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03-1900-06-20 Biblical Resonance Analysis
Volume 3 — June 20, 1900 “The most perfect humility produces the most intimate union with God in the soul.”
STAGE ONE — INDEPENDENT BIBLICAL IDENTIFICATION
The Divine’s Embitterment: Two Violences on the Heart
“Do not add more torment to my Heart which is embittered to the summit, finding Itself in a continuous fight because of the violences that everyone does to me continuously. The iniquities of men do violence to Me… and Justice, clashing in a continuous fight with the Love I have for men, tortures my Heart in such a painful way as to make Me die continuously!”
Matthew 11:12 — “From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.” Hogan cites this explicitly. The entry introduces a new form of the Matthew 11:12 violence: the people’s iniquities do violence to the divine, and Luisa’s intercession does violence to the divine in the opposite direction. The divine is caught between two violences — the violence of sinners drawing Justice, and the violence of the intercessor who will not allow it to fall. The kingdom suffers violence from both sides. Type: direct doctrinal parallel
Hosea 11:8 (paraphrase) — Already confirmed across the volume. “Justice, clashing in a continuous fight with the Love I have for men, tortures my Heart in such a painful way as to make Me die continuously” is Hosea 11:8 at its most analytically precise: the “heart recoiling within” is now named as a “continuous fight” — not a momentary recoiling but an ongoing interior warfare between the divine attributes. The divine dying continuously of this interior conflict is the Hosea 11:8 anguish in its most sustained form. Type: direct doctrinal parallel
Lamentations 3:33 (paraphrase) — Already confirmed. “He does not afflict from his heart” — the chastisement is not the divine’s heart’s desire — is the Lamentations form of “I too do not want to send scourges.” The entry deepens it: the divine is not merely reluctant but dying of the conflict between what Justice demands and what Love desires. Type: direct doctrinal parallel
The Intercessor’s Violence Explained: Why the Divine Abstains from Coming
“You do violence to Me, because when I come, knowing the chastisements that I am sending, you do not remain quiet — you force Me, you do violence to Me… so as not to expose my Heart to a yet fiercer fight, I abstain from coming.”
Matthew 11:12 (paraphrase) — Hogan cites again. Luisa’s intercession is the second form of Matthew 11:12’s violence: the one who presses the divine with “make me suffer and spare them” is doing violence to the divine just as the sinners do violence through iniquity — but from the side of love rather than transgression. The entry’s theological precision is striking: the divine abstains not in anger but in mercy — to protect His own heart from the “fiercer fight” that Luisa’s presence would provoke. The privation is the divine’s protection of His own interior equilibrium under the pressure of two opposing violences. Type: direct doctrinal parallel
Psalm 46:10 — “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.” The divine’s “let Me give vent to my fury, and do not want to increase my pains with your speaking” is Psalm 46:10 directed at the intercessor: the stillness and knowing are what the divine is asking for — not in passivity but in trust. The speaking that increases the divine’s pains is the opposite of the Psalm’s stillness. Type: direct doctrinal parallel
Isaiah 30:15 — “For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,” The divine’s plea for quiet — “let Me give vent to my fury, and do not want to increase my pains with your speaking” — is the Isaiah 30:15 form: the divine who asks for quietness and trust as the posture from which strength comes. Luisa’s speaking that “forces” the divine is the “but you were unwilling” of Isaiah 30:15. Type: direct doctrinal parallel
The Most Perfect Humility: Losing Reason, Dissolving in Nothingness, Acquiring Divine Language
“The most perfect, the most sublime humility is that of losing every reason and of not discoursing on ‘why’ and ‘how’, but of undoing oneself in one’s own nothingness. And while the soul does this, without realizing it, she finds herself dissolved in God, and this produces in the soul the union most intimate, the love most perfect.”
