TOTUS TUUS MARIA !

THE FRUITS OF ETERNAL SPRING

Teaching about the unknown
fruitfulness of total consecration to Mary

Myriam van Nazareth

In the Revelations She gives in Her capacity as the Mistress of all souls, Mary, the Queen of Heaven and earth, often refers to the Eternal Spring, the state of living which will characterize God’s Kingdom on earth. The Eternal Spring is a disposition in which the soul is a bearer of true Divine Life, true Love, perfect inner peace, and true sanctity. God’s Kingdom on earth is not a concept which is outside the souls, it is a state which must be founded within the souls. Jesus Christ brought God’s Kingdom on earth as a seed which has to germinate in order to be able to bloom like a rapidly spreading flower. The Mistress of all souls teaches you that God’s Kingdom on earth will truly be founded as soon as the souls are able to make the seed of Christ grow within themselves and thereby give Her, Mary, the opportunity to use the most extensive power God has given Her for these end times, to crush satan, the prince of darkness, under Her foot for all creation to see. In that hour all creation will see that God is a God of perfect Love, that Jesus Christ ist the true Redeemer, and that Mary was chosen by God to crown His Works. Mary teaches you, that in that hour Satan and his entire following will confess at Her feet that the God of Light has won the battle between Light and darkness, and that She, Mary, is truly the Mistress of al souls, including all souls that have damned themselves through the ages.

The victory of Light over darkness is a certainty. What we experience in our days, are the death throes of darkness. Mary emphasizes the fact Her foot already rests on the serpent, and that this is exactly why the latter is so reckless: it is its wild resistance against the power of Mary, who represents God’s Light. In August 2007 the Mistress of all souls said in an unequivocal way:

"The serpent from hell is cringing desperately under My foot, lashing out wildly. Souls of My Heart, your Mistress has got the power. Satan and his following are already defeated. It is because so many human souls constantly use their free will for all the wrong purposes, that the demons are able to pile up their last pseudo victories".

Thereby Mary explains why, in spite of the invincible power of the Light, the darkness still appears to rule the world: the hour of the final foundation of God’s Kingdom on earth is not postponed by God, nor by the Representative of His power during the end times (Mary), but exclusively by the countless souls that keep opting in favour of the darkness. Therefore Mary presents the souls with a four-point plan with the help of which they can make the Eternal Spring blossom within themselves, so as to really achieve the founding of God’s Kingdom on earth. The point of departure is defined by Mary as follows:

"To each soul I say: Know your enemy, and learn how to recognize his strategy, otherwise you will not be able to win the war, and the country of your soul will be occupied".

It is the duty of each soul to dedicate her entire life to the battle against the darkness, for Divine Justice to be able to reconcile to such an extent with the countless sins of mankind, that Divine Mercy is enabled to accomplish the foundation of God’s Kingdom on earth. To that end each soul must lead a fruitful life. A fruitful life is a life which yields merits that make the balance tilt towards the victory of God’s Light over darkness, because such a life demonstrates towards God that the soul is longing for His victory to come. In order to achieve the highest possible fruitfulness, the soul must accomplish the following four points:

1. Know your enemy

The enemy of salvation is Satan, who, after he was banned from heaven, swore the oath that he would wield his power over all souls in order to separate them from God and to destroy the Works of God. Innumerable are the souls that have put their lives at the service of Satan’s works, in many cases because they do not believe in his existence, and thus do not realise that their entire way of living is manipulated by him. The power of Satan over this world has become so great because innumerable souls heedlessly do his works. This is how he rules and destroys, with countless human souls as his slaves.

2. Recognize your enemy’s strategy

In many teachings and revelations Mary has exposed the ways in which the forces of darkness operate. In the first place She did so in the so-called Storm writings and in the Revelations of the Mistress of all souls. In the teaching before you, She provides yet another approach. Each soul can learn to recognize the strategies of the enemy of the souls in its surroundings as well as within itself. Satan leads the soul away from God in various ways, of which the following can be considered major:

* the soul is blinded to God’s Truth. The souls are poisened against all elements of christian doctrine, so that they no longer follow them, and increasingly opt for the rules of the world in stead of God’s rules. Satan sees to it that the soul justifies this decision by stating that everything relating to God’s doctrine is intangible, whereas the things of the world can be perceived by the physical senses. Soon the soul only believes the things which can be seen with her own eyes. God’s interests are considered stumbling stones on the way to enjoying life, and eventually as totally nonexistent. The signs which God lays in the heart are ignored, and sensory perception is regarded as the only reality. All religious feelings are gradually experienced as unreal, for the practice of daily life seems to contradict the importance and reality of such feelings.

