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1001 2, 17 | hiding Myself within her, and making of her a mansion 1002 2, 17 | adulteress, loving herself, and creatures more than Me, 1003 2, 17 | creatures more than Me, and has made a god of herself, 1004 2, 17 | persecuting Me with many and diverse sins. And this she 1005 2, 17 | with many and diverse sins. And this she does because she 1006 2, 18 | positions of authority, and bring forth fruits of injustice. ~ 1007 2, 18 | their position of authority, and who bear the banner of injustice -- 1008 2, 18 | injustice against Me, God, and against their neighbor, 1009 2, 18 | against their neighbor, and against themselves -- to 1010 2, 18 | paying the debt of virtue, and towards Me by not paying 1011 2, 18 | debt of honor in glorifying and praising My Name, which 1012 2, 18 | thieves, steal what is Mine, and give it to the service of 1013 2, 18 | commit injustice towards Me and towards themselves, like 1014 2, 18 | towards themselves, like blind and ignorant men who do not 1015 2, 18 | self-love, like the Jews and the ministers of the Law 1016 2, 18 | of the Law who, with envy and self-love, blinded themselves 1017 2, 18 | My only- begotten Son, and rendered not His due to 1018 2, 18 | lost the light of reason, and so they did not pay their 1019 2, 18 | pay their debt of honor and glory to Me, and to Him, 1020 2, 18 | of honor and glory to Me, and to Him, who was one thing 1021 2, 18 | who was one thing with Me, and like blind ones committed 1022 2, 18 | unjust to themselves, to Me, and to their neighbor, unjustly 1023 2, 18 | flesh of their dependents, and of any person who falls 1024 2, 19 | How through these and through other defects, one 1025 2, 19 | falls into false judgment; and of the indignity to which 1026 2, 19 | By these and by other sins men fall into 1027 2, 19 | works, which are all just, and all performed in truth through 1028 2, 19 | performed in truth through love and mercy. With this false judgment, 1029 2, 19 | With this false judgment, and with the poison of envy 1030 2, 19 | with the poison of envy and pride, the works of My Son 1031 2, 19 | of My Son were slandered and unjustly judged, and with 1032 2, 19 | slandered and unjustly judged, and with lies did His enemies 1033 2, 19 | self- love, impurity, pride, and avarice, and founded in 1034 2, 19 | impurity, pride, and avarice, and founded in envy, and in 1035 2, 19 | avarice, and founded in envy, and in perverse rashness with 1036 2, 19 | forever scandalized at Me and at My servants, whom they 1037 2, 19 | because their heart is rotten, and, having spoiled their taste, 1038 2, 19 | things seem evil to them, and bad things, that is to say 1039 2, 19 | you have become a slave, and that in the vilest service 1040 2, 19 | because you are the servant and slave of sin, and are become 1041 2, 19 | servant and slave of sin, and are become like unto that 1042 2, 19 | has deprived you of life, and given you death. This life 1043 2, 19 | given you death. This life and power were given you by 1044 2, 19 | the disobedience of Adam, and humbling Himself to the 1045 2, 19 | remained that was not punished and beaten out with pains, as 1046 2, 19 | men from eternal death, and they despise the Blood, 1047 2, 19 | they despise the Blood, and have trampled It under the 1048 2, 19 | their disordinate affection; and it is for this injustice 1049 2, 19 | it is for this injustice and false judgment that the 1050 2, 19 | that the world is reproved, and will be reproved on the 1051 2, 19 | reprove the world of injustice and false judgment.' And it 1052 2, 19 | injustice and false judgment.' And it was reproved when I sent 1053 2, 20 | reprove the world of injustice and of false judgment;" and 1054 2, 20 | and of false judgment;" and how one of these reproofs 1055 2, 20 | being fortified by My power, and illuminated by the wisdom 1056 2, 20 | who is one thing with Me and with My Son, reproved the 1057 2, 20 | doctrine of My Truth. They and all others, who are descended 1058 2, 20 | of the Holy Scriptures, and My servants, putting the 1059 2, 20 | the salvation of souls. And they cannot say 'I had no 1060 2, 20 | to them showing them vice and virtue. And I have made 1061 2, 20 | showing them vice and virtue. And I have made them see the 