2 Corinthians 12:9 — “He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.” Hogan cites explicitly. The divine who works best in nothingness is the God of 2 Corinthians 12:9: the power that is made perfect in weakness operates most freely when the creaturely reason and discourse have been surrendered. The soul’s undoing in nothingness is the creature’s form of Paul’s boasting in weaknesses — the deliberate renunciation of the creaturely resource so that the divine resource operates unimpeded. Type: direct doctrinal parallel
Isaiah 55:8–9 — “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Hogan cites explicitly. The “losing every reason and not discoursing on why and how” is the creature’s response to Isaiah 55:8–9: the creaturely reason cannot comprehend the divine ways; the only posture that is honest and productive is the renunciation of the creaturely discourse and the waiting for the divine reason to operate. The soul who “acquires divine reason” does so by surrendering creaturely reason, because the two cannot coexist at the level of governance. Type: direct doctrinal parallel
Matthew 23:12 — “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” Hogan cites explicitly, applying it to the Pharisees’ rationalizing as the pattern of self-exaltation through reason. The “discoursing on why and how” is a form of the self-exaltation Matthew 23:12 identifies: the creature who demands reasons is the creature who has not yet surrendered the position of judge. The most perfect humility — “losing every reason” — is the most complete form of Matthew 23:12’s self-humbling. Type: direct doctrinal parallel
Colossians 3:12 — “Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;” Hogan cites this for the acquisition of the celestial language through the nothingness-posture. The “garment of safety” humility produces is the Colossians 3:12 clothing: humility as the garment is the Pauline form of the June 20 “humility produces a garment of safety in the soul.” Type: direct doctrinal parallel
Proverbs 3:5–7 — “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear the LORD, and depart from evil.” The renunciation of “your own understanding” — not leaning on it — is the Proverbs form of the most perfect humility. “Do not discourse on why and how” is “do not lean on your own understanding” stated more radically: not merely deferring to the divine but dissolving the creaturely discourse entirely. Type: direct doctrinal parallel
Psalm 131:1–2 — “A Song of Ascents. By David. LORD, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me. Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.” Already confirmed at April 9. The soul that does not “discourse on why and how” — that has calmed and quieted itself without demanding explanation — is the Psalm 131 soul: the weaned child who no longer nurses for the milk of understanding but rests in the mother’s presence. The most perfect humility is Psalm 131 in its most complete form. Type: affective/meditative
John 3:30 — “He must increase, but I must decrease.” Already confirmed at May 21. The “undoing oneself in one’s own nothingness” is the Johannine form of the decrease: the creature who decreases is the creature in whom the divine can increase. The soul “dissolved in God” is the soul who has completed the John 3:30 dynamic — decreased until the divine fills the space. Type: direct doctrinal parallel
The Garment of Safety, Profound Calm, and the Celestial Language
“Humility produces a garment of safety in the soul, in such a way that, wrapped in this garment of safety, the soul remains in the most profound calm, embellishing all of herself in order to be pleasing to her dearest and beloved Jesus.”
2 Chronicles 34:27 — “because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says the LORD.” Hogan cites explicitly. Josiah’s tender-hearted humility producing the divine’s protection — “I also have heard you” — is the OT form of the “garment of safety” humility produces. The humility that tears the garment (Josiah’s mourning) receives the garment of divine protection. Type: typological
Philippians 4:7 (paraphrase) — Already confirmed. Hogan cites explicitly for the “most profound calm.” The peace that surpasses understanding and guards the heart and mind in Christ Jesus is the Philippians form of the calm the humility-garment produces: wrapped in the garment of safety, the soul rests in the peace that understanding cannot produce and that only the garment of humility enables. Type: direct doctrinal parallel
Isaiah 26:3–4 (paraphrase) — Already confirmed at June 17. Hogan cites explicitly again. “Perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You” is the Isaiah form of the calm produced by the nothingness-humility: the mind that has surrendered its own discourse stays on God, and the staying produces the perfect peace. Type: direct doctrinal parallel
1 Peter 5:5–6 — “Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility and subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,” Hogan cites 1 Peter 5:5–9 explicitly. The clothing of humility as the garment — “clothe yourselves with humility” — is 1 Peter 5:5’s form of the “garment of safety” the entry names. The humility-clothing is both the posture before God and the protection that the garment provides. Type: direct doctrinal parallel
Psalm 63:1 — “A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.” Hogan cites explicitly for Luisa’s closing cry — “Who would be able to endure? How will I be able to bear myself because of His absence?” The soul that has received the teaching on nothingness-humility and then immediately turns to “I will use all stratagems to draw You to come” is Psalm 63’s thirst: the teaching on surrender does not eliminate the longing; it is the longing that the surrender is most difficult to reconcile with. Type: affective/meditative
Revelation 3:4–5 / 19:8 (translation pending) — “The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments… for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.” The “garment of safety” humility produces — within which the soul “embellishes all of herself in order to be pleasing” — is the Revelation form of the bridal garment: the humility-garment is the white linen of righteousness, the prepared-bride’s clothing. The soul wrapped in the garment of safety is the soul preparing for the eschatological encounter. Type: typological
STAGE TWO — COMPARISON WITH HOGAN’S COMMENTARY
CORRESPONDENCES
Matthew 11:12 — Both identified. Hogan cites explicitly, twice.
