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501 2, 2 | would not be without end and beginning, but would have 502 2, 2 | beginning in knowledge of self, and its end in confusion, if 503 2, 2 | love which is in the soul, and the patience, which proves 504 2, 2 | proves that I am in the soul and the soul in Me. This tree 505 2, 2 | soul renders fruit of grace and of utility to her neighbor, 506 2, 2 | fruit from My servants; and to Me she renders the sweet 507 2, 2 | the sweet odor of glory and praise to My Name, and so 508 2, 2 | glory and praise to My Name, and so fulfills the object of 509 2, 2 | God, who am Eternal Life. And these fruits cannot be taken 510 2, 3 | How penance and other corporal exercises 511 2, 3 | for arriving at virtue, and not as the principal affection 512 2, 3 | principal affection of the soul; and of the light of discretion 513 2, 3 | discretion in various other modes and operations. ~ 514 2, 3 | These are the fruits and the works which I seek from 515 2, 3 | virtue in the time of need. And yet some time ago, if you 516 2, 3 | take delight in few words and many works.' I wished to 517 2, 3 | would do something for You,' and he, who desires for My sake 518 2, 3 | body with many penances, and not his own will, did not 519 2, 3 | because they are finite works, and I, who am Infinite, seek 520 2, 3 | that the works of penance, and of other corporal exercises, 521 2, 3 | observed merely as means, and not as the fundamental affection 522 2, 3 | the soul, which conceives and brings forth virtue in truth; 523 2, 3 | case it would be grateful and pleasant to Me. And this 524 2, 3 | grateful and pleasant to Me. And this is because such a work 525 2, 3 | corporal works as means, and not as the principal foundation; 526 2, 3 | are done in finite time, and also because it is often 527 2, 3 | the creature omit them, and even that she be made to 528 2, 3 | to adopt them as a means, and not as an end. For, if she 529 2, 3 | or other, to leave them, and will then remain empty. 530 2, 3 | should mortify the body and destroy self-will, knowing, 531 2, 3 | the will should be dead and annihilated in everything, 532 2, 3 | annihilated in everything, and subject to My will, and 533 2, 3 | and subject to My will, and this slaying of the will 534 2, 3 | that is to say, hatred and disgust of her own offenses 535 2, 3 | disgust of her own offenses and sensuality, which are acquired 536 2, 3 | is the knife which slays and cuts off all self-love founded 537 2, 3 | words but manifold works, and in these I take delight. 538 2, 3 | in these I take delight. And then I said that I desired 539 2, 3 | that I desired few words, and many actions; by the use 540 2, 3 | life to all the virtues and good works, should increase 541 2, 3 | should increase infinitely, and yet I do not, by this, exclude 542 2, 3 | operation, as such, was finite, and therefore I called them 543 2, 3 | the instruments of virtue, and not as a principal end in 544 2, 3 | performs great penances, and gives himself in excess 545 2, 3 | the soul is worth nothing. And this love should be directed 546 2, 3 | since I am the Supreme and Eternal Truth. The soul 547 2, 3 | one act of great virtue and profit to others, by means 548 2, 3 | service with a manly zeal, and, that she should love her 549 2, 3 | of souls, enduring pains and torments so that her neighbor 550 2, 3 | have the life of grace, and giving her temporal substance 551 2, 3 | substance for the profit and relief of his body. ~ 552 2, 3 | Me with an infinite love and without measure, but her 553 2, 3 | the soul does for itself and for others is imperfect. 