Divine Will for every day of the year - October 29, 1910 Volume 9

As I was in my usual state, it seemed that Jesus made Himself seen for a little, and I said to Him: “Life of my life, my dear Jesus, during these past days I have been disturbed, and You, who have been so jealous of my peace, have not had a single word for me in these past days to give me that peace which You so much want.” And He: “Ah, My daughter, I was scourging and destroying cities and burying human lives – this is why I have not come. On this day of respite – for then I will take up the scourge in My Hand once again – immediately I have come to see you again. You must know that if I did not reward the things done with purity of intention, the upright works, and everything that is done for love of Me, I would fail a duty of justice, and all of my other attributes would remain obscured. Therefore, these are the three most powerful weapons to destroy this poisonous and infernal slobber of disturbance.

“So, if the necessity to chastise should force Me not to come for a few days, and this air of hell wanted to invest you, put these three weapons against it: purity of intention, work of victim — upright and good in itself, and sacrificing yourself for Me with the sole purpose of loving Me, and you will defeat any disturbance and will cast it away into the deepest hell. And with your indifference you will turn the key so that it may no longer be able to get out and molest you.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 28, 1928 Volume 25

… After this, I was thinking about today’s feast—that is, the Feast of Christ the King; and my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me:  “My daughter, the Church does nothing but intuitively grasp what She must know on My Divine Will and how Its Kingdom must come.  Therefore, this Feast is the prelude of the Kingdom of My Divine Fiat.  Indeed, the Church is doing nothing other than honoring My Humanity with those titles that, by right, are due to It; and when She has given Me all the honors that befit Me, She will move on to honor and to institute the Feast to the Kingdom of My Divine Will, by which My Humanity was animated.  

“The Church proceeds step by step, and now She institutes the Feast to My Heart, now She consecrates the century, in all solemnity, to Christ the Redeemer, and now She moves on, with greater solemnity, to institute the Feast to Christ the King.  Christ the King means that He must have His Kingdom, He must have peoples worthy of such a King.  And who will ever be able to form for Me this Kingdom if not My Will?  Then, yes, will I be able to say:  ‘I have My people—My Fiat has formed it for Me.’  

“Oh! if the leaders of the Church knew what I have manifested to you about My Divine Will, what I want to do, Its Great Prodigies, My Yearnings, My Sorrowful Heartbeats, My Anguishing Sighs, for I want My Will to Reign, to make everyone happy, to restore the human family—they would feel that in this Feast of Christ the King is nothing other than the secret Echo of My Heart that, echoing in them, without their knowing it, has them institute for Me the Feast of Christ the King in order to call their attention and reflection:  Christ the King….  And His true people—where are they?  

“And they would say:  ‘Let us hasten to make His Divine Will known; let us let It reign, that we may give a people to Christ the King, whom we have called so.  Otherwise, we have honored Him with words, but not with facts.’”

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 27, 1903 Volume 5

As I was in my usual state, I saw my adorable Jesus for just a little, saying to me: “My daughter, to accept mortifications and sufferings as penance and as chastisement is praiseworthy, it is good, but it has no connection with the Divine Way of operating. In fact, I did much, I suffered much, but the way I had in all this was only love for the Father and for men. So, it shows immediately whether a creature has the way of operating and suffering in a divine manner — if it is love alone that pushes her to do it and to suffer. If she has other ways, good as they may be, they are always the ways of creatures, and therefore she will find in them the merit that a creature can acquire, not the merit that the Creator can acquire, because there is no union of ways. But if she has my way, the fire of love will destroy any disparity and inequality, and will form one single thing between My Work and that of the creature.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 26, 1926 Volume 20

…After this, I was beginning my round in the Divine Will, and going into the terrestrial Eden, in which Adam had done the first act of withdrawal of his will from the Divine, I said to my sweet Jesus:  “My Love, I want to annihilate my will in Yours, that it may never have life, so that Your Will may have life in everything and forever, in order to repair for the first act that Adam did, and return to Your Supreme Volition all the glory as if Adam had never withdrawn from It.  Oh! how I wish to give back to him the honor he lost because he did his own will and rejected Yours.  

