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1001 2, 1 | the most of her time, and the graces she has received, 1002 2, 1 | her guilt. And this founds the virtue of discretion on 1003 2, 1 | were this humility not in the soul, the soul would be 1004 2, 1 | humility not in the soul, the soul would be indiscreet, 1005 2, 1 | indiscreet soul robs Me of the honor due to Me, and attributes 1006 2, 1 | Contrariwise those who possess the virtue of discretion. For, 1007 2, 1 | each other, and further, the debt of doctrine, and example 1008 2, 1 | together, and both planted in the ground of humility which 1009 2, 2 | discretion are united; and how the soul should conform herself 1010 2, 2 | if a circle were drawn on the surface of the earth, and 1011 2, 2 | drawn on the surface of the earth, and a tree, with 1012 2, 2 | joined to its side, grew in the center of the circle. The 1013 2, 2 | side, grew in the center of the circle. The tree is nourished 1014 2, 2 | the center of the circle. The tree is nourished in the 1015 2, 2 | The tree is nourished in the earth contained in the diameter 1016 2, 2 | in the earth contained in the diameter of the circle, 1017 2, 2 | contained in the diameter of the circle, for if the tree 1018 2, 2 | diameter of the circle, for if the tree were out of the earth 1019 2, 2 | if the tree were out of the earth it would die, and 1020 2, 2 | fruit. Now, consider, in the same way, that the soul 1021 2, 2 | consider, in the same way, that the soul is a tree existing 1022 2, 2 | soul have not in very truth the divine love of perfect charity, 1023 2, 2 | is necessary then, that the root of this tree, that 1024 2, 2 | root of this tree, that is the affection of the soul, should 1025 2, 2 | that is the affection of the soul, should grow in, and 1026 2, 2 | grow in, and issue from the circle of true self-knowledge 1027 2, 2 | beginning nor end, like the circumference of the circle, 1028 2, 2 | like the circumference of the circle, for, turn as you 1029 2, 2 | within a circle, inasmuch as the circumference has neither 1030 2, 2 | yourself and of Me is found in the earth of true humility, 1031 2, 2 | humility, which is as wide as the diameter of the circle, 1032 2, 2 | wide as the diameter of the circle, that is as the knowledge 1033 2, 2 | of the circle, that is as the knowledge of self and of 1034 2, 2 | and of Me (for, otherwise, the circle would not be without 1035 2, 2 | not contained in Me). Then the tree of love feeds itself 1036 2, 2 | bringing forth from its side the off-shoot of true discretion, 1037 2, 2 | off-shoot of true discretion, in the way that I have already 1038 2, 2 | have already told you, from the heart of the tree, that 1039 2, 2 | told you, from the heart of the tree, that is the affection 1040 2, 2 | heart of the tree, that is the affection of love which 1041 2, 2 | affection of love which is in the soul, and the patience, 1042 2, 2 | which is in the soul, and the patience, which proves that 1043 2, 2 | which proves that I am in the soul and the soul in Me. 1044 2, 2 | that I am in the soul and the soul in Me. This tree then, 1045 2, 2 | great variety, inasmuch as the soul renders fruit of grace 1046 2, 2 | her neighbor, according to the zeal of those who come to 1047 2, 2 | servants; and to Me she renders the sweet odor of glory and 1048 2, 2 | My Name, and so fulfills the object of her creation. ~ 1049 2, 2 | therefore, she reaches the term of her being, that 1050 2, 3 | arriving at virtue, and not as the principal affection of the 1051 2, 3 | the principal affection of the soul; and of the light of 1052 2, 3 | affection of the soul; and of the light of discretion in various 1053 2, 3 | These are the fruits and the works which 1054 2, 3 | These are the fruits and the works which I seek from 1055 2, 3 | works which I seek from the soul, the proving, namely, 1056 2, 3 | which I seek from the soul, the proving, namely, of virtue 1057 2, 3 | proving, namely, of virtue in the time of need. And yet some 1058 2, 3 | merely calls on me with the sound of words, saying: ' 1059 2, 3 | pleasure; but that I desired the manifold works of manly 1060 2, 3 | patience, together with the other virtues, which I have 1061 2, 3 | you above, intrinsic to the soul, all of which must 1062 2, 3 | I wish therefore