2022/05/16

39. The Formation of the Holy Spirit, Part 3.

A person is a mass of information already from the very beginning of development, the stage of fertilised egg. And the flood of information greets the person who is born. People seek information, grow up absorbing it, use it and live in it. Therefore, when confronted with a state of non-information, they instinctively, so to speak, pass it by, regarding it as something of no value. However, non-information is God’s sole information because Jesus has made known all that he had heard from his Father (cf. John 15:15). And the Holy Spirit will bear witness to him (cf. John 15:26). If God is the being of non-information in the world, then his believers will try to remember the non-information as a form of information. Jesus once rebuked cities that had not repented despite many miracles he had performed there. The wise and the learned may experience the work of God but do not realise it is of God. On the other hand, the Father reveals his will to babes who, like Jesus, trust God as their Father. These infants come to the Eucharist simply believing Jesus' words: "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matt 11:28). Jesus encourages them to stay before the Eucharist and learn in the formation of the Holy Spirit, who works in the form of non-information, saying, "Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart" (Matt 11:29). The yoke of simply abiding in the presence of the Eucharist is easy, and the burden of bearing the state of non-information is light, so they fit the babes of the heavenly Father. People, the information itself, can get true peace only when the realm of their consciousness is in a state of non-information by being connected to non-informational God. Human beings have borne the burden of man’s accidental information, of which God once declared: "[C]ursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild animals" (Gen 3:14). They may flee from it and take fleeting comfort among nature, plants and animals, but these comforts are also accidental information (cf. this blog #4). However, when we remain before the Eucharist and focus on non-informational God, various memories and fictions disturbing us develop and easily catch us and sweep us away, for we are usually connected to the accidental information in our memories. So, we can heal this symptom by shifting our attention to the Christ on the Cross because Jesus, who became the enmity itself placed by God, in union with the heavenly Father, draws us (cf. this blog #23, #24). Then, his prayer of thanksgiving to the Father becomes that of the congregation. "I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will. All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" (Matt 11:25-30).

Maria K. M.