1062 2, 20 | see the fruit of virtue, and the hurtfulness of vice, 1063 2, 20 | vice, to give them love and holy fear with hatred of 1064 2, 20 | fear with hatred of vice and love of virtue, and this 1065 2, 20 | vice and love of virtue, and this truth has not been 1066 2, 20 | spirit who cannot offend, and feels not the vexations 1067 2, 20 | Paul, My standard-bearer, and many other saints who, by 1068 2, 20 | for the increase of grace and virtue in their souls. Thus, 1069 2, 20 | were born in sin like you, and nourished with a like food, 1070 2, 20 | nourished with a like food, and I am God now as then. My 1071 2, 20 | My power is not weakened, and cannot become weak. So that 1072 2, 20 | become weak. So that I can and will succor him who wishes 1073 2, 20 | comes out of the river, and walks by the Bridge, following 1074 2, 20 | excuse, because both reproof and truth are constantly given 1075 2, 20 | to them, 'Rise, you dead, and come to judgment!' That 1076 2, 20 | who are dead to grace, and have reached the moment 1077 2, 20 | your corporal death, arise and come before the Supreme 1078 2, 20 | Judge with your injustice and false judgment, and with 1079 2, 20 | injustice and false judgment, and with the extinguished light 1080 2, 20 | burning in Holy Baptism (and which you have blown out 1081 2, 20 | with the wind of pride), and with the vanity of your 1082 2, 20 | the stream of the delights and dignities of the world at 1083 2, 20 | following your fragile flesh and the temptations of the devil, 1084 2, 20 | which is a running stream, and so has brought you with 1085 2, 21 | second reproof of injustice, and of false judgment, in general 1086 2, 21 | false judgment, in general and in particular. ~ 1087 2, 21 | hands, she begins to see, and therefore is gnawed with 1088 2, 21 | soul have light to know and grieve for her fault, not 1089 2, 21 | against Me, who am Supreme and Eternal Good, still she 1090 2, 21 | of death without light, and alone, with the worm of 1091 2, 21 | without the hope of the Blood, and bewailing herself more on 1092 2, 21 | arrives at eternal damnation. And then she is reproved cruelly 1093 2, 21 | My Justice of injustice and of false judgment, and not 1094 2, 21 | injustice and of false judgment, and not so much of general injustice 1095 2, 21 | much of general injustice and false judgment which she 1096 2, 21 | the particular injustice and false judgment which she 1097 2, 21 | Judas displeased Me more, and was more grave to My Son 1098 2, 21 | be greater than My mercy, and, on that account, are they 1099 2, 21 | punished with the devils, and eternally tortured with 1100 2, 21 | eternally tortured with them. And they are reproved of injustice 1101 2, 21 | than over My displeasure, and do not render to Me that 1102 2, 21 | to Me that which is Mine, and to themselves that which 1103 2, 21 | they ought to render love, and to themselves bitterness, 1104 2, 21 | with contrition of heart, and offer it to Me, for the 1105 2, 21 | offense they have done Me. And they do the contrary because 1106 2, 21 | love, pitying themselves, and grieving on account of the 1107 2, 21 | are guilty of injustice and false judgment, and are 1108 2, 21 | injustice and false judgment, and are punished for the one 1109 2, 21 | are punished for the one and the other together. Wherefore, 1110 2, 21 | cruel servant, sensuality, and the cruel tyrant the Devil, 1111 2, 21 | together, they are punished and tormented, as together they 1112 2, 22 | which follow all the others; and particularly of the foulness 1113 2, 22 | is pride, with injustice and cruelty, and with other 1114 2, 22 | with injustice and cruelty, and with other filthiness and 1115 2, 22 | and with other filthiness and iniquitous sins, that follow 1116 2, 22 | rather choose the fire, and the tortures and torments, 1117 2, 22 | the fire, and the tortures and torments, and to see Me, 1118 2, 22 | the tortures and torments, and to see Me, than to be without 1119 2, 22 | be without the torments and not to see Me. ~ 1120 2, 22 | soul is deprived of Me, and of the conversation of the 1121 2, 22 | worthy of the conversation and sight of the devils, which 1122 2, 22 | Devil is the third pain and redoubles to them their 1123 2, 22 | such abundance of love, and displeasure of themselves, 1124 