Eighth Page
June 1883
He showed me how man outrages the Divine Wisdom by the abuse of the three powers
of his immortal soul and by his sins-stamps out as far as he can the image of
the Triune God in himself and by mad folly tries also to rob nature of its God,
tries to prove that matter is eternal and creative in itself and that there is
no God or need for a God; that when nature decays in one form it only assumes
another, that for instance that decayed bodies evaporate into gases of different
kinds and are scattered in the air-that these atoms accumulate and adhere
together forming different substances and reappear as a new creature, and that
so matter and nature are creative of themselves and need no creative or
providential power to call them into being or maintain then in existence.
That man in his pride of intellect and perverseness of will tries to drag down
the great eternal Three in One, the Beginning and End of all things, from Heaven
and blots Him out of earth; that infidelity is rife, and man denying God puts
away from himself any law or restraint against his vile passions, for if there
is no God there cannot be Divine Law commanding this and forbidding that.
Oh my God, my God, Look not upon our sins but upon the Face of Thy Christ-Listen
to His dying prayer, Father forgive them for they know not what they do. Oh look
on the gaping wounds and the warm flowing Blood and have pity on us for this
same most Precious Blood.
Man too darkens his understanding by his infidelity. Take away the sun and we
cannot have light or heat. Take away faith which is the light of the soul and
all is decay and desolation, if we have not faith we cannot love or serve God.
If we do not believe there is a God well may God in His wrath say that man is
flesh that is quite corrupt. Now God must have some recompense for all these
blasphemies against Himself as God.
It is worldly wisdom which is folly that is drawing down souls into an abyss of
darkness which is Hell, and as of old when the heart of man set his affections
against God, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, really human yet Divine because (united
to the Person of God the Son) belonging to God the Son made Man, was the atoning
object and Jesus revealed the burning love of His Sacred Heart and complained of
man's coldness and demanded a reparation and condolence and souls were warmed in
that furnace of Divine Love and souls burnt again with charity towards the God
of Love.
Now too when infidelity and pride of intellect open rebellion against God and
His revealed Law, self will and self conceit is filling the minds of men and
drawing them away from the sweet yoke of Jesus and binding them with the cold
heavy chains of self-seeking, private judgment, and abandoning all right to be
governed and wishing to govern oneself, disobedience to God and His holy Church
- that same Jesus the Incarnate Word, the Wisdom of the Father who became
obedient even unto death of the Cross, again gives us an antidote, an object
which can and does, and will in every way make up and repays a hundred fold the
debt that is contracted to the infinite Justice of God.
Oh what atonement could be made for guiltiness like this? Or who such ransom
could be paid To save from the abyss? See there a victim, nature scorns The Head
of Jesus crowned with thorns.
Our dear Blessed Lord has again and again impressed upon me His great desire to
have His Sacred Head honored as the Seat of Divine Wisdom and as it is the abuse
of reasoning powers which is now working such devastation in souls, it is the
faculties of the mind and the powers of the soul that are sinning against God,
so He complains, ah so pitifully, that His Soul is sorrowful even unto death.
And He impresses upon me more and more that His Soul is not known, His Soul is
not loved, and tells me not by actual words, but He infuses this complaint and
saturates the soul with this feeling, which is as it were the overflowing of His
holy and adorable Soul and makes known in an unmistakable manner that He wishes
His holy Soul to be comforted, and shows and makes me feel that sorrow and
anguish that so wrung from Him that complaint to His Eternal Father.
And as the angel of the old told Abraham that God would find a victim for the
holocaust, and turning round he found a lamb, a male lamb of under one year old
caught by its horns in the thorns of the hedge, so now God again provides a
Victim , a peace offering, a sacrifice of propitiation the Seat of created and
uncreated Wisdom crowned with thorns.
And our obedience and faith, like Abraham's must first be true and tried. We
must bow our understanding to the obedience of faith and God will show us the
Lamb caught in the thorns which He particularly and expressly wishes to be a
sacrifice to His outraged Deity, to His Infinite and Eternal Wisdom. Ah, how
beautifully God shows me the likeness to this Lamb which He distinctly says
through the mouth of His inspired writers was provided by God. It was caught in
the thorns, then it was sacrificed, its blood was shed, its heart was pierced
and it was consumed by the fire of sacrifice. So the Sacred Head crowned with
thorns and the dewdrops of Precious Blood are as damask roses telling of the
Love that draws forth those streamlets of ruby red...
