«To whom does the beneficiary owe gratitude, towards whom does he have the obligation of repaying for the help and gifts received? To he who was beneficent to him.
To whom does man then owe gratitude? To the flesh that allowed itself to be corrupted by the seduction of the prohibited fruit and of he, man, god through grace received from the Creator which solely made him destined to sorrow, hardship, death and exile from Heaven, or to the spirit, reborn and regenerated to grace through the merits of Christ and re-divinized, that will also allow the flesh to rejoice in Heaven?
Truly, man owes gratitude, rather obedience, to the spirit that guides him towards eternal joy. And the spirit, which is moved by the Holy Spirit, must give obedience and gratitude to God.
If all men are creatures of God, only those who live the life of the spirit are "the children of God". The others, who are only obedient and only slaves to the instincts and stimuli of the flesh, are only children of the flesh. That is, animal creatures not unlike the animal species living upon the Earth, in the waters, and in the air, created by God on the sixth day. (Genesis c. I)
However, whilst all the animal creatures are liked by the Creator, being that each one fulfills the task for which it had been created without violating its own natural law in procreating and in serving man and the whole of nature, the man who violates order within himself by violating the divine law, and therefore, by going against God and voluntarily taking away from God the joy of giving to a man that for which He had created him — as in depriving himself of his eternal reward which is the end for which he had been created — strongly displeases God who rejects him from Himself and from His Kingdom because he is a murderer and violent against his own nature.
Let it not appear as an error. The sinner who lives and dies in sin is a murderer to himself in his two natures so tightly joined together as to make them one thing only. One cannot kill the supernatural nature of man with impunity without involving in eternal death also the natural nature of man. And one cannot live as brutes without prematurely killing even the animal nature: the flesh, with ills, the consequences of vices.
Therefore, the man who lives animally is a murderer and deicide by killing the animal life within himself and killing the divinized spiritual life, by striking at the Creative Love who has elected His seat in the spirit of man (you are the temples of the Spirit of God) until the moment when the spirit of man will be taken up to the eternal seat of God: Heaven.
Therefore, man is not and must not be a debtor to the flesh through which only punishment and death can come to him. However, he must be a debtor to the spirit and it is the spirit that he must serve because it is his spirit which gives to the flesh the lights, voices, strengths, aids and supernatural joys which compensate for daily tribulations; lights, voices, strengths, aids and joys that come to a spirit in grace from the Spirit of God who dwells in it.
This being a debtor and a servant of the spirit, is it perhaps an enslavement for man? No. Is it perhaps a reason of exaggerated fear, of continual fear, of a paralyzing uncertainty? No.
When one is weak either because of age or because of a disease, when one is blind, or even if he only suffers from faulty vision, is hard of hearing, or dull of mind, he lets himself be helped by one who does not have defects or weaknesses. Equally, man must let himself be helped by the lights, voices, strengths and aids of the spirit which draws its lights, voices and strengths from the Spirit of God.
Amongst the many gifts of the most Holy Father to His adoptive children, that of the power of the divinized spirit over matter, is one of the greatest because it allows the flesh to achieve the glorious life. Not slavery, but election to the highest degree that a being can reach: divine adoption, and therefore, the spiritual filiation through Him, God, for whom men can then call "Father" - I am speaking of men to whom Christ and the life in Christ has rendered Grace and who keeps it alive in man - He whom the same elected people did not dare directly call by His Most Holy Name and who called Him, trembling, "He who is - Jehovah."
But the man in whom Christ-Grace lives can call "Father" the Eternal whose Son is the Word Incarnate. Because it is still Christ who calls from within man, the Father Creator of all men. And since Christ is Truth, His calling Him "Father" from within man, for man and through man, God is a sure testimony that all those who live and act through the spirit and because they are moved by the Holy Spirit who dwells in them are truly "children of God".»