2 Corinthians 12:9 — Both identified. Hogan cites explicitly.
Isaiah 55:8–9 — Both identified. Hogan cites explicitly.
Matthew 23:12 — Both identified. Hogan cites explicitly.
Colossians 3:12 — Both identified. Hogan cites explicitly.
2 Chronicles 34:27 — Both identified. Hogan cites explicitly.
Philippians 4:7 — Both identified. Hogan cites explicitly.
Isaiah 26:3–4 — Both identified. Hogan cites explicitly.
1 Peter 5:5–9 — Both identified. Hogan cites explicitly.
Psalm 63:1 — Both identified. Hogan cites explicitly for the closing cry.
DEVIATIONS
No significant deviations. Hogan’s citation coverage is extensive; Stage One adds the structural depth beneath each.
ADDITIONS — MINE
- Hosea 11:8 — the “continuous fight” as the sustained form of the heart that recoils; the dying-continuously as Hosea’s most extended expression
- Lamentations 3:33 — “he does not afflict from his heart”; doctrinal complement to the divine’s reluctance
- Psalm 46:10 — “be still, and know that I am God”; the stillness the divine asks for
- Isaiah 30:15 — “in quietness and trust shall be your strength”; the divine’s plea for quiet as the posture from which strength comes
- Proverbs 3:5–7 — “do not lean on your own understanding”; the Proverbs form of the nothingness-humility
- Psalm 131:1–2 — “I do not occupy myself with things too great for me; I have calmed and quieted my soul”; the weaned-child posture as the humility’s Psalm form
- John 3:30 — “he must increase, I must decrease”; the dissolution in nothingness as the Johannine decrease
- Revelation 3:4–5 / 19:8 — the white garments / the bridal linen; the humility-garment in its eschatological form
ADDITIONS — HERS
Rationalism named as the contemporary adversary of the nothingness-teaching: Hogan’s most historically specific contextual note — “at the same time the Lord is saying this to Luisa, rationalism is coming into the church in a huge way and it’s going to destroy faith.” The June 20 teaching on surrendering creaturely reason is the direct counter to the rationalist project. The “discoursing on why and how” that the divine identifies as the obstacle to the most perfect humility is precisely what rationalism promotes as the highest spiritual exercise.
The divine’s self-protective abstention named: Hogan identifies the divine’s reason for not coming as self-protective: “so as not to expose his heart to an even worse fight, I abstain from coming.” The abstention is not punishment or indifference but the divine’s protection of His own interior equilibrium under two opposing violences. This is a distinctive pastoral reading: the privation is an act of the divine’s self-care, not merely a pedagogy for Luisa.
VIP / SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS
No formal VIP designation. The most-perfect-humility teaching is the entry’s most doctrinally concentrated element. Hogan marks it as “an extremely important statement” — elevated but not formally VIP-designated.
