2024/07/01

150. Signals

Continuing from the previous article, we will discuss the Prophecy of the Spirituality of the Holy Spirit (Revelation 21-22) in the Prophetic Composition of the Book of Revelation (see diagram below). It is the last prophecy of Revelation. The signalling words that have supported and communicated the work of Revelation as a book of prophecy up to this point are gathering here.

The loud voice speaking to the author from the throne in Revelation 21:3 told him that all the toil, death, sorrow and lamentation leading up to the realisation of the Prophecy of the Completion of the Liturgy of the Mass (chapters 19-20) had passed away. That is the scene immediately after the completion of the Mass liturgy. So, "The one who sat on the throne said, 'Behold, I make all things new.' Then he said, 'Write these words down, for they are trustworthy and true.'" (Revelation 21:5).

Therefore, the "times of universal restoration" in Peter's sermon at the temple in the Book of Acts, "[Jesus,] whom heaven must receive until the times of universal restoration of which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old" (Acts 3:21), is the time when the prophecy of the completion of the liturgy of the Mass is fulfilled in Revelation.

Hence, "the one who sat on the throne" continued to the author: "They are accomplished. I [am] the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give a gift from the spring of life-giving water. The victor will inherit these gifts, and I shall be his God, and he will be my son" (Revelation 21:6-7). He said this to the author because the author knew what "these gifts" were when he said, "The victor will inherit these gifts".

The author was inspired to write the Book of Revelation because the author was "caught up in spirit on the Lord's Day and heard behind me a voice as loud as a trumpet" (1:10). That voice commanded him to write what he had seen on a scroll and send it to the seven churches. Common to these seven letters were the gifts given to the "victors" (cf. 2:7, 2:11, 2:17, 2:26-28, 3:5, 3:12, 3:21).

Here, the gift in the last letter is described as follows: "I will give the victor the right to sit with me on my throne, as I myself first won the victory and sit with my Father on his throne" (3:21). This phrase is found to make sense in connection with that of chapter 21: "The victor will inherit these gifts, and I shall be his God, and he will be my son" (21:7). That is because the sender of the last letter is "the source of God’' creation" (3:14), and the theme matches the words mentioned above "The one who sat on the throne" (21:5).

Furthermore, the phrase in the last letter immediately before "I will give the victor the right to sit with me on my throne" is "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, [then] I will enter his house and dine with him, and he with me" (3:20). He who "stand at the door and knock" is looking forward to the completion of a table fit for him to enter. That is because he is the Christ who said: "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, for, I tell you, I shall not eat it [again] until there is fulfilment in the kingdom of God" (Luke 22:15-16).

Hence, the "victor" in this case is the Christian who made the Mass liturgy completed. As shown in the diagram, the Prophetic Composition of the Book of Revelation, we can identify at least three essential requirements for the completion of the Mass liturgy. These have not yet been achieved or are still under discussion in the Church. Indeed, we are amid the Prophecy of the Fall of the Church.

The two phrases above for "victor" can be connected as follows. ''I will give the victor the right to sit with me on my throne, as I myself first won the victory and sit with my Father on his throne. I shall be his God, and he will be my son."

What is presented here is in line with what Jesus said at the Last Supper: "In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you" (John 14:20). The will of Jesus was to have Christians, whom he called "my brother, and sister, and mother, and my friends," become "my son."

Maria K. M.

 2024/06/24

149. The Sacred Heart of Jesus and John the Baptist

The last part of the structure of the Book of Revelation, the Prophecy of the Spirituality of the Holy Spirit (cf. Revelation 21-22 / see diagram below), when viewed as a book of prophecy (cf. Revelation 1:3), is the sacred heart of Jesus itself because the Holy Spirit was sent to us in Jesus' name (cf. John 14:26). It begins with the expression which looks like an omen of something: "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more"(Revelation 21:1). That is because the author "saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband" (21:2).

