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God alone creates.

God knows all things before they are created.

“Brother Aurelius, I was born on September 23rd 1933. Was this the day God first knew me? Was this the day he first knew my spirit?

-No Brother Raymond.- “. . . with respect to all his creatures, both spiritual and corporeal, he does not know them because they are, but they are because he knows them. For he was not ignorant of what he was about to create; therefore he created because he knew; he did not know because he created. Nor did he know them when created in any other way than he knew them when still to be created, for nothing accrued to his wisdom from them; but that wisdom remained as it was, while they came into existence as it was fitting and when it was fitting. So, too, it is written in the book of Ecclesiasticus: "All things are known to Him ere ever they were created: so also after they were perfected.[1] So, he says, not otherwise; so were they known to Him, both ere ever they were created, and after they were perfected. This knowledge, therefore, is far unlike our knowledge. And the knowledge of God is itself also his wisdom, and his wisdom is itself his essence or substance. Because in the marvelous simplicity of that nature, it is not one thing to be wise and another to be, but to be wise is to be; as we have often said already also in the earlier books.”[2]

“Brother Aurelius, we are because God knows us. What consolation! How easy it should be for us to be with Him, to talk with Him, to pray… knowing that we are because "God knows us." The very fact we are, is proof of God's intimate presence with us, a presence so intimate that we are, because God knows us. He knows us, he knows each one of us personally, at this very moment, he knows you and me, and because of this we are. Our very existence is proof that God is with us; so much so, he is present to us and has a personal and intimate knowledge of who we are, that is why we are. How can we not speak and pray to our God, Lord of Lords, King of Kings, the Almighty, eternal and everlasting God, for we are a sign of God's living presence. Thank you Brother Aurelius, for these consoling words."

-Amen Brother Raymond.-

Knowledge of God is the cause of all things.

“Brother Thomas, would you have something to add?”

-Yes Brother Raymond. If I could only find my notes... not here, not here... Ah Yes, here they are.

Brother Raymond, -

“The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. Now the knowledge of the artificer is the cause of the things made by his art from the fact that the artificer works by his intellect. Hence the form of the intellect must be the principle of action; as heat is the principle of heating. Nevertheless, we must observe that a natural form, being a form that remains in that to which it gives existence, denotes a principle of action according only as it has an inclination to an effect; and likewise, the intelligible form does not denote a principle of action in so far as it resides in the one who understands unless there is added to it the inclination to an effect, which inclination is through the will. For since the intelligible form has a relation to opposite things (inasmuch as the same knowledge relates to opposites) it would not produce a determinate effect unless it were determined to one thing by the appetite, as the Philosopher says (Metaph. ix). Now it is manifest that God causes things by his intellect, since his being is his act of understanding; and hence his knowledge must be the cause of things, in so far as his will is joined to it. Hence the knowledge of God as the cause of things is usually called the "knowledge of approbation."

“No offence Brother Thomas, but Brother Aurelius’ explanation seemed a little clearer.”

(Brother Thomas coughs and clears his throat.)

              “When was my creation decreed?
           Our Sister, Blessed Mary of Agreda, in her book, “The Mystical City of God.” describes God's revelation to her regarding our existence as follows: 

“In the sixth instant (of creation) was decreed the creation of a people and the congregation of men for Christ, who was already formed in the divine mind and will, and according to his image and likeness man was to be made, in order, that the incarnate word might find brethren, similar but inferior to Himself and a people of his own nature, of whom he might be the Head.

In this instant was determined the order of creation of the whole human race, which was to begin from one man and woman and propagate itself, until the Virgin and her Son should be born in the predestined order. On account of the merits of Christ our Savior, the graces and gifts were prearranged, and also original justice, if they would only preserve it. The fall of Adam was foreseen and in him that of all others, except of the Queen, who did not enter into this decree. As a remedy, it was ordained that the most holy humanity should be capable of suffering.

The predestined were chosen by free grace, and the foreknown were reprobated with exact justice. All that was convenient and necessary for the conservation of the human race and for obtaining the end of the Redemption and the Predestination, was preordained, without interfering with the free will of men; for such ordainment was more conformable to God's nature and to divine equity. There was no injustice done to them, for if with their free will they could sin, so also could they abstain from sin by means of grace and the light of reason. God violated the right of no one, since he forsook no one nor denied to any one that which is necessary. Since his law is written in the hearts of men, nobody is excused for not knowing and loving Him as the highest Good of all creation.” [3]

So, dearest Brother and Sister in Christ Jesus, from the beginning we did not have a soul and we did not have a body, but... you and I as persons, as spirits in the Spirit of God were always known by God. You and I are not a mistake, a fluke or here by chance. God must love us very much to have known us from the beginning, and to bring each of us in his Kingdom, at a time and a place of his own choosing. Because of this, is it not our lot to truly administer his creation for his greater glory? Like the angels is it not our lot to cleave to Him? Bless the Lord my soul and bless his holy name.

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