554 2, 3 | creatures, who are finite and created by Me, should be 555 2, 3 | And this true love knows well, 556 2, 3 | darkness, takes away ignorance, and is the condiment of every 557 2, 3 | Me to knowledge of self, and from love of Me to love 558 2, 3 | of Me to love of others. And the soul escapes dangers 559 2, 3 | dangers by her true humility, and, by her prudence, flies 560 2, 3 | all the nets of the world and its creatures, and, with 561 2, 3 | world and its creatures, and, with unarmed hands, that 562 2, 3 | endurance, discomfits the devil and the flesh with this sweet 563 2, 3 | the flesh with this sweet and glorious light; knowing, 564 2, 3 | has trampled on the world, and placed it under the feet 565 2, 3 | affection, despising it, and holding it vile, and thus 566 2, 3 | it, and holding it vile, and thus becoming lord of it, 567 2, 3 | it, holding it as folly. And the men of the world cannot 568 2, 3 | persecutions increase her virtues and prove them, which virtues 569 2, 3 | love, as has been said, and then are proved on her neighbor, 570 2, 3 | proved on her neighbor, and bring forth their fruit 571 2, 3 | virtue were not visible and did not shine in the time 572 2, 3 | perfect virtue cannot exist and give fruit except by means 573 2, 3 | in need, both in general and in particular, as I have 574 2, 3 | conceived virtue at all; and this is also true of the 575 2, 4 | of the divine response, and how her sorrows grew less, 576 2, 4 | how her sorrows grew less, and how she prayed to God for 577 2, 4 | God for the Holy Church, and for her own people. ~ 578 2, 4 | Then that soul, thirsting and burning with the very great 579 2, 4 | shown in His great goodness, and, seeing the breadth of His 580 2, 4 | to reply to her request and to satisfy it, giving hope 581 2, 4 | of offenses against God, and the damage of the Holy Church, 582 2, 4 | damage of the Holy Church, and through His own mercy, which 583 2, 4 | self-knowledge, diminished, and yet, at the same time, increased 584 2, 4 | For, the Supreme and Eternal Father, in manifesting 585 2, 4 | her anew her own guilt, and the loss of souls, as has 586 2, 4 | she knows more of God, and knowing the goodness of 587 2, 4 | she knows her own dignity and indignity. Her dignity is 588 2, 4 | she is the image of God, and this has been given her 589 2, 4 | been given her by grace, and not as her due. In that 590 2, 4 | self, rises with desire, and gazes with the eye of the 591 2, 4 | Wherefore, because light and knowledge increased in that 592 2, 4 | sweet sorrow grew in her, and at the same time, her sorrow 593 2, 4 | Supreme Truth gave her, and, as fire grows when it is 594 2, 4 | the knowledge of herself and of God, and her hunger for 595 2, 4 | knowledge of herself and of God, and her hunger for the salvation 596 2, 4 | salvation of the whole world, and for the reformation of the 597 2, 4 | leprosy of the Holy Church, and the misery of the world, 598 2, 4 | mercy upon Your people, and upon the mystical body of 599 2, 4 | pardon so many creatures, and give to them the light of 600 2, 4 | the clouds of mortal sin, and from eternal damnation; 601 2, 4 | from eternal damnation; and then You will not only be 602 2, 4 | have so much offended You, and who am the cause and the 603 2, 4 | You, and who am the cause and the instrument of all this 604 2, 4 | reason I pray Your divine and eternal love to take Your 605 2, 4 | take Your revenge on me, and to do mercy to Your people, 606 2, 4 | do mercy to Your people, and never will I depart from 607 2, 4 | it to me if I have life, and Your people death, and the 608 2, 4 | and Your people death, and the clouds of darkness cover 609 2, 4 | when it is my own sins, and not those of Your other 610 2, 4 | of this? I desire, then, and beg of You, by Your grace, 611 2, 4 | have mercy on Your people, and I adjure You that You do 612 2, 4 | create man in Your image and similitude, saying, "Let 613 2, 4 | make man in our own image," and this You did, oh eternal 614 2, 4 | belonging to You, the most high and eternal Trinity.' ~ 615 2, 4 | power of the Eternal Father; and intellect that he might 616 2, 4 | know, seeing Your goodness, and so might participate in 617 2, 4 | Your only-begotten Son; and will, that he might love 618 2, 4 | which his intellect has seen and known of Your truth, thus 619 2, 4 | Your creature in Yourself, and became enamored of him, 620 2, 4 | created him through love, and destined him to be such 621 2, 4 | such that he might taste and enjoy Your Eternal Good. 622 2, 4 | You originally placed him, and by his rebellion against 623 2, 4 | should come a great peace; and so You gave him the only-begotten 624 2, 4 | the Mediator between us and You. He was our Justice, 625 2, 4 | Himself all our offenses and injustices, and performed 626 2, 4 | offenses and injustices, and performed Your obedience, 627 2, 4 | humanity, our human