necessity and obedience

"Obedience is the supreme virtue. We have to love necessity. Necessity is what is lowest in relation to the individual (constraint, force, a 'hard fate'); universal necessity brings deliverance from this"

Necessity is a force that is drowning in our culture industry where luxury permeates all things. If one is to understand necessity it is only a moment's glimpse before he or she resurfaces to see hope in the imaginary (suffering disguised as relief); it keeps us under the force of gravity (imaginary hope in material). Gravity is a communal struggle. If all were to understand necessity simultaneously as suffering, perhaps this would be our deliverance from the force of Gravity (working against gravity only for our imaginary relief).

"We should not take one step even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word and thought. But we should be willing to go anywhere under his impulsion, even to the farthest limit (the cross)....To be willing to go as far as possible is to pray to be impelled, but without knowing wither."

Response: self motivated or God motivated. If God motivated, we aren't even aware of our impulsion, it just overflows from us. Illustration about Paul and how he did not merely preach the word, he embodied it and it overflowed from him....correlation to our creative activity as artists. We must not create, but extend ourselves from God's impulsion through us. Once we think about it, we put ourselves into the center of it and taint God from moving through us.

Love does not involve me whatsoever, but God through me. Pure Joy does not come from me but by God. My circumstances have no bearing on the Joy that flows through me. When God is at the center, all is supernatural.

"Detachment from the fruits of action. To escape from inevitability of this kind. How? To act not for an object but from necessity. I cannot do otherwise. It is not an action but a sort of passivity. Inactive action.

The slave is in a sense a model (the lowest....the highest...always this same law). So also is matter."

Weil is calling us to be more like matter...but to what extent are we neglecting the gift of free will? Free will being an gift, what purpose does it serve other than to prove our faith, love and grace genuine? matter does not have free will and therefore no capacity to return love.

(does our free will ever align with God's will or is it only when we surrender our free will to God and act in obedience, that let God work through us?)

"Every act should be considered from the point of view not of its object but of its impulsion. The question is not 'What is the aim?' It is 'What is the origin?'"

Why must we create? What are we trying to accomplish? - these questions can be answered two ways. "To glorify God" seems to be the correct answer, but in actuality, it is an inversion of motive..."[For me] to glorify God." Instead, we ought to respond "[For Him] I must." Not because we have an end goal, but because we know nothing else other than what flows from us. We know not what God plans to do with what we create, we know only that he has given us a capacity and compels us to make.

"Goodness is transcendent. God is goodness."

"'We are unprofitable servants': that means we have done nothing.

In general the expression 'for God' is a bad one. God ought not to be put in the dative." ...rather "By God..."

"We cannot under any circumstances manufacture something which is better than oursleves." (it must come from outside ourselves- God)

(hence the call for platform-projects to allow for Goodness to arrive at a place beyond my own doing.)

"Divine Emptiness, fuller than fullness, has come to inhabit us."

Berger's theory of relativity and absolute and it's impossible union. (argument: it must be supernatural...from on high) The intersection of the divine with base. Horizontal meets vertical.

Two kinds of obedience, obey the force of gravity, or obey the relationship of things.
She sort of sounds like Buber in this section. She diverts a little bit in the sense that she has more of a base understanding of our relationship to things (as matter would), but similar nonetheless.

"Obedience is the only pure motive, the only one which does not in the slightest degree seek a reward for the action, but leaves care of reward to the Father who is in secret and who sees in secret."

Can we act in obedience through our free will or must we surrender that free will in order that God may act through us. Giving man free will was also a gift of subjectivity. Also diversity and pluralism and humanism and universalism which is the secular byproduct of free will and recognition of such a gift removed from its origin, God. How appropriate that the gift of Free will was God extending love, but severely misunderstood and re-appropriated for our own gain. Our entropic tragedy to a bittersweet ending. I only pray God impels me to act by him alone.