that the works of penance, and of 1063 2, 3 | merely as means, and not as the fundamental affection of 1064 2, 3 | fundamental affection of the soul. For, if the principal 1065 2, 3 | affection of the soul. For, if the principal affection of the 1066 2, 3 | the principal affection of the soul were placed in penance, 1067 2, 3 | when it has issued from the mouth, is no more, unless 1068 2, 3 | issued with affection of the soul, which conceives and 1069 2, 3 | in truth; that is, unless the finite operation, which 1070 2, 3 | word, should be joined with the affection or love, in which 1071 2, 3 | works as means, and not as the principal foundation; for 1072 2, 3 | is often profitable that the creature omit them, and 1073 2, 3 | Wherefore, when the soul omits them through 1074 2, 3 | happen, through obedience at the order of her director, it 1075 2, 3 | empty. This, My trumpeter, the glorious Paul, taught you 1076 2, 3 | that you should mortify the body and destroy self-will, 1077 2, 3 | that is to say, how to keep the rein on the body, macerating 1078 2, 3 | how to keep the rein on the body, macerating the flesh 1079 2, 3 | on the body, macerating the flesh whenever it should 1080 2, 3 | it should wish to combat the spirit, but the will should 1081 2, 3 | to combat the spirit, but the will should be dead and 1082 2, 3 | will, and this slaying of the will is that due which, 1083 2, 3 | due which, as I told you, the virtue of discretion renders 1084 2, 3 | of discretion renders to the soul, that is to say, hatred 1085 2, 3 | self-knowledge. This is the knife which slays and cuts 1086 2, 3 | words, and many actions; by the use of the word 'many' I 1087 2, 3 | many actions; by the use of the word 'many' I assign no 1088 2, 3 | particular number to you, because the affection of the soul, founded 1089 2, 3 | because the affection of the soul, founded in love, which 1090 2, 3 | which gives life to all the virtues and good works, 1091 2, 3 | when they are performed as the instruments of virtue, and 1092 2, 3 | gives himself in excess to the slaying of his body, than 1093 2, 3 | penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored 1094 2, 3 | love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion, 1095 2, 3 | discretion, without which the soul is worth nothing. And 1096 2, 3 | boundlessly, since I am the Supreme and Eternal Truth. 1097 2, 3 | Supreme and Eternal Truth. The soul can therefore place 1098 2, 3 | love for her neighbor, on the contrary, is ordered in 1099 2, 3 | ordered in certain conditions. The light of discretion (which 1100 2, 3 | have told you) gives to the neighbor a conditioned love, 1101 2, 3 | ordered aright, does not cause the injury of sin to self in 1102 2, 3 | sin were committed to save the whole world from Hell, or 1103 2, 3 | obtain one great virtue, the motive would not be a rightly 1104 2, 3 | profit to others, by means of the guilt of sin. Holy discretion 1105 2, 3 | discretion ordains that the soul should direct all her 1106 2, 3 | times, if it were possible, the life of her body for the 1107 2, 3 | the life of her body for the salvation of souls, enduring 1108 2, 3 | that her neighbor may have the life of grace, and giving 1109 2, 3 | her temporal substance for the profit and relief of his 1110 2, 3 | This is the supreme office of discretion 1111 2, 3 | said, not doing herself the injury of sin in order to 1112 2, 3 | when perfection is not in the soul, everything which the 1113 2, 3 | the soul, everything which the soul does for itself and 1114 2, 3 | offense done to Me, who am the Infinite Good. The more 1115 2, 3 | who am the Infinite Good. The more serious the fault is 1116 2, 3 | Infinite Good. The more serious the fault is in such a case, 1117 2, 3 | fault is in such a case, the less fruit will the action 1118 2, 3 | case, the less fruit will the action produce; therefore, 1119 2, 3 | way should you ever incur the guilt of sin. ~ 1120 2, 3 | she carries with herself the light of holy discretion, 1121 2, 3 | takes away ignorance, and is the condiment of every instrument 1122 2, 3 | Me to love of others. And the soul escapes dangers by 1123 2, 3 | her prudence, flies all the nets of the world and its 1124 2, 3 | prudence, flies all the nets of the world and its creatures, 1125 2, 3 | much