nature and likeness. Oh, abyss of love! 628 2, 4 | humanity? We are Your image, and You have become ours, by 629 2, 4 | Deity with the cloud of woe, and the corrupted clay of Adam. 630 2, 4 | O God, have become man, and man has become God. By this 631 2, 4 | therefore, I constrain You, and implore You that You do 632 2, 5 | over the Christian people, and particularly over His ministers; 633 2, 5 | particularly over His ministers; and touches on the subject of 634 2, 5 | Sacrament of Christ's Body, and the benefit of the Incarnation. ~ 635 2, 5 | constrained by her tears, and bound by the chain of her 636 2, 5 | are joined with My love, and fall for love of Me, and 637 2, 5 | and fall for love of Me, and your painful desires force 638 2, 5 | answer you; but marvel, and see how My spouse has defiled 639 2, 5 | spouse has defiled her face, and become leprous, on account 640 2, 5 | account of her filthiness and self- love, and swollen 641 2, 5 | filthiness and self- love, and swollen with the pride and 642 2, 5 | and swollen with the pride and avarice of those who feed 643 2, 5 | say of the universal body and the mystical body of the 644 2, 5 | My ministers, who stand and feed at the breasts of Holy 645 2, 5 | breasts of Holy Church; and, not only should they feed 646 2, 5 | also their duty to feed and hold to those breasts the 647 2, 5 | body of Christian people, and also any other people who 648 2, 5 | darkness of their infidelity, and bind themselves as members 649 2, 5 | then with what ignorance and darkness, and ingratitude, 650 2, 5 | ignorance and darkness, and ingratitude, are administered, 651 2, 5 | ingratitude, are administered, and with what filthy hands are 652 2, 5 | handled this glorious milk and blood of My spouse, and 653 2, 5 | and blood of My spouse, and with what presumption and 654 2, 5 | and with what presumption and irreverence they are received. 655 2, 5 | Son, which destroyed death and darkness, and gave life 656 2, 5 | destroyed death and darkness, and gave life and truth, and 657 2, 5 | darkness, and gave life and truth, and confounded falsehood. 658 2, 5 | and gave life and truth, and confounded falsehood. For 659 2, 5 | falsehood. For I give this Blood and use It for salvation and 660 2, 5 | and use It for salvation and perfection in the case of 661 2, 5 | receive it, for It gives life and adorns the soul with every 662 2, 5 | proportion to the disposition and affection of him who receives 663 2, 5 | unworthily, living in iniquity and in the darkness of mortal 664 2, 5 | him, I say, It gives death and not life; not through defect 665 2, 5 | Blood nor diminish Its grace and virtue, nor does an evil 666 2, 5 | himself with contrition and repentance. I say then that 667 2, 5 | his own evil disposition and defect inasmuch as he has 668 2, 5 | he has befouled his mind and body with such impurity 669 2, 5 | body with such impurity and misery, and has been so 670 2, 5 | such impurity and misery, and has been so cruel to himself 671 2, 5 | been so cruel to himself and his neighbor. He has used 672 2, 5 | generated by his father and mother. ~ 673 2, 5 | this stuff, were corrupted and not disposed to the possession 674 2, 5 | incapable of suffering, and yet, on account of guilt, 675 2, 5 | have satisfied for himself, and not for other rational creatures, 676 2, 5 | man, who was enfeebled, and could not satisfy for the 677 2, 5 | opprobrious death of the Cross, and so He satisfied My justice 678 2, 5 | He satisfied My justice and My divine mercy. For My 679 2, 5 | satisfaction for the sin of man and to dispose him to that good 680 2, 5 | Eternal Deity, the divine and infinite nature joined to 681 2, 5 | joined together, I received and accepted the sacrifice of 682 2, 5 | which held him fastened and nailed to the Cross in this 683 2, 5 | virtue of the divine nature. And in this way was destroyed 684 2, 5 | is an inclination to sin, and to every sort of corporeal 685 2, 5 | because she is grown up and strong, and the child is 686 2, 5 | is grown up and strong, and the child is not fit to 687 2, 5 | enduring, with the greatness and strength of the Deity united 688 2, 5 | you take from your father and your mother when you were 689 2, 5 | by means of that glorious and precious Blood. Wherefore, 