This page has three parts: Independent Biblical Identification, Cross-Entry Synthesis, and Observation Notes.
11-1915-10-25 Biblical Resonance Analysis
Volume 11 — October 25, 1915 “When Jesus can say to a soul, ‘My Life, my Mama.‘”
STAGE ONE — Independent Biblical Identification
”My Life!” — Jesus Feeling His Acts Repeated in the Soul
“As I feel my thoughts and words being repeated in you, loving with my Love, wanting with my Will, desiring with my desires, and all the rest, I feel that you attract my Life in you, and repeat my own acts. My satisfaction is such that I keep repeating: ‘My Life! My Life!‘”
Galatians 2:20 — “I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.” The Pauline ground of the “My Life” title: Christ living in the soul is the condition from which Jesus’s declaration follows. The entry inverts the direction from Galatians — Paul declares Christ living in him; Jesus declares that he finds his own life being lived in Luisa. Both describe the same ontological reality from opposite perspectives. Direct doctrinal parallel
1 Corinthians 2:16 — “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.” The possession of Christ’s mind — “my thoughts being repeated in you” is the entry’s expression of what Paul names as having Christ’s mind. The soul does not merely receive information about what Christ thinks but thinks with his own mind, loving with his love, desiring with his desires. Direct doctrinal parallel
John 5:19 — “Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.” The Son’s perfect replication of the Father’s acts — “repeat my own acts” is the creaturely participation in the same structure: the soul repeating Christ’s acts as Christ repeats the Father’s. The mystical chain of acted replication runs from Father through Son to the DW soul. Christological/Trinitarian
John 14:20 — “In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.” The day of knowing mutual indwelling — the “My Life!” exclamation is the divine side of this knowing: Jesus recognizing himself in the soul who loves with his love and wills with his will. Christological/Trinitarian
Philippians 1:21 — “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Paul’s life identified with Christ — the Pauline form of the “My Life” reality from the creaturely side: to live is Christ, so the soul’s life is Christ’s life and Christ can rightly name it his own. Direct doctrinal parallel
Colossians 3:3–4 — “For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.” Christ named directly as “your life” — the Pauline formula that Jesus’s exclamation fulfills: the soul whose life is hidden with Christ in God is the soul whose life Jesus recognizes as his own. Direct doctrinal parallel
Romans 8:9 — “But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.” The indwelling Spirit enabling the soul to think, will, and desire in the divine mode — “loving with my Love, wanting with my Will, desiring with my desires” is the operational form of the Spirit’s indwelling working through every faculty. Direct doctrinal parallel
2 Corinthians 4:10–11 — “always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.” The life of Jesus manifested in mortal flesh — “attract my Life in you” and “repeat my own acts” is this manifestation from Jesus’s perspective. He sees his own Life being drawn into the bodily existence of the soul and displayed there. Direct doctrinal parallel
”My Mama!” — The Marian-Identity Confirmed Through Pain-Imitation
“As I think about what my Mama suffered, wanting to take all my pains and suffer them in my place, and as you try to imitate her, begging Me to let you suffer the pains that creatures give Me, I keep repeating: ‘My Mama! My Mama!‘”
Luke 2:35 — “Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” Simeon’s prophecy to Mary — the defining Marian vocation of sharing the Son’s suffering as the sword-bearer. Luisa’s desire to bear the pains creatures give Jesus is the imitation of this same disposition: wanting the sword rather than shelter from it, asking to receive into herself what wounds Christ. Direct doctrinal parallel
John 19:25–27 — “But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.” Mary’s presence at the cross — not removed from suffering but planted beneath it — is the fullest enactment of the disposition Jesus names. The “My Mama” title accrues to the soul who replicates this choice: to remain beneath the cross rather than withdraw. Typological
Colossians 1:24 — “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,” The Pauline disposition of wanting to bear Christ’s sufferings — “begging Me to let you suffer the pains that creatures give Me” is this desire in its most direct mystical form. Paul wills to fill up the lacking; Luisa begs to receive the specific pains the creatures inflict. Direct doctrinal parallel
Isaiah 53:4 — “Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.” The Servant’s willing reception of others’ griefs as his own — Mary and Luisa both embody the desire to invert this: not others bearing Christ’s sorrows but the servant bearing Christ’s. Typological
Romans 8:17 — “and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.” The co-suffering with Christ as the condition of heirship — the desire to bear Christ’s pains is the active form of the “suffer with him,” the will that chooses the fellow-suffering rather than receiving it passively. Direct doctrinal parallel
2 Corinthians 1:5 — “For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.” The abundant sharing in Christ’s sufferings — the Marian-imitation of asking to bear what he bears is the disposition of abundance: not minimal participation but the maximally willing reception. Direct doctrinal parallel
Philippians 3:10 — “that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,” The Pauline aspiration for Passion-sharing as the form of deepest knowing — the Marian-imitation in the entry is this aspiration in its most intimate register: asking not to share in abstract suffering but specifically to take the pains creatures give Christ. Direct doctrinal parallel
Luke 1:38 — “Mary said, “Behold, the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.” Mary’s original Fiat — the disposition that defined the Marian vocation from its first moment. Luisa imitates not only Mary’s Passion-standing but Mary’s founding act: the total self-offering to whatever God assigns. Typological
The Knitting of Lacerated Members
“In the midst of so much bitterness of my Heart because of the many lacerated members of many creatures — which I feel within my Humanity — my only relief is to feel my Life being repeated. In this way, I feel the members of creatures being knitted again within Me.”
