24._ Message

Before, we observed how in the Nature there is a creative capacity whose purpose is God, and we attributed it to the "spirit of God". Now we see in the prophets, and anointed, the presence of a new creative capacity, that comes from God to carry out a new Creation, and that we recognize like a new one, and greater, manifestation of that spirit of God; a new immanence, not simply applique, and less contradictory, with the previous one, but coming together and reinforcing both in two aspects --"Eros" and "Agape"-- of a same aim: the Creation and the Redemption.

The Spirit did not act directly on the historical events. He did not act like an external efficient cause that takes part miraculously in the historical process. He acted only in the private thoughts of the prophets, and anointed, respecting even here his personal freedom, in his vision and interpretation of the "normal" historical facts.

On the one hand, the anointed and prophets received the influence --no determining, neither coercive, nor coprosecutor, but vehement, insistent and demanding-- of the Spirit; but on the other hand, they were people of their time, their world; the result had to be unavoidably a mixture in which the divine message was enveloped in human words and works, often "too" human. But, in the middle of as much "noise", it was preserved and transmitted the message, was being constructed that propitious historical atmosphere, so that in a man the complete incarnation of God was made; living in that town thus prepared, recognizing and proclaiming the message in all its purity, and fulfilling in himself and by himself the loving project of salvation.
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Psalm
Bless God, my soul, from the depths of my being, his holy name;
bless God, my soul, never forget all his acts of kindness.
He forgives all your offences, cures all your diseases,
he redeems your life from the abyss, crowns you with faithful love and tenderness.
God is tenderness and pity, slow to anger and rich in faithful love
he does not treat us as our sins deserve, nor repay us as befits our offences.
As the distance of east from west, so far from us does he put our faults.
As tenderly as a father treats his children, so God treats those who fear him
(Psalm 103, extract)

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