STAGE TWO SYNTHESIS
The entry presents four movements: the divine’s embitterment under two violences (Matthew 11:12, Hosea 11:8); the explanation of the privation as self-protective abstention (Matthew 11:12, Psalm 46:10, Isaiah 30:15); the most-perfect-humility teaching (2 Corinthians 12:9, Isaiah 55:8–9, Matthew 23:12, Colossians 3:12, Proverbs 3:5–7, Psalm 131:1–2, John 3:30); and the garment of safety and calm (2 Chronicles 34:27, Philippians 4:7, Isaiah 26:3–4, 1 Peter 5:5–9, Revelation 3:4–5/19:8). Both analyses converge strongly throughout. Stage One’s most significant additions are the interior-divine-conflict tradition (Hosea 11:8, Lamentations 3:33), Psalm 46:10, Isaiah 30:15, Proverbs 3:5–7, Psalm 131:1–2, John 3:30, and Revelation 3:4–5/19:8. Hogan’s most significant additions are the rationalism-as-adversary contextual note and the self-protective reading of the divine’s abstention.
Cross-Entry Synthesis
Volume 3 — June 20, 1900 “The most perfect humility produces the most intimate union with God in the soul.”
CROSS-ENTRY SYNTHESIS
Two Violences on the Divine Heart: The Explanation of the Privation
“The iniquities of men do violence to Me, as they draw Justice upon themselves and force Me to chastise them… You do violence to Me, because when I come… you force Me, you do violence to Me, and do not want Me to chastise.”
Matthew 11:12 — confirmed by both analyses — governs the entry’s opening movement, but here in a new structural form. The kingdom suffers violence from two sides simultaneously: the violence of the sinners who draw Justice upon themselves, and the violence of Luisa whose intercession presses the divine not to execute it. The divine is caught in the middle — “Justice, clashing in a continuous fight with the Love I have for men” — with both violences operating against each other through the divine’s own interior.
Hosea 11:8 — the heart that recoils, the interior dying of the conflict — is here given its most sustained Volume 3 form: “tortured in such a painful way as to make Me die continuously.” The dying is not episodic but ongoing; the interior warfare is the divine’s permanent condition under the current weight of sin and intercession. Lamentations 3:33 provides the doctrinal complement: “he does not afflict from his heart” — the chastisement is real but the heart’s recoiling from it is equally real. Both are permanently in motion simultaneously.
The privation’s explanation is the entry’s most original pastoral contribution: the divine abstains from coming not in anger but in mercy toward His own heart. Luisa’s presence, knowing the chastisements being sent, provokes the intercession that provokes the fiercer fight. The divine is not punishing Luisa with the privation; He is protecting His own interior from the “yet fiercer fight” her presence would produce. The absence is the divine’s self-care. This is a new register for the privation-theology: not Job-testing (May 27), not the winter-deepening-roots (June 17), not the grafted-heart-sparing (May 27 doctrinal), but the divine’s protective withdrawal from the conflict His presence with Luisa would intensify.
Psalm 46:10 — “be still, and know that I am God” — and Isaiah 30:15 — “in quietness and trust shall be your strength; but you were unwilling” — provide the scriptural form of what the divine is asking: the stillness that does not press, the quiet that does not increase the pain with speaking. Luisa’s closing declaration — “I will not neglect any means, I will try all ways, I will use all stratagems to draw You to come” — is the Isaiah 30:15 “but you were unwilling” in its most transparent form: the teaching has been received; the surrender has not yet followed.
The Most Perfect Humility: Nothingness, Dissolution, Divine Reason
“The most perfect, the most sublime humility is that of losing every reason and of not discoursing on ‘why’ and ‘how’, but of undoing oneself in one’s own nothingness. And while the soul does this, without realizing it, she finds herself dissolved in God… in losing her own reason, she acquires divine reason.”
The most-perfect-humility teaching is the entry’s doctrinal center and the most systematic humility-teaching in Volume 3. 2 Corinthians 12:9 — confirmed by both analyses — names the mechanism: the divine’s “power is made perfect in weakness.” The nothingness is the creaturely form of the weakness in which the divine power operates most freely. The soul who undoes herself in nothingness is the soul who has cleared the space for the divine power to fill.