endurance, discomfits the devil and the flesh with 1126 2, 3 | discomfits the devil and the flesh with this sweet and 1127 2, 3 | Wherefore she has trampled on the world, and placed it under 1128 2, 3 | world, and placed it under the feet of her affection, despising 1129 2, 3 | holding it as folly. And the men of the world cannot 1130 2, 3 | as folly. And the men of the world cannot take her virtues 1131 2, 3 | been at first conceived by the virtue of love, as has been 1132 2, 3 | visible and did not shine in the time of trial, it would 1133 2, 3 | fruit except by means of the neighbor, even as a woman, 1134 2, 3 | that it may appear before the eyes of men, deprives her 1135 2, 3 | fame of paternity. It is the same with Me, who am the 1136 2, 3 | the same with Me, who am the Spouse of the soul, if she 1137 2, 3 | Me, who am the Spouse of the soul, if she do not produce 1138 2, 3 | soul, if she do not produce the child of virtue, in the 1139 2, 3 | the child of virtue, in the love of her neighbor, showing 1140 2, 3 | and this is also true of the vices, all of which are 1141 2, 3 | are committed by means of the neighbor." ~ 1142 2, 4 | this soul grew by means of the divine response, and how 1143 2, 4 | how she prayed to God for the Holy Church, and for her 1144 2, 4 | thirsting and burning with the very great desire that she 1145 2, 4 | had conceived on learning the ineffable love of God, shown 1146 2, 4 | great goodness, and, seeing the breadth of His charity, 1147 2, 4 | satisfy it, giving hope to the sorrow which she had conceived, 1148 2, 4 | offenses against God, and the damage of the Holy Church, 1149 2, 4 | against God, and the damage of the Holy Church, and through 1150 2, 4 | diminished, and yet, at the same time, increased her 1151 2, 4 | For, the Supreme and Eternal Father, 1152 2, 4 | Eternal Father, in manifesting the way of perfection, showed 1153 2, 4 | anew her own guilt, and the loss of souls, as has been 1154 2, 4 | fully above. Also because in the knowledge which the soul 1155 2, 4 | because in the knowledge which the soul obtains of herself, 1156 2, 4 | more of God, and knowing the goodness of God in herself, 1157 2, 4 | goodness of God in herself, the sweet mirror of God, she 1158 2, 4 | creation, seeing that she is the image of God, and this has 1159 2, 4 | In that same mirror of the goodness of God, the soul 1160 2, 4 | of the goodness of God, the soul knows her own indignity, 1161 2, 4 | own indignity, which is the consequence of her own fault. 1162 2, 4 | he looks in a mirror, so, the soul who, with true knowledge 1163 2, 4 | with desire, and gazes with the eye of the intellect at 1164 2, 4 | and gazes with the eye of the intellect at herself in 1165 2, 4 | intellect at herself in the sweet mirror of God, knows 1166 2, 4 | mirror of God, knows better the stains of her own face, 1167 2, 4 | stains of her own face, by the purity which she sees in 1168 2, 4 | increased in that soul in the aforesaid way, a sweet sorrow 1169 2, 4 | sorrow grew in her, and at the same time, her sorrow was 1170 2, 4 | sorrow was diminished by the hope which the Supreme Truth 1171 2, 4 | diminished by the hope which the Supreme Truth gave her, 1172 2, 4 | is fed with wood, so grew the fire in that soul to such 1173 2, 4 | was no longer possible for the body to endure it without 1174 2, 4 | body to endure it without the departure of the soul; so 1175 2, 4 | without the departure of the soul; so that, had she not 1176 2, 4 | she not been surrounded by the strength of Him who is the 1177 2, 4 | the strength of Him who is the Supreme Strength, it would 1178 2, 4 | then, being purified by the fire of divine love, which 1179 2, 4 | love, which she found in the knowledge of herself and 1180 2, 4 | God, and her hunger for the salvation of the whole world, 1181 2, 4 | hunger for the salvation of the whole world, and for the 1182 2, 4 | the whole world, and for the reformation of the Holy 1183 2, 4 | and for the reformation of the Holy Church, having grown 1184 2, 4 | with her hope of obtaining the same, rose with confidence 1185 2, 4 | rose with confidence before the Supreme Father, showing 1186 2, 4 | Supreme Father, showing Him the leprosy of the Holy Church, 1187 2, 4 | showing Him the leprosy of the Holy Church, and the misery 1188 2, 4 | of the