1 Corinthians 12:26 — “When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.” The mystical body’s co-suffering — the lacerated members felt within Christ’s Humanity are the same mystical body of 1 Corinthians 12. The co-suffering principle runs both ways: the members suffer when he suffers; he suffers with the members. Direct doctrinal parallel
Ephesians 4:16 — “from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.” The body knit together and held by joints — the “members of creatures being knitted again within Me” is the restoring of what sin has lacerated: the joints severed by sin reconnected when the Life is repeated in the soul. Direct doctrinal parallel
Colossians 2:19 — “and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.” The knitting of the body through connection to the Head — the Life repeated in the DW soul is the conduit through which the severed members are re-knitted to the Head from whom they have been disconnected by sin. Direct doctrinal parallel
Ezekiel 37:7–8 — “So I prophesied as I was commanded. As I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, there was an earthquake. Then the bones came together, bone to its bone. I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.” The dry-bones re-knitting at the prophetic word — the “members of creatures being knitted again” is the mystical-body form of the Ezekiel vision: the Life repeated in the soul is the prophetic act that calls disconnected members back together. Typological
Romans 12:5 — “so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,” The members-of-one-another structure — the laceration is the severing of this membership; the knitting is its restoration. Direct doctrinal parallel
Hebrews 12:13 — “and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.” The healing of what is out of joint — the entry’s knitting of lacerated members is the interior form of this Hebrews healing: what sin has displaced from its proper joint is restored to its place in the body by the Life repeated in the DW soul. Direct doctrinal parallel
STAGE TWO — Comparison with Hogan’s Commentary
CORRESPONDENCES
No explicit Scripture cited by Hogan in this commentary. Her analysis is expository and applicative throughout.
DEVIATIONS
None applicable.
ADDITIONS — MINE
- Galatians 2:20 — Christ living in the soul; the Pauline ground of the “My Life” title
- 1 Corinthians 2:16 — the mind of Christ; thoughts being repeated as possessing Christ’s mind
- John 5:19 — the Son repeating the Father’s acts; the creaturely participation in the same chain
- John 14:20 — mutual indwelling known; Jesus recognizing himself in the soul
- Philippians 1:21 — “to live is Christ”; the soul’s life identified with Christ’s
- Colossians 3:3–4 — “Christ who is your life”; the Pauline formula Jesus’s exclamation fulfills
- Romans 8:9 — the indwelling Spirit enabling divine-mode operation of all faculties
- 2 Corinthians 4:10–11 — the life of Jesus manifested in mortal flesh
- Luke 2:35 — Simeon’s sword prophecy; the defining Marian vocation of pain-sharing
- John 19:25–27 — Mary at the cross; the fullest Marian enactment of the pain-sharing disposition
- Colossians 1:24 — filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions
- Isaiah 53:4 — the Servant bearing others’ griefs; inverted in the Marian-imitation
- Romans 8:17 — co-suffering with Christ as the condition of heirship
- 2 Corinthians 1:5 — sharing abundantly in Christ’s sufferings
- Philippians 3:10 — sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death
- Luke 1:38 — Mary’s founding Fiat; the disposition Luisa imitates
- 1 Corinthians 12:26 — co-suffering of mystical body members; lacerated members felt within Humanity
- Ephesians 4:16 — body joined and knit together; the structural form of what sin lacerates
- Colossians 2:19 — body nourished and knit through connection to the Head
- Ezekiel 37:7–8 — dry bones re-knitting at the prophetic word; typological knitting
- Romans 12:5 — members of one another; laceration as severing of this membership
- Hebrews 12:13 — healing of what is out of joint
ADDITIONS — HERS
Pastoral application — Christ reliving his earthly ministry through souls: Hogan frames the “My Life” principle applicatively: “he’s still able to do his ministry on the earth. And because he is now in heaven, he depends on us to let him do this.” The entry’s “feel my Life being repeated” is thus not an exclusively mystical claim about Luisa but a general disclosure of how the risen Christ continues to operate on earth — through souls who replicate his acts. The implicit scriptural ground is Acts 1:1 (“all that Jesus began to do and teach”) — the word “began” implying continuation through the body after the Ascension.