Isaiah 55:8–9 — confirmed by both analyses — supplies the epistemological ground: “my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways… as the heavens are higher than the earth.” The creaturely reason cannot comprehend the divine ways; “not discoursing on why and how” is the creature’s epistemologically honest response to Isaiah 55:8–9. Proverbs 3:5–7 provides the Wisdom form: “do not lean on your own understanding… be not wise in your own eyes.” The most perfect humility is Proverbs 3:5 taken to its radical limit — not merely preferring the divine wisdom but dissolving the creaturely discourse entirely.
Matthew 23:12 — confirmed by both analyses — gives the dominical form: “whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” The discourse on “why and how” is a form of self-exaltation — the creature maintaining its position as judge and interpreter. The most perfect humility abandons this position entirely, and the exaltation that follows is the acquisition of “divine reason” in place of the creaturely reason surrendered.
Psalm 131:1–2 — “I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me; I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child” — is the Psalm that most precisely expresses the posture the entry describes. The weaned child who no longer nurses for the milk of understanding rests in the mother’s presence without demanding explanation. The soul who “loses every reason and does not discourse on why and how” is the Psalm 131 soul in its most complete form. John 3:30 — “he must increase, I must decrease” — is the Johannine form of the dissolution: the creaturely decrease is the condition for the divine increase; the nothingness is what the decrease arrives at.
Hogan’s contextual note is architecturally significant: the divine is giving this teaching on surrendering creaturely reason at the precise historical moment when rationalism is entering the Church “in a huge way” to destroy faith. The June 20 teaching is not only Luisa’s personal formation; it is a prophetic counter to the rationalist project — the divine’s response to the coming intellectualization of faith is to name the nothingness-posture as the most perfect form of the highest virtue.
The Garment of Safety: Calm, Celestial Language, Embellishment
“Humility produces a garment of safety in the soul, in such a way that, wrapped in this garment of safety, the soul remains in the most profound calm, embellishing all of herself in order to be pleasing to her dearest and beloved Jesus.”
2 Chronicles 34:27 — confirmed by both analyses — provides the OT type: Josiah’s tender-hearted humility before the divine word produces the divine’s hearing and protection. The humility that “tears the garment” (mourning) receives the garment of divine protection. The sequence is the same in June 20: the soul who undoes herself in nothingness receives the garment of safety that the creaturely-reason posture cannot provide.
Philippians 4:7 and Isaiah 26:3–4 — both confirmed by both analyses, recurring anchors from June 17 — provide the peace-theology content of the “most profound calm.” The peace that surpasses understanding (Philippians 4:7) and the perfect peace of the mind stayed on God (Isaiah 26:3–4) are what the garment of safety enables: wrapped in the humility-garment, the soul rests in the peace that creaturely discourse cannot reach.
1 Peter 5:5 — “clothe yourselves with humility” — is the Petrine form: the humility is explicitly described as clothing, the garment of safety given its apostolic name. The soul wrapped in the humility-garment is the soul clothed in the Petrine sense: protected precisely by what the world would call weakness.
Revelation 3:4–5 and 19:8 place the garment-image in its eschatological register: the white garments of the conquerors, the fine linen of the bride’s righteous deeds. The soul who “embellishes all of herself to be pleasing to her beloved Jesus” is the bride preparing her garment for the eschatological encounter. The nothingness-humility and the bridal embellishment are not opposites but the same movement: the soul who has dissolved in nothingness has nothing to embellish except what the divine provides, and what the divine provides is the garment of safety itself.
Synthesis Conclusion
Dominant biblical imagination: Matthew 11:12 / Hosea 11:8 (two violences on the divine heart; the dying-continuously of the interior conflict), 2 Corinthians 12:9 / Isaiah 55:8–9 / Psalm 131:1–2 (the nothingness-humility and the divine power operating in creaturely weakness), Philippians 4:7 / Isaiah 26:3–4 / 1 Peter 5:5 (the garment of safety, the profound calm, the clothing of humility).