Holy Church, and the misery of the world, saying, 1189 2, 4 | Church, and the misery of the world, saying, as if with 1190 2, 4 | world, saying, as if with the words of Moses, 'My Lord, 1191 2, 4 | of Moses, 'My Lord, turn the eyes of Your mercy upon 1192 2, 4 | upon Your people, and upon the mystical body of the Holy 1193 2, 4 | upon the mystical body of the Holy Church, for You will 1194 2, 4 | Church, for You will be the more glorified if You pardon 1195 2, 4 | creatures, and give to them the light of knowledge, since 1196 2, 4 | Your infinite goodness from the clouds of mortal sin, and 1197 2, 4 | offended You, and who am the cause and the instrument 1198 2, 4 | and who am the cause and the instrument of all this evil, 1199 2, 4 | and Your people death, and the clouds of darkness cover 1200 2, 4 | other creatures, that are the principal cause of this? 1201 2, 4 | everything belonging to You, the most high and eternal Trinity.' ~ 1202 2, 4 | which he participates in the power of the Eternal Father; 1203 2, 4 | participates in the power of the Eternal Father; and intellect 1204 2, 4 | so might participate in the wisdom of Your only-begotten 1205 2, 4 | truth, thus participating in the clemency of Your Holy Spirit. 1206 2, 4 | creating man in such dignity? The inestimable love with which 1207 2, 4 | reconciliation, so that after the great rebellion into which 1208 2, 4 | peace; and so You gave him the only-begotten Word, Your 1209 2, 4 | only-begotten Word, Your Son, to be the Mediator between us and 1210 2, 4 | accomplished with man, veiling the Eternal Deity with the cloud 1211 2, 4 | veiling the Eternal Deity with the cloud of woe, and the corrupted 1212 2, 4 | with the cloud of woe, and the corrupted clay of Adam. 1213 2, 5 | How God grieves over the Christian people, and particularly 1214 2, 5 | ministers; and touches on the subject of the Sacrament 1215 2, 5 | touches on the subject of the Sacrament of Christ's Body, 1216 2, 5 | Sacrament of Christ's Body, and the benefit of the Incarnation. ~ 1217 2, 5 | Body, and the benefit of the Incarnation. ~ 1218 2, 5 | Then God, turning the eye of His mercy towards 1219 2, 5 | her tears, and bound by the chain of her holy desire, 1220 2, 5 | self- love, and swollen with the pride and avarice of those 1221 2, 5 | What I say of the universal body and the mystical 1222 2, 5 | of the universal body and the mystical body of the Holy 1223 2, 5 | and the mystical body of the Holy Church (that is to 1224 2, 5 | Holy Church (that is to say the Christian religion) I also 1225 2, 5 | ministers, who stand and feed at the breasts of Holy Church; 1226 2, 5 | and hold to those breasts the universal body of Christian 1227 2, 5 | who should wish to leave the darkness of their infidelity, 1228 2, 5 | life, often gives, through the defects of those who receive 1229 2, 5 | death; that is to say, the precious Blood of My only-begotten 1230 2, 5 | salvation and perfection in the case of that man who disposes 1231 2, 5 | It gives life and adorns the soul with every grace, in 1232 2, 5 | grace, in proportion to the disposition and affection 1233 2, 5 | living in iniquity and in the darkness of mortal sin; 1234 2, 5 | life; not through defect of the Blood, nor through defect 1235 2, 5 | Blood, nor through defect of the minister, though there might 1236 2, 5 | would not spoil nor defile the Blood nor diminish Its grace 1237 2, 5 | to him to whom he gives the Blood, but to himself he 1238 2, 5 | but to himself he does the harm of guilt, which will 1239 2, 5 | repentance. I say then that the Blood does harm to him who 1240 2, 5 | unworthily, not through defect of the Blood, nor of the minister, 1241 2, 5 | defect of the Blood, nor of the minister, but through his 1242 2, 5 | of grace, trampling under the feet of his affection the 1243 2, 5 | the feet of his affection the fruit of the Blood which 1244 2, 5 | his affection the fruit of the Blood which he had received 1245 2, 5 | received in Holy Baptism, when the stain of original sin was 1246 2, 5 | taken from him by virtue of the Blood, which stain he drew 1247 2, 5 | only-begotten Son, because the whole stuff of human generation 1248 2, 5 | generation was corrupted through the sin of the first man Adam. 1249 2, 5 | corrupted through the sin of the first man