690 2, 5 | is taken away from her, and grace is infused into her, 691 2, 5 | grace is infused into her, and that inclination to sin, 692 2, 5 | soul is disposed to receive and increase in herself grace, 693 2, 5 | willingly with affection, and desire of loving and serving 694 2, 5 | affection, and desire of loving and serving Me; and, in the 695 2, 5 | of loving and serving Me; and, in the same way, she can 696 2, 5 | as it pleases her will; and so great is this liberty 697 2, 5 | this liberty that man has, and so strong has this liberty 698 2, 5 | been redeemed from slavery, and made free in order that 699 2, 5 | govern his own sensuality, and obtain the end for which 700 2, 5 | in the mud like a brute, and does not learn this great 701 2, 6 | Passion of Christ than before; and how God promises to do mercy 702 2, 6 | to do mercy to the world, and to the Holy Church, by means 703 2, 6 | by means of the prayers and sufferings of His servants. ~ 704 2, 6 | And I wish you to know, My daughter, 705 2, 6 | although I have re-created and restored to the life of 706 2, 6 | going from bad to worse, and from guilt to guilt, even 707 2, 6 | which I have given them, and continue to give them, that, 708 2, 6 | will be more hard-hearted, and worthy of more punishment, 709 2, 6 | worthy of more punishment, and will, indeed, be punished 710 2, 6 | more should render more, and should be under great obligations 711 2, 6 | creating him in My own image and similitude; for which reason, 712 2, 6 | but he deprived Me of it, and wished to give it to himself. 713 2, 6 | obedience imposed on him, and became My enemy. And I, 714 2, 6 | him, and became My enemy. And I, with My humility, destroyed 715 2, 6 | humiliating the divine nature, and taking your humanity, and, 716 2, 6 | and taking your humanity, and, freeing you from the service 717 2, 6 | devil, I made you free. And, not only did I give you 718 2, 6 | that man has become God, and God has become man, through 719 2, 6 | obliged to render Me glory and praise by following in the 720 2, 6 | debt of love both of Myself and of their neighbor, with 721 2, 6 | their neighbor, with true and genuine virtue, as I have 722 2, 6 | have said to you above, and if they do not do it, the 723 2, 6 | offense they fall into, and therefore, by divine justice, 724 2, 6 | punished more than a pagan, and the deathless fire of divine 725 2, 6 | that is, afflicts him more, and, in his affliction, he feels 726 2, 6 | that they ask for death and cannot have it, for they 727 2, 6 | attention to their own sins, and so become My enemies, though 728 2, 6 | give My servants hunger and desire for My honor, and 729 2, 6 | and desire for My honor, and the salvation of souls, 730 2, 6 | Take, therefore, your tears and your sweat, drawn from the 731 2, 6 | fountain of My divine love, and, with them, wash the face 732 2, 6 | but peacefully, by humble and continued prayer, by the 733 2, 6 | continued prayer, by the sweat and the tears shed by the fiery 734 2, 6 | fiery desire of My servants, and thus will I fulfill your 735 2, 6 | for I will protect you, and My Providence shall never 736 2, 7 | of My only-begotten Son, and this is the truth. I wish 737 2, 7 | road was broken by the sin and disobedience of Adam, in 738 2, 7 | which I had created them, and My truth was not fulfilled. 739 2, 7 | created man to My own image and similitude, in order that 740 2, 7 | might have Eternal Life, and might partake of Me, and 741 2, 7 | and might partake of Me, and taste My supreme and eternal 742 2, 7 | Me, and taste My supreme and eternal sweetness and goodness. 743 2, 7 | supreme and eternal sweetness and goodness. But, after sin 744 2, 7 | after sin had closed Heaven and bolted the doors of mercy, 745 2, 7 | soul of man produced thorns and prickly brambles, and My 746 2, 7 | thorns and prickly brambles, and My creature found in himself 747 2, 7 | And the flesh immediately began 748 2, 7 | war against the Spirit, and, losing the state of innocence, 749 2, 7 | innocence, became a foul animal, and all created things rebelled 750 2, 7 | transgressed My obedience, and merited eternal death in 751 2, 7 | merited eternal death in soul and body. And, as soon as he 752 2, 7 | death in soul and body. And, as soon as he had sinned, 753 2, 7 | bringing him weariness and trouble from himself, the 754 2, 7 | from himself, the devil, and the world. Every one was 755 2, 7 | arrive at Eternal Life. And so, wishing to remedy your 756 2, 7 | obligations the creature is to Me, and how ignorant he is, not 757 2, 8 | the eye of your intellect, and you will see the accepted 758 2, 8 | you will see the accepted and the ignorant, the imperfect, 759 2, 8 | ignorant, the imperfect, and also the perfect who follow 760 2, 8 | damnation of the ignorant, and rejoice over the perfection 761 2, 8 | themselves who walk in the light, and those who walk in the darkness. 