The term 'bride' appears in five scenes of Revelation. Elsewhere in the New Testament, it is only the following words from the mouth of John the Baptist in the Gospel of John: "He who has the bride is the bridegroom" (John 3:29). As Jesus said, "For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John; and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come" (Matthew 11:13-14), John the Baptist was a prophet. Therefore, we may infer and interpret these words of John the Baptist based on Revelation.

The "Bride" appears in Revelation for the first time at the end of the Prophecy of the Fall of the Church (chapters 17-18). Although The Prophecy of the Establishment of the New Testament (chapters 4-11) ends and the New Testament is established, the Church, in the Prophecy of the Fate of the Church with the Priesthood and the Sacrament of the Eucharist Hidden in the Wilderness and Heaven (chapters 12-16), is at the mercy of information and ends up falling to the extent that it is described as being "arrayed in purple and scarlet, and bedecked with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication; and on her forehead was written a name of mystery: 'Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth's abominations.'" (17:4-5).

Finally, Revelation tells us that "the light of a lamp shall shine in thee no more; and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall be heard in thee no more; for thy merchants were the great men of the earth, and all nations were deceived by thy sorcery. And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on earth" (18:23-24). This image also overlaps with the scene of the martyrdom of John the Baptist.

In light of the situation above, interpreting the "bridegroom" here as the Word and the "bride" as the New Testament, which presents the New Covenant, we can see that the phrase is a lament that both the Word and the New Testament have been forgotten in the Church. Then, John the Baptist's expression, "He who has the bride is the bridegroom", is understood as an image of the Word completing the New Testament, giving us reason to nod to the last prophet of the Old Covenant, who said, "He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 3:30).

"The Bride" is next mentioned in the passage, "the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to be clothed with fine linen, bright and pure" (Revelation 19:7-8), which is placed in the section the Prophecy of the Completion of the Liturgy of the Mass (chapters 19-20). Again, the "Bride" refers to the New Testament since the "marriage of the Lamb" is the scene of Jesus' last supper, and the New Testament received here the words of Jesus, instituting the Sacrament of Eucharist.

The latter three are in the Prophecy of the Spirituality of the Holy Spirit (chapters 21-22), to which other images are added. The one "prepared as a bride adorned for her husband" (21:2) alludes to the table (the altar) which supported Jesus' body, made present by the Word at his last supper, and "the Bride, the wife of the Lamb" (21:9) alludes to the cross that supported Jesus' body itself on the following day.

At the end of these, the Revelation says: "The Spirit and the Bride say, 'Come.' And let him who hears say, 'Come.' And let him who is thirsty come, let him who desires to take the water of life without price" (22:17). That is voice of the heart of Jesus, who invites people around the world to the completed Mass liturgy and commands his followers to do so. It is we Christians who demonstrate this heart of Jesus. For the following words of Jesus are realised in us.

"On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, 'If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, "Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water."'"(John 7:37-38).

Maria K. M.

 2024/06/17

148. The Great White Throne and the Salvation of the Evil Spirits

Evil spirits are originally human beings and are different from devils and Satan. So, the idea of understanding evil spirits by considering devils and Satan as information draws our attention to the fact that the "evil" phenomena in the world are the work of humans caused by a close causal relationship between information and people. Therefore, even if we witness supernatural phenomena caused by evil spirits possessing people, they are not unimaginable for Christians, who live with the supernatural experience of collaborating with the Holy Spirit in mind. We will return to Revelation from this issue and conclude my reflection on the "Prophecy of the Completion of the Liturgy of the Mass" (see diagram below "Prophetic Composition of the Book of Revelation"). 

Whenever  bloated needs emerge from the 'knowledge and memory', ' sensory functions' and 'bodily functions' of a living person, the evil spirits take advantage of the opportunity to possess him, remain within him, perform signs with him and gather candidates for evil spirits (cf. Matthew 12:43-45). Their place "for battle on the great day of God the Almighty" (Revelation 16:14) is the place where the Eucharist is raised in the Mass liturgy and draws all men to him (cf. John 12:32). Hence, the footsteps of believers who go there become "the way for the kings" (Revelation 16:12). 

