VIRTUES OF THE WILL 59
WHAT FORMS CONSTITUTE THE REFLEX OF
DIVINE ATTRIBUTES PERTAINING TO
THE WILL oF Gob?
The attributes pertaining to the Will of God are
Holiness, Perfection and Eternity. Consequently
their superspiritual reflexes in conscience are the
virtues of humility, fortitude and beatitude.
THE VIRTUE oF HuwmiLITy
Why is humility the commanding voice of holiness?
Because holiness, being the most adorable ma-
jesty of God, demands unreserved submission to
the most adorable and majestic Will of God in
order that the soul may participate in Divine Life.
A relative being, as the soul is, must, by virtue of
this fact, follow the absolute Life of God through
free submission to this holiest life in order to sus-
tain the dignity, the truth and the joy of its own
life.
Humility is the supreme demand of conscience
and the basic state of the soul’s worthiness, the state
of participating in the life of God. Consequently,
humility constitutes the highest attainable reality
and the fundamental virtue of the soul's will.
In humility the soul finds God as the eternal Be-
stower of its life and of its dignity, which is the
dignity of divine childship, the true honor of life.