“And I intend to do this act for as many times as all creatures have done their own will—the cause of all evils, and have rejected Yours—the origin and fount of all goods.  Therefore I pray You that the Kingdom of the Supreme Fiat may come soon, so that everyone, from Adam up to all the creatures who have done their own will, may receive the honor and the glory that they lost, and Your Will may receive triumph, glory and Its fulfillment.”

Now, while I was saying this, my highest Good, Jesus, was moved and touched, and making my first father Adam present to me, let him himself tell me, with emphasis of love, all special:  “Blessed daughter, finally my Lord God, after so many centuries, has delivered to the light of the day she who was to think about giving me back the honor and the glory that I lost, alas, by doing my will.  How I feel my happiness redoubled.  …”

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 25, 1904 Volume 6

Continuing in my usual state, after I struggled very much, He came.  As soon as I saw Him, I said:  “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.’” And blessed Jesus added:  “The Verbum took flesh, but did not remain flesh — He remained as He was; and just as ‘verbum’ means ‘word’ and there is nothing that has more influence than the word, ‘The Word’ means Manifestation, Communication, Divine Union with the human.  So, if the Word had not taken flesh, there would have been no other means to be able to unite God and man.”  Having said this, He disappeared.

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 24, 1918 Volume 12

I was preparing myself to receive my sweet Jesus in the Sacrament, and I prayed that He Himself would cover my great misery. And Jesus told me: “My daughter, in order to allow the creature to have all the necessary means to receive Me, I wanted to institute this Sacrament on the last day of My Life, so as to line up My whole Life around each Host, as preparation for each creature who would receive Me. The creature could never have received Me, if she had not had a preparing God, Who was taken only by Excess of Love for wanting to give Himself to the creature. And since the creature was unable to receive Me, that same Excess of Love led Me to give My whole Life in order to prepare her, so It placed My Steps, My Works, My Love before her own. And since within Me there was also My Passion, It placed also My Pains in order to prepare her. So, invest yourself with Me; cover yourself with each one of My Acts, and come.” …

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 23, 1917 Volume 12

This morning, after I received blessed Jesus, I was saying to Him: ‘My life, Jesus, tell me: what was the first act that You did when You received Yourself sacramentally?’ And Jesus: “My daughter, the first act I did was to multiply My Life into many Lives, for as many creatures as can exist in the world, so that each one of them might have one Life of Mine only for herself; a Life that Continuously Prays, Thanks, Satisfies, Loves only for her. In the same way, I multiplied My Pains for each soul, as if I were suffering only for her, and not for others. In that supreme moment of receiving Myself, I gave Myself to all, to suffer My Passion in each heart, to be able to conquer the hearts by dint of Pains and of Love. In giving all My Divinity, I came to take the Dominion of all. But, alas! My Love remained disappointed by many; and I anxiously await loving hearts which, in receiving Me, would unite with Me to multiply themselves in everyone, desiring and wanting what I want, so that I may take at least from them what the others do not give to Me, and receive the contentment of having them as conformed to My Desire and to My Will. Therefore, My daughter, when you receive Me, do what I did, and I will receive the contentment that at least the two of us want the same thing.” …

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 22, 1926 Volume 20

…“Each truth about My Eternal Fiat contains more power and prodigious virtue than if a dead man were resurrected, a leper were healed, a blind one could see, or a mute could speak.  In fact, My words on the sanctity and power of My Fiat will resurrect the souls to their origin; they will heal them from the leprosy produced by the human will.  They will give them the sight to be able to see the goods of the Kingdom of My Will, because until now they have been like blind.  They will give speech to many mute who, while they were able to say many other things, only for My Will were like many mute without speech; and then, the great miracle of being able to give to each creature a Divine Will that contains all goods.  What will It not give them when It will be in possession of the children of Its Kingdom?  

