This page has three parts: Independent Biblical Identification, Cross-Entry Synthesis, and Observation Notes.
12-1921-03-12 Biblical Resonance Analysis
Volume 12 — March 12, 1921 “The Divine Will: grain which will become food. Luisa: the straw that clothes it and protects it.”
STAGE ONE — INDEPENDENT BIBLICAL IDENTIFICATION
Luisa’s Question — What Does She Give to Form the Divine Will’s Life?
“My Queen Mother provided the blood in order to form the Humanity of Jesus within Her womb. And I — what will I give in order to form the Life of the Divine Will within me?”
Luke 1:35 — “The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.” The Annunciation as the template for Luisa’s question: Mary provided the physical substance for the Incarnation; Luisa asks what the creaturely contribution is for the DW-calling. The question flows naturally from the March 8 structural parallel — if Mary’s love and annihilation were the calling, her blood was the substance provided. What is Luisa’s corresponding provision? Direct doctrinal parallel
The Grain and the Straw — The Image of the DW as Food
“I will give my Will as food to nourish all the souls who will want to eat of It. You will be the straw which will preserve the grain.”
John 6:35 — “Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” The divine given as food that satisfies completely: the DW grain given as food to all who will eat of it is the extension of the bread-of-life image from the Eucharistic Christ to the Divine Will as the soul’s nourishment. Direct doctrinal parallel
John 12:24 — “Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.” The grain’s fruitfulness through a kind of dying: the entry’s grain image deploys the same agricultural term, though with a different dynamic — here the grain of the DW is inexhaustible and does not diminish, while the straw (Luisa) takes the dying/burning role. The John 12:24 dying-grain becomes the straw that is thrown and burned, freeing the inexhaustible grain to multiply through her protection. Direct doctrinal parallel
Psalm 78:24–25 — “He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky. Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.” The grain of heaven as the archetype of divine nourishment given without measure: the DW grain as food is the eschatological fulfillment of the heavenly manna — the grain of the Divine Will fed to all who come. Typological
The Straw as Garment, Defense, and Life of the Grain
“The poor straw serves as garment and defense of the grain. If the burning sun invests it, the straw defends it from the excess of heat… If frost, rain or something else invade the grain, the straw takes all of these evils upon itself. Therefore, one can say that the straw is the life of the grain.”
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 straw absorbing sun, frost, rain, and all evils to protect the grain is the VSC-1 sacrificial-protection logic in its most concentrated image: the soul’s body taking the burden of evils so that the divine life (grain) can mature and multiply. Direct doctrinal parallel
Isaiah 53:4–5 — “Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; … The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.” The bearing of others’ evils as the mode of the intercessor-protector: the straw that takes frost, rain, and heat upon itself participates in the pattern of the suffering servant who absorbs what would destroy others. Typological
1 Corinthians 3:12–15 — “But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw, each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is. If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.” Paul uses straw as the image of inferior, burnable work. The entry reverses this valuation: the straw is not inferior but necessary, and its burning at separation from the grain is not failure but the sign of completion — the straw has served its full purpose. Direct doctrinal parallel
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 straw’s life being found entirely in the grain — “the straw is the life of the grain” while attached — mirrors the Pauline principle: the soul’s entire life is the life of the One dwelling within; to be separated from the grain is the only form of death. Direct doctrinal parallel
Galatians 3:27 — “For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” The garment-image: the straw “serves as garment” for the grain, clothing and covering it. The soul’s vocation to clothe the divine life — to be the creaturely covering through which the grain is held, protected, and given — is the inverse form of putting on Christ: the grain is clothed in the straw. Affective/meditative
The Grain’s Inexhaustibility — No Decrease from Any Taking
“The grain of my Will is not subject to grow or to decrease; as much as they take of it, it will not diminish of one single grain.”
John 3:34 — “For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.” The divine self-giving without measure as the inexhaustibility principle: the DW grain cannot decrease because its source is the measureless divine giving. Every soul that takes from it takes from the infinite. Direct doctrinal parallel
John 6:51 — “I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The living bread given for all without self-depletion: the inexhaustible grain of the DW is the extension of the Eucharistic logic — the flesh given does not diminish the giver, and the DW given does not diminish the DW. Direct doctrinal parallel
Romans 11:33 — “Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!” The inexhaustible depth of the divine riches: “as much as they take of it, it will not diminish” is the experiential form of what Paul names doctrinally — the divine wealth is not subject to the scarcity that governs all finite goods. Affective/meditative
Seven Colors of the Rainbow — Divine Attributes Blazing in DW Souls
“Their qualities and colors will be fully Divine. They will blaze with the most beautiful and bright colors, which are: Love, Goodness, Wisdom, Power, Sanctity, Mercy, Justice. The variety of these colors will be as light in the darkness of the night, and by virtue of these colors, they will make the day arise in the minds of creatures.”