2, 22 | themselves worthy of him. And so the worm of Conscience 1125 2, 22 | of Conscience gnaws more and more, and the fire of this 1126 2, 22 | Conscience gnaws more and more, and the fire of this Conscience 1127 2, 22 | Conscience never ceases to burn. And the sight is more painful 1128 2, 22 | man could not imagine it. And if you remember well, you 1129 2, 22 | of time, hardly a moment, and you chose (after you had 1130 2, 22 | that is deprived of Me, and more or less according to 1131 2, 22 | the fire. This fire burns and does not consume, for the 1132 2, 22 | their sins, to some more, and to some less, according 1133 2, 22 | all others, such as cold and heat and gnashing of the 1134 2, 22 | others, such as cold and heat and gnashing of the teeth and 1135 2, 22 | and gnashing of the teeth and many others. Now because 1136 2, 22 | that they had of injustice and false judgment, neither 1137 2, 23 | I have told you of two, and now, so that you may see 1138 2, 23 | miserable soul is renewed and increased by the union that 1139 2, 23 | generate in it confusion and shame. Know that, in the 1140 2, 23 | the womb of the Virgin, and being born in a stable amongst 1141 2, 23 | stable amongst the animals, and then dying between two thieves. 1142 2, 23 | letting Him suffer pain and torment like man, not that 1143 2, 23 | reprove in His Own Person, and will render to everyone 1144 2, 23 | render to everyone his due, and there will be no one in 1145 2, 23 | will cause such torment and terror that the tongue cannot 1146 2, 23 | according to the divine nature, and, according to the human 1147 2, 23 | account of their terrible and darkened vision, that, as 1148 2, 23 | to the healthy eye light (and it is not the defect of 1149 2, 23 | darkness, in confusion, and in hatred, not through defect 1150 2, 24 | And their hatred is so great 1151 2, 24 | continually blaspheme Me. And do you know why they cannot 1152 2, 24 | with the bonds of hatred, and forever obstinate in that 1153 2, 24 | he was deprived of love and could not desire good, either 1154 2, 24 | good to their neighbor, and they blaspheme Me, because 1155 2, 24 | life ended in hatred of Me and of virtue. But why then 1156 2, 24 | because he was the eldest, and had nourished them up in 1157 2, 24 | cause of their damnation, and he saw pain increased to 1158 2, 25 | the affection of charity and the bonds of love, cannot 1159 2, 25 | with which she comes to Me, and that measure that is measured 1160 2, 25 | She always desires Me, and loves Me, and her desire 1161 2, 25 | desires Me, and loves Me, and her desire is not in vain -- 1162 2, 25 | hungry, she is satisfied, and being satisfied, she has 1163 2, 25 | the tediousness of satiety and the pain of hunger are far 1164 2, 25 | have lived in love of Me and of the neighbor, united 1165 2, 25 | together with the general love, and the particular, which, moreover, 1166 2, 25 | proceed from the same love. And they rejoice and exult, 1167 2, 25 | same love. And they rejoice and exult, participating in 1168 2, 25 | that they enjoy altogether. And they rejoice and exult with 1169 2, 25 | altogether. And they rejoice and exult with the angels with 1170 2, 25 | according to their diverse and various virtues in the world, 1171 2, 25 | bound in the bonds of love. And they have a special participation 1172 2, 25 | grace, increasing virtue, and the one was the occasion 1173 2, 25 | of manifesting the glory and praise of My name, in themselves 1174 2, 25 | of My name, in themselves and in their neighbor; and, 1175 2, 25 | themselves and in their neighbor; and, in the life everlasting, 1176 2, 25 | added to the universal good, and I would not that you should 1177 2, 25 | citizens, My beloved sons, and all the angels -- for, when 1178 2, 25 | in the good of that soul, and the soul in their good. 1179 2, 25 | the plenitude of grace, and therefore they exult in 1180 2, 25 | And that soul rejoices in Me, 1181 2, 25 | that soul rejoices in Me, and in the souls, and in the 1182 2, 25 | in Me, and in the souls, and in the blessed spirits, 1183 2, 25 | blessed spirits, seeing and tasting in them the beauty 1184 2, 25 | tasting in them the beauty and the sweetness of My love. 1185 2, 25 | the sweetness of My love. And their desires forever cry 1186 2, 25 | salvation of the whole world. And because their life ended 1187 2, 25 | finished their life, they go on and remain eternally. They are 1188 2, 25 | that, time failing them, and, dying in a state of grace, 1189 2, 25 | they cannot sin any more. And their will is so united 1190 2, 25 | not trouble themselves, and even are contented to see 1191 2, 25 | do they disagree with Me, and their desires are all satisfied. 