2024/01/01

124. Mary, the Holy Mother of God

When Mary of Nazareth was pregnant with Jesus, the angel who appeared to her husband Joseph in a dream told him that "that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 1:20). Mary's words when she visited Elizabeth: "[F]or he who is mighty has done great things for me" (Luke 1:49), show that she was well aware of the work of the Holy Spirit that had been bestowed on her. 

Figure 1

The Holy Spirit works in various ways to make us realize what Jesus has achieved to be a reality. God created every reality using the words 'Let there be -,' based on his essence of 'I Am.' As shown in Figure 1, living creatures have proportionate knowledge and memory to live spontaneously and to procreate. They multiply, and the accidental information unique to their species is generated among them, allowing them to evolve over long periods of time. That is so that they may live with people. 

Man, on the other hand, was created as shown in Figure 2. The 'breath of life' that God breathed, if spontaneously connected to the 'tree of life', will become likeness of the divine essence of 'I Am,' as God said in Genesis, "Let us make man … after our likeness" (Genesis 1:26). The words 'I Am' show an image of the combination of God's will and knowledge. 

Figure 2

Just as God's will spontaneously orients itself toward his knowledge, so the 'breath of life,' which is of God and comes from God, spontaneously connects with the 'tree of life.' The 'tree of life' must contain the divine plan that each person has been given. In other words, it is, for the person, the one and only 'good,' the knowledge of God. 

Once this image of 'good' is transmitted to the 'tree of the knowledge of good and evil,' and the 'tree of the knowledge of good and evil' knows the image of 'good,' it begins to distinguish man's accidental information. But God appears to have been unaware of when the 'breath of life' that belongs to him would exert its spontaneity. God may have partially waived his omnipotence for the freedom of the 'breath of life' that belongs to him. 

Even after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, the 'enmity that God placed' had been breathing in the people. Eventually, inspired by it, the 'tree of the knowledge of good and evil' began to function, and prophets came to appear who obeyed God's voice. After a long time, in the age of Jesus' Nativity, people like John the Baptist, Mary and Joseph began to appear. The fullness of time had come. God chose Mary to be the mother of God so that his mercy might be on those who fear him from generation to generation (cf. Luke 1:50).

Maria K.M.