Prayer of Christ-in-us catena: Hogan references a prayer tradition — “as the prayer says, he sees through our eyes, he listens in our ears, he speaks through our lips, works with our hands, goes places with our feet” — as the popularized form of the “My Life” doctrine. This bridges the mystical-corpus disclosure to the broader contemplative tradition. Implicit scriptural ground: Matthew 25:35–40 (doing to Christ by doing to others), and Acts 9:4–5 (Saul persecuting Christ by persecuting his members, establishing the reverse logic).
Marian-vocation alignment: Hogan confirms the Marian identification directly and without qualification: “Luisa is called to go down the same route as our blessed mother.” This is the most explicit single Hogan statement in the corpus equating Luisa’s vocation with Mary’s — not resembling it or imitating it but being called to its same route. Implicit scriptural ground: John 19:25–27; Colossians 1:24.
VIP / SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS
Hogan designates this entry explicitly as a VIP: “So this is a very important message now.” Pattern consistent with prior VIP designations. VIP #20 (Volume 11).
Hogan identifies the full entry as VIP, with particular weight on the “My Life” and “My Mama” disclosures together as the entry’s twin doctrinal summits.
STAGE TWO SYNTHESIS
The entry’s biblical imagination is concentrated in three traditions that converge with unusual density. The Christ-in-the-soul tradition (Galatians 2:20; Colossians 3:3–4; 2 Corinthians 4:10–11; Philippians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 2:16) supplies the doctrinal ground for the “My Life” title — each passage contributing a different angle on the same reality: Christ as the soul’s life, manifested in her flesh, known through her mind. The Marian-Passion tradition (Luke 2:35; John 19:25–27; Colossians 1:24; Romans 8:17; Philippians 3:10) supplies the dispositional ground for the “My Mama” title — the vocation of willing pain-sharing as the defining Marian posture that Luisa imitates. The mystical-body-knitting tradition (1 Corinthians 12:26; Ephesians 4:16; Colossians 2:19; Ezekiel 37:7–8) discloses the ecclesial consequence: the Life repeated in the DW soul is the force that re-knits the members lacerated by sin within the Humanity. Hogan’s most significant contribution is her confirmation of the Marian-route identification as total and unqualified, and her applicative extension of the “My Life” principle to all souls through the ministerial-continuation frame.
Cross-Entry Synthesis
Volume 11 — October 25, 1915 “When Jesus can say to a soul, ‘My Life, my Mama.‘"
"My Life!” — Jesus Feeling His Acts Repeated in the Soul
“As I feel my thoughts and words being repeated in you, loving with my Love, wanting with my Will, desiring with my desires, and all the rest, I feel that you attract my Life in you, and repeat my own acts.”
The “My Life!” title is the AJD-1 arc’s highest formulation in the corpus. The arc’s progression through the volume has moved from the organ-of-the-Will principle (March 24, 1914 — “What was my Humanity, if not the organ of my Will? Such are those who do my Will”), through the co-redemptrix office (November 6, 1914 — “she does my same office”), through the Humanity-possession apex (May 2, 1915 — “Making my Humanity their own”), through the new-Humanity apex (July 9, 1915 — “she serves as my Humanity”), and now reaches its doctrinal summit: Jesus calling the soul “My Life.” The progression is from function (organ) through office (co-redemptrix) through possession (Humanity made hers) through identity (she serves as the Humanity) to the most intimate possible naming (she is his Life). The distance between “organ of the Will” and “My Life” is the entire AJD-1 arc compressed: each stage assumed by the next until the final stage names not what she does or what she has but what she is to him.
The scriptural tradition supplies the doctrinal vocabulary with notable precision. Galatians 2:20 (“Christ who lives in me”) is the Pauline baseline — but October 25 does not present the soul’s perspective (Christ living in me) but Christ’s perspective (my Life is in you, you are My Life). Colossians 3:3–4 supplies the direct scriptural formula: “Christ who is your life.” Jesus has taken this Pauline formula and returned it in the vocative — not “he is your life” but “you are my Life.” The Pauline declarations of Christ-as-life are here folded back into the intimate address that names the soul herself as life.
