When You Are Present in Your Own Consciousness
DE_BW - August 9, 2026 – Anna Maria Hosta
TTT 11 Jesus’ Ministry on Earth
30. How often did Jesus’ disciples find Him speaking with the various creatures of the earth. How often was the Master surprised in His conversations with the birds, with the fields, with the sea! Yet they knew that their Master was not absent in spirit; they knew that within their Master lived the Creator Spirit of the Father, who had given all beings a language, who understood all His “children,” and who received praise and love from all that He had created.
31. How often did the disciples and the people see Jesus caressing a bird or a flower and blessing everything, and in His eyes they discovered glances of infinite love for all creatures! The disciples sensed the Lord’s divine delight when He saw Himself surrounded by so much glory, so many wonders that had sprung from His wisdom, and they also often saw tears in the Master’s eyes when He witnessed people’s indifference in the face of such glory—the callousness and blindness of human beings toward so much splendor. They often saw the Master weep when He beheld a leper shedding tears because of his leprosy, or men and women lamenting their fate, even though they were surrounded by a sphere of perfect love! (332, 25–26)
Instruction 42 (Volume 2)
6. The children will unite with Me, will receive My messages, and will amaze you with their progress. They will teach you My doctrine of love, and their convictions will be firm. But do not feel humiliated because of this! — When you see, within the bosom of your home, that they are showing signs of spiritualization, guide their steps. Let them rejoice and be filled with rapture as they contemplate the lofty realms where the righteous dwell; and during their rapture, they will feel that they are close to Me and will forget their sorrows.
Instruction 65 (Volume 3)
15. Through the mouths of men, women, and children, you have heard My divine concert; as if in rapture, you have surrendered to the delight of hearing the voice of the Lord and His angels. My Word is not just for one people; it is for all peoples, for all creeds and religions.
A Greeting from Mexico (Volume 6)
My prayers grew longer and longer, and my spiritual concentration grew ever deeper. I strove to meditate as often as possible, for as long as the prayer lasted, I remained free from all suffering. When the bliss had passed and I returned to the reality of my lonely, quiet, and monotonous life, I always felt as if I were coming from another world, where my spirit had been strengthened and inspired. Here I must note that I formed my prayers from spontaneous, unplanned impulses.
I will never forget how, during such moments of rapture, I lost all sense of time, and there were moments when everything around me vanished. However, I do recall that during my childhood—from about the age of 12 onward—without being able to explain it to myself, I found myself almost daily in a kind of detachment of the soul that lasted for several minutes, during which I, perhaps guided by my subconscious, had to act like an automaton. I never experienced the slightest difficulty while this peculiar state lasted. Strangely enough, it initially caused me anxiety, but I gradually became accustomed to it, even as the phenomenon intensified over time.