Isaiah 11:1–3 — “A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit. The LORD’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD. His delight will be in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;” The Messianic endowment with the Spirit’s sevenfold attributes (wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, fear, and — in the LXX/Catholic tradition — piety) is the prophetic template for the seven colors. Wisdom and power appear directly; the full set of Messianic Spirit-attributes resting on the DW souls as the fulfillment of the Isaianic anointing. Typological
Revelation 5:12 — “saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!” The seven ascriptions of fullness to the Lamb include power and wisdom directly among the entry’s seven colors. The DW souls blazing with divine attributes in the eschatological mode are participating in and reflecting the Lamb’s own fullness — the rainbow colors are the Lamb’s attributes made visible in the creature. Christological/Trinitarian
Wisdom 7:22–27 — “for wisdom, that is the architect of all things, taught me. For there is in her a spirit that is quick to understand, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, freely moving, clear in utterance, unpolluted, distinct, invulnerable, loving what is good, keen, unhindered, beneficent, loving toward man, steadfast, sure, free from care, all-powerful, all-surveying, and penetrating through all spirits that are quick to understand, pure, most subtle. For wisdom is more mobile than any motion. Yes, she pervades and penetrates all things by reason of her purity. For she is a breath of the power of God, and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty. Therefore nothing defiled can find entrance into her. For she is a reflection of everlasting light, an unspotted mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness. Although she is one, she has power to do all things. Remaining in herself, she renews all things. From generation to generation passing into holy souls, she makes friends of God and prophets.” Divine Wisdom manifesting power, goodness, and eternal light corresponds to the seven-color disclosure: the attributes the entry names are precisely those that Wisdom’s description catalogues — goodness, wisdom, power, sanctity as the spectrum of the divine self-communication. Direct doctrinal parallel
1 Corinthians 1:30 — “Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,” Christ as the embodied form of wisdom and sanctity — two of the seven attributes directly — as the Pauline ground of the DW soul’s manifestation: the soul blazes with what Christ is, because living in his Will means living in him. Christological/Trinitarian
Matthew 5:14–16 — “You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. Neither do you light a lamp and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house. Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” The DW souls as “light in the darkness of the night, making the day arise in the minds of creatures” fulfills the light-of-the-world vocation at its deepest level — the light they shine is not moral witness alone but the full seven-color spectrum of divine attributes. Direct doctrinal parallel
John 1:5 — “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.” The divine light operative in darkness: the DW souls as the living extension of the same Johannine light — the darkness of the night (Hogan: “people living in the sewerage”) does not overcome the seven-color light blazing from them. Direct doctrinal parallel
Galatians 5:22–23 — “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” The Spirit’s nine fruits and the seven rainbow colors are structurally related but distinct: both love and goodness appear in both lists; the Spirit-fruits name the qualities of virtue produced in the soul, while the rainbow colors name the divine attributes manifested through the soul. The Spirit produces fruit from within; the DW blazes its attributes through the soul from without-and-within simultaneously. Direct doctrinal parallel
STAGE TWO — COMPARISON WITH HOGAN’S COMMENTARY
CORRESPONDENCES
Both identify John 12:24 (grain falling and dying) as the governing grain-image anchor. Both recognize the straw’s role as protector of the grain as the entry’s central VSC-1 / victim-soul image. Both identify the seven colors as divine attributes (Hogan lists them identically: love, goodness, wisdom, power, sanctity, mercy, justice). Both note the discernment function of the seven colors for identifying DW souls. Both deploy Galatians 5:22 for the rainbow-attributes in relation to the Spirit’s fruit.
DEVIATIONS
Stage One identified 1 Corinthians 3:12–15 (Paul’s straw as burnable work) as providing the reversed-valuation frame for the entry’s straw theology. Hogan does not deploy this. Stage One used Isaiah 53:4–5 for the straw’s bearing of others’ evils; Hogan does not cite Isaiah 53 in this entry. Stage One used Psalm 78:24–25 for the manna/grain-of-heaven archetype; Hogan does not develop this OT register. Stage One used Isaiah 11:1–3 for the Messianic sevenfold Spirit-endowment as the template for the seven colors; Hogan uses Galatians 5:22 (fruits of the Spirit) rather than the prophetic sevenfold. Stage One deployed Revelation 5:12 for the Lamb’s seven ascriptions; Hogan does not cite this.