762 2, 8 | of My only-begotten Son, and see the greatness thereof, 763 2, 8 | reaches from Heaven to earth, and constitutes the union which 764 2, 8 | bitterness of the world, and arrive at life; but the 765 2, 8 | large to span the flood and give you Eternal Life, because 766 2, 8 | corrupted the whole human race and gave out a stench, as I 767 2, 8 | sustain the punishment, and that the Divine nature, 768 2, 8 | Me to take death from you and to give you life. ~ 769 2, 8 | Divinity, humbled to the earth, and joined with your humanity, 770 2, 8 | humanity, made the Bridge and reformed the road. Why was 771 2, 8 | happiness with the angels. And observe, that it is not 772 2, 9 | by the aforesaid Bridge, and those who do not. ~ 773 2, 9 | could not live without him, and yet You are our God who 774 2, 9 | for You are unchangeable, and our evil causes You no harm, 775 2, 9 | for You are the Supreme and Eternal Goodness. What moves 776 2, 9 | mercy through pure love, and on account of no debt that 777 2, 9 | We are rather Your guilty and malignant debtors. Wherefore, 778 2, 9 | understand aright, Oh, Supreme and Eternal Truth, I am the 779 2, 9 | Eternal Truth, I am the thief and You have been punished for 780 2, 9 | Word, Your Son, fastened and nailed to the Cross, of 781 2, 9 | reason, my heart is bursting, and yet cannot burst, through 782 2, 9 | burst, through the hunger and the desire which it has 783 2, 9 | those who go by the Bridge and those who do not; should 784 2, 9 | me, willingly would I see and hear it." ~ 785 2, 10 | three states of the soul; and how, being lifted on high, 786 2, 10 | separated from the earth; and how these words are to be 787 2, 10 | the Eternal God, to enamor and excite that soul still more 788 2, 10 | of souls, replied to her, and said: "First, as I have 789 2, 10 | that for which you wished, and ask Me, I will now explain 790 2, 10 | of the most Holy Cross, and the third still retains 791 2, 10 | when He was given gall and vinegar to drink. In these 792 2, 10 | the eye of the intellect, and finds It consumed with ineffable 793 2, 10 | profit to Him, He being one and the same thing with Me. 794 2, 10 | fills herself with love and virtue; and on the third 795 2, 10 | herself with love and virtue; and on the third she tastes 796 2, 10 | climbing past the first and the second, you may reach 797 2, 10 | Bridge is lifted on high, and yet, at the same time, joined 798 2, 10 | Divine nature is united and kneaded into one thing with 799 2, 10 | into one thing with it. And there was no one who could 800 2, 10 | to free you from death, and to restore you to the life 801 2, 10 | draw all things to Him. And this is to be understood 802 2, 10 | the Memory, the Intellect, and the Will; now, when these 803 2, 10 | or thought, are pleasing, and joined together by the effect 804 2, 10 | meaning, that if the heart and the powers of the soul are 805 2, 10 | necessities of rational creatures, and the rational creature has 806 2, 10 | serve Me with all his heart, and with all his affection. 