“This is why I keep you all occupied with the work of this Kingdom of Mine—and there is much to do in order to prepare the great miracle that the Kingdom of the Fiat be known and possessed.  Therefore, be attentive in crossing the endless Sea of My Will, so that the order between Creator and creature may be established; in this way, through you, I will be able to make the great miracle that man return to Me—into the origin from which he came.” …

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 21, 1921 Volume 13

I was thinking about the Passion of my sweet Jesus, and upon coming, He told me: “My daughter, every time the soul thinks about My Passion, remembers what I suffered, or compassionates Me, she renews within herself the application of My Pains. My Blood rises to inundate her, and My Wounds place themselves on the path to heal her if she is wounded, or to embellish her if she is healthy — as well as My Merits, to enrich her. The commerce she produces is amazing; it is as if she placed on a counter everything I did and suffered, earning twice as much. In fact, everything I did and suffered is in Continuous Act of giving itself to man, just as the Sun is in continuous act of giving light and heat to the earth. My Work is not subject to exhaustion; if the soul just wants it so, and as many times as she wants, she receives the Fruit of My Life. So, if she remembers My Passion twenty, a hundred, a thousand times, so many more times will she enjoy Its Effects. But how few are those who make a Treasure of it! With all the good of My Passion, one can see souls who are weak, blind, deaf, mute, crippled — living cadavers, such as to be disgusting. This, because My Passion is put into oblivion.

"My pains, My Wounds, My Blood are Strength which removes weaknesses, Light which gives sight to the blind, Tongue which loosens the tongues and opens the hearing, Way which straightens the crippled, Life which raises the dead... All the Remedies needed for the whole humanity are in My Life and Passion. …”

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 20, 1917 Volume 12

[Jesus speaking]

“…For many centuries I have held within Me, more than a birth, all My Human Acts done in the Sanctity of the Eternal Volition in order to give them to the creature. And when they give themselves, they will raise the human acts of the creature to Divine Acts, and will adorn her with the most beautiful Beauties, making her live with the Life of My Will; giving her the Value, the Effects and the Goods which My Will possesses. Therefore, more than mother, I agonize, I anguish, I burn with desire to deliver this birth from My Will. The time has come; there is nothing left but to find one who would receive the First Birth, so as to continue with other births in other creatures. This is why I tell you — be attentive; enlarge your heart to be able to receive all the Value, the Effects, the Knowledge which My Will contains, so that I may place the First Birth in you. How much joy will you give Me! You will be the beginning of My Happiness upon earth. I could say that the human will rendered Me unhappy in the midst of creatures; and My Will Operating in the creature will restore My Happiness.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 19, 1922 Volume 14

For many centuries I have held within Me, more than a birth, all My Human Acts done in the Sanctity of the Eternal Volition in order to give them to the creature. And when they give themselves, they will raise the human acts of the creature to Divine Acts, and will adorn her with the most beautiful Beauties, making her live with the Life of My Will; giving her the Value, the Effects and the Goods which My Will possesses. Therefore, more than mother, I agonize, I anguish, I burn with desire to deliver this birth from My Will. The time has come; there is nothing left but to find one who would receive the First Birth, so as to continue with other births in other creatures. This is why I tell you — be attentive; enlarge your heart to be able to receive all the Value, the Effects, the Knowledge which My Will contains, so that I may place the First Birth in you. How much joy will you give Me! You will be the beginning of My Happiness upon earth. I could say that the human will rendered Me unhappy in the midst of creatures; and My Will Operating in the creature will restore My Happiness.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 18, 1906 Volume 7

As I was in my usual state, blessed Jesus just barely came and told me: “My daughter, the works which I like the most are the hidden works because, free from any human spirit, they contain such preciousness within themselves, that I keep them as the choicest inside My Heart; so much so, that in comparing a thousand external and public works with one internal and hidden work, the one thousand external ones remain below the single internal work, because in the external works the human spirit always takes its part.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 17, 1925 Volume 18

After two days of most bitter privations of my highest Good, Jesus, I felt Him move in my interior.  I seemed to see Him in my interior, sitting, with His head leaning on one side, upon my shoulder; with His mouth turned toward my mouth, in the act of administering the words to me.  I clasped Him to myself, and I began to listen to Him, abandoning all of myself in Him.  So, it seemed that He was saying to me:  “My daughter, My Will is more than food.  Food gives strength to the body, it warms it, it increases the blood, it enlivens the intelligence if it is dim, it puts liveliness in all the members, and pushes the creature to new works and sacrifices.  On the other hand, one who is on an empty stomach, not giving the necessary food to her body, is weak, cold, lacking in blood, her intelligence dim, exhausted in all of her members; and this leads her to melancholy and pushes her to do nothing, with no desire to sacrifice herself in anything.  Poor one, she feels life missing in all of her person; and this is so true that, when an illness is mortal for a creature, she abandons food, and by abandoning food, she disposes herself to death.