I think it is the same soul that our Divine Lord has before shown me and whom He
has lavished His choicest gifts and graces upon, whose whole being seems to rest
in Him, in whose soul is reflected very perfectly the Triune God, Whose Will is
in all things, one with His, who is burning with and in flames that consume His
Sacred Heart, whose soul gives Him great Adoration, who condoles with Him in His
sorrows, who is as He gave me to understand an angel of consolation to Him.
And He showed me very clearly how perfectly this soul adored the Seat of Divine Wisdom and rendered comfort to His Holy Soul. I think He wishes to teach me by this holy soul what gifts and graces He bestows on those who give themselves up entirely to Him. And if it were only to reflect one single ray of glory such as shines in such profusion from this one, oh it would be worth trying for, for all eternity, she gives such glory to her Creator, her Redeemer, her Spouse.
Her love is all for Him and her zeal for souls and His glory is as the pillar of
fire which went before the People of Israel. Our dear Blessed Lord seems to me
to love this soul so tenderly and He gave me to understand that He will reveal
the brightness of His shining in her, that multitudes may be drawn to love Him,
to praise and thank Him for the gifts He has given her. She is truly a Child of
Mary, and ornament of the Church. Oh how He humbled me in this soul, and gave
me, poor worm of the earth, confidence and love for Him and His work, for I love
this soul on account of the glory she gives to Our dear Divine Spouse, and I
thought I would ask you to let me offer our undertakings to him through her to
Mary.
And I begged of Him through the love He has for Himself to show His work in her
and thus glorify His Name. I begged of Him through the Wisdom of His Sacred Head
and for Mary's sake for I have heard Him by those words in the soul, show her to
Mary and tell her that she is His Spouse, that she has risen early to meet Him
and the dew drops are on her feet. The dew drops of His Precious Blood and roses
encircle her brow. I think He has given to her the marks of His Precious Wounds
and she is sealed with His Seal, and Wisdom is on her lips.
Oh how it makes me want to do something for Him, how puny we are and how little
we see we have done when God shows us a generous soul like this. I have asked
our dear Blessed Lord to show her to you and to others, for I know you will
glorify God in His wonderful work in her soul. Is it presumption of me to wish
to speak with this saint? To hear her say that sweet name of love, Jesus, for I
feel that it would make me love Him even more. Blessed be God in His angels and
His saints. Amen.
When I last saw this soul at first I thought it was our dear Blessed Lady, for
it seemed to me that the angels of God gazed at her in wondering admiration and
yet the glory which now ascends to the Blessed Trinity from this soul and the
graces that God showers down upon the earth through her is wonderfully
increased. Ah how wonderful is God' in Saints. Our dear Blessed Lord instructed
me that the Devotion will be acknowledged and will rapidly spread and draw many
souls to Him. I often find myself begging of Him to choose someone who is to
reveal the longing wish of His Sacred Heart to have the Seat of Divine Wisdom
honored. I feel that everyone must think that our dear Lord could not throw such
pearls to such swine as I am but I check myself in obedience and say "Thy
will be done on earth as it is in Heaven: I know I asked Him to let this favored
soul be the messenger of His Love for she knows of and practices this Devotion.
Will you ask our dear Lord to let this soul, if it be His Holy Will, be an
instrument instead of your obedient child,
In the Sacred Head and loving Heart... Teresa Higginson...Enfant de Marie.
COMPLAINTS OF THE SOUL OF OUR BLESSED LORD
"My Soul is not known. My Soul is not loved. Night and day I see living
lamps burning before My Altar. My Sacraments of Love finds worshippers and
victims; but My Soul does not meet with sympathizing souls. Every day I give
Myself to My creatures, and swallowed up in this union, they praise everything
in Me but My Soul and My Sacred Head crowned with thorns, the Seat of Divine
Wisdom. Few there are who compassionate the anguish of My Soul, sorrowful unto
death. My Heart has found thousands of hearts, but My Soul remains solitary, and
My Thorn-Crowned Brow unhonored. My Face besmeared, and My Eyes and Mouth filled
with congealing Blood, and no one is there to wipe it away and refresh My
parched Lips and swollen Tongue. My Soul is Sorrowful even unto death, and I
have looked for some one to comfort Me and there is no one"