807 2, 10 | should be lifted on high, and have steps, in order that 808 2, 11 | stones which signify virtues; and how on the Bridge is a hostelry 809 2, 11 | given to the travelers; and how he who goes over the 810 2, 11 | under It goes to perdition and death. ~ 811 2, 11 | They are the stones of true and sincere virtues. These stones 812 2, 11 | before the Passion of My Son, and therefore even those who 813 2, 11 | with the key of the Blood, and the rain of Justice did 814 2, 11 | after the stones were made, and built up on the Body of 815 2, 11 | the mortar of divinity, and with the fortitude, and 816 2, 11 | and with the fortitude, and the fire of love; and, by 817 2, 11 | fortitude, and the fire of love; and, by My power, these stones 818 2, 11 | not been proved in Him, and from Him all virtues have 819 2, 11 | planting them as living stones, and cementing them with His 820 2, 11 | believer may walk speedily, and without any servile fear 821 2, 11 | that the Bridge is walled and roofed with Mercy. His also 822 2, 11 | Holy Church, which keeps and ministers the Bread of Life, 823 2, 11 | ministers the Bread of Life, and gives to drink of the Blood, 824 2, 11 | weariness, faint by the way; and for this reason My love 825 2, 11 | ordained that the Blood and the Body of My only-begotten 826 2, 11 | only-begotten Son, wholly God and wholly man, may be ministered 827 2, 11 | I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, he who follows 828 2, 11 | darkness, but in light.' And in another place My Truth 829 2, 11 | come to Me if not by Him,' and so indeed it is. Therefore 830 2, 11 | Himself that He is the Road, and this is the truth, and I 831 2, 11 | and this is the truth, and I have already shown you 832 2, 11 | the form of the Bridge. And He says that He is the Truth, 833 2, 11 | says that He is the Truth, and so He is, because He is 834 2, 11 | with Me who am the Truth, and he who follows Him, walks 835 2, 11 | Him, walks in the Truth, and in Life, because he who 836 2, 11 | receives the life of grace, and cannot faint from hunger, 837 2, 11 | light without any falsehood. And, with that Truth, He confounded 838 2, 11 | that Truth, He confounded and destroyed the lie that the 839 2, 11 | broke up the road to Heaven, and the Truth brought the pieces 840 2, 11 | the pieces together again, and cemented them with His Blood. 841 2, 11 | because they follow the Truth, and pass through the door of 842 2, 11 | through the door of Truth and find themselves united to 843 2, 11 | united to Me, who am the Door and the Road and at the same 844 2, 11 | am the Door and the Road and at the same time Infinite 845 2, 11 | are no stones, only water, and since there are no supports 846 2, 11 | have come to pass the sins, and the condition of the world. 847 2, 11 | creatures, loving them, and being kept by them far from 848 2, 11 | that continually runs past, and man also passes continually 849 2, 11 | him that he stands still and the creatures that he loves 850 2, 11 | creatures that he loves pass by, and yet he is passing himself 851 2, 11 | of his journey -- death! And he would gladly retain himself ( 852 2, 11 | himself (that is his life, and the things that he loves), 853 2, 11 | on the road of falsehood, and are sons of the Devil, who 854 2, 11 | who is the Father of Lies; and, because they pass by the 855 2, 11 | have shown you both Truth and Falsehood, that is, My road 856 2, 11 | My road which is Truth, and the Devil's which is Falsehood." ~ 857 2, 12 | roads, that is the Bridge and the River, is fatiguing; 858 2, 12 | the River, is fatiguing; and of the delight which the 859 2, 12 | These are the two roads, and both are hard to travel. 860 2, 12 | then, at the ignorance and blindness of man, who, having 861 2, 12 | bitterness becomes sweet, and every burden light, yet 862 2, 12 | of the body, find light, and, being mortal, find immortal 863 2, 12 | for Me, who am grateful and just, and render to every 864 2, 12 | who am grateful and just, and render to every man according 865 2, 12 | every good deed is rewarded, and every fault is punished. 866 2, 12 | in this life, he tastes and participates in that good 867 2, 12 | despises so great a good, and chooses rather to receive 868 2, 12 | lower road with great toil, and without any refreshment 869 2, 12 | of Me, who am the Supreme and Eternal Good. Truly then 870 2, 12 | have you reason for grief, and I will that you and My other 871 2, 12 | grief, and I will that you and My other servants remain 872 2, 12 | the offense done to Me, and in compassion for the ignorant, 873 2, 12 | compassion for the ignorant, and the loss of those who, in 874 2, 12 | offend Me. Now you have seen and heard about this Bridge, 875 2, 12 | this Bridge, how it is, and this I have told you in 876 2, 12 | only-begotten Son was a Bridge. And thus, you