Adam. Wherefore, 1250 2, 5 | corrupted and not disposed to the possession of eternal life -- 1251 2, 5 | dignity, joined Myself to the baseness of your human generation, 1252 2, 5 | committed against Me, who am the Infinite Good. Wishing, 1253 2, 5 | and could not satisfy for the above reason, I sent My 1254 2, 5 | in your own very nature, the corrupted clay of Adam, 1255 2, 5 | suffering in His body even to the opprobrious death of the 1256 2, 5 | the opprobrious death of the Cross, and so He satisfied 1257 2, 5 | to make satisfaction for the sin of man and to dispose 1258 2, 5 | human nature, joined with the divine nature, was sufficient 1259 2, 5 | sufficient to satisfy for the whole human race, not only 1260 2, 5 | not only on account of the pain which it sustained 1261 2, 5 | finite nature, that is in the flesh of Adam, but by virtue 1262 2, 5 | of Adam, but by virtue of the Eternal Deity, the divine 1263 2, 5 | virtue of the Eternal Deity, the divine and infinite nature 1264 2, 5 | infinite nature joined to it. The two natures being thus joined 1265 2, 5 | I received and accepted the sacrifice of My only-begotten 1266 2, 5 | kneaded into one dough with the divine nature, by the fire 1267 2, 5 | with the divine nature, by the fire of divine love which 1268 2, 5 | of divine love which was the fetter which held him fastened 1269 2, 5 | him fastened and nailed to the Cross in this way. Thus 1270 2, 5 | guilt, but only by virtue of the divine nature. And in this 1271 2, 5 | in this way was destroyed the stain of Adam's sin, only 1272 2, 5 | stain of Adam's sin, only the mark of it remaining behind, 1273 2, 5 | of corporeal defect, like the cicatrice which remains 1274 2, 5 | of a wound. In this way the original fault of Adam was 1275 2, 5 | a fatal stain; wherefore the coming of the great Physician, 1276 2, 5 | wherefore the coming of the great Physician, that is 1277 2, 5 | grown up and strong, and the child is not fit to endure 1278 2, 5 | foster-mother, enduring, with the greatness and strength of 1279 2, 5 | greatness and strength of the Deity united with your nature, 1280 2, 5 | united with your nature, the bitter medicine of the painful 1281 2, 5 | the bitter medicine of the painful death of the Cross, 1282 2, 5 | of the painful death of the Cross, to give life to you 1283 2, 5 | guilt. I say therefore that the mark alone of original sin 1284 2, 5 | this mark is removed from the soul, though not altogether, 1285 2, 5 | Holy Baptism, which has the virtue of communicating 1286 2, 5 | virtue of communicating the life of grace by means of 1287 2, 5 | precious Blood. Wherefore, at the moment that the soul receives 1288 2, 5 | Wherefore, at the moment that the soul receives Holy Baptism, 1289 2, 5 | sin, which remains from the original corruption, as 1290 2, 5 | source of weakness, but the soul can keep the bridle 1291 2, 5 | weakness, but the soul can keep the bridle on it if she choose. 1292 2, 5 | on it if she choose. Then the vessel of the soul is disposed 1293 2, 5 | choose. Then the vessel of the soul is disposed to receive 1294 2, 5 | and serving Me; and, in the same way, she can dispose 1295 2, 5 | Baptism. Wherefore when the time of discretion is come, 1296 2, 5 | time of discretion is come, the soul can, by her free will, 1297 2, 5 | own sensuality, and obtain the end for which he was created. 1298 2, 5 | who delights to remain in the mud like a brute, and does 1299 2, 5 | A benefit so great, that the poor wretched creature full 1300 2, 6 | more gravely punished after the Passion of Christ than before; 1301 2, 6 | promises to do mercy to the world, and to the Holy Church, 1302 2, 6 | mercy to the world, and to the Holy Church, by means of 1303 2, 6 | Holy Church, by means of the prayers and sufferings of 1304 2, 6 | re-created and restored to the life of grace, the human 1305 2, 6 | restored to the life of grace, the human race, through the 1306 2, 6 | the human race, through the Blood of My only-begotten 1307 2, 6 | taking so little account of the graces which I have given 1308 2, 6 | have received redemption in the Blood of My Son, than they 1309 2, 6 | place -- that is, before the stain of Adam's sin had 1310 2, 6 | destroyed his pride, humiliating the divine nature, and taking 1311 2, 6 | humanity, and, freeing you from the service of the devil, I 1312 2, 6 | you from the service of the devil, I made you free. 1313 2, 6 | has become man, through the union of the divine with 1314 2, 6 | man, through the union of the divine with the human nature. 