John 5:19 positions this within the Trinitarian chain of replication: the Son does only what he sees the Father doing; the soul in the Will replicates what the Son does. The “My Life” title is Jesus naming the structural position that Luisa occupies in this chain — she stands in relation to the ascended Jesus as Jesus stood in relation to the Father during the Incarnation. Hogan makes this explicit: “he’s still able to do his ministry on the earth… he depends on us to let him do this.” The AJD-1 arc’s full architecture is now disclosed: the soul is not imitating Christ or representing him or channeling his grace; she is the form in which his life continues to be lived in the world.
2 Corinthians 4:10–11 supplies the bodily register: “the life of Jesus manifested in our mortal flesh.” The “attract my Life in you” is this attraction from Christ’s side — he is drawn toward the bodily presence that manifests his life, and finding it there, he names it his own. The faculty-by-faculty inventory — “loving with my Love, wanting with my Will, desiring with my desires” — is the functional anatomy of the 1 Corinthians 2:16 reality: having the mind of Christ is not a general spiritual orientation but the specific operation of each faculty in the mode of Christ’s own operation.
”My Mama!” — The Marian-Identity Confirmed Through Pain-Imitation
“As I think about what my Mama suffered, wanting to take all my pains and suffer them in my place, and as you try to imitate her, begging Me to let you suffer the pains that creatures give Me, I keep repeating: ‘My Mama! My Mama!‘”
The DW-MARY-1 arc receives its most explicit single-entry confirmation here. The prior Marian-identity instances were inferential or contextual: the burial Hour (October 1, 1914) — Jesus addressing Luisa as “Mama” during the Hour in which she had reproduced Mary’s grief; the co-redemptrix title (November 6, 1914) — same title applied to Luisa as to Mary. October 25, 1915 is categorically more explicit: Jesus names the mechanism — imitating Mary’s desire to bear his pains in his place — and states the title that follows: “My Mama!” The title is not incidental to the entry but its doctrinal conclusion: this is what generates the “My Mama” address, and this is what it means.
The Marian vocation disclosed here is specifically the Passion-companion-and-substitution disposition: Mary “wanting to take all my pains and suffer them in my place.” This disposition is the active form of Luke 2:35 (the sword willingly received), John 19:25–27 (remaining planted at the cross), and Luke 1:38 (the original total self-offering Fiat). The Marian route Hogan names as Luisa’s route is constituted by all three: the founding Fiat, the sustained presence at the cross, the willingness to receive the sword. Luisa imitates this full structure: “begging Me to let you suffer the pains that creatures give Me” is the active-vocative form of Mary’s total disposition — not passive sword-reception but active request for more.
Hogan’s most significant Marian contribution is the unqualified route-identification: “Luisa is called to go down the same route as our blessed mother.” This is not resemblance or typological parallel but vocational identity — the same route. The DW-MARY-1 arc has been building toward this formulation since the arc’s opening (Volume 11, May 9, 1913). October 25, 1915 is its most explicit single-entry statement: the route is the same; the title is the same; the mechanism is the same. Colossians 1:24 and Philippians 3:10 supply the Pauline participation vocabulary that grounds this route as a general Christian aspiration realized in its fullest form in Mary and now in Luisa.
The Knitting of Lacerated Members
“In the midst of so much bitterness of my Heart because of the many lacerated members of many creatures — which I feel within my Humanity — my only relief is to feel my Life being repeated. In this way, I feel the members of creatures being knitted again within Me.”
The knitting-of-members image connects the AJD-1 and DW-MARY-1 disclosures to their ecclesial consequence. The Life repeated in the DW soul does not merely benefit Luisa — it heals the Humanity’s interior by re-knitting the members that sin has lacerated. The mechanism is disclosed: the lacerated members are felt by Jesus within his Humanity; the Life repeated in the soul is experienced by Jesus as the relief that allows the re-knitting. The soul’s “My Life” status is the structural cause of the ecclesial healing.
Ephesians 4:16 (the body knit together through each part working properly) and Colossians 2:19 (the body nourished and knit through connection to the Head) provide the ecclesiological anatomy: the knitting requires a conduit from the Head to the members; the DW soul serving as Christ’s Life on earth is that conduit. Ezekiel 37:7–8’s dry-bones re-knitting at the prophetic word supplies the typological register: the Life repeated in the soul is the prophetic word that calls the scattered members back to their joints. The war’s laceration of human bonds (the universal mourning of September 20, the brim-reached of October 2) is the specific context in which this knitting is most urgently needed.