On the other hand, various information awaits believers on their way to the Mass liturgy (cf. Revelation 20:7-10). "Their number is like the sand of the sea" (Revelation 20:8). The believers are continually deceived by them and followed around until they enter the Mass liturgy. However, once the faithful get into the Mass liturgy, they concentrate on it, and all this information is forgotten. It is as if "fire came down from heaven and consumed them" (Revelation 20:9). The information with which they were deceived was "thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur" (Revelation 20:10) and disposed of. 

Revelation continues: "Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat upon it; from his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them" (Revelation 20:11). Since the author writes he saw "a great white throne and him who sat upon it", i.e. the Eucharist, the Liturgy of the Eucharist begun, and the Eucharist is about to be elevated in the actual scene of the Mass liturgy. That is the place of the reality of God and people. After that, "from his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them" because the scene was of a different place from the actual scene of the Mass liturgy where the Holy Spirit and the believers collaborate even though the author could see the Eucharist. That is the place of the reality of God. 

There, the author saw that people died and that their Breath of Life, to which their Human Knowledge and Memory was attached, was "standing before the throne" (Revelation 20:12) as wandering demons remaining on earth, unable to follow God's command "Be!" which is about to leave their bodies and return to their Father in heaven. They had somehow found "the way for kings" and had come there. The presence of the Eucharist is the place where what they had done when they were alive with their Human Knowledge and Memory attaching to their Breath of Life is clearly revealed by God and is pulled away (cf. Revelation 20:12). Their stripped Human Knowledge and Memory are to be "thrown into the lake of fire" (Revelation 20:15) and disposed of as those whose "name was not found written in the book of life". 

At that time, in the actual scene of the Mass liturgy, the faithful are receiving the Eucharist. The body of Jesus Christ, in which God is present, is, in a way, God alive through the mystery of the Second Incarnation. When this God is eaten by believers and dies, the spontaneity of God's "I AM" and the divine knowledge returns to the Father in heaven, taking with it the Breath of Life, stripped of the Human Information and Memory. The Mass liturgy, in which the Holy Spirit and the believers collaborate, saves even the demons. Celebrating the Mass liturgy becomes the source of the power suppressing the "evil" phenomena in the world from the inside. 

For this reason, and also for the Church, which remains in the stage of the Prophecy of the Fall of the Church, to get out of it, we Christians must move towards the completion of the Mass Liturgy. And just as our predecessors established the New Testament and proved the prophecy of Revelation, we must demonstrate the Prophecy of the Completion of the Liturgy of the Mass. 

Maria K. M.

                                 (Changes are made in the diagram above.)

 

 2024/06/10

147. Demons

Demons or unclean spirits appear more frequently in the New Testament than in the era of the Old Testament. That is because Jesus, the very "enmity God has placed", appeared as Christ, making it possible for the dead, who had no chance of repentance, to be saved. 

In his letter, Peter wrote: "[Christ was] put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit; in which he went and preached to the spirits in prison" (1 Peter 3:18-19). He had learned from Jesus himself that "Satan" was an obstacle to Jesus, thinking not as God does, but as human beings do (cf. Matthew 16:20-28). Furthermore, he sensed from his own experience of exercising the authority Jesus had granted him to cast out demons that demons were not the same as devils and Satan. 

When demons find someone with gaps, they possess him all at once and try to kill him to experience death again. They want to be saved without tasting the "second death" (cf. Revelation 20:14, 21:8). However, the person possessed is alive and never dies, even though he suffers severely in resisting the demons, because he has a soul consisting of God's command "Be!" and the spontaneity responding to it, as well as the knowledge and memory proportionate to man. The demons who encountered Jesus in this situation cried out and fell down before him, saying loud, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beseech you, do not torment me" (Luke 8:28), for Jesus had commanded them to come out of him. 