1315 2, 6 | union of the divine with the human nature. This is the 1316 2, 6 | the human nature. This is the debt which they have incurred -- 1317 2, 6 | incurred -- that is to say, the treasure of the Blood, by 1318 2, 6 | to say, the treasure of the Blood, by which they have 1319 2, 6 | much more they owe after the redemption than before. 1320 2, 6 | and praise by following in the steps of My Incarnate Word, 1321 2, 6 | for then they repay Me the debt of love both of Myself 1322 2, 6 | and if they do not do it, the greater their debt, the 1323 2, 6 | the greater their debt, the greater will be the offense 1324 2, 6 | debt, the greater will be the offense they fall into, 1325 2, 6 | therefore, by divine justice, the greater their suffering 1326 2, 6 | punished more than a pagan, and the deathless fire of divine 1327 2, 6 | himself being consumed by the worm of conscience, though, 1328 2, 6 | is not consumed, because the damned do not lose their 1329 2, 6 | cannot lose their being; the existence of grace they 1330 2, 6 | more gravely punished after the Redemption of the Blood 1331 2, 6 | after the Redemption of the Blood than before, because 1332 2, 6 | reconciled them, by means of the Blood of My Son. But there 1333 2, 6 | I wished to do mercy to the world. ~ 1334 2, 6 | desire for My honor, and the salvation of souls, so that, 1335 2, 6 | their tears, I may mitigate the fury of My divine justice. 1336 2, 6 | and your sweat, drawn from the fountain of My divine love, 1337 2, 6 | love, and, with them, wash the face of My spouse. ~ 1338 2, 6 | restored to her, not by the knife nor by cruelty, but 1339 2, 6 | and continued prayer, by the sweat and the tears shed 1340 2, 6 | prayer, by the sweat and the tears shed by the fiery 1341 2, 6 | sweat and the tears shed by the fiery desire of My servants, 1342 2, 6 | part, endure much, casting the light of your patience into 1343 2, 6 | light of your patience into the darkness of perverse man, 1344 2, 6 | perverse man, not fearing the world's persecutions, for 1345 2, 6 | shall never fail you in the slightest need." ~ 1346 2, 7 | How the road to Heaven being broken 1347 2, 7 | Heaven being broken through the disobedience of Adam, God 1348 2, 7 | only-begotten Son, and this is the truth. I wish that you, 1349 2, 7 | children, should know that the road was broken by the sin 1350 2, 7 | that the road was broken by the sin and disobedience of 1351 2, 7 | did not render Me glory in the way in which they ought 1352 2, 7 | closed Heaven and bolted the doors of mercy, the soul 1353 2, 7 | bolted the doors of mercy, the soul of man produced thorns 1354 2, 7 | And the flesh immediately began 1355 2, 7 | immediately began to war against the Spirit, and, losing the 1356 2, 7 | the Spirit, and, losing the state of innocence, became 1357 2, 7 | him, had he remained in the state in which I had placed 1358 2, 7 | and trouble from himself, the devil, and the world. Every 1359 2, 7 | himself, the devil, and the world. Every one was drowned 1360 2, 7 | Every one was drowned in the flood, because no one, with 1361 2, 7 | evils, I have given you the Bridge of My Son, in order 1362 2, 7 | order that, passing across the flood, you may not be drowned, 1363 2, 7 | drowned, which flood is the tempestuous sea of this 1364 2, 7 | under what obligations the creature is to Me, and how 1365 2, 7 | ignorant he is, not to take the remedy which I have offered, 1366 2, 8 | How God induces the soul to look at the greatness 1367 2, 8 | induces the soul to look at the greatness of this Bridge, 1368 2, 8 | Open, my daughter, the eye of your intellect, and 1369 2, 8 | intellect, and you will see the accepted and the ignorant, 1370 2, 8 | will see the accepted and the ignorant, the imperfect, 1371 2, 8 | accepted and the ignorant, the imperfect, and also the 1372 2, 8 | the imperfect, and also the perfect who follow Me in 1373 2, 8 | that you may grieve over the damnation of the ignorant, 1374 2, 8 | grieve over the damnation of the ignorant, and rejoice over 1375 2, 8 | ignorant, and rejoice over the perfection of My beloved 1376 2, 8 | bear themselves who walk in the light, and those who walk 1377 2, 8 | light, and those who walk in the darkness. I also wish you 1378 2, 8 | also wish you to look at the Bridge of My only-begotten 1379 2, 8 | only-begotten Son, and see the greatness thereof, for it 1380 2, 8 | to earth, that is, that the earth of your humanity is 1381 2, 8 | your humanity is joined to the greatness of the Deity thereby. 