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5001 3, 30 | have in general, but of the supernatural light which 5002 3, 30 | possessed over and above the light of virtuous living, 5003 3, 30 | light of virtuous living, the light, that is, of holy 5004 3, 30 | is measured according to the measure of your love, and 5005 3, 30 | have personally received the office of eating souls in 5006 3, 30 | For just as everyone has the office of remaining in charity 5007 3, 30 | neighbor, to them is given the office of administering 5008 3, 30 | office of administering the Blood, and of governing 5009 3, 30 | souls when they come to the extremity of death! For 5010 3, 30 | death! For they have been the defenders and preachers 5011 3, 30 | defenders and preachers of the faith to their neighbor. 5012 3, 30 | their place of repose in Me. The hope with which they have 5013 3, 30 | they showed forth with the example of their good and 5014 3, 30 | good and holy life and by the doctrine of their words 5015 3, 30 | ineffable love, restoring to Me the pearl of justice which it 5016 3, 30 | because he refers to Me the grace of having been able 5017 3, 30 | Me, and I justly give him the crown of justice, adorned 5018 3, 30 | of justice, adorned with the pearls of the virtues -- 5019 3, 30 | adorned with the pearls of the virtues -- that is, of the 5020 3, 30 | the virtues -- that is, of the fruit which love has drawn 5021 3, 30 | which love has drawn from the virtues. Oh, earthly angel! 5022 3, 30 | not been ungrateful for the benefits received from Me, 5023 3, 30 | solicitously opened your eye by the true light, and kept it 5024 3, 30 | faithfully and manfully followed the doctrine of the Good Shepherd, 5025 3, 30 | followed the doctrine of the Good Shepherd, sweet Christ 5026 3, 30 | now passing through Him, the Door, bathed and drowned 5027 3, 30 | daughter! to such as these the vision of the devils can 5028 3, 30 | such as these the vision of the devils can do no harm, because 5029 3, 30 | can do no harm, because of the vision which they have of 5030 3, 30 | faith and hold by love; the darkness and the terrible 5031 3, 30 | by love; the darkness and the terrible aspect of the demons 5032 3, 30 | and the terrible aspect of the demons do not give them 5033 3, 30 | because in them is not the poison of sin. There is 5034 3, 30 | Wherefore they do not fear the demon's deception, because 5035 3, 30 | supernatural light and with the light of Holy Scripture 5036 3, 30 | gloriously pass, bathed in the blood, with hunger for the 5037 3, 30 | the blood, with hunger for the salvation of souls, all 5038 3, 30 | all on fire with love for the neighbor, having passed 5039 3, 30 | neighbor, having passed through the door of the word and entered 5040 3, 30 | passed through the door of the word and entered into Me; 5041 3, 30 | each one is measured of the affection of love according 5042 3, 31 | Of the death of sinners, and of 5043 3, 31 | sinners, and of their pains in the hour of death. ~ 5044 3, 31 | excellent, dearest daughter, is the end of these other poor 5045 3, 31 | their death! Because in the moment of death, as I told 5046 3, 31 | of death, as I told you, the Devil accuses them with 5047 3, 31 | know is so horrible that the creature would rather choose 5048 3, 31 | greatly does he freshen the sting of conscience that 5049 3, 31 | that it gnaws him horribly. The disordinate delights and 5050 3, 31 | miserably, because then he knows the truth of that which at first 5051 3, 31 | self-love having veiled the pupil of the most holy faith -- 5052 3, 31 | having veiled the pupil of the most holy faith -- wherefore 5053 3, 31 | holy faith -- wherefore the Devil torments him with 5054 3, 31 | finds them disarmed, without the armor of affection and charity; 5055 3, 31 | because, as members of the Devil, they have been deprived 5056 3, 31 | Wherefore they have not the supernatural light, neither 5057 3, 31 | supernatural light, neither the light of science, because 5058 3, 31 | they did not understand it, the horns of their pride not 5059 3, 31 | letting them understand the sweetness of its marrow. 