see that He is 877 2, 12 | by the union of height and lowliness." ~ 878 2, 13 | the conversation of men, and ascended into Heaven by 879 2, 13 | virtue of the Divine Nature and sat at the right hand of 880 2, 13 | their hearts lifted on high, and ascended into Heaven with 881 2, 13 | had thus ascended on high, and returned to Me the Father, 882 2, 13 | came to you with My power and the wisdom of My Son, and 883 2, 13 | and the wisdom of My Son, and with His own clemency, which 884 2, 13 | thing with Me, the Father, and with My Son. And He built 885 2, 13 | Father, and with My Son. And He built up the road of 886 2, 13 | His doctrine remained, and the virtue of the stones 887 2, 13 | practiced this doctrine and made the road by His actions, 888 2, 13 | disciples to confess the truth, and to announce this road, that 889 2, 13 | the world of its injustice and false judgment, of which 890 2, 13 | judgment, of which injustice and false judgment, I will in 891 2, 13 | in you, rose into Heaven, and was the one road which was 892 2, 13 | taught you by the example and life of the Truth. What 893 2, 13 | now remained of all this, and where is the road to be 894 2, 13 | as I have said to you, and, as they themselves say 895 2, 13 | that His doctrine is true, and has remained like a lifeboat 896 2, 13 | out of the tempestuous sea and to conduct her to the port 897 2, 13 | Bridge of My Son living and conversing in very deed 898 2, 13 | in very deed amongst men, and when He, the living Bridge, 899 2, 13 | there remained the Bridge and the road of His doctrine, 900 2, 13 | being joined with My power and with His wisdom, and with 901 2, 13 | power and with His wisdom, and with the clemency of the 902 2, 13 | may recognize the truth, and the Holy Spirit gives him 903 2, 13 | him love, which consumes and takes away all sensitive 904 2, 13 | both ways, both actually and through His doctrine, He 905 2, 13 | He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life; that is, the Bridge 906 2, 13 | I came from the Father, and I return to the Father, 907 2, 13 | I return to the Father, and shall return to you'; that 908 2, 13 | My Father sent Me to you, and made Me your Bridge, so 909 2, 13 | be saved from the river and attain to life.' Then He 910 2, 13 | I will go to the Father and return; that is, that when 911 2, 13 | will show you more clearly, and will confirm you in the 912 2, 13 | said that He would return, and He did return, because the 913 2, 13 | the power of the Father, and the wisdom of the Son, and 914 2, 13 | and the wisdom of the Son, and the clemency of His own 915 2, 13 | returns, not in actual flesh and blood, but, as I have said, 916 2, 13 | follow it, because it is firm and stable, and proceeds from 917 2, 13 | because it is firm and stable, and proceeds from Me, who am 918 2, 13 | Bridge as it actually is, and the doctrine, which is one 919 2, 13 | the doctrine, which is one and the same thing with it. 920 2, 13 | the same thing with it. And I have shown it to the ignorant, 921 2, 13 | where this road of Truth is, and where stand those who teach 922 2, 13 | stand those who teach it; and I have explained that they 923 2, 13 | Confessors, Evangelists, and Holy Doctors, placed like 924 2, 13 | And I have shown how My Son, 925 2, 13 | come again with My Majesty and Divine Power to judge the 926 2, 13 | render good to the virtuous, and reward them for their labors, 927 2, 13 | their labors, both in body and soul, and to dispense the 928 2, 13 | both in body and soul, and to dispense the evil of 929 2, 13 | And now I wish to tell you that 930 2, 13 | perfect, the imperfect, and the supremely perfect; and 931 2, 13 | and the supremely perfect; and the wicked, who, through 932 2, 13 | attaining to punishment and torment; wherefore I say 933 2, 13 | sons, walk over the Bridge, and not underneath it, because 934 2, 13 | I beg you to pray to Me, and for whom I ask in addition 935 2, 13 | ask in addition your tears and sweat, in order that they 936 2, 14 | God, relates many gifts and graces given to the human 937 2, 14 | those who abandon mortal sin and return to You, 'I do not 938 2, 14 | wood of the Cross, life and death battling together; 939 2, 14 | confounded the death of our sin, and the death of our sin