Letter 13: DEATH

"With respect to birth, it can, also, be either "holy" or "natural", i.e. it can either be an act of obedience to divine will or rather be effected as a consequence of a "call from the earth". A soul can be sent to the earth or it can be attracted by the earth. In the first case it is an act analogous to the recall of vertical and moral memory, i.e. analogous to the miracle of the resurrection of Lazarus. In the latter case it is an event that is half-voluntary and half-involuntary, where the soul falls -- often without realizing it -- into the sphere of terrestrial attraction, which bears it to birth, and thereby it is made little by little to forget its experiences above. Birth is then a forgetting of heaven and simultaneously a recall to the earth.

This is not so with "holy birth". Here it is the remembrance of the divine which is the force which accomplishes incarnation. It is not thanks to forgetting of the divine that the soul is then incarnated, but rather thanks to its remembering. It is in the state of "habitual union" with God that the soul is incarnated. Then its will does not lose memory of the divine. This memory acts in it, imprinted as it is in the soul's will, during the whole terrestrial life which follows a "holy birth". One could then speak of a "mission" or an "election"… and rightly,  because such a mission is the only one which really exists. For the true mission is not what the human being proposes to do on the earth according to his tastes, his interests and even his ideals, but rather what God wants him to do." --VT

"Holy Birth"
watercolor and acrylic on wood
36"x24"