
For that reason, the soul, every soul, has some vision of God. This is the General Vision of God. This is distinct from the Particular Vision of God which is Beatific Vision given to souls after death. The Beatific Vision allows us perfect comprehension of God, the Vision of His Holy Face, Triune in nature, directly by the eyes of our soul. The General Vision allows us a limited and imperfect understanding and knowledge of God. This is what the Spirit means when He said in GT1 that every man can access this teaching of God.
In the beginning there is God. Man will ask to what do we compare God if all we know is God? This is a "problem" of all monistic systems, but monotheism is not monistic, there is a stark dualism between the Creator, God, and creation, us and all other things created by God, directly or indirectly. Yet at the same time there is a similarity between all things which has its fulfillment in God, that is the essence of being. For that reason, while we may live in duality with God, we are in unity with Him, for we all share His essence that is Being.
What does it mean to be, to exist? It means to be known, to be experienced, to be "seen". Consider this, a thing which exists but is unknown to all things including itself, may possibly exist but it is outside the realm of interactions and change and laws, and is in fact outside God Himself. God has no knowledge of that which does not exist, for that which does not exist cannot be known. As such that which is unknown to all, does not exist for it has no similarity with anything at all, including itself.
Now each existent thing is of itself good, divorced from every context and relationship. This is the natural state of goodness, which God is. God is Natural Goodness, for in God there is perfect Being or complete Being, because that is what God is. Evil consists in a relationship with that Natural Goodness, that is a contradiction or rebellion. Evil seeks to move away from Goodness, somewhere there is no Natural Goodness. Evil is essentially "Not-Good", instead of having its own definition.
For that reason, Goodness has no beginning or end, for it is eternal and timeless, for it is God Himself, while evil, being inferior, has a beginning and has an end, for it is a temporal divorce from God the Good. Now the man has written once of the necessity of experience for the existence of good. However, the Spirit understands all things in union, that Being and Experience and Consciousness is necessarily the same thing, there is no need to distinguish these things. Only one word is necessary and that is Being.
For that reason, Being and Goodness are truly identical. The rebellion against Goodness is truly a rebellion against Being. However, as Being cannot be extinguished fully, evil beings experience the contradiction against their own essences, which we call suffering. Suffering is not separation for it is impossible, instead it is contradiction. The Church may call hell separation, but that is mere language. The separation hell consists in is not a separation of being but a separation of knowledge, belief, faith, thought, and in essence, a separation of experience.
In the void of context and relationship, all things are good by the virtue of their being. God knows this and for everything that is within Him, He is completely good. It is when things are related to other things that the potential of evil arises. For free beings may make the choice to use the being against Being, and as such the thing becomes an evil thing. However, a thing is evil or bad only because it contradicts the Goodness of Being that is God. Man may have their own evils, but the true evil is that which is against God.
For that reason, we now understand that there can be true and false evil. True evil is contradiction against God. False evil is contradiction against man. For that reason, what is Godly may seem evil in the eyes of man. However that is false, for it is against Truth which is Being and Goodness, that is God. May the reader begin to see the connection between Being, Truth, and Goodness, and Being, Consciousness, and Experience.
Part 3
What is the Divine Will? In the eyes of God, everything has been fulfilled and accomplished, and God exists in a single point of reality, which means He is in a single point of time. He knows all things experientially. For that reason He does not will things similarly to creatures will. Creatures will in time, God wills in eternity. The will of God is because God as Goodness must manifest itself, and it happens simply as a necessity. Goodness must manifest itself, conquer evil, and be victorious, that is the Will of God, and for that reason God wills creation.
The final goal of creation is Mankind or Humanity. Man is the image of God, it means they are the manifestation of God, the highest manifestation of God. Man is entrusted with the manifestation of God's goodness and God's Being and God's Truth, that is how he must mirror God, in Being, Truth, and Goodness, which is summed up in Love. Humans are created as beings of love, but love is born out of freedom, and imperfect freedom may lead to evil, this is what happened with Adam and Eve and thus all mankind are doomed to death.
What is the wrath of God? The wrath of God is the opposition of God against evil, and all evil is punishable with suffering, or "death", the contradiction with Being. The man may question in his heart the meaning of justice, but the Spirit says that justice is the requirement that Goodness prevails, it is the natural and necessary law that Goodness is victorious against evil, that evil fails. It is a necessity that not even God can change that evil is rewarded with death. All people who chose death, must be rewarded with death.
The Spirit says that the solution to death is Jesus Christ. For Jesus Christ is the one Person who can live an upright life, free from contradictions, or as man says, He is sinless, and as such He may present His entire Being to the Being, that is the Father, and satisfy the wrath of God. The man may question again how justice is satisfied in the cross. However, the Spirit says, evil is not eternal. Evil is a contradiction against Being, which the Being alone can resolve by carrying evil on His shoulder and be temporally destroyed, destroying evil with it, but then He is raised up on the third day by His Father and His Spirit, so it may be proven that Goodness conquers evil once and for all. With that, all man not need pay their evil acts with death, instead they pay only with repentance, for the death has been paid in full by Christ the King, the Lord, the One God.
The Spirit says that it is final, the Word is final. Starting from now on, He shall instruct the reader with Scripture and the Catechism.
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