destroyed 940 2, 14 | Your Mercy gives light and life, by which Your clemency 941 2, 14 | creatures, both the just and the unjust. In the height 942 2, 14 | washed us in the Blood, and by Mercy You wish to converse 943 2, 14 | fathers to fulfill Your Mercy and Your Truth in them? Because 944 2, 14 | their pain Your servants, and give them the fruit of their 945 2, 14 | ones, should have comfort, and the ignorant commemorating 946 2, 15 | river under the Bridge; and how the soul, that passes 947 2, 15 | the promise made to her, and God continuing His discourse 948 2, 15 | because I gave it you to taste and to see in the word which 949 2, 15 | your sight is imperfect, and My mercy perfect and infinite, 950 2, 15 | imperfect, and My mercy perfect and infinite, so that there 951 2, 15 | may be between a finite and an infinite thing. But I 952 2, 15 | should taste this mercy, and also the dignity of man, 953 2, 15 | the eye of your intellect, and wonder at those who voluntarily 954 2, 15 | voluntarily drown themselves, and at the baseness to which 955 2, 15 | have first become weak, and this was when they conceived 956 2, 15 | they then bring it forth, and lose the life of grace. 957 2, 15 | lose the life of grace. And, as a corpse which can have 958 2, 15 | but only when it is moved and lifted by others, so those, 959 2, 15 | their intellect sees not and knows not My Truth, because 960 2, 15 | of their own sensuality, and so their will is dead to 961 2, 15 | operations both in deed and thought are dead as far 962 2, 15 | insupportable to himself, and, wishing to govern the world, 963 2, 15 | sin in itself is nothing, and such men have become the 964 2, 15 | have become the servants and slaves of sin. I have made 965 2, 15 | received in Holy Baptism; and they have become trees of 966 2, 15 | is their own impatience, and its offshoot indiscretion: 967 2, 15 | is blinded by self-love, and therefore felt but little; 968 2, 15 | from the roots of pride, and the miserable soul is full 969 2, 15 | received, she would know Me, and knowing Me would know herself, 970 2, 15 | knowing Me would know herself, and so would remain in My love: 971 2, 15 | groping down the river, and she does not see that the 972 2, 16 | diverse as are the sins; and first, of the sin of sensuality. ~ 973 2, 16 | impurely, using their body and their mind like a swine 974 2, 16 | made sister to the angels, and now you are become a brute 975 2, 16 | very devils, whose friends and servants they have become, 976 2, 16 | obscured the intellect, and for that reason they preserved 977 2, 16 | Not so does the ignorant and false Christian, who has 978 2, 17 | fruit of others is avarice; and of the evils that proceed 979 2, 17 | feeds on earth till death, and when they arrive at death 980 2, 17 | They are cruel usurers, and robbers of their neighbor; 981 2, 17 | they would be compassionate and merciful to themselves, 982 2, 17 | virtues on their neighbor and succoring him charitably. 983 2, 17 | avarice, how many homicides and thefts, and how much pillage 984 2, 17 | many homicides and thefts, and how much pillage with unlawful 985 2, 17 | pillage with unlawful gain, and cruelty of heart and injustice! 986 2, 17 | gain, and cruelty of heart and injustice! It kills the 987 2, 17 | injustice! It kills the soul and makes her the slave of riches, 988 2, 17 | profit. Avarice proceeds from and feeds pride, the one follows 989 2, 17 | thought of his own reputation, and thus avarice, which is immediately 990 2, 17 | germinates the smoke of vainglory and vanity of heart, and boasting 991 2, 17 | vainglory and vanity of heart, and boasting in that which does 992 2, 17 | which has many branches, and the principal one is that 993 2, 17 | has another in his heart, and making him conceal the truth 994 2, 17 | making him conceal the truth and tell lies for his own profit. 995 2, 17 | lies for his own profit. And it produces envy, which 996 2, 17 | that is always gnawing, and does not let the miser have 997 2, 17 | consider their children and relations, and cause them 998 2, 17 | children and relations, and cause them to fall with 999 2, 17 | them into great misery. And, nevertheless, in My mercy 1000 2, 17 | in her at first by grace, and hiding Myself within her,