1192 2, 25 | they desire your salvation, and always pray to Me for you, 1193 2, 25 | not the pain of desire. And think not, that the bliss 1194 2, 25 | will give of her abundance, and will re-clothe herself on 1195 2, 25 | is made immortal, stayed and established in Me, so the 1196 2, 25 | union becomes immortal, and, having lost heaviness, 1197 2, 25 | heaviness, is made fine and light. Wherefore, know that 1198 2, 25 | can pass through a wall, and that neither water nor fire 1199 2, 25 | given to her by grace, and by the ineffable love with 1200 2, 25 | created her in My image and likeness. The eye of your 1201 2, 25 | being satisfied in herself, and, as I have told you, the 1202 2, 25 | which have remained fresh, and the Scars in His Body are 1203 2, 25 | His Body are preserved, and continually cry for mercy 1204 2, 25 | you, to Me, the Supreme and Eternal Father. And they 1205 2, 25 | Supreme and Eternal Father. And they are all conformed with 1206 2, 25 | with Him, in joyousness and mirth, and you will all 1207 2, 25 | in joyousness and mirth, and you will all be conformed 1208 2, 25 | with Him, eye with eye, and hand with hand, and with 1209 2, 25 | eye, and hand with hand, and with the whole Body of the 1210 2, 25 | of the sweet Word My Son, and, dwelling in Me, you will 1211 2, 25 | the affection of My love, and therefore will this delight 1212 2, 25 | any good, but they rejoice and delight in that good which 1213 2, 25 | life alone can they merit and sin, according as they please, 1214 2, 25 | judgment, but with joy, and the Face of My Son will 1215 2, 25 | finished their lives in love and affection for Me, and good-will 1216 2, 25 | love and affection for Me, and good-will towards their 1217 2, 25 | will appear with hatred and with justice. And to the 1218 2, 25 | hatred and with justice. And to the saved with love and 1219 2, 25 | And to the saved with love and mercy." ~ 1220 2, 26 | seen better near darkness, and darkness near light, so 1221 2, 26 | increase of pain to themselves. And so will it be, because when 1222 2, 26 | them, 'Arise, you dead, and come to judgment,' the soul 1223 2, 26 | the just to be glorified, and in the damned to be tortured 1224 2, 26 | to be tortured eternally. And the aspect of My Truth, 1225 2, 26 | the aspect of My Truth, and of all the blessed ones 1226 2, 26 | will reproach them greatly, and make them ashamed, and the 1227 2, 26 | and make them ashamed, and the worm of conscience will 1228 2, 26 | tree, that is the soul, and also the bark outside, which 1229 2, 26 | that was shed for them, and by the works of mercy, spiritual 1230 2, 26 | works of mercy, spiritual and temporal, which I did for 1231 2, 26 | them by means of My Son, and which they should have done 1232 2, 26 | neighbor, for their pride and self-love, for their filthiness 1233 2, 26 | self-love, for their filthiness and avarice; and when they see 1234 2, 26 | filthiness and avarice; and when they see the mercy 1235 2, 26 | body has been the companion and instrument of the soul -- 1236 2, 26 | of the soul -- to do good and evil according as the free-will 1237 2, 26 | done by means of the body. And, therefore, justly, My daughter, 1238 2, 26 | justly, My daughter, glory and infinite good are rendered 1239 2, 26 | together with the soul. And to the perverse ones will 1240 2, 26 | their pains will revive and increase at the aspect of 1241 2, 26 | the purity of My Deity, and of this mass of their Adam 1242 2, 26 | all the choirs of Angels, and themselves, by their own 1243 2, 26 | into the depths of Hell. And they will see generosity 1244 2, 26 | they will see generosity and mercy shining in the blessed 1245 2, 26 | The pain and confusion of the darkened 1246 2, 26 | deprived), will increase, and their bodies will appear 1247 2, 26 | have committed, with pain and torture. And when they hear 1248 2, 26 | with pain and torture. And when they