The “only relief” formulation deserves notice: not “one form of relief among several” but the singular source. This is the DWE-1 exclusivity principle applied at the level of the Humanity’s healing: the Life repeated in the DW soul is the only thing that gives Jesus relief in the midst of the mystical body’s wartime lacerations. The Humanity’s bitterness (October 2: “I cannot take any more”) and its relief (October 25: “my only relief”) are disclosed as structurally paired — the same Humanity filled to the brim by sin’s weight and knitted again by the Life repeated.
Synthesis
The dominant biblical imagination of this entry is the convergence of three Pauline traditions that the entry holds in structural unity: the Christ-as-life tradition (Colossians 3:3–4; Galatians 2:20; Philippians 1:21; 2 Corinthians 4:10–11), the Passion-participation tradition (Colossians 1:24; Romans 8:17; Philippians 3:10; 2 Corinthians 1:5), and the mystical-body-knitting tradition (1 Corinthians 12:26; Ephesians 4:16; Colossians 2:19). These three traditions are not held separately but structurally unified by the entry: the soul who is Christ’s Life (first tradition) desires to bear his Passion (second tradition) and thereby heals his mystical body (third tradition). The three titles — My Life, My Mama, the Knitter — name three aspects of one doctrinal reality.
The three load-bearing findings are these. First, AJD-1’s doctrinal summit: “My Life” is the highest identification possible — not “organ,” “office,” “co-redemptrix,” or “Humanity” but the name of Christ’s own life, which is now his own because he recognizes it living in her. Second, DW-MARY-1’s most explicit single-entry confirmation: the mechanism (imitating Mary’s pain-substitution desire), the title (“My Mama!”), and the route-identification (Hogan: “the same route as our blessed mother”) all disclosed together, constituting the full Marian-identity formal statement. Third, the knitting-through-Life image as the ecclesial consequence: the Life repeated in the DW soul is the structural cause of the mystical body’s interior healing — the sole relief amid the wartime lacerations, disclosing the DW vocation as not merely contemplative or intercessory but specifically restorative at the level of the Humanity’s inner experience of the body.
This entry carries VIP #20 (Volume 11). The twin disclosures — “My Life” and “My Mama” — together constitute a doctrinal summit for both the AJD-1 and DW-MARY-1 arcs, with the knitting-image disclosing their unified ecclesial consequence.
Observation Notes
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11-1915-10-25
VIP #20 (Volume 11): Hogan designates this entry explicitly as a VIP: “this is a very important message now.” Twin doctrinal summits named: the “My Life!” title (AJD-1 apex) and the “My Mama!” title (DW-MARY-1 explicit confirmation). VIP count Volume 11: #20.
AJD-1 — “My Life!” apex: “As I feel my thoughts and words being repeated in you, loving with my Love, wanting with my Will, desiring with my desires… I feel that you attract my Life in you… My Life! My Life!” This is the AJD-1 arc’s doctrinal summit in the corpus: the full progression from organ-of-the-Will (March 24, 1914) through co-redemptrix, Humanity-possession, new-Humanity, and now to the intimate title “My Life” — Jesus naming the soul as the locus in which his own life is now being lived on earth. Not resemblance, not function, not possession: identity at the level of life itself. Governing anchors: Galatians 2:20; Colossians 3:3–4; 2 Corinthians 4:10–11; John 5:19; Philippians 1:21.
DW-MARY-1 — “My Mama!” explicit mechanism confirmed: “As I think about what my Mama suffered, wanting to take all my pains and suffer them in my place, and as you try to imitate her, begging Me to let you suffer the pains that creatures give Me, I keep repeating: ‘My Mama! My Mama!‘” The mechanism of the Marian-identity title is now fully explicit: imitating Mary’s pain-substitution desire earns the maternal address. Hogan: “Luisa is called to go down the same route as our blessed mother” — the most explicit single Hogan statement equating Luisa’s vocation with Mary’s. Prior Marian-identity instances (October 1, 1914 burial Hour; November 6, 1914 co-redemptrix) are now seen as partial disclosures of this full entry’s synthesis. Governing anchors: Luke 2:35; John 19:25–27; Colossians 1:24; Luke 1:38.
VSC-1 — knitting-of-lacerated-members — Register 32: “I feel the members of creatures being knitted again within Me” following “my only relief is to feel my Life being repeated.” This is a formally distinct VSC-1 register: not intercessory restraint or breach-standing or reparatory support-formation, but interior healing — the Life repeated in the DW soul re-knitting the mystical body’s lacerated members within the Humanity. The mechanism: the Life repeated is the conduit from the Head through which severed members are reconnected. Governing anchors: Ephesians 4:16; Colossians 2:19; Ezekiel 37:7–8; 1 Corinthians 12:26. Running VSC-1 register count: 32.