5060 3, 31 | marrow. Wherefore now in the great battle they know not 5061 3, 31 | hoped in Me, neither in the Blood of which I made them 5062 3, 31 | themselves alone, and in the dignities and delights of 5063 3, 31 | dignities and delights of the world. And the incarnate 5064 3, 31 | delights of the world. And the incarnate wretch did not 5065 3, 31 | their life they have taken the habit of hoping in My mercy, 5066 3, 31 | mercy, that is, have taken the milk of mercy (although 5067 3, 31 | that he who strikes Me with the arm of My mercy has a hope 5068 3, 31 | despair they would arrive with the Devil in eternal damnation. ~ 5069 3, 31 | But arriving at the extremity of death, and 5070 3, 31 | take hold on hope. This is the effect of Mercy, to cause 5071 3, 31 | themselves in charity, and in the consideration of My goodness. 5072 3, 31 | because they offend Me in the hope which they have in 5073 3, 31 | in this hope so that at the last moment they may have 5074 3, 31 | doing not faint away with the condemnation which they 5075 3, 31 | them much more than all the other sins which they have 5076 3, 31 | have committed. And this is the reason why this sin is more 5077 3, 31 | them, and if they grieve in the right way their grief will 5078 3, 31 | his own loss, but not for the offense done to Me, and 5079 3, 31 | punished for this and all the other sins which he has 5080 3, 31 | grieved and repented for the offense done to Me, and 5081 3, 31 | any comparison than all the sins which any creature 5082 3, 31 | them to hope in My mercy at the point of death, even if 5083 3, 31 | abandon it, on account of the severe condemnation they 5084 3, 31 | All this is given them by the fire and abyss of My inestimable 5085 3, 31 | because they have used it in the darkness of self-love, from 5086 3, 31 | their affections towards the sweetness of My mercy they 5087 3, 31 | conscience gives them in the likeness of the Devil, reproving 5088 3, 31 | them in the likeness of the Devil, reproving them in 5089 3, 31 | that they should have used the time and the breadth of 5090 3, 31 | should have used the time and the breadth of My mercy in which 5091 3, 31 | miserably. Oh! blinder than the blind! You have hidden your 5092 3, 31 | rather you hid it under the ground of disordinate self-love, 5093 3, 31 | self-love, which now renders you the fruit of death. ~ 5094 3, 31 | not hid from you now, for the worm of conscience sleeps 5095 3, 31 | longer, but is gnawing you, the devils shout and render 5096 3, 31 | shout and render to you the reward which they are accustomed 5097 3, 31 | you to despair, so that at the moment of death you may 5098 3, 31 | they may render to you of the part which is theirs. Oh, 5099 3, 31 | which is theirs. Oh, wretch! the dignity in which I placed 5100 3, 31 | in such guilty darkness the substance of the holy Church, 5101 3, 31 | darkness the substance of the holy Church, that you see 5102 3, 31 | ought to pay his debt to the poor and the holy Church. 5103 3, 31 | his debt to the poor and the holy Church. Then your conscience 5104 3, 31 | you that you have spent the money on public harlots, 5105 3, 31 | conscience represents to you the divine office which you 5106 3, 31 | by which you fell into the guilt of mortal sin, and 5107 3, 31 | subjects, that is to say, the love and hunger which you 5108 3, 31 | them in virtue, giving them the example of your life and 5109 3, 31 | life and striking them with the hand of mercy and the rod 5110 3, 31 | with the hand of mercy and the rod of justice, and because 5111 3, 31 | justice, and because you did the contrary your conscience 5112 3, 31 | contrary your conscience and the horrible likeness of the 5113 3, 31 | the horrible likeness of the Devil reproves you. ~ 5114 3, 31 | how you were giving it, the Devil puts this also before 5115 3, 31 | please creatures, nor for the sake of gifts, but solely 5116 3, 31 | to virtue, My honor and the salvation of souls. And 5117 3, 31 | before your conscience and the light of your intellect 5118 3, 31 | general, for at death when the soul begins to see its woes, 5119 3, 31 | begins to see its woes, and the just man his beatitude, 5120 3, 31 | one should remind him of the sins that he has committed, 5121 3, 31 | before him, together with the virtues which he ought to 5122 3, 31 | ought to have practiced. Why the virtues? For his greater 5123 3, 31 | known better on account of the virtue, and the better he 5124 3, 31 | account of the virtue, and the better