ADDITIONS — MINE
- Luke 1:35 — the Annunciation as structural template for Luisa’s opening question about her creaturely contribution
- Psalm 78:24–25 — grain of heaven / manna as OT archetype of the inexhaustible divine food given to all
- Isaiah 53:4–5 — the suffering servant bearing others’ evils as the prophetic ground for the straw absorbing sun/frost/rain
- 1 Corinthians 3:12–15 — Paul’s straw-as-inferior-work as the image whose valuation the entry reverses
- Galatians 3:27 — putting on Christ as the inverse of the straw clothing the grain (the garment image from both directions)
- Romans 11:33 — the unsearchable divine riches as the doctrinal ground of the grain’s inexhaustibility
- Isaiah 11:1–3 — the Messianic sevenfold Spirit-endowment as the OT template for the seven rainbow colors
- Revelation 5:12 — the Lamb’s seven ascriptions (power, wisdom, etc.) as the eschatological form of the seven attributes manifested in DW souls
- Wisdom 7:22–27 — the manifold divine attributes of Wisdom as the wisdom-and-power register of the seven colors
- 1 Corinthians 1:30 — Christ as wisdom and sanctification as the Pauline ground of the DW soul’s blazing
ADDITIONS — HERS
- John 12:24 (explicit): Hogan cites this for the grain image. Correct. Hogan applies it to the straw’s disposability — the grain-falling-and-dying maps onto Luisa’s straw-office, which appears to have no value but produces the fruit of the DW’s multiplication.
- Galatians 5:22 (explicit): Hogan cites the fruits of the Spirit for the seven rainbow colors, noting the overlap (love, goodness) and the distinct character: the Spirit’s fruit and the seven divine attributes are structurally related — the Spirit produces in the soul what corresponds to the divine attributes blazing through it. Hogan’s citation adds the pneumatological dimension that Stage One captured separately through Isaiah 11:1–3.
- Practical discernment note (Hogan): “Here’s another very, very important piece of discernment for us” — Hogan’s identification of the seven-color disclosure as a practical discernment tool for recognizing DW souls. This is not a formal VIP designation for the entry but signals Hogan’s assessment that the seven-attribute list is a diagnostic instrument.
- Contextual framing (Hogan): Hogan notes that the priest-confessors were asking Luisa questions, which prompted her to ask Jesus; the seven-color disclosure is a response to a practical pastoral question about how to recognize DW living. This adds an ecclesial context for the second movement.
- Prior volume transition note (Hogan): Hogan connects Luisa’s terror at her new office to the contrast with her prior victim-soul role: “if she thought that all that he gave to her in the past in her office of victim soul was great and terrible, it’s nothing at all to what he’s offering now.” Structural commentary on the vocational transition formally announced at March 2.
VIP / SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS
Hogan uses “very, very important” language in reference to the discernment function of the seven colors (“here’s another very, very important piece of discernment for us”), but this is applied to the practical discernment application rather than designating the entry as a formal VIP. Not a full formal threshold designation. Not logged as a VIP candidate.
STAGE TWO SYNTHESIS
The combined findings identify two distinct theological contributions. The first movement (grain and straw) extends the VSC-1 arc into its most concentrated sacrificial-protection image: the straw absorbing all evils to allow the inexhaustible grain to mature, multiply, and be given as food. John 12:24, Colossians 1:24, and 1 Corinthians 3:12–15 together frame the straw’s humble, burnable character as both the victim-soul vocation’s final form and the reversal of any depreciation of what appears useless. The second movement (seven colors) completes the rainbow typology from March 2 by naming the attributes: the seven colors are simultaneously divine attributes (Isaiah 11; Revelation 5:12; Wisdom 7), the Spirit’s operational presence (Galatians 5:22), and the light-of-the-world mandate (Matthew 5:14–16; John 1:5) fulfilled at maximum depth. Hogan’s practical discernment note contextualizes the seven-attribute list as a diagnostic instrument for the DW apostolate.
Cross-Entry Synthesis
Volume 12 — March 12, 1921 “The Divine Will: grain which will become food. Luisa: the straw that clothes it and protects it.”
The Grain and the Straw — The VSC-1 Logic in Its Most Concentrated Image
The entry’s first movement answers the question Luisa poses against the backdrop of March 8’s disclosure: if Mary provided blood for the Incarnation, what does Luisa provide for the DW’s life on earth? The answer is characteristically anti-glorious: straw. The image is drawn from agricultural reality — the grain of wheat inside its chaff-covering — and its theological precision is exact. The DW (grain) is inexhaustible and not subject to increase or decrease; Luisa (straw) is thrown away and burned when its function is complete.