Most load-bearing scriptural traditions: The divine-interior-conflict tradition (Matthew 11:12, Hosea 11:8, Lamentations 3:33) for the explanation of the privation; the nothingness-and-divine-power tradition (2 Corinthians 12:9, Isaiah 55:8–9, Matthew 23:12, Proverbs 3:5–7, John 3:30) for the most-perfect-humility teaching; the peace-and-garment tradition (Philippians 4:7, Isaiah 26:3–4, 1 Peter 5:5, 2 Chronicles 34:27) for the calm produced.
Most theologically significant findings:
First, the entry gives the most complete Volume 3 explanation of the divine’s self-protective abstention. The privation is not the Job-testing (May 27) or the winter-deepening (June 17) or the grafted-heart-sparing (May 27 doctrinal) but a fourth form: the divine’s withdrawal to protect His own interior from the fiercer fight that Luisa’s presence would produce. The privation’s multiple forms across the volume now include this new register: divine self-care under the pressure of two simultaneous violences.
Second, the most-perfect-humility teaching is the volume’s most systematic statement of NSP-1 (the soul’s proper self-knowledge in nothingness). The nothingness is not merely epistemic modesty but the active dissolution of the creaturely discourse — “losing every reason, not discoursing on why and how” — that creates the space for the divine reason to operate. 2 Corinthians 12:9 names the mechanism; Isaiah 55:8–9 names the epistemological ground; Psalm 131:1–2 names the experiential posture.
Third, Hogan’s rationalism note gives the June 20 teaching its historical weight: the divine’s counter to the rationalist project that will destroy faith across the 20th century is the nothingness-posture. The June 20 teaching is prophetically timed — the most perfect humility as the antidote to the most dangerous contemporary spiritual error, delivered in the same historical moment the error is gaining force.
OBSERVATION NOTE
NSP-1 most systematic Volume 3 formulation — updated: June 20 surpasses May 20 as the most systematic NSP-1 statement. The nothingness-humility is now: (a) named as the most perfect and most sublime humility; (b) identified as producing the most intimate union with God; (c) shown to produce divine reason in place of creaturely reason; (d) shown to produce the garment of safety, the profound calm, and the celestial language. The fullest articulation of the nothingness-theology in Volume 3.
Fourth form of the privation explanation: The divine’s self-protective abstention — abstaining “so as not to expose my Heart to a yet fiercer fight” — is a new register for the privation-theology. The privation-arc now has four named forms: Job-testing (May 27), winter-deepening-roots (June 17), grafted-heart-sparing (May 27 doctrinal), and divine self-protective withdrawal (June 20).
Rationalism as the historical adversary of the nothingness-teaching (Hogan): The June 20 teaching is prophetically counter-cultural: given at the moment rationalism enters the Church, it names the surrender of creaturely reason as the most perfect spiritual posture. Track for any further explicit references to rationalism in subsequent entries or volumes.
Observation Notes
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03-1900-06-20
NSP-1 most systematic Volume 3 formulation — updated: June 20 surpasses May 20 as the most systematic NSP-1 statement. The nothingness-humility is now: (a) named as the most perfect and most sublime humility; (b) identified as producing the most intimate union with God; (c) shown to produce divine reason in place of creaturely reason; (d) shown to produce the garment of safety, the profound calm, and the celestial language. The fullest articulation of the nothingness-theology in Volume 3.
Fourth form of the privation explanation: The divine’s self-protective abstention — “so as not to expose my Heart to a yet fiercer fight, I abstain from coming” — is a new register for the privation-theology, distinct from Job-testing (May 27), winter-deepening-roots (June 17), and grafted-heart-sparing (May 27 doctrinal). The privation-arc now has four named forms.
Rationalism as historical adversary of the nothingness-teaching (Hogan): The June 20 teaching is prophetically counter-cultural — given at the precise historical moment rationalism enters the Church. The most perfect humility (surrendering creaturely reason) is the divine’s antidote to the most dangerous contemporary spiritual error. Track for further explicit references in subsequent entries.