hear that terrible 1249 2, 26 | Eternal Fire,' the soul and the body will go to be with 1250 2, 26 | he loved disordinately, and the burning in the fire; 1251 2, 26 | the foul man with foulness and miserable concupiscence; 1252 2, 26 | the envious with envy; and the hater of his neighbor 1253 2, 26 | his neighbor with hatred. And inordinate self-love, whence 1254 2, 26 | intolerable pain, as the head and principle of every evil, 1255 2, 26 | with pride. So that body and soul together will be punished 1256 2, 26 | turning back to see their sins and My Mercy. And they arrive 1257 2, 26 | their sins and My Mercy. And they arrive at the Gate 1258 2, 26 | who is the Father of Lies; and this Devil is their Door, 1259 2, 26 | been said, as the elect and My sons, keeping by the 1260 2, 26 | follow the Way of Truth, and this Truth is the Door, 1261 2, 26 | this Truth is the Door, and therefore said My Truth, ' 1262 2, 26 | but by Me.' He is the Door and the Way through which they 1263 2, 26 | them to the water of death. And it is to this that the Devil 1264 2, 26 | that the Devil calls them, and they are as blind and mad, 1265 2, 26 | them, and they are as blind and mad, and do not perceive 1266 2, 26 | they are as blind and mad, and do not perceive it, because 1267 2, 26 | water of death, let him come and I will give it to him.'" ~ 1268 2, 27 | the use of temptations, and how every soul in her extremity 1269 2, 27 | have miserably offended Me. And I have set him in this life 1270 2, 27 | him in this life to tempt and molest My creatures, not 1271 2, 27 | conquer, proving their virtue, and receive from Me the glory 1272 2, 27 | Me the glory of victory. And no one should fear any battle 1273 2, 27 | made My creatures strong, and have given them strength 1274 2, 27 | with which he strikes you and slays you. But if man do 1275 2, 27 | consent to his temptations and molestations, he will never 1276 2, 27 | through knowledge of self, and knowledge of Me, which knowledge 1277 2, 27 | lift off himself the pains and vexations which he would 1278 2, 27 | vexations which he would flee; and he knows Me in his will, 1279 2, 27 | yield to these thoughts. And he has seen that My love 1280 2, 27 | for the devil is weak, and by himself can do nothing, 1281 2, 27 | nothing, unless I allow him. And I let him tempt, through 1282 2, 27 | him tempt, through love, and not through hatred, that 1283 2, 27 | hatred, that you may conquer, and not that you may be conquered, 1284 2, 27 | that you may be conquered, and that you may come to a perfect 1285 2, 27 | perfect knowledge of yourself, and of Me, and that virtue may 1286 2, 27 | of yourself, and of Me, and that virtue may be proved, 1287 2, 27 | torture the damned in Hell, and in this life, to exercise 1288 2, 27 | in this life, to exercise and prove virtue in the soul. 1289 2, 27 | rather to deprive you of it, and this he cannot do, if you 1290 2, 27 | I have made them strong, and in putting themselves into 1291 2, 27 | themselves into his hands), and, arriving at the extremity 1292 2, 27 | of their own conscience, and desperately, despairingly, 1293 2, 27 | the extremity of death, and before they get there, they 1294 2, 27 | who have lived in charity and died in love, if they have 1295 2, 27 | have prepared for them, and embrace it with the arms 1296 2, 27 | love to Me, the Supreme and Eternal Good. And so they 1297 2, 27 | Supreme and Eternal Good. And so they taste eternal life 1298 2, 27 | have passed their lives, and have arrived at the last 1299 2, 27 | the same light of faith and hope that had those perfect 1300 2, 27 | place, as I have told you, and they taste it and possess 1301 2, 27 | told you, and they taste it and possess it before they depart 1302 2, 27 | the damned with hatred and with despair, and the perfect 1303 2, 27 | hatred and with despair, and the perfect ones with love 1304 2, 27 | the perfect ones with love and the light of faith and with 1305 2, 27 | love and the light of faith and with the hope of the Blood. 