“Now, since the Eternal Wisdom has established that the soul too should have food, she was assigned the Supreme Will as delicious Food.  So, one who takes this Food is strong in doing good; she is as though soaked with love for her God.  This Food increases the Divine Blood in order to form the growth of the Life of God within her.  Like sun, it is reflected in her intelligence, to make her know her Creator and be formed in His likeness.  It puts liveliness in the whole soul, in order to put all virtues in force, and it pushes her to new works and to sacrifices unheard-of.  The Food of My Will gives itself in every instant, at each breath, at night, during the day, in each thing, and as many times as one wants; nor is there any danger, as with corporal food, that in taking too much of it, it may do harm and even produce illnesses — no, no; rather, the more one takes of it, the more it fortifies and raises the soul to the likeness of her Creator.  One can remain with one’s mouth always opened, in the act of taking this Celestial Food.  All the opposite for one who does not take this Food of My Will.  For one who does not take it at all, it can be said that she disposes herself to die eternally.  As for one who seldom feeds herself, she is weak and inconstant in good, she is cold in love, she is lacking in Divine Blood, in such a way that the Divine Life grows as though anemic within her.  The light of her intelligence is so dim, that she knows little or nothing of her Creator; and not knowing Him, His likeness is so far away from her, for as much as she is far away from the Food of His Will.  She is without liveliness in doing good, because she does not have sufficient Food; and now patience escapes her, now charity, now detachment from everything; so, the poor virtues live as though strangled, without enough Food of My Will.  Ah! if one could see a soul without this Celestial Food, one would weep over her, so many are the miseries and the rubbish with which she is covered.  However, there is more for one to compassionate if one sees a creature starved of corporal food, because many times she lacks the means in order to buy it; but the Food of My Will is given out for free, therefore one who does not take it deserves condemnation; and the condemnation is formed by herself, because she has rejected the Food which gave her life.” …

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 16, 1923 Volume 16

…my Jesus moved in my interior, and taking my hands in His, pressed them tightly to His Heart and told me: “My daughter, in order for My Will to descend upon earth, it is necessary that your will raise up to Heaven. And in order to raise up to Heaven and to live in the Celestial Fatherland, it is necessary to empty it of all that is human, of all that is not Holy, pure and upright. Nothing can enter into Heaven to live a communal Life with Us, if it has not been completely divinized and transformed into Us; nor can My Divine Will descend upon earth and carry out Its Life as within Its own center, if It does not find the human will emptied of everything, in order to fill it with all the goods which My Will contains… It will be nothing other than a most thin veil, which will serve Me to cover Myself and to dwell within it, almost like a Consecrated Host, in which I form My Life, and I do all the good I want – I pray, I suffer, I enjoy. And the Host does not oppose; it leaves Me free. Its office is to be there to keep Me hidden, and in mute silence, to comply to preserve My Sacramental Life. This is the point we are at: your will is about to enter Heaven, and Mine is about to descend upon earth. Therefore, yours must have life no longer; it must have no reason to exist. 

“This happened to My Humanity, which, though having a human will, was all intent on giving life to the Divine Will. It never decided by itself, not even to breathe, but it took and gave also its breath in the Divine Will. And so the Eternal Will reigned in My Humanity on earth as It does in Heaven; It lived Its terrestrial Life in it, and My human will, fully sacrificed to the Divine, impetrated that, at the appropriate time, It would descend upon earth, to live in the midst of creatures, just as It lives in Heaven. Don’t you want to give My Will the first place on earth?”

Now, while He was saying this, I seemed to find myself in Heaven, and as though from one single point, I could see all generations; and prostrating myself before the Supreme Majesty, I took the reciprocal Love of the Divine Persons, Their Perfect Adoration, the Ever Unique Sanctity of Their Will, and I offered Them in the name of all as the return of love, adoration, submission and union which every creature should give to her Creator. I wanted to unite Heaven and earth — Creator and creature, that They might embrace and exchange the Supreme Kiss of the union of their wills.