he knows his sin, 5125 3, 31 | better he knows his sin, the greater his shame, and by 5126 3, 31 | his sin he knows better the perfection of virtue, wherefore 5127 3, 31 | virtue, wherefore he grieves the more, for he sees that his 5128 3, 31 | they see only too clearly the good which follows the virtue 5129 3, 31 | clearly the good which follows the virtue of a just man, and 5130 3, 31 | virtue of a just man, and the pain that comes on him who 5131 3, 31 | comes on him who has lain in the darkness of mortal sin. 5132 3, 31 | humbly begging My mercy. The virtuous woman increases 5133 3, 31 | love, for he attributes the grace of having followed 5134 3, 31 | having followed virtue in the doctrine of My truth to 5135 3, 31 | and tastes and receives the sweet end of his being in 5136 3, 31 | sweet end of his being in the way which I have related 5137 3, 31 | in another place. So that the one, that is to say, the 5138 3, 31 | the one, that is to say, the just man, who has lived 5139 3, 31 | charity, exults in joy, while the wicked man is darkened and 5140 3, 31 | To the just man the appearance 5141 3, 31 | To the just man the appearance and vision of 5142 3, 31 | appearance and vision of the Devil causes no harm or 5143 3, 31 | both harm and fear from the appearance of the devils, 5144 3, 31 | fear from the appearance of the devils, not indeed the harm 5145 3, 31 | of the devils, not indeed the harm of despair if they 5146 3, 31 | they do not wish it, but the suffering of condemnation, 5147 3, 31 | suffering of condemnation, of the refreshing of the worm of 5148 3, 31 | condemnation, of the refreshing of the worm of conscience, and 5149 3, 31 | daughter, how different are the sufferings and the battle 5150 3, 31 | different are the sufferings and the battle of death to a just 5151 3, 31 | I have shown to the eye of your intellect a 5152 3, 31 | to what it really is, to the suffering, that is, of the 5153 3, 31 | the suffering, that is, of the one, and the happiness of 5154 3, 31 | that is, of the one, and the happiness of the other, 5155 3, 31 | one, and the happiness of the other, that it is but a 5156 3, 31 | trifle. See how great is the blindness of man, and in 5157 3, 31 | of these ministers, for the more they have received 5158 3, 31 | have received of Me, and the more they are enlightened 5159 3, 31 | they are enlightened by the Holy Scripture, the greater 5160 3, 31 | enlightened by the Holy Scripture, the greater are their obligations 5161 3, 31 | for not fulfilling them; the more they knew of Holy Scripture 5162 3, 31 | Scripture during their life, the better do they know at their 5163 3, 31 | they know at their death the great sins they have committed, 5164 3, 31 | of excellence. Theirs is the fate of the false Christian, 5165 3, 31 | excellence. Theirs is the fate of the false Christian, who is 5166 3, 31 | a pagan, because he had the light of faith and renounced 5167 3, 31 | and renounced it, while the pagan never had it. ~ 5168 3, 31 | than other Christians for the same sin, on account of 5169 3, 31 | same sin, on account of the ministry which I entrusted 5170 3, 31 | appointing them to administer the sun of the holy Sacrament, 5171 3, 31 | to administer the sun of the holy Sacrament, and because 5172 3, 31 | Sacrament, and because they had the light of science, in order 5173 3, 31 | science, in order to discern the truth both for themselves 5174 3, 31 | wherefore they justly receive the greater pains. But the wretches 5175 3, 31 | receive the greater pains. But the wretches do not know this, 5176 3, 31 | ought to be and are not. For the whole world has thus become 5177 3, 31 | their stench they defile the face of their soul, and 5178 3, 31 | their subjects, and suck the blood from My spouse, that 5179 3, 31 | from My spouse, that is, the holy Church, wherefore through 5180 3, 31 | they divert to themselves the love and charity which they 5181 3, 31 | irreverent and disobedient to the holy Church, not that they 5182 3, 31 | sins are excused through the sins of My ministers." ~ 5183 3, 32 | thanking GOD, made a prayer for the Holy Church. ~ 5184 3, 32 | bitterness, turned herself to the Supreme and Eternal Goodness, 5185 3, 32 | every fire, because You are the only Fire who burn without 5186 3, 32 | sin and self-love found in the soul, not