2022/05/23

40. The Formation of the Holy Spirit and the Mystery of the Third Incarnation

Jesus' parable, which begins with the loving words to the Father, "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser" (John 15:1), tells the whole story of the event that can be called in a way the mystery of the third incarnation. As the faithful continue to receive the formation of the Holy Spirit (cf. this blog № 39), they begin to gain the experience of the Father rewarding them (cf. this blog № 38). Then they become aware of the God visiting them even in concrete everyday situations; that is, they begin to receive the sense of God's no-information touching them for a moment. If they pay attention to this no-information of God and try to connect with it, the Father will reward them in this scene through the experience of collaborating with the Holy Spirit. So, Jesus tells us, "Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit" (John 15:2). The Father takes away the branch "that bears no fruit," that is, memories connected with man's accidental information, and prunes the one "that does bear fruit," that is, the memory of having received the formation of the Holy Spirit, so that it may bear fruit more abundantly. So, Jesus then encourages them, saying, "You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you" (John 15:3-4). However, if the faithful do not maintain the "word which I have spoken" that has purified them, namely the worldview of Jesus Christ, they will feel as if they are not connected to Jesus. Jesus gives those in this state the following warning: "If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned" (John 15:6). Therefore, the faithful need to make a small effort to read aloud the words of the Revelation of John every day, even only a few lines, so that, by hearing the voice, what is written therein may enter their unconscious realm, and it is constantly overwritten (cf. Revelation 1:3). For if we lose the worldview of Jesus Christ, there is always an imminent danger of becoming strongly connected again to man's accidental information and no longer distinguishing it. In addition, the Holy Spirit sometimes brings the worldview of Jesus Christ placed in the unconscious realm of the faithful out into their conscious realm so that it is easier for them to imagine the way God wants them to collaborate with the Holy Spirit. At this time, the faithful see and believe that the "word which I have spoken" is within themselves. The fact that the faithful saw and believed becomes the joy of Jesus, and no other joy can fill their joy than this joy of Jesus. Thus, the faithful become willing to offer God the time of their lives to collaborate with the Holy Spirit. This desire, the desire to lay down their lives for the sake of their friends, this tremendous desire Jesus calls "love." "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you" (John 15:13-15).

Maria K. M.