1306 2, 27 | with the hope of the Blood. And the imperfect arrive at 1307 2, 27 | of Purgatory, with mercy and the same faith." ~ 1308 2, 27 | under pretense of some good: and, how those are deceived 1309 2, 27 | deceived who keep by the river, and not by the aforesaid Bridge, 1310 2, 27 | pains, they fall into them; and of the vision of a tree, 1311 2, 27 | is, to that which he has, and, blinding them with the 1312 2, 27 | them with the pleasures and conditions of the world, 1313 2, 27 | self- love, does not know and discern what is true good, 1314 2, 27 | discern what is true good, and of profit to the soul and 1315 2, 27 | and of profit to the soul and to the body. And, therefore, 1316 2, 27 | the soul and to the body. And, therefore, the Devil, seeing 1317 2, 27 | places before them diverse and various delights, colored 1318 2, 27 | of some benefit or good; and he gives to everyone according 1319 2, 27 | according to his condition and those principal vices to 1320 2, 27 | another to the religious, and others to prelates and noblemen, 1321 2, 27 | and others to prelates and noblemen, according to their 1322 2, 27 | themselves in the river, and who care for nothing but 1323 2, 27 | themselves to My injury, and I will relate to you their 1324 2, 27 | they deceive themselves, and how, wishing to flee troubles, 1325 2, 27 | because they are blinded and do not know or see the Truth, 1326 2, 27 | have mercy on the world, and draw it out of the darkness 1327 2, 27 | own sensuality kept away, and ran to a mountain of Lolla, 1328 2, 27 | Lolla seemed to be of corn and was not, and, therefore, 1329 2, 27 | be of corn and was not, and, therefore, as you saw, 1330 2, 27 | thereon died of hunger, and many, recognizing the deceits 1331 2, 27 | world, returned to the Tree and passed the thorn, which 1332 2, 27 | of following the Truth. And conscience always fights 1333 2, 27 | always fights on one side, and sensuality on the other; 1334 2, 27 | soon as he, with hatred and displeasure of himself, 1335 2, 27 | breaks at once the thorn, and finds inestimable sweetness, 1336 2, 27 | then, some finding more and some less, according to 1337 2, 27 | according to their disposition and desire. And you know that 1338 2, 27 | disposition and desire. And you know that then I said 1339 2, 27 | I am your God, unmoving and unchangeable,' and I do 1340 2, 27 | unmoving and unchangeable,' and I do not draw away from 1341 2, 27 | Myself visible to them, and I have shown them what it 1342 2, 27 | to pass a little thorn. And they cannot escape enduring 1343 2, 27 | their pain is alleviated. And because -- by sin, as I 1344 2, 27 | world germinates thorns and tribulations, and because 1345 2, 27 | thorns and tribulations, and because this river flows 1346 2, 27 | deceived by a disordinate fear, and how I am your God, immovable, 1347 2, 27 | persons but of holy desire. And this I have shown you under 1348 2, 28 | show you to whom the thorns and tribulations, that the world 1349 2, 28 | germinated through sin, do harm, and to whom they do not. And 1350 2, 28 | and to whom they do not. And as, so far, I have shown 1351 2, 28 | together with My goodness, and have told you how they are 1352 2, 28 | will is accorded with Mine, and it is the will that gives 1353 2, 28 | trouble to man. Pain of mind and of body have those, of whom 1354 2, 28 | desiring Me, they have Me, and taste Me without any revolt, 1355 2, 28 | that opposed the spirit, and came between it and the 1356 2, 28 | spirit, and came between it and the perfect knowledge of 1357 2, 28 | which vision is her bliss; and seeing she knows, and knowing 1358 2, 28 | bliss; and seeing she knows, and knowing she loves, and loving 1359 2, 28 | and knowing she loves, and loving she tastes Me, Supreme 1360 2, 28 | loving she tastes Me, Supreme and Eternal Good, and, in tasting 1361 2, 28 | Supreme and Eternal Good, and, in tasting Me, she is satisfied, 1362 2, 28 | tasting Me, she is satisfied, and her desire is fulfilled, 1363 2, 28 | the desire she had to see and know Me; wherefore desiring 1364 2, 28 | wherefore desiring she has, and having she desires. And 1365 2, 28 | and having she desires. And as I told you pain is far 1366 2, 28 | is far from the desire, and weariness from the satisfaction 1367 2, 28 | blessed principally in seeing and in knowing Me, in which 1368 2, 28 | knowing Me, in which vision and knowledge their will is 1369 2, 28 | which they desired to have, and so are they satisfied. Wherefore 1370 2, 28 | which the will desires, and thus being satisfied; but 1371 2, 28 | will is satisfied