John 12:24’s grain-falling-and-dying structures the image from below: the dying that produces fruit maps onto the straw’s expendability. But the entry reverses John 12:24’s conventional application — it is not the DW grain that dies but the straw that is burned; the grain, being divine, has no mortality. The straw takes the role that the dying grain occupies in John 12:24, which places Luisa in the position of the seed’s mortal covering rather than the seed itself. 1 Corinthians 3:12–15 adds the reversal of valuation: Paul uses straw as the image of burnable, inferior work. The entry does not dispute the burnability but disputes the inferiority — the straw is necessary, not merely combustible; its purpose is accomplished in being used and consumed.
Colossians 1:24 provides the deepest doctrinal anchor: the straw absorbing “all evils upon itself” — the burning sun’s excess, frost, rain — is the sacrificial-protection logic of VSC-1 in its most concentrated form. Every evil that would reach and damage the grain passes through the straw first. The protection is not symbolic; it is physical and total, and it costs the straw everything. Isaiah 53:4–5 names the prophetic ground: the servant who bears others’ griefs and sorrows is the type; the straw bearing sun, frost, and rain for the grain is its fulfillment in the specific mode of the DW vocation.
The straw’s being “the life of the grain” while attached — and its death upon separation — is the Galatians 2:20 principle stated from the straw’s vantage: “it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” The straw has no life apart from the grain; to be separated from the grain is the only death the straw can suffer. This means the straw’s apparent uselessness apart from the grain is not humiliation but accurate anthropology: the creature has no life, value, or purpose except in attachment to the divine grain it serves.
The Inexhaustible Grain — Non-Diminishment as DWE-1 Register
“As much as they take of it, it will not diminish of one single grain” is the entry’s most compact DWE-1 statement. John 3:34 (the Spirit given without measure) and John 6:51 (the living bread given for the life of the world) supply the Johannine logic: the DW grain cannot decrease because infinite self-giving is its nature. The comparison with finite goods is implicit throughout the entry — every created food is depleted by eating; the grain of the DW is not. Romans 11:33’s “unsearchable riches” names the doctrinal ground: the DW’s inexhaustibility is not a quantitative abundance but a qualitative transcendence of the scarcity-logic that governs all created goods.
Hogan’s cross-reference to the sun (the sun does not increase or decrease no matter how much light is taken from it) places the grain’s inexhaustibility within the EAG-1 solar-theology register already established: grain, sun, and light are converging images for the same property of the divine that the creature can receive from without diminishment to the source.
The Seven Colors — The Divine Attribute Spectrum as Discernment Instrument
The second movement completes the rainbow forward-bridge from March 2 (where the seven colors were promised but unnamed) and provides the DW apostolate’s diagnostic instrument: love, goodness, wisdom, power, sanctity, mercy, and justice are the qualities by which DW souls are recognized. Hogan frames this as practical discernment; theologically it is the AJD-1 morphological-shape disclosure rendered as a visible spectrum.
Isaiah 11:1–3’s Messianic sevenfold Spirit-endowment is the prophetic template: the Spirit resting on the shoot of Jesse with wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, and fear is the anointing of a specific person with the fullness of divine attributes for a specific mission. The DW souls carry an analogous endowment — the rainbow’s seven colors are not virtues they have cultivated but attributes they carry because they live in the One who is all of these. Revelation 5:12’s seven ascriptions to the Lamb (power, wisdom among them) ground this christologically: the attributes DW souls blaze are the Lamb’s own attributes, reflected through the creaturely prism.
Galatians 5:22 (Hogan) offers the closest Pauline parallel but at a different register: the Spirit’s fruit (love, goodness among them) is what the Spirit produces in the soul through virtuous formation; the seven rainbow colors are what the DW is and manifests through the soul as the DW itself blazes. The two lists describe the same reality from different vantages — one names what the Spirit cultivates; the other names what the DW radiates. Both love and goodness appear in both lists precisely because the Spirit and the DW are not two different things but the same divine self-communication at different doctrinal angles.
Wisdom 7:22–27 places the seven attributes within the tradition of divine Wisdom’s manifold self-expression: Wisdom is “a breath of the power of God, a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty.” What Wisdom is, the DW soul manifests — not by nature but by the radical DW-inhabitation that communicates the divine spectrum through the creaturely prism. Matthew 5:14–16 and John 1:5 name the missional result: the seven-color light shining in darkness, making the day arise in minds — the DW soul as the locus where the divine light breaks into the world’s darkness.