1382 2, 8 | joined to the greatness of the Deity thereby. I say then 1383 2, 8 | to earth, and constitutes the union which I have made 1384 2, 8 | necessary, in order to reform the road which was broken, as 1385 2, 8 | man should pass through the bitterness of the world, 1386 2, 8 | through the bitterness of the world, and arrive at life; 1387 2, 8 | and arrive at life; but the Bridge could not be made 1388 2, 8 | sufficiently large to span the flood and give you Eternal 1389 2, 8 | you Eternal Life, because the earth of human nature was 1390 2, 8 | satisfy for guilt, to remove the stain of Adam's sin. Which 1391 2, 8 | sin. Which stain corrupted the whole human race and gave 1392 2, 8 | to join human nature with the height of My nature, the 1393 2, 8 | the height of My nature, the Eternal Deity, so that it 1394 2, 8 | sufficient to satisfy for the whole human race, so that 1395 2, 8 | human nature should sustain the punishment, and that the 1396 2, 8 | the punishment, and that the Divine nature, united with 1397 2, 8 | Divine nature, united with the human, should make acceptable 1398 2, 8 | should make acceptable the sacrifice of My only Son, 1399 2, 8 | So the height of the Divinity, 1400 2, 8 | So the height of the Divinity, humbled to the 1401 2, 8 | the Divinity, humbled to the earth, and joined with your 1402 2, 8 | with your humanity, made the Bridge and reformed the 1403 2, 8 | the Bridge and reformed the road. Why was this done? 1404 2, 8 | his true happiness with the angels. And observe, that 1405 2, 9 | show her those who cross by the aforesaid Bridge, and those 1406 2, 9 | You no harm, for You are the Supreme and Eternal Goodness. 1407 2, 9 | and Eternal Truth, I am the thief and You have been 1408 2, 9 | fastened and nailed to the Cross, of which You have 1409 2, 9 | yet cannot burst, through the hunger and the desire which 1410 2, 9 | through the hunger and the desire which it has conceived 1411 2, 9 | who are those who go by the Bridge and those who do 1412 2, 10 | three steps, which signify the three states of the soul; 1413 2, 10 | signify the three states of the soul; and how, being lifted 1414 2, 10 | it is not separated from the earth; and how these words 1415 2, 10 | If I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all things 1416 2, 10 | Then the Eternal God, to enamor and 1417 2, 10 | that soul still more for the salvation of souls, replied 1418 2, 10 | will now explain to you the nature of this Bridge. I 1419 2, 10 | told you, My daughter, that the Bridge reaches from Heaven 1420 2, 10 | to earth; this is through the union which I have made 1421 2, 10 | with man, whom I formed of the clay of the earth. Now learn 1422 2, 10 | I formed of the clay of the earth. Now learn that this 1423 2, 10 | which two were made with the wood of the most Holy Cross, 1424 2, 10 | were made with the wood of the most Holy Cross, and the 1425 2, 10 | the most Holy Cross, and the third still retains the 1426 2, 10 | the third still retains the great bitterness He tasted, 1427 2, 10 | recognize three states of the soul, which I will explain 1428 2, 10 | will explain to you below. The feet of the soul, signifying 1429 2, 10 | to you below. The feet of the soul, signifying her affection, 1430 2, 10 | signifying her affection, are the first step, for the feet 1431 2, 10 | are the first step, for the feet carry the body as the 1432 2, 10 | step, for the feet carry the body as the affection carries 1433 2, 10 | the feet carry the body as the affection carries the soul. 1434 2, 10 | as the affection carries the soul. Wherefore these pierced 1435 2, 10 | Which manifests to you the secret of His Heart, because 1436 2, 10 | secret of His Heart, because the soul, rising on the steps 1437 2, 10 | because the soul, rising on the steps of her affection, 1438 2, 10 | affection, commences to taste the love of His