afflicting her, 5187 3, 32 | insatiable love, and though the soul is filled she is not 5188 3, 32 | but ever desires You, and the more of You she has, the 5189 3, 32 | the more of You she has, the more she seeks -- and the 5190 3, 32 | the more she seeks -- and the more she desires, the more 5191 3, 32 | and the more she desires, the more she finds and tastes 5192 3, 32 | Your finite creature, with the light of Your Truth? You, 5193 3, 32 | light of Your Truth? You, the same Fire of Love are the 5194 3, 32 | the same Fire of Love are the cause, because it is always 5195 3, 32 | and nevertheless You gave the Word, Your only-begotten 5196 3, 32 | with darkness. What was the cause of this? Love. Because 5197 3, 32 | turn I find nothing but the abyss and fire of Your charity. 5198 3, 32 | like me pay back to You the graces and the burning charity 5199 3, 32 | back to You the graces and the burning charity that You 5200 3, 32 | beyond common charity, and the love that You show to all 5201 3, 32 | grateful for me, that is, that the affection of Your charity 5202 3, 32 | should be a lying daughter of the Devil, who is the father 5203 3, 32 | daughter of the Devil, who is the father of lies, because 5204 3, 32 | Oh! sweetest Father, when the human race lay sick through 5205 3, 32 | human race lay sick through the sin of Adam, You sent it 5206 3, 32 | You sent it a Physician, the sweet and amorous Word -- 5207 3, 32 | I was lying infirm with the sickness of negligence and 5208 3, 32 | sweetness, and have illuminated the eye of my intellect with 5209 3, 32 | eye of my intellect with the light of most holy faith, 5210 3, 32 | manifest it to me, I have known the excellence of grace which 5211 3, 32 | which You have given to the human race, administering 5212 3, 32 | race, administering to it the entire God- Man in the mystic 5213 3, 32 | it the entire God- Man in the mystic body of the holy 5214 3, 32 | Man in the mystic body of the holy Church. And I have 5215 3, 32 | Church. And I have known the dignity of Your ministers 5216 3, 32 | desired that You would fulfill the promise that You made to 5217 3, 32 | Wherefore I know in truth that the heart of man knows not how 5218 3, 32 | see that You are He who is the Supreme and Eternal Good, 5219 3, 32 | desire it in itself, nor in the way in which You can and 5220 3, 32 | You can and will satisfy the soul, filling her with things 5221 3, 32 | Greatness and Charity, through the love which You have for 5222 3, 32 | love which You have for the whole human race, and in 5223 3, 32 | life. You have shown me the virtue and beatitude of 5224 3, 32 | burning lamps, shining with the Pearl of Justice in the 5225 3, 32 | the Pearl of Justice in the holy Church. And by comparison 5226 3, 32 | I have better understood the sins of those who live wretchedly. 5227 3, 32 | sorrow at Your offense and the harm done to the whole world, 5228 3, 32 | offense and the harm done to the whole world, for they do 5229 3, 32 | world, for they do harm to the world, being mirrors of 5230 3, 32 | to me -- a wretch who am the cause and instrument of 5231 3, 32 | might wholly arise out of the infirmity of my ignorance 5232 3, 32 | myself and Your goodness and the offenses which are committed 5233 3, 32 | river of tears, drawn from the knowledge of Your infinite 5234 3, 32 | desiring Your honor and the salvation of souls, but 5235 3, 32 | water issuing from You, the Sea Pacific. Thanks, thanks 5236 3, 32 | that You will do mercy to the world and to the holy Church. 5237 3, 32 | mercy to the world and to the holy Church. I pray You 5238 3, 32 | sorrowful soul is mine, the cause of all these evils. 5239 3, 32 | merciful designs towards the world, but descend and fulfill 5240 3, 32 | but descend and fulfill the desire of Your servants. ~ 5241 3, 32 | Your servants knock at the door of Your truth, because 5242 3, 32 | of Your truth, because in the truth of Your only-begotten 5243 3, 32 | only-begotten Son they know the ineffable love which You 5244 3, 32 | have for man, wherefore the fire of Your love ought 5245 3, 32 | open, unlock, and break the hardened hearts of Your 5246 3, 32 | You for their sakes. Grant the prayer of those, Eternal 5247 3, 32 | who, as You see, stand at the door of Your truth and pray. 5248 3, 32 | what do they pray? For with