Origin-of-Good through Memory Doctrine
The doctrine that memory is the generative origin of every spiritual good — not merely recollective but productive — so that the soul’s ordered memory of Jesus’ Passion, words, and works calls them into herself and places them in order within her soul, appropriating their fruits, producing a celestial dew that mediates between divine justice and threatened souls, and constituting the beginning of eschatological glory after death: “The memory is the beginning of every good. The memory forms many sips for the soul in order to give her life… And this memory does not only produce the origin of every good in life, but also after death, it produces the origin of Glory” — while forgetting dissolves the vital virtue of all received grace, losing its attractiveness, gratitude, correspondence, esteem, love, and value. The scriptural ground is Luke 22:19 (do this in memory of me — the Eucharistic anamnesis as the institutional form of the memory that re-presents and appropriates rather than merely recalling), Deuteronomy 4:9 (lest you forget the things your eyes have seen — the foundational OT command naming forgetting as the dissolution of all received good), John 7:37–38 (rivers of living water flowing from within him who drinks — the overflowing fount as the form of the confessor’s eschatological memory radiating to others after death), and John 14:26 (the Spirit will bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you — the Spirit’s ministry as the divine facilitation of the memory practice). (E)
Anchors: Luke 22:19; Deuteronomy 4:9; John 7:37-38; John 14:26 — Appearances: 1. Full Registry entry.