Here it is written that the unclean spirits "begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss" (Luke 8:31). That is because the knowledge that was attached to their Breath of Life was originally "human accidental information", described in Revelation as "that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world" (Revelation 12:9). The demons who knew that Jesus was the Son of God also knew that that knowledge would be thrown into the "bottomless pit" (Revelation 20:1) and the "lake of fire and sulphur" (Revelation 20:10), where they would taste the second death. 

So, the demons begged Jesus to allow them to enter the swine. Perhaps they were unable to stay before Jesus, the Son of God. Jesus let them, so they went into the swine and drowned together. However, they, who were spirits, could not die again, no matter how much they wished to. They could only wait for Christ to come to their rescue in spirit. 

The spontaneity of a demon is the Breath of Life that God himself breathed into him, and God knows to whom it belongs. And the knowledge that is attached to his Breath of Life and which it is burdened with also belongs to the person. Hence, God planned to save the person's Breath of Life from hell, where it is unable to return to God even after death and wanders through the world suffering. The plan was, as Peter wrote, as follows: God would die, go to the spirits in captivity, draw their Breath of Life by divine spontaneity and divine knowledge, i.e. "I AM", and bring it to his Father in heaven after pulling off the knowledge attached to it. 

As discussed previously, for the two in Genesis, their souls took in the information as their own knowledge and connected with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil to satisfy their enlarged desires, which were stimulated by feelings of jealousy. They then jumped over the Tree of Life and connected with the Breath of Life. This process in their brain has manifested itself as an actual behaviour of taking from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and eating from it, which God had forbidden. Since these two in Genesis, the human soul has remained connected to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. So, many people still readily follow their example. But if they die in the same state, the knowledge that satisfies their needs sticks to the Breath of Life and does not leave it, resulting in one more demon being born on earth and wandering about. 

We must not become candidates for demons. To this end, it is essential for us to become able to see the "enmity God has placed". Its works can be seen clearly and soon by anyone with a worldview of Jesus Christ. Therefore, the beginning of the Book of Revelation states as follows. 

"The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants what must soon take place; and he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John" (Revelation 1:1). 

Maria K. M.

 2024/06/03

146. The Envy

I hope I have conveyed my thoughts on unclean spirits and devils through the discussions since this blog №139. I consider the dragon or the serpent, called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of humankind, together with their angels and others of this kind, whatever they may be called in the world, to be information. And the basis of all information is still "human accidental information" even in the 21st century. On the other hand, demons or unclean spirits are, in whatever form, human beings. They keep with them the breath that God himself breathed into them, waiting for the time of salvation. With this perspective, we will continue to examine what causes evil spirits to be born. 

The spontaneity of the creature is free because the spontaneity of God, "I AM," is its source. God brought to the man all kinds of beasts and birds whose brains were formed out of the ground to see what the man would call each one of them. The man's brain was formed out of the dust of the ground, so he called these creatures with a sense of kinship (cf. blog №144). And it is written, "whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). That is a sign that the knowledge and memory proportionate to humanity, as well as his sensory functions that take in information and his functions of the body, were connected under the spontaneity of responding to God's command "Be!" 

That is also the sign that the man had heard and remembered the two things God had commanded earlier: first, to eat of every tree of the garden, and second, never to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Furthermore, this experience left in his brain the memory that among the things he had named, "there was not found a helper fit for him" (Genesis 2:20). 

God thus prepared and created a "man" and a "woman" out of the man. When the "man" saw the "woman" whom God had brought to him, he cried out in admiration, as if the "woman" were another "self," the same person. The outpouring of emotion from his mouth indicates that his soul was functioning under the spontaneity of responding to God's command: "Be!" 

Here emerged "human accidental information" between the two. The "woman" made an episodic memory of this experience (cf. Genesis 3:1-5) and said that God had said, "You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it" (Genesis 3:3). In these words, we can already see the signs of feelings of envy. That is because it is said that the emotion of envy can be influenced by the idea that one should not "touch" something that one wants. 