the Blood of this door -- Your 5249 3, 32 | iniquities and destroyed the stain of Adam's sin. The 5250 3, 32 | the stain of Adam's sin. The Blood is ours, for You have 5251 3, 32 | asks for it. Give, then, the fruit of Your Blood to Your 5252 3, 32 | Your creatures. Place in the balance the price of the 5253 3, 32 | creatures. Place in the balance the price of the blood of Your 5254 3, 32 | the balance the price of the blood of Your Son, so that 5255 3, 32 | blood of Your Son, so that the infernal devils may not 5256 3, 32 | off Your lambs. You are the Good Shepherd who, to fulfill 5257 3, 32 | through it to do mercy to the world, and to cause Your 5258 3, 32 | holy Church to bloom with the fragrant flowers of good 5259 3, 32 | sweet odor shall extinguish the stench of the putrid flowers 5260 3, 32 | extinguish the stench of the putrid flowers of sin. You 5261 3, 32 | Eternal Father, that through the love which You have for 5262 3, 32 | rational creatures, and the prayers and the many virtues 5263 3, 32 | creatures, and the prayers and the many virtues and labors 5264 3, 32 | servants, You would do mercy to the world, and reform the Church, 5265 3, 32 | to the world, and reform the Church, and thus give us 5266 3, 32 | wherefore do not delay, but turn the eye of Your mercy towards 5267 3, 32 | before we can cry out with the voice of Your mercy. Open 5268 3, 32 | voice of Your mercy. Open the door of Your inestimable 5269 3, 32 | You have given us through the door of Your Word. I know 5270 3, 32 | can knock, for it is with the affection of love which 5271 3, 32 | seeking Your honor and the salvation of souls. Give 5272 3, 32 | of souls. Give them then the bread of life, that is to 5273 3, 32 | of life, that is to say, the fruit of the Blood of Your 5274 3, 32 | is to say, the fruit of the Blood of Your only-begotten 5275 3, 32 | which they ask of You for the praise and glory of My name 5276 3, 32 | and glory of My name and the salvation of souls. For 5277 3, 32 | mercy to us, and remake the vessels which You have created 5278 3, 32 | Grace in Your mercy and the Blood of Your Son sweet 5279 4, 1 | Here begins the treatise of obedience, and 5280 4, 1 | destroys it, and what is the sign of a man's possessing 5281 4, 1 | The Supreme and Eternal Father, 5282 4, 1 | Eternal Father, kindly turning the eye of His mercy and clemency 5283 4, 1 | heard, and inasmuch as I am the Supreme Truth, I will keep 5284 4, 1 | keep My word, fulfilling the promise which I made to 5285 4, 1 | to be found, and what is the cause of its loss, and the 5286 4, 1 | the cause of its loss, and the sign of its possession, 5287 4, 1 | it in its completeness in the sweet and amorous Word, 5288 4, 1 | fulfill it, He hastened to the shameful death of the Cross. 5289 4, 1 | to the shameful death of the Cross. What destroys obedience? 5290 4, 1 | destroys obedience? Look at the first man and you will see 5291 4, 1 | first man and you will see the cause which destroyed the 5292 4, 1 | the cause which destroyed the obedience imposed on him 5293 4, 1 | obedience imposed on him by Me, the Eternal Father. It was pride, 5294 4, 1 | his companion. This was the cause that deprived him 5295 4, 1 | cause that deprived him of the perfection of obedience, 5296 4, 1 | disobedience, depriving him of the life of grace, and slaying 5297 4, 1 | misery, and not only he, but the whole human race, as I said 5298 4, 1 | race, as I said to you. The sign that you have this 5299 4, 1 | patience, and impatience the sign that you have it not, 5300 4, 1 | one is more perfect than the other, not that they are 5301 4, 1 | as I explained to you of the precepts and counsels. The 5302 4, 1 | the precepts and counsels. The one way is the most perfect, 5303 4, 1 | counsels. The one way is the most perfect, the other 5304 4, 1 | way is the most perfect, the other is also good and perfect; 5305 4, 1 | he be not obedient, for the door was unlocked by the 5306 4, 1 | the door was unlocked by the key of obedience, which 5307 4, 1 | which had been fastened by the disobedience of Adam. I, 5308 4, 1 | return to Me, his End, took the keys of obedience and placed 5309 4, 1 | obedience and placed them in the hands of My sweet and amorous 5310 4, 1 | sweet and amorous Word -- the Truth -- and He becoming 5311 4, 1 | Truth -- and He becoming the porter of that door, opened 5312 4, 1 | Porter. Wherefore He said in the Holy Gospel that 'no one 5313 4, 1 | no one could come to Me, the Father, if not by Him.' 5314 4, 1 | Me, rising to Heaven from the conversation of men at the 5315 4, 1 | the conversation of men at the Ascension, He left you this 5316 4, 1 | know He left His vicar, the Christ, on earth, whom you 5317 4, 1 | and immaculate Lamb, and the source whence it proceeds. 