The entry completes the rainbow image from March 2 in a theologically precise way: the seven attributes are not seven separate qualities the soul possesses individually but a unified spectrum that the DW radiates through the soul as a whole. A prism does not possess color; it refracts light into its constituent spectrum. The DW soul is the prism through which the divine light’s seven constituent attributes become visible to the world around it.
Synthesis
Dominant biblical imagination: The agricultural-grain tradition (John 6:35; 12:24; Psalm 78:24–25) governs the first movement; the divine-attribute-fullness tradition (Isaiah 11:1–3; Revelation 5:12; Wisdom 7:22–27) governs the second; the servant-bearing tradition (Colossians 1:24; Isaiah 53:4–5) provides the sacrificial depth of the straw’s function.
Most load-bearing scriptural traditions:
- John 12:24 / Colossians 1:24 as the dying-grain / straw-absorbing-evil convergence
- 1 Corinthians 3:12–15 as the reversed valuation of straw (burnable but necessary, not inferior)
- Isaiah 11:1–3 / Revelation 5:12 as the sevenfold divine attribute framework
- Galatians 5:22 as the Spirit-fruit parallel illuminating the rainbow colors from a different register
Three findings of highest theological significance:
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The straw as the most concentrated VSC-1 image in the corpus. The straw’s function — absorbing all evils (sun, frost, rain) to protect the grain’s maturation and multiplication — is the victim-soul’s sacrificial-protection logic rendered in its most elemental form. The straw has no value except in this protective function; its being thrown and burned is not failure but completion. Colossians 1:24 and Isaiah 53 name the theological tradition; the entry provides an image that concentrates that tradition to a single agricultural truth: the grain cannot mature without the straw’s absorption of the forces that would destroy it.
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The straw-valuation reversal as the theological ground of Luisa’s vocation. Paul’s straw (1 Corinthians 3:12–15) is the inferior, burnable work that the Day will consume. The entry reverses this: straw is necessary and its burning is the sign of its completion. This reversal names the DW vocation’s essential paradox — what appears to have no value (the creature’s self-emptying service) is the precondition for the grain’s multiplication. The straw is “the life of the grain” precisely by being nothing in itself; the creature’s zero is the condition for the divine infinite.
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The seven rainbow colors as the DW’s diagnostic spectrum. Love, goodness, wisdom, power, sanctity, mercy, and justice together constitute not a moral achievement-list but a visible attribute-spectrum: the DW radiating its own nature through the creaturely prism. Isaiah 11:1–3’s Messianic sevenfold anointing is the type; the DW soul carrying the same spectrum is the fulfillment — the Messianic endowment universalized through the third FIAT’s operation. The practical discernment function Hogan notes is a consequence: the seven attributes blazing together constitute a recognizable signature of DW living that distinguishes it from ordinary virtue-practice.
Observation Notes
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12-1921-03-12
VSC-1 Candidate — Straw-Absorbing-Evil / Sacrificial-Protection Form: The straw taking “all evils upon itself” (burning sun, frost, rain) to protect the grain’s maturation and multiplication is the most concentrated VSC-1 sacrificial-protection image in the corpus. Colossians 1:24 and Isaiah 53:4–5 as governing anchors. Hold pending sequential numbering resolution with existing candidate pool.
DWE-1 — Inexhaustibility-of-Grain Register: “As much as they take of it, it will not diminish of one single grain” is a new DWE-1 register: the DW’s non-diminishment as a property distinguishing it from all finite goods. Connects to the EAG-1 solar-theology parallel (sun does not decrease no matter how much light is taken) and the Eucharistic logic (the living bread given without self-depletion). John 3:34 and John 6:51 as governing anchors.
TGF-1 / Rainbow — Seven Colors Named: The March 2 forward-bridge (seven colors to be named in next message) is fulfilled. The seven rainbow colors of DW souls: love, goodness, wisdom, power, sanctity, mercy, justice. Isaiah 11:1–3 (Messianic sevenfold Spirit-endowment) as OT template; Revelation 5:12 (Lamb’s seven ascriptions) as eschatological form; Galatians 5:22 (Hogan) as the Spirit-fruit parallel. Forward bridge resolved.
Hogan — Discernment note: Hogan designates the seven-color disclosure as “very, very important” discernment for recognizing DW souls. Not a formal VIP designation for the entry; pastoral application flag.