* the soul is 'distorted'. The youthful soul is by nature spontaneous, uncomplicated, it is eager to give love naturally, and also expects spontaneous love and understanding from its environment. However, very soon it is betrayed in this attitude and in these expectations, and it experiences how cold and loveless the world can be. Thus love as the driving force within the soul is gradually killed. Thereby the soul loses the majority of its references, of the things it felt right to hang on to. The world begins to appear hostile, and the soul experiences an inner conflict because she comes under the impression to be naive, and thus ridiculous or even worthless in the eyes of any fellow man. Sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously the soul develops a new approach to life: it starts to adjust to the ways of thinking and the patterns of behaviour inherent to the world, and thereby distorts and betrays its own true nature, the personality and inner constitution that God provides every soul with when creating her. This is why spontaneous and natural behaviour, spontaneous emotions etc., are suppressed in the adult soul : any expression of childlike purity, straight from God’s Heart, is discouraged.

* the soul is contaminated. The contamination starts with all influences from the world which daily reach the soul, and which are not compatible with God’s interests and expectations. The contamination gets out of control as soon as the soul starts adjusting to all these influences and thereby allows the ways of the world to take root within itself. In its turn the soul starts to discourage spontaneous love in others, and to approach life 'in a calculating way'. The soul no longer behaves spontaneously, first of all she considers what worldly profits or harm any behaviour may yield, and then adjusts her behaviour accordingly. Worldly profits or harm means : the extent to which any behaviour is likely or not to yield material profits, status, power or pleasure.

* the soul learns to regard conflict and battle as normal. The world breathes a spirit of tough competition, of struggle for status and hierarchical position within anything which seems important for worldly life: wealth, position within society, occupation. This is truly the cradle of arrogance, pride and egoism, and therefore of battle and conflict as a way of living. The value of a soul and her life are measured according to worldly interests and standards: how long a way has the soul come as to wealth, possessions, degree of education, professional prestige, physical beauty, fame (in the world of sports, art, science, business, politics, television). In order to be able to meet the requirements made by the world, and to meet her own worldly needs, the soul resorts to all kinds of sins and vices: materialism, crime, ruthless competition and conflict, exploitation, fraude, unbridled erotics.

* the soul is discouraged from doing good things. In this part of his strategy Satan shows his most cunning side. He does so in various ways. The soul that does her utmost for the promotion of God’s Works, both in actions and in words, even in the simplest tasks of everyday life, meets with reactions which may raise doubts as to whether she is still on the right track, as so many souls entertain a completely different lifestyle, and the mentality of the world is so utterly different from the own frame of mind and aspirations. Satan shows himself very aggressive in two targets of his works of destruction, which I will highlight separately, as they are very specific:

(1) the attacks on the soul that announces heavenly Truths. Some souls respond to an invitation by the Spirit of God to announce aspects and elements of Divine Truth which have never been announced before. Satan handles these souls very cunningly, all the more so in proportion as their revelations are likely to harm his intentions. Here Satan disguises shamelessly as the 'heeder of Divine Truth' (!). He depicts the heavenly messenger as a severely straying soul that is inspired by the devil (!), is unreliable and untrustworthy, does not possess the spirit of distinction, announces fables and phantasies, and thereby favours separations and schisms within the Church of Christ. Here Satan wraps himself in the robe of an angel who is charged with the protection of the poor souls against a 'shameful imposter' or a 'heretic'. Satan has applied this strategy throughout the history of salvation against all souls that were called upon by God to announce complementary elements of knowledge from God’s all-encompassing Truth, which is ever so rich. Here he acts as the demon of persecution, endeavouring at any cost to prevent important pieces of Truth from getting spread, because they are able to expose his works of destruction and of blinding souls. Through this strategy Satan robs the souls of countless graces. The souls who prove willing to serve Satan by implementing these persecutions are souls that are misguided by him into believing that they are actually doing humanity big favours. Of course the it is imperative that the souls should learn to distinguish between authentical and false messages. I remind the reader of the paragraphs 98 and 99 from my book The Celestial Wedding, as regards the differences between true and false prophets. Furthermore its is important to know that authentical heavenly revelations are founded on a basis of elements of knowledge which have already been acknowledged by the Church. This brings us to the next point within the strategy of darkness, in which this thesis can be supported with examples:

(2) the attacks on Mary and Her glory. For several centuries, new elements of knowledge concerning Divine Truth have been announced to mankind through Mary. Mary has always been Satan’s major target of hatred, on account of the fact that God’s Plan for the creation of Her Immaculate Soul and Her predestination to be the Mistress of the angels (including Lucifer/Satan and his following, who were still angels at that time) were among the main motives for the rebellion of Lucifer/Satan and his following, and subsequently for their being banned from heaven. Mary is predestined to complete God’s Works of Redemption and Sanctification. This makes Mary together with Jesus Christ and in unity with Him, to the absolute opposite of Satan. That is why Satan rages fiercely against souls who have been called upon to bring Mary to the souls and to announce Truths about Her unique glory and power. Let us therefore refer to two of the most pertinent examples of announcements about Mary, that are heavily criticized by misguided souls because these messages, as soon as they are recognized as true, can severely harm Satan’s works: Mary as Co-Redemptrix, an established Truth about Mary, which you will find extensively documented in all writings by Myriam van Nazareth, and which is even acknowledged within the high ecclesiastical hierarchy, and Mary as the Mistress of all souls: the writings by Myriam van Nazareth, including the Revelations of Mary in this capacity, refer to many recognized elements in the history of salvation that already establish the Truth of Mary as the Mistress of all souls and as the One completing the Divine Plan of Salvation, amongst others: The Book of Genesis, in which reference is made to Mary as the Woman who, together with Her following, is to crush Satan; the word by which the crucified Jesus gave the souls to Mary; the ecclesiastical recognition of Mary as the Queen of Heaven and earth; Her acknowledged role as the Mediatrix and Advocate, and so many others. Here Satan disguises his hatred towards Mary by inciting souls to depicting Mary as an obstacle to Jesus, and to depict the fervent souls consecrated to Mary as well as those who are called upon to announce Her glory, which is still known so little, as 'severely straying souls that bring about separations within the Church of Christ' and as 'founders of a sect'. To them (just like to the source of their inspiration, Satan) Mary is an intruder unrightfully penetrating into the Church of Christ, and any announcement of Her glory a fable sprung from darkness with the intention of distorting God’s Truth. Satan here tries to coin in on the thesis that these souls shove Jesus Christ aside as the only Teacher, and that promote a sort of heretical deification of Mary. The souls that follow Satan in this thesis, disclaim the unity of Works and of Will created by God Himself between Jesus and Mary, and between the Holy Spirit and Mary. Let us never forget: the gift of knowledge about the true glory and greatness of Mary, and the following of Mary as God’s Example of the soul having reached her ultimate bloom, is so great, that it arouses all of Satan’s lust for devastation, because he knows that the ripening of this celestial seed in souls means the end of his realm on earth.

Thus the soul drifts further and further away from God’s ways and intentions, and so deeply strikes root in her new lifestyle – the ways of the world – that she start to regard worldly life as the only standard, and each form, expression or impulse of spiritual life, or every form of contact with the divine are cast off as anomalies, aberrations, figments of the mind or even signs of mental disturbance. Life gets increasingly hollow, empty, and the soul loses:

  • all of her original purity, the property which shapes her after God and which was to enable her to spread God’s Light over her environment and to allow God’s Love to flow through her heart to her environment;

  • her inner peace, the true Peace of Christ, which only lives in the soul that knows deep inside that she is following God’s Ways and is contributing to the realisation of His Plans;

  • true happiness. Happiness can blossom even during your earthly life, as long as your heart remains in unity with God, and the influences from the world are not given the chance to affect your inner life.

3. Consecrate yourself totally to Mary

As soon as the soul has recognized her spiritual enemy, and has understood through what ways the latter is trying to guide her away from her eternal destination with God, she will experience the opening of a door to an entirely new life – or should we not rather say: the door to a return into the life laid in her by God Himself when she was created. In these end times God shows the souls the golden road back from darkness: the total, unconditional and eternal consecration to Mary as the Mistress of all souls. The total consecration of a soul to Mary is an open door to the Light. The possibility of consecrating oneself to Mary is an invaluable Divine gift. The total consecration of your entire life and your entire being (all your actions, words, thoughts, feelings, wishes and aspirations, your mental faculties including your subconscious, all your moments of joy and sorrow, heartache, grief, disease, pains, emotional wounds, disappointments, moments of tiredness and fatigue, burdens, inconveniences, and your free will) to Mary, the Queen of Heaven and earth and Mistress of all souls, is such a great thing in God’s opinion that but few souls are able to begin to realise its value and importance for their own salvation and for God’s Plan of Salvation. Total consecration of the soul to Mary is a most holy covenant by which the soul completely surrenders herself and everything flowing from her through actions, words etc., in order that Mary may be enabled to use this all-encompasing offering as She sees fit, for the completion of God’s Plan of Salvation with the final victory over all darkness, which unrightfully rules creation. Mary has received from God the power to lead the battle of the Light against darkness and to seal the victory of the Light. God has ordained that the unlimited power of Mary shall roll through creation like an explosion of Light, on one condition: that human souls totally surrender their free will to Mary, and through Her to God. As soon as Mary is enabled to be the undivided Mistress of your free will, your entire being will become, in Her hands, an instrument in the battle against darkness, the Redemption obtained by Jesus can be completed in you, your soul can be sanctified, and you will truly be a child of God.