5318 4, 1 | it proceeds. What caused the great obedience of the Word? 5319 4, 1 | caused the great obedience of the Word? The love which He 5320 4, 1 | great obedience of the Word? The love which He had for My 5321 4, 1 | proceeded this love? From the clear vision with which 5322 4, 1 | with which His soul saw the divine essence and the eternal 5323 4, 1 | saw the divine essence and the eternal Trinity, thus always 5324 4, 1 | thus always looking on Me, the eternal God. His fidelity 5325 4, 1 | you imperfectly enjoy by the light of holy faith. He 5326 4, 1 | hastened as one enamored along the road of obedience, lit up 5327 4, 1 | of obedience, lit up with the light of glory. And inasmuch 5328 4, 1 | but is accompanied by all the true and royal virtues, 5329 4, 1 | royal virtues, because all the virtues draw their life 5330 4, 1 | that in which you do. Among the others he possessed patience, 5331 4, 1 | possessed patience, which is the marrow of obedience, and 5332 4, 1 | not. Wherefore charity, the mother of patience, has 5333 4, 1 | one cannot be lost without the other. Either you have them 5334 4, 1 | obedience. This humility is the foster-mother and nurse 5335 4, 1 | nurse of charity, and with the same milk she feeds the 5336 4, 1 | the same milk she feeds the virtue of obedience. Her 5337 4, 1 | one enamored, fulfilling the obedience imposed on Him 5338 4, 1 | gives you life, for it is the straight way, having first 5339 4, 1 | observed them Himself. He is the way, wherefore He said, ' 5340 4, 1 | wherefore He said, 'He was the Way, the Truth, and the 5341 4, 1 | He said, 'He was the Way, the Truth, and the Life.' For 5342 4, 1 | the Way, the Truth, and the Life.' For he who travels 5343 4, 1 | by that way, travels in the light, and being enlightened 5344 4, 1 | He has cast from Himself the darkness of self-love, by 5345 4, 1 | from self-love depriving the soul of humility. The sister 5346 4, 1 | depriving the soul of humility. The sister given by self-love 5347 4, 1 | foster-mother, feeds her with the darkness of infidelity, 5348 4, 1 | infidelity, so she hastens along the way of darkness, which leads 5349 4, 2 | How obedience is the key with which Heaven is 5350 4, 2 | Heaven is opened, and how the soul should fasten it by 5351 4, 2 | cord to her girdle, and of the excellences of obedience. ~ 5352 4, 2 | will continue to speak of the obedient and of the disobedient 5353 4, 2 | speak of the obedient and of the disobedient together, and 5354 4, 2 | obedience in general, which is the obedience of the precepts; 5355 4, 2 | which is the obedience of the precepts; and in particular, 5356 4, 2 | particular, which is that of the counsels. The whole of your 5357 4, 2 | is that of the counsels. The whole of your faith is founded 5358 4, 2 | general by My truth to obey the commandments of the law, 5359 4, 2 | obey the commandments of the law, the chief of which 5360 4, 2 | commandments of the law, the chief of which is to love 5361 4, 2 | neighbor as yourself, and the commandments are so bound 5362 4, 2 | commandment observes all the others; he is faithful to 5363 4, 2 | obedient, becoming subject to the commandments of the law, 5364 4, 2 | subject to the commandments of the law, and to creatures for 5365 4, 2 | told you that this word is the key which opens heaven, 5366 4, 2 | which key My Son placed in the hands of His vicar. This 5367 4, 2 | This vicar placed it in the hands of everyone who receives 5368 4, 2 | promising therein to renounce the world and all its pomps 5369 4, 2 | that very same key which the Word had, and if a man does 5370 4, 2 | a man does not unlock in the light of faith, and with 5371 4, 2 | light of faith, and with the hand of love the gate of 5372 4, 2 | and with the hand of love the gate of heaven by means 5373 4, 2 | its having been opened by the Word; for though I created 5374 