La Ermita – The Hermitage
And Its Future
The
Essence of Spirituality
The essence
and existence of God is Eternal Unconditional Love.
Love is the very
life of the Three Divine Persons that exist in God. We name their essence
“God.” We name Their “Persons” “Father, Mother and Son.”
The Nature
of the Divine Father is Creator; the Nature of the Divine Mother Sophia is that
which forms and establishes an “at home” family love environment in all that
the Father creates.
The nature
of God, as God, is both male and female. The individual Person of God gives
expression primarily to either the male or female aspect of the infinite
essence and nature of God.
All that is
created exists within Them and through Them. Nothing can exist outside of Them
or be separated from Them. The Divine Persons ARE existence by their very
nature as God.
All that is
created is of its very essence Love, the Life of God, and it is the only “life”
that is. And all is created in some way to the image and likeness of the Divine
Essence of God. The intelligent created beings have a natural eternal desire to
become more like the Divine Father and Mother.
In the Book
of Genesis, the Divine Father, as the masculine nature of God, created first,
the world and then Adam and Eve in whom He shared more of his masculine image
and likeness. The Book of Proverbs expresses how Mother Sophia, the divine
person of “feminine” nature, shared with the Father Her image and likeness that
unified Their Family Love experience and awareness as God with all creation,
but especially with all human beings. That experience we call the “at home,” a
Love Family environment existing in Them, the creators.
But with the
passing of centuries, the angelic and human creation made choices of life that
did not increase their capacity to love and be united in the Divine Family of
their Beloved Divine Parents.
So, our
Divine Father and Mother sent their Divine Son to dwell among us in order to personally invite us to return home, first, to
the living of our divine home here on earth and then in heaven. Jesus shared
that by his living and teaching and radiating his tremendous divine family
love.
At the end
of his mission, He told his followers that before they could begin sharing and
living the fullness of his mission, they needed to be “born again” with the
love of the Divine Mother Sophia.
That very
important event began on Pentecost Sunday, the day when over 3000 people were
immediately filled with a Divine Love that was so great that it spontaneously
united them all together as One Family, sharing all they had with each other,
just as is done in the true Divine Family of the Three Divine Persons of God.
That union of love was accomplished primarily by Mother Sophia, not by our
Father or Jesus.
La
Ermita’s Divine Mission
This living
of the Divine Family among us on earth is the mission of La Ermita – The
Hermitage.
The founder
of La Ermita in Atlanta and Macon was a “Peter” giving an invitation to return
home on the human and spiritual level to those who needed one. They came to
experience that love, and then left to live and share it with others. But he
was able to do this only with the help of those who were feminine, those with a
“mothers” nature. Don’t forget that women were always with Jesus and the
disciples during those three years of living his mission.
So, in some
way La Ermita’s mission will be the same, the inviting of all to come back
“home” by the man who as a ‘father’ represents our Heavenly Father, and who
then allows all those coming forth to be reborn by Mother Sophia who shares Her
Motherly “at home” gift of love with all, but especially with the “reborn
women” who represent Her presence so that the Divine Family may continue to
exist truly here on earth as it is in heaven.
The living
and giving of an “at home” environment belongs
primarily to women. It is they, united with Mother Sophia, who primarily make
divine love present among us as family. Women being feminine, as is Mother
Sophia, are able to share Her Divine Love deeply.
Thus, the
union of the “father and mother” on both the human and spiritual level will
create and form the true divine Family profoundly because they are true images
of the divine nature of God the Father and God the Mother
present among them.
Such an
invitation to experience this divine family love is needed greatly because at
this time the “Divine Family” of God, the church, has almost been eliminated by
men who are not ‘fathers,’ but rather men who have established the Divine
Family Church as an institution where law and authority are more important than
love and compassion; where men are more important than women.
Love must be
experienced, felt within. Without the loving presence of a mother whose love
basically gives all of us the “feeling of being at home” within ourselves, that
human aspect of love is not felt, and the same exists on the divine level. The
Divine Motherly Love of Mother Sophia is not felt and experienced.
So, very
soon, La Ermita – The Hermitage will be sending forth a man chosen by our
beloved Divine Father and Mother to call forth this “home” among us men and
women, and his call will bring forth a unity of men along with a unity of women
who are sharing Mother Sophia’s “mother” figure. Only then will the human and
divine Family blossom forth abundantly. It will all happen spontaneously and
naturally.
Both the
human and spiritual level of family life are always united! That is the nature
of Divine Love and that is Who We Are. We Are Love, created and formed as such
by our Divine Father and Mother Who Are Love. They can create only Who They Are
just as we can only do the same. We
Are Love!
February
16, 2023