Total consecration to Mary does not end with pronouncing an act of consecration and repeating a prayer of consecration daily, on the contrary: all this is merely the beginning of the fulfillment of the holy covenant between your soul and God through total service and submission to Mary. The Mistress of all souls is to complete God’s Plan of Salvation by representing the necessary human contribution to this Plan. To this end She must be enabled to lay a sufficient volume of human offerings on the scales of Divine Justice, in order for Divine Mercy to be able to acquit humanity of unsettled debts towards God. In the hour in which this will happen, Mary is to receive the go-ahead for a full revelation of Her tremendous and unlimited power: God has ordained that, in that hour, She will order Satan and his following to get on their knees at Her feet, in front of the whole of creation, for the purpose of sealing the total surrender of darkness. This, and nothing less, is the stake of your consecration to Mary, for She wants to celebrate this triumph TOGETHER WITH YOU.

4. Make your consecration to Mary fruitful

Total consecration to Mary sows the Eternal Spring into your soul. For this seed to actually be fruitful, it must spring up and blossom. Mary’s power is boundless. From you She expects efforts on four levels, in order for Her power to really reshape you into a garden blooming in a spring that is never going to end:

(1) Lead your prayers to their maximum fruitfulness. Prayer is communication with God, in BOTH directions: you speak to God, but God also speaks to you, on a level that far exceeds your sensory perception. Each word you speak internally, for example when you lay an action or a situation into Mary’s hands by way of consecrating it to Her, must also be regarded as prayer. You can add much additional strength to your prayers by uniting yourself with all souls on every level of existence:

  • the angels. The angels are constantly praying and pleading for all mankind. In God’s eyes it is a great thing if you join these prayers and pleadings by explicitly asking the angels to take up your prayer into their own prayers. The unity of an angel’s prayers with a human’s prayer is much more valuable for God than the sum of both prayers separately. Very important and very powerful, is linking the consecration of your sufferings up with the angels’ prayers. Angels are not able to suffer, for they do not have a physical body. They regret this vividly, because they know how great physical suffering is to God and what value it possesses for the fulfillment of God’s Works. When you genuinely accept each element of suffering, each moment of fatigue, each burden, and you consecrate these things briefly to Mary, telling Her that you desire to have this consecration admitted by the angelic choirs as parts of their own prayers, you thereby create a powerful weapon for the battle of the Light against darkness.

  • the souls in purgatory. Conclude a small bond with the souls in purgatory. Request them regularly to make a joint sacrifice of one hour per day of their purifying sufferings into Mary’s hands, for She is also the Queen of purgatory, and link you own prayers up with their sacrifice, for the purpose of speeding up the foundation of God’s Kingdom on earth. Thereby you contribute to the completion of God’s Works, you enhance the salvation of your own soul, and you accelerate the purification of the souls in purgatory, that are hereby invited to consecrate their suffering for the benefit of the biggest of causes within God’s Plans.

  • your fellow men. I remind you of the Chain of Light Mary invited all souls to build, and to the covenant of prayer you can conclude with one or more fellow men (prayer nr. 291). Prayer in unity with a fellow man is very valuable, because sharing intentions conveys an additional element of charity. Charity is a great thing in God’s eyes.

(2) Aim at establishing a special relationship towards all your fellow creatures. Jesus and Mary are in each fellow man. As to the animals: towards them, each human soul is a representative of God. It is therefore your duty to make God’s Presence around you tangible. How can you do this?

  • Be like a sun to your fellow creatures. Sometimes, unconsciously, you carry clouds with you, which in your presence prevent God’s sunlight to shine through you upon your fellow creature. When your presence is like a sun, in your presence your fellow creature can blossom like a flower in the sunlight. You can become a sun to your fellow creature mainly through a joyful mood, sweetness and genuine friendliness, so that your fellow creatures feel secure with you. By all this you strengthen true Love in souls.

  • Carry God’s water of Life to your fellow creatures. Rain is necessary to make the soil fertile. It is expected of you to be like a brook that lets clear and pure water flow through the hearts of your fellow creatures, by encouraging them whenever true Life threatens to flow out of them. Without water the sunlight can not create a rainbow. Mary oftens presents the rainbow as the symbol of hope.