Feelings of envy stimulate one's needs. So, their intellectual needs increased rapidly within the souls of the two who took the "human accidental information" as their own knowledge (cf. Genesis 3:4-5). Their souls sought the "breath of life" that God had breathed into them to satisfy their needs so intensely that they turned to the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil." In this way, their needs connected with their "tree of the knowledge of good and evil," and at the same time, with their "breath of life", jumping over their "tree of life". This process in their brain has manifested itself as a behaviour of taking from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and eating from it, which God had forbidden. Their eyes opened through the experience of being connected to such powerful spontaneity (cf. Genesis 3:6-7). 

The effect of this happening was most noticeable in the "man", who inherited most of the man's body. He had a vague memory that something had been taken from him (cf. Genesis 2:23). He must have realized then that it was one of his valuable bodily organs. It was the womb. The "man" had lost the body function of producing offspring. Given that God had the idea of bestowing the womb to the male, as seen in the example of the seahorse, God had a reason to take it from the "man" and give it to the "woman". God had placed the possibility for the "man" to become God's helper in the creation of the Body of Christ in his future. On the other hand, the "woman," being given the womb, became a helper in the creation of the human body, the body into which God breathes his breath. She later realized this fact (cf. Genesis 4:1). 

A feeling of envy emerged in the "man" (cf. Genesis 3:12). It turned into a desire for dominance, and he gave the "woman" a name. He showed that he regarded the "woman" whom God had brought to him as any other creature he had named in the presence of God and flaunted his dominion over her. Envy and boasting are inseparable emotions as long as there is desire. Thus, he turned his back on God. 

To be continued

Maria K. M.

 2024/05/27

145. The Cherubim and the Flaming Sword

The spontaneity with which man and creatures came into existence in response to God's word "Be!" and the "breath of life" that God breathed into man so that he might be after his likeness are both free because the spontaneity of God, the "I AM," is their source. Therefore, God caused the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil to grow out in the centre of the actual garden to know how the two in Genesis would demonstrate their spontaneity by watching how they would take and eat from the trees. 

The two shared information and took and ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Therefore, God has put "enmity" between the woman and the information, and he arranged for it to be inherited by their offspring and set up a new plan. This caused the woman great pain in childbearing. But after she admitted that the information had deceived her, God forgave her for her fault for disobeying his command. 

On the other hand, to the man, who had committed the two faults of taking and eating the fruit from the woman's hand and attributing its cause to God, God sought redemption by saying, "Cursed is the ground because of you" (Genesis 3:17). But woven into God's words was the future: "In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread" (Genesis 3:19). A hope was placed in their descendants, equipped with the "enmity God has placed" brought about by the woman. 

The man, the only one without the "enmity God had placed" in him, then named the woman Eve. With this action, he made the third fault, adding to his two previous faults. God drove him out of the Garden of Eden with the woman to make him cultivate the soil from which he had been taken and to pass the work on to his descendants. 

Peter denied Jesus three times, as Jesus had foretold, and repented of it with tears. Jesus, after his resurrection, erased the faults of the man in Genesis by asking Peter three times, "Do you love me?" The hope God had placed in the future was realized as love for God, and from that redemption comes the body of Christ in which the life of God dwells again. 

Peter and the other disciples whom Jesus chose and named Apostles would become the ones of whom Genesis said, "In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread," i.e., those who labour "for the food which endures to eternal life" (John 6:27), renewing the new covenant that Jesus accomplished on the cross. 

The males, having inherited the redemptive work of the man, were to work as God's helpers in the creation of the body of Christ. Jesus placed here the recommendation "eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 19:12) so that their bodies are directed to the life of God. In this way, true equality is established between men and women, who inherit the woman's pain in childbearing and who, with their bodies oriented toward human life, work as God's helpers in the creation of human bodies. 

Everyone, except the man in Genesis, has "enmity God has placed" by heredity. But how this "enmity" works is unknown. That is because behind the knowledge and memory proportionate to man are the sensory functions that take in information and the functions of the body, also maintained by the spontaneity of responding to the "Be!" commanded by God, and because people have a strong inclination of their desires that exceed instinct surfacing as their knowledge and memory connected with them become more and more developed. 