4, 2 | Wherefore you must take the key in your hand and walk 5375 4, 2 | in your hand and walk by the doctrine of My Word, and 5376 4, 2 | do foolish men who follow the first man, their first father, 5377 4, 2 | his example, and casting the key of obedience into the 5378 4, 2 | the key of obedience into the mud of impurity, breaking 5379 4, 2 | impurity, breaking it with the hammer of pride, rusting 5380 4, 2 | not My only-begotten Son, the Word, come and taken this 5381 4, 2 | hands and purified it in the fire of divine love, having 5382 4, 2 | having drawn it out of the mud, and cleansed it with 5383 4, 2 | and straightened it with the knife of justice, and hammered 5384 4, 2 | iniquities into shape on the anvil of His own body. So 5385 4, 2 | key by his free-will, by the self- same free-will, assisted 5386 4, 2 | grace, he can repair it with the same instruments that were 5387 4, 2 | My Word. Oh! blinder than the blind, for, having spoiled 5388 4, 2 | blind, for, having spoiled the key of obedience, you do 5389 4, 2 | you think, forsooth, that the disobedience which closed 5390 4, 2 | disobedience which closed the door of Heaven will open 5391 4, 2 | Heaven will open it? that the pride which fell can rise? 5392 4, 2 | think to be admitted to the marriage feast in foul and 5393 4, 2 | and binding yourself with the chain of mortal sin, you 5394 4, 2 | without a key you can open the door? Do not imagine that 5395 4, 2 | garment and, clothed in the shining nuptial robe, will 5396 4, 2 | nuptial robe, will hasten, the key of obedience in your 5397 4, 2 | obedience in your hand, to open the door. But bind this key 5398 4, 2 | But bind this key with the cord of self-contempt, and 5399 4, 2 | hatred of yourself and of the world, and fasten it to 5400 4, 2 | world, and fasten it to the love of pleasing Me, Your 5401 4, 2 | obedience, having seen by the light of faith that in no 5402 4, 2 | this girdle, or fastening the key to it with the cord 5403 4, 2 | fastening the key to it with the cord of self-contempt, that 5404 4, 2 | themselves; they do not wear the cord of self-contempt, for 5405 4, 2 | but rather take delight in the praise of men. Such as these 5406 4, 2 | and if, as often happens, the hand of holy desire loosens 5407 4, 2 | virtue, which contains all the rest, for she is conceived 5408 4, 2 | charity, on her is founded the rock of the holy faith. 5409 4, 2 | her is founded the rock of the holy faith. She is a queen 5410 4, 2 | but only peace and quiet; the waves of the stormy sea 5411 4, 2 | and quiet; the waves of the stormy sea cannot hurt her, 5412 4, 2 | nor can any tempest reach the interior of the soul in 5413 4, 2 | tempest reach the interior of the soul in whom she dwells. 5414 4, 2 | because he wishes to obey the precept of forgiveness, 5415 4, 2 | spouse Queen Obedience, the appointed key of heaven, 5416 4, 2 | and reach without danger the port of salvation, you are 5417 4, 2 | to My only-begotten Son, the Word, you board the ship 5418 4, 2 | Son, the Word, you board the ship of the holy cross, 5419 4, 2 | Word, you board the ship of the holy cross, forcing yourself 5420 4, 2 | so as not to transgress the obedience of the Word, nor 5421 4, 2 | transgress the obedience of the Word, nor abandon His doctrine, 5422 4, 2 | make a table when you eat the food of souls, dwelling 5423 4, 2 | food of souls, dwelling in the love of your neighbor, being 5424 4, 2 | sunrise drawing after you the light of divine grace, you 5425 4, 2 | you are a sun which makes the earth, that is to say, the 5426 4, 2 | the earth, that is to say, the organs of the soul, to germinate 5427 4, 2 | is to say, the organs of the soul, to germinate with 5428 4, 2 | soul, to germinate with the heat of charity, all of 5429 4, 2 | which as well as those of the body produce life-giving 5430 4, 2 | smooth and pleasant with the happiness of patience, and 5431 4, 2 | earth to heaven and unlocks the celestial door. You are 5432 4, 2 | hidden pearl, trampled by the world, abasing yourself, 5433 4, 2 | for you have come out of the mortal servitude of your 5434 4, 3 | Here both the misery of the disobedient 5435 4, 3 | Here both the misery of the disobedient and the excellence 5436 4, 3 | misery of the disobedient and the excellence of the obedient 5437 4, 3 | disobedient and