Heart, gazing 1439 2, 10 | open Heart of My Son, with the eye of the intellect, and 1440 2, 10 | My Son, with the eye of the intellect, and finds It 1441 2, 10 | to Him, He being one and the same thing with Me. Then 1442 2, 10 | same thing with Me. Then the soul is filled with love, 1443 2, 10 | much loved. Having passed the second step, the soul reaches 1444 2, 10 | passed the second step, the soul reaches out to the 1445 2, 10 | the soul reaches out to the third -- that is -- to the 1446 2, 10 | the third -- that is -- to the Mouth, where she finds peace 1447 2, 10 | where she finds peace from the terrible war she has been 1448 2, 10 | waging with her sin. On the first step, then, lifting 1449 2, 10 | then, lifting her feet from the affections of the earth, 1450 2, 10 | feet from the affections of the earth, the soul strips herself 1451 2, 10 | affections of the earth, the soul strips herself of vice; 1452 2, 10 | strips herself of vice; on the second she fills herself 1453 2, 10 | love and virtue; and on the third she tastes peace. 1454 2, 10 | third she tastes peace. So the Bridge has three steps, 1455 2, 10 | order that, climbing past the first and the second, you 1456 2, 10 | climbing past the first and the second, you may reach the 1457 2, 10 | the second, you may reach the last, which is lifted on 1458 2, 10 | lifted on high, so that the water, running beneath, 1459 2, 10 | lifted on high, and yet, at the same time, joined to the 1460 2, 10 | the same time, joined to the earth. Do you know when 1461 2, 10 | My Son was lifted up on the wood of the most Holy Cross, 1462 2, 10 | lifted up on the wood of the most Holy Cross, the Divine 1463 2, 10 | of the most Holy Cross, the Divine nature remaining 1464 2, 10 | nature remaining joined to the lowliness of the earth of 1465 2, 10 | joined to the lowliness of the earth of your humanity. ~ 1466 2, 10 | He was not lifted out of the earth, for the Divine nature 1467 2, 10 | lifted out of the earth, for the Divine nature is united 1468 2, 10 | was no one who could go on the Bridge until It had been 1469 2, 10 | should be lifted on high on the wood of the Cross, making 1470 2, 10 | lifted on high on the wood of the Cross, making of it an anvil 1471 2, 10 | death, and to restore you to the life of grace; wherefore 1472 2, 10 | means, namely, by showing the ineffable love, with which 1473 2, 10 | with which I love you, the heart of man being always 1474 2, 10 | ways. Firstly, that, when the heart of man is drawn by 1475 2, 10 | heart of man is drawn by the affection of love, as I 1476 2, 10 | drawn together with all the powers of his soul, that 1477 2, 10 | his soul, that is, with the Memory, the Intellect, and 1478 2, 10 | that is, with the Memory, the Intellect, and the Will; 1479 2, 10 | Memory, the Intellect, and the Will; now, when these three 1480 2, 10 | together in My Name, all the other operations which the 1481 2, 10 | the other operations which the man performs, whether in 1482 2, 10 | and joined together by the effect of love, because 1483 2, 10 | lifted on high, following the Sorrowful Crucified One; 1484 2, 10 | c., meaning, that if the heart and the powers of 1485 2, 10 | meaning, that if the heart and the powers of the soul are drawn 1486 2, 10 | heart and the powers of the soul are drawn to Him, all 1487 2, 10 | soul are drawn to Him, all the actions are also drawn to 1488 2, 10 | everything has been created for the service of man, to serve 1489 2, 10 | service of man, to serve the necessities of rational 1490 2, 10 | rational creatures, and the rational creature has not 1491 2, 10 | therefore necessary that the Bridge should be lifted 1492 2, 11 | signify virtues; and how on the Bridge is a hostelry where 1493 2, 11 | hostelry where food is given to the travelers; and how he who 1494 2, 11 | and how he who goes over the Bridge goes to life, while 1495 2, 11 | built of stones, so that, if the rain come, it may not impede 1496 2, 11 | come, it may not impede the traveler. Do you know what 1497 2, 11 | these stones are? They are the stones of true and sincere 1498 2, 11 | stones were not built into the walls before the Passion 1499 2, 11 | built into the walls before the Passion of My Son, and therefore 1500 2, 11 | who attempted to walk by the road of virtue were prevented