  • Spread the breeze of the Holy Spirit over your environment. A breeze tends to revive, to reinvigorate, and blows new air over a ground. It is expected of you to help spread God’s Truth and to help the fogs of confusion and blindness in the garden of your fellow men’s souls dissipate. Thereby you strengthen your fellow men’s true faith, trust and endurance on the paths of their lives.

(3) Make Mary part of EVERYTHING. You can make all your actions, words, thoughts, feelings and wishes, even the most banal ones, valuable and fruitful within God’s Plan of Salvation by enabling Mary to be part of them. Tell Her with anything you do: "Mary, Mistress of my entire being and of my life, I share this with you". Keep in mind that Mary is present with everything you do, each moment of the day and night, and that everything which emanates from you (actions, words, thoughts, wishes, etc.) flow over into Her Heart. In Mary’s Heart all of this is infinitely enhanced and deposited into the treasury of Divine Graces like pure gold. To God, everything is infinitely valuable as soon as it comes out of Mary’s hands. The Mistress of all souls offers the souls the privilege of both following, extraordinary consecrations: You can implore Mary to:

  • Walk along your path through way of your life. You beg Mary that She should walk along the way of your entire life form the moment of your birth onwards, and that during this journey She should remove all ill weeds, glass and rubble from your ground (that is: everything which has gone wrong in the course of your life, and all your negative reactions, moments of resistance and protest, etc.), that She should change all patches of swampy ground (that is: each hour of your life which has not been fruitful, and all obstinate attachments) into fertile soil, and that She should cover the path of your life with flowers (signs of Her presence). You must address this pleading to Her in a constitution of genuine remorse over all and any mistakes you have ever made, and of a true longing for a complete purification and rebirth.

  • Rewrite the book of your life. Mary compares your life to a book. Everything you have ever done or omitted to do, is written down in this book in your handwriting. You can transfer the book of your life to Mary (that is: surrender your entire life to Her power). She will then correct all and any spelling errors and strike out certain words (that is: correct the effects of your wrong decisions), rewrite these passages in Her own magnificent handwriting (that is: make it clear to God that you have been longing for Her to enter into you life), and even tear from the book some pages containing your wishes for the future, in order to replace them with pages entitled: 'My Mistress’ wishes' (that is: She will replace your wrong wishes by Hers, which are sacred). When your life has come to an end She will hand the book of your life over to God, who will now no longer consider it to be the book of life of a sinful soul, but as the book of a soul who has entrusted herself to the sovereign rule of Mary. Mary says: "God will see the book, on the outside He will smell My perfume, on the inside He will recognize My handwriting, and He will close it with satisfaction and store it away" (in other words: He will pass a favourable judgment on your life). Once again, you must address this pleading to Her in a constitution of genuine remorse over all and any mistakes you have ever made, and of a true longing for a complete purification and rebirth.

(4) Allow Mary to reshape you into a conscious transformer. All of Her life on earth, Mary Herself was a Transformer. Actually, a transformer is a device that transforms electrical voltage to a different voltage level because this is usefull for the application intended. Mary drew everything She perceived into Her Heart, to 'transform' it there immediately and to offer it to God in an elevated form. Pray to Her that She may bring this attitude to bloom in you, too. You can make ANYTHING fruitful for God’s Plan of Salvation. A few examples:

  • consecrate sleeplessness with the intention that souls who have dozed off (spiritually) may be woken up

  • consecrate a headache for souls whose mind is too active and whose heart is closed

  • consecrate eye troubles for souls who are spiritually blinded

  • consecrate abdominal complaints for souls who are highly attached to the things and ways of the world

  • are you a farmer? Consecrate your work with the intention to obtain souls the grace to 'be ploughed and sowed' for an enhanced fertility

  • consecrate hunger and thirst for souls who lack real spiritual food

  • consecrate a fall with the intention that 'fallen' souls may get up again

Use your imagination with everything that crosses your path. You will be surprised how many things you will be able to relate with the salvation of souls.

True fruitfulness is the condition in which your life keeps laying new weights in God’s scales. Without Mary it will cost you quite an effort to make any difference in this world. In unity with Mary, the core of your soul is ruled by an infinitely powerful Ally, Protectrix and Guide. God is waiting for you to allow the great bond you, like all other souls, have closed with Him, to be signed also by the Mistress of all souls and to be executed by Her, so that it can serve towards the darkness as your vow to belong to God and only to God.

Myriam – July 2008