God’s Centralization Method

The doctrine that when God intends to do “works which must serve the good of all,” his “usual way is to centralize all the goods and all the graces which this work contains in one single creature, so that all others may draw as much as they want of that good, as though from a fount” — disclosed as a formal divine method (named by Jesus as his “usual way,” not merely an occasional instance) with two supreme creaturely applications: (1) the Incarnation, requiring centralization of “all possible imaginable goods” in Mary including “the seed of the very Paternal fecundity” so that she could conceive the Word without a man’s act (Colossians 1:19: all fullness pleased to dwell in one; Luke 1:28: “full of grace” naming the completed deposit; Luke 1:35: the Spirit’s overshadowing as the mechanism), with the entire OT prayer-stream constituting the centuries-long creaturely preparation (Genesis 3:15 as the foundational promise-seed; Hebrews 11:13, 39-40: the OT saints dying without receiving the promise, made perfect only together with us); and (2) the DW era, requiring centralization in a “second virgin” of “all the good that my Will contains” — the Church’s recitation of the Our Father disclosed as its unknowing preparation (Matthew 6:9-10: “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” named as the founding seed-act Jesus himself prayed first), paralleling the OT prayer-stream exactly; the doctrinal logic of centralization-in-one being scripturally axiomatic (Galatians 3:16: the promises concentrated in the singular seed, not distributed across multitudes; Ephesians 1:3-10: all spiritual blessings concentrated in Christ for universal distribution, from his fullness all receiving grace upon grace — John 1:14-16), with the DW era surpassing Redemption in that it restores man to his “state of origin, his nobility, the purpose for which he was created” (Genesis 1:26-27; Acts 3:21: the apokatastasis of all things). (E)

Anchors: Ephesians 1:3-10; Colossians 1:19; Galatians 3:16 — Appearances: 165. Full Registry entry.

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