Many people fail to accept Jesus' words because they cannot bear to see their own true nature, which will be revealed by the "enmity God has placed" (cf. John 8:31-59). The causal link between information and demons (unclean spirits) is endless. If one has the "enmity God has placed" in him but refuses to see or know it, he will be a follower of the man in Genesis. The death of his physical body will cause the birth of an unclean spirit. For this reason, God guarded the way to the Tree of Life for the man and for his followers, stationing the cherubim and the fiery revolving sword east of the Garden of Eden. 

To be continued

Maria K. M.

 2024/05/20

144. Soul and Spirit

In discussing the causal relationship between information and demons (unclean spirits), it is worth reviewing how the soul and spirit came to belong to man, going back to Genesis according to the New Testament (see the Figure above). 

God created the various creatures by words. Hence, they are endowed with spontaneity to respond to God's command ("Be!"). God gave food to man and other creatures. That means, at the same time, that he gave them the knowledge and memory appropriate to them (cf. Genesis 1:1-30). So, they have the spontaneity to respond to God's command ("Be!") and the knowledge and memory fit to them. That can be said to be the state of their soul accompanied by their body. Hence, man is in awe of the life of all living creatures. 

Next, God prepared to give man a spirit in his likeness (cf. Genesis 2:1-17). God formed the brain of the man of dust from the ground. Then, he breathed the Breath of Life into his nostrils and made the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil grow in the centre of his brain. 

The Breath of Life is not a creature because it is of God, breathed by God. The spontaneity of God, who is the 'I AM', has been distributed to man. It becomes the spontaneity unique to the person. Therefore, now, man has two kinds of spontaneity, together with that of responding to God's command ("Be!"). 

On the other hand, the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil are creatures. God caused these to grow in man's brain so that man might become like Jesus Christ. "After our likeness" (Genesis 1:26) means to be like Jesus Christ (cf. John 10:30; 14:7). Jesus Christ had his own spirit, consisting of divine spontaneity and divine knowledge (cf. Luke 23:46). One's Tree of Life is the interface that connects his Breath of Life with divine knowledge and brings to him his unique Spirit of God (cf. John 4:24). Thereby, the spirit of man becomes like that of Jesus. 

One's Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil connects his unique Spirit of God with the soul accompanied by his body, so that he comes to realise the plan of God for his own. Jesus Christ, the 'I AM', also had a soul like people and other living creatures to be fully human. Jesus' spontaneity in his soul was based on the 'I AM'. So, Jesus said, "No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again; this charge I have received from my Father" (John 10:18). In this way, Jesus, like man, had two kinds of spontaneity. 

When the Holy Spirit, sent in the name of Jesus, descended and "there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them" (Acts 2:3), he connected with the disciples at their Tree of Life in their brains. Thereby, the Spirit of God, unique to each of them, was brought to each of them and connected to their Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It further linked with their souls, who had been with Jesus and trained by him and shared his worldview, so that they could realise God's plan and collaborate with the Holy Spirit. 

Therefore, in order for our spirit to live connected to our soul, made up of the spontaneity to respond to God's command ("Be!") and the knowledge and memory appropriate to them, via our Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, we must be trained by the Holy Spirit through the Word and the Eucharist, just as the disciples of that time were trained by Jesus and shared his worldview, and acquire the worldview of Jesus Christ through the habit of reading and listening to Revelation to John. 

Just as the Holy Spirit descended on Mary and she was overshadowed by the power of the Most High and conceived Jesus, we are to undergo the formation of the Holy Spirit and acquire the worldview of Jesus Christ. Mary responded to Elizabeth's words in the house of Zechari'ah as follows. 

"My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden. For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name. And his mercy is on those who fear him from generation to generation" (Luke 1:46-50). 

We will soon acquire the blessedness of our souls and spirits both magnifying the Lord and rejoicing in God as she did. Mary is the beginning of Christians living in the likeness of Jesus Christ and the Mother of the Church. 

To be continued. 

Maria K. M.