Then my Jesus added: “This is your task – to live in Our midst and to make all that is Ours your own, giving it to Us on behalf of your brothers; so that, drawn by what is Ours, We may be bound to the human generations, and give them the Supreme Kiss of the union of their wills to Ours, which We gave to man in Creation.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 15, 1919 Volume 12

…my lovable Jesus moved in my interior and told me: “My daughter, as soon as the soul enters My Volition and decides to live in It, all doubts and fears depart from her. It happens as to a daughter of a king, who, no matter how much people say that she is not the daughter of her father, pays no attention. On the contrary, she keeps on going, proud, saying to everyone: ‘It is useless for you to say the contrary, or to put doubts and fears in me. I am the true daughter of the king — he is my father. I live with him; even more, his very Kingdom is mine...’

“Therefore, among the many goods which living in My Will brings, It also brings the state of security. And since she makes all that is Mine her own, how can she fear about her possessions? Therefore, fear, doubt, hell, lose their way and cannot find the door, the way, the key to enter the soul. Even more, as soon as the soul enters the Divine Volition, she strips herself of herself, and I clothe her of Me, with Royal Garments; and these Garments place on her the seal that she is My daughter. My Kingdom is hers, as much as It is Mine; and defending Our Rights, she takes part in judging and condemning others. Therefore, how can you want to go fishing for fears?”

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 14, 1906 Volume 7

As I was in my usual state, I found myself outside of myself with baby Jesus, and He seemed to say to a priest: “Self-esteem poisons Grace in you and in others. In fact, since by your office you must administer Grace, if souls detect that what you say and do, you do in order to be esteemed – and it can easily be detected when this poison is present – Grace does not enter alone, but together with the poison that you have. So, instead of rising again to life, they find death.”

Then He added: “It is necessary that you strip yourself of everything in order for you to be filled with the All, which is God. And by having the All within you, you will give the All to all those who will come to you; and in giving the All to others, you will find everything at your disposal, in such a way that no one will be able to deny you anything – not even esteem; even more, from human you will have it divine, which befits the All who dwells in you.” …

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 13, 1916 Volume 11

I was doing the Hours of the Passion, and blessed Jesus told me: “My daughter, in the course of my mortal Life, thousands and thousands of Angels were the cortege of my Humanity, gathering everything I did – My Steps, My Works, My Words, and even My Sighs, My Pains, the drops of My Blood – in sum, everything. They were the Angels in charge of My custody, and of paying Me honor; obedient to My every wish, they would rise to and descend from Heaven, to bring to the Father what I was doing. Now these Angels have a special office, and as the soul remembers My Life, My Passion, My Blood, My Wounds, My Prayers, they come around this soul and gather her words, her prayers, her acts of compassion for Me, her tears and her offerings; they unite them to Mine, and they bring them before My Majesty to renew for Me the Glory of my own Life. The delight of the Angels is so great that, reverent, they listen to what the soul says, and pray together with her. So, with what attention and respect must the soul do these Hours, thinking that the Angels hang upon her lips to repeat after her what she says.”

Then He added: “After the so many bitternesses that creatures give Me, these Hours are sweet little sips that souls give Me; but for the many bitter sips I receive, the sweet ones are too few. Therefore, more diffusion, more diffusion!”

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 12, 1903 Volume 5

… And Jesus: “My daughter, this Crowning of thorns contains many meanings, and as much as I may speak, there is always much left to be said. In fact, the reason why My Head wanted to be honored by having, not a general share, but its distinct and special portion of suffering, and its own shedding of Blood, almost competing with the Body — is almost incomprehensible to the created mind. The reason is that it is the head that unites the whole body and all of the soul, in such a way that, without the head, the body is nothing; so much so, that one can live without the other members, but it is impossible to live without the head, because it is the essential part of the whole of man. In fact, if the body sins or does good, it is the head that directs it, since the body is nothing other than an instrument. Therefore, since My Head was to give back Regime and Dominion to men, and earn for them that New Heavens of Graces and New Worlds of Truths might enter the human minds, rejecting the new hells of sins because of which men reach the point of rendering themselves vile slaves of vile passions; wanting to crown the whole human family with glory, with honor and with decorum, I wanted to crown and honor My Humanity first, though with a most painful crown of thorns, symbol of the Immortal Crown which I was giving back to creatures, taken away from sin.