the excellence of the obedient are spoken of. ~ 5438 4, 3 | you, for by My providence the Word repaired the key of 5439 4, 3 | providence the Word repaired the key of obedience, but worldly 5440 4, 3 | devoid of every virtue do the contrary; they, like unbridled 5441 4, 3 | unbridled horses, without the bit of obedience, go from 5442 4, 3 | until they finally reach the edge of the ditch of death, 5443 4, 3 | finally reach the edge of the ditch of death, gnawed by 5444 4, 3 | ditch of death, gnawed by the worm of their conscience, 5445 4, 3 | true that they can obey the precepts of the law if they 5446 4, 3 | can obey the precepts of the law if they will, and have 5447 4, 3 | law if they will, and have the time repenting of their 5448 4, 3 | putting off his finding of the key of obedience to the 5449 4, 3 | the key of obedience to the moment of his death, for 5450 4, 3 | delay repentance. What is the reason of all this, and 5451 4, 3 | recognizing this treasure? The cloud of self-love and wretched 5452 4, 3 | it has seduced them from the way of Truth, leading them 5453 4, 3 | them slaves and friends of the devils with whom, unless 5454 4, 3 | patience, they will go to the eternal torments. Contrariwise, 5455 4, 3 | obedient and observers of the law, rejoice and exult in 5456 4, 3 | in My eternal vision with the Immaculate and humble Lamb, 5457 4, 3 | Immaculate and humble Lamb, the Maker, Fulfiller, and Giver 5458 4, 3 | and clothe themselves in the most perfect peace, for 5459 4, 3 | them in so blessed a state? The blood of the Lamb, by virtue 5460 4, 3 | blessed a state? The blood of the Lamb, by virtue of which 5461 4, 3 | Lamb, by virtue of which the key of obedience has lost 5462 4, 3 | lost its rust, so that, by the virtue of the blood, it 5463 4, 3 | so that, by the virtue of the blood, it has been able 5464 4, 3 | has been able to unlock the door. Oh! fools and madmen, 5465 4, 3 | no longer to come out of the mud of impurity, for you 5466 4, 3 | seem like pigs to wallow in the mire of your own lust. Abandon 5467 4, 3 | of your own lust. Abandon the injustice, murders, hatreds, 5468 4, 3 | thefts and treacheries, and the disordinate pleasures and 5469 4, 3 | pleasures and delights of the world; cut off the horns 5470 4, 3 | delights of the world; cut off the horns of pride, by which 5471 4, 3 | amputation you will extinguish the hatred which is in your 5472 4, 3 | your neighbors. Compare the injuries which you do to 5473 4, 3 | precept, and you also injure the object of your hate, for 5474 4, 3 | own soul, depriving it of the life of grace. Take, oh! 5475 4, 3 | grace. Take, oh! take, then, the key of obedience with the 5476 4, 3 | the key of obedience with the light of faith, walk no 5477 4, 3 | but observe obedience in the fire of love, so that you 5478 4, 3 | eternal life together with the other observers of the law." ~ 5479 4, 3 | with the other observers of the law." ~ 5480 4, 4 | not remain content with the general obedience of precepts, 5481 4, 4 | dearest daughter, in whom the sweet and amorous fire of 5482 4, 4 | self-love, so that when the fire increases so does this 5483 4, 4 | are not content to observe the precepts of the Law with 5484 4, 4 | observe the precepts of the Law with a general obedience 5485 4, 4 | particular obedience, following the greatest perfection, so 5486 4, 4 | they become observers of the counsels both in deed and 5487 4, 4 | either place themselves under the yoke of obedience in holy 5488 4, 4 | expeditiously to unlock the door of Heaven. These are 5489 4, 4 | told you, who have chosen the most perfect obedience. 5490 4, 4 | which is not divided from the first, but is more perfect, 5491 4, 4 | whence it proceeds, and the cause of its loss. Now I 5492 4, 4 | not altering, however, the fundamental principle of 5493 4, 4 | fundamental principle of the virtue." ~ 5494 4, 5 | particular obedience; and of the excellence of the religious 5495 4, 5 | and of the excellence of the religious orders. ~ 5496 4, 5 | The soul who with love has submitted 5497 4, 5 | with love has submitted to the yoke of obedience, to the 5498 4, 5 | the yoke of obedience, to the Commandments, following 5499 4, 5 | Commandments, following the doctrine of My truth virtuously 5500 4, 5 | obedience will advance to the second kind by means of