in seeing and knowing Me, as I have told 1372 2, 28 | goodness in themselves, and in the knowledge of My Truth, 1373 2, 28 | soul to discern, to know, and to follow the way and the 1374 2, 28 | know, and to follow the way and the doctrine of My Truth -- 1375 2, 28 | Truth -- the Word Incarnate; and without this pupil of faith 1376 2, 28 | the intellect is faith, and if the soul has covered 1377 2, 28 | that in seeing they know, and in knowing they love, and 1378 2, 28 | and in knowing they love, and in loving they deny and 1379 2, 28 | and in loving they deny and lose their self-will. Their 1380 2, 28 | clothe themselves in Mine, and I will nothing but your 1381 2, 28 | their back to the way below, and begin to ascend by the Bridge, 1382 2, 28 | to ascend by the Bridge, and pass over the thorns, which 1383 2, 28 | sensitive will, which gives pain and afflicts the mind of the 1384 2, 28 | tribulation for My sake, and they desire nothing but 1385 2, 28 | humiliating themselves, and deeming themselves unworthy 1386 2, 28 | themselves unworthy of peace and quiet of mind and deserving 1387 2, 28 | peace and quiet of mind and deserving of pain, and so 1388 2, 28 | mind and deserving of pain, and so they proceed with cheerfulness 1389 2, 28 | proceed with cheerfulness and self- knowledge, without 1390 2, 28 | without painful affliction. And if tribulations on man's 1391 2, 28 | with the light of reason and holy faith, looking to Me, 1392 2, 28 | who am the Supreme Good, and who cannot desire other 1393 2, 28 | tribulations through love, and not through hatred. And 1394 2, 28 | and not through hatred. And they that love Me recognize 1395 2, 28 | love Me recognize this, and, examining themselves, they 1396 2, 28 | themselves, they see their sins, and understand by the light 1397 2, 28 | that good must be rewarded and evil punished. And they 1398 2, 28 | rewarded and evil punished. And they see that every little 1399 2, 28 | punish them in this life, and in this finite time; they 1400 2, 28 | with contrition of heart, and with perfect patience do 1401 2, 28 | patience do they merit, and their labors are rewarded 1402 2, 28 | as the point of a needle and no more; and, when time 1403 2, 28 | of a needle and no more; and, when time has passed labor 1404 2, 28 | They endure with patience, and the thorns they pass through 1405 2, 28 | heart is drawn out of them and united to Me by the affection 1406 2, 28 | money of it in this life, and that, though they walk on 1407 2, 28 | known My Supreme Goodness, and sought for it where it was 1408 2, 29 | considering her own imperfections and those of others, was saddened 1409 2, 29 | was saddened to hear of and to see the great blindness 1410 2, 29 | arranged for the exercising and proving of virtue in them. 1411 2, 29 | proving of virtue in them. And, notwithstanding all this, 1412 2, 29 | them, through self-love and disordinate affection, go 1413 2, 29 | affection, go under by the river and arrive at eternal damnation, 1414 2, 29 | arrive at eternal damnation, and many who were in the river 1415 2, 29 | many who were in the river and had begun to come out, turn 1416 2, 29 | manifest Himself to her. And, for this, she was in bitterness, 1417 2, 29 | she was in bitterness, and fixing the eye of her intellect 1418 2, 29 | the Body of Your only Son, and what method should be used 1419 2, 29 | entirely out of the depths and to keep the way of Your 1420 2, 29 | keep the way of Your Truth, and who are those who ascend 1421 2, 30 | of His mercy, the hunger and desire of that soul, said: " 1422 2, 30 | Fulfiller of holy desire, and therefore I will show and 1423 2, 30 | and therefore I will show and declare to you that which 1424 2, 30 | the figure of three steps, and to tell you what method 1425 2, 30 | able to ascend the Bridge. And, although above, in relating 1426 2, 30 | relating to you the delusion and blindness of men, tasting 1427 2, 30 | the earnest-money of Hell, and, as martyrs of the Devil, 1428 2, 30 | is founded in self-love, and that self-love is a cloud 1429 2, 30 | itself the light of faith, and one is not lost without 1430 2, 30 | soul I created in My image and similitude, giving her memory, 1431 2, 30 | giving her memory, intellect, and will. The intellect is the 1432 2, 30 | noble part of the soul