TOTUS TUUS, MARIA !

MEDITATION
THE DESERT AND THE OASIS

Inspiration by Mary, the Mistress of all souls,
in a vision with explanations
during the morning consecration to the Mistress of all souls
on March 5, 2009.

Mary: "I give you these images as well as the wisdom to express them in words, as an auxiliary the souls will be able to avail themselves of to consecrate their entire past and their inner dispositions to Me in deep reflection. Every soul will be able to recognize in these images herself, her life and her deepest – sometimes hidden – desires, and thereby opt for a life at the service of the greatest Works of the Triune God, whose Works are indeed treasured up within the Mistress of all souls" (March 5, 2009)

MEDITATION

Life in the world is like a journey through the desert. Day after day the travelling soul has got to cope with the hostile influences from the excoriating sand, the drought, the singing heat, snakes and scorpions, and a desolate landscape.

In the midst of the desert lies a delightfully wonderful oasis as a refuge and shelter against the hostilities from worldly life. In the oasis the atmosphere is quite different, the air is very different – it is not dry, it is rich in oxygen – and flowers bloom, palm trees grow, and ornamental bushes abound. A pleasant sun caresses the atmosphere throughout the oasis.

In the desert the traveller suffers from:

• the singing heat from the unrelenting fever of temptations;

• the drought of the unpromising worldly life, devoid of any content, meaning and substance;

• the hot winds of passions, of the storms raging inside the heart;

• the sand of trials, of all worldly impressions and of the overall absence of any real foothold, in which the soul gets bogged down, making her journey difficult and irritating her entire being during the tempests raging inside of her;

• the bites from snakes and scorpions, which poison the soul with the poison from all kinds of worldly influences.

In the desert, every now and then the soul can smell a waft of the scent coming her way from the oasis, owing to the fact God’s Spirit is speaking in her heart and she listens. When the soul perceives this scent she will sometimes long sincerely for a true healing, a new life. If this prayer is heard, the soul is allowed to continue her journey on a camel’s back for a while. Internally she finds some rest, she rediscovers part of her inner Peace, and she gains some strength. The camel is a sign of hope, brought onto the soul’s path by Divine Providence, and which now enables the journey towards the land of deliverance to be accomplished a bit more quickly.

In proportion as the longing for internal healing gets stronger and lasts longer, the soul is driven towards the oasis with more zest. One day she reaches the entrance gate to the oasis. There she confesses cherishing the intention to start a new life, and she is allowed to enter.

The desert king is Satan. The oasis, however, is the Kingdom of Mary, the paradisical Garden of Her Immaculate Heart, in which all of the Creator’s marvels are merged. Therefore this Garden contains everything necessary to reshape the soul for Eternal Bliss. The oasis is lined entirely with ornamental shrubs and palm trees, which provide shelter from all threats from the desert. The Queen of the oasis aspires to expand Her Kingdom continuously, because it is God’s Kingdom, of which She manages the fruits. She aims at realizing this expansion by drawing ever more souls from the desert to Her. She is unspeakably more powerful than the desert king, yet She compels nobody to enter into Her service.

As soon as the traveller has been allowed to enter through the gate to the oasis, he is stripped of his clothes, washed, cleaned of all and any traces of desert sand, refreshed, and all and any wounds from snake and scorpion bites are taken care of. Healing can begin. In the soul so much poison is circulating that she is chronically ill. The traveller consecrates himself to serving the Queen of the oasis, and is therefore clothed in a new garment, showing that henceforth he belongs to Mary’s Kingdom.

In the oasis there rules an atmosphere that is new to the traveller. Whereas in the desert hot winds are blowing, making the sand corrode and hurt the soul, the only thing the inhabitant of the oasis will feel is the delightful breeze from the Holy Spirit, which makes the inspirations from Divine Providence and Wisdom enter softly into the souls. The landscape there is a bearer of true Life. As opposed to the desolate scenery of the desert the oasis is filled with colours of an infinite variety, enchanting scents and delights for heart and soul. Moreover the oasis is completely free from dangers: only Divine Life rules in it. The desert, on the other hand, offered but one single source of seeming delight: the heat of the sun, which, however, only caressed the senses and sent the body in raptures, which inside the soul were transformed into the fever of chronic illness.

The Queen of the oasis plants a palm tree in each of Her servants:

• the palm of Mary’s victory over the soul, over the course of her life, and over the desert king;
• the palm of the soul’s victory over herself, her old habits and attachments.

The palm within the soul and those all over the oasis wave gently in the breeze from the Holy Spirit, thereby also indicating the inner Peace and rest within Mary’s servant, as well as the imperturbability and invincibility of his Mistress. The palm trees and the many other trees in the oasis pervade the air with an enormous richness in oxygen of Divine inspiritment, which allows the soul to breathe very deeply and immerses her in true Life altogether.

In the oasis the soul can find countless fruit trees with the greatest conceivable variety of fruits of Divine Life: all virtues, all nourishment for perfect sanctity.

The oasis is God’s Kingdom on earth, in which Mary is appointed as the incontestable Queen. She is the Manager of the growth and bloom of all palms, fruit trees, flowers and ornamental bushes. She is also the Mistress of the crystal clear water springs, in which She subjects Her servants to washings at regular intervals, with a view to their inner in-depth purification. In so doing, She washes the last traces of the desert sand and of the poisons from snake and scorpion bites away from the souls, and lets them drink the water of Divine Truth to their hearts’ content.

The soul that lives in the oasis is a subject of a Kingdom in which the desert sand is denied all access. The soul can still voluntarily go to the gate to have another look at the desert from there, and can thereby again be contaminated and defiled. When she entered the oasis the soul was stripped of the clothes of her memories, habits and attachments because the latter were filled with the sand of worldly experiences, hurting her through the winds of inner tempests and blinding her eyes to God’s Truth.

Each time when the snakes of painful memories and of the poison from worldly influences try to penetrate into the oasis, they are, upon the simple cries for help emanating from the threatened soul’s prayer, put to death underneath the foot of the Queen of the oasis.

The soul is not held captive in the oasis. She is a subject there, entirely of her own free will. Every day on which the soul voluntarily decides to live at Mary’s service she enjoys the reward of the fruits from the Mistress’ paradisical Garden, of the water of Divine Life, and of the oxygen-rich air of the inspiritment by Divine Wisdom and Eternal Truth. The services the soul renders in the oasis consist herein:

• she must see to it that she remains clean and well fed, in order to be worthy of wearing the garment of a servant of Mary and of all delights of Divine Life; and

• every now and then she is sent to cultivate the surrounding desert by sharing God’s Truth with souls that are still travelling through the desert. This is how the extended arid soils are being made receptive to the holy seeds from the oasis.

Mary, the Mistress of all souls,
tops Her metaphor by the following words:

Myriam, March 2009