“In addition, the crown of thorns means that there is no glory and honor without thorns; that there can never be dominion over passions and acquisition of virtues without feeling oneself being pricked deep in one’s flesh and spirit, and that true reigning is in mastering oneself by the pricks of mortification and of sacrifice. 

“Moreover, these thorns signified that I am the True and Only King, and only one who constitutes Me King of her heart enjoys peace and happiness, and I constitute her queen of My own Kingdom. So, all those rivulets of Blood which poured from My Head were many little streams which bound the human intelligence to the knowledge of My Sovereignty over them.” …

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 11, 1901 Volume 4

After various days of privation and of silence, this morning, as He came, He continued to be silent, and even though I kept Him almost always with me, as much as I tried, I could not manage to have Him speak a single word. He seemed to have something in His interior that embittered Him, so much so, as to render Him taciturn; something which He did not want me to know. Now, while Jesus was with me, I seemed to see the Queen Mama; and upon seeing Jesus with me, She told me: “It is you who keeps Him? Thank goodness He is with you, for if He has to pour out His just Fury, if He is with you, you hold Him back. My daughter, pray that He would hold back the scourges, for the evil ones are all ready to come out, but they see themselves bound by a Supreme Power that prevents them; and even if Divine Justice will permit it, since they would not be able to do it when they please to, there will be this good: they will recognize the Divine Authority over them, and will say: ‘We did this because we were given the power from above.’ My daughter, what a war is being nourished in the moral world – it is horrifying to see it! Yet, the first nourishment that should be sought in society, in families and by each soul, should be that of peace. All other nourishments become unhealthy without it – be they even virtues themselves, charity, repentance; without peace, they bring neither health nor true sanctity. Yet, this nourishment so necessary and salutary has been discarded by today’s world, and they want nothing but turbulence and wars. My daughter, pray, pray.” 

Divine Will for every day of the year - October 10, 1925 Volume 18

As I was in my usual state, my poor mind found itself within an extremely high atmosphere.  I seemed to see the Divinity, and upon one knee of the Celestial Father, the Queen Mama, dead, as if She had no life.  Surprised, I thought to myself:  ‘My Mama is dead; but what a happy death – to die on the knees of our Creator!’  But, looking more closely, I saw Her will as though detached from Her body, held in the hands of the Divine Father.  Amazed, I looked, and I could not give myself a reason for what I was seeing; but a voice coming from the Divine Throne said:  “This is the elect among all the elect; She is the all beautiful; She is the only creature who gave Us Her will as gift, and left it, dead, upon Our knees, in Our Hands.  And We, in exchange, gave Her the Gift of Our Will.  Greater gift We could not give Her, because by acquiring this Supreme Will, She had the power to make the Word descend upon earth, and to have the Redemption of mankind be formed.  A human will would have no power nor attraction over Us; but a Divine Will, given by Ourselves to this incomparable creature, won over Us, conquered Us, enraptured Us; and unable to resist, We surrendered to Her petitions to make the Word descend upon earth.  Now We are waiting for you to come to die upon Our other knee, giving Us your will; and We, in seeing it dead in Our hands, as if it no longer existed for you, will give you the gift of Our Will, and through you – that is, through this Will of Ours given to you – Our Fiat will return to live upon earth.  These two wills, dead upon Our knees, will be the ransom for many rebellious wills, and We will keep them as a precious pledge, which will repay Us for all the evils of the other creatures, because with Our Will they will be able to satisfy Us.”

The voice could no longer be heard, and I found myself on the other paternal knee, in the act of breathing my last, and dying.  But at that moment I found myself inside myself, but I am unable to say what I felt within me; only, I prayed from the heart that my will might never again enter into me, but only the Divine might have life in me.  Ah! It alone is the Bearer of all Goods and the Repeater of Jesus within souls; and echoing the Fiat of Creation, It embraces everything and everyone as though in one breath, and requites God for the work of Creation, Redemption and Sanctification.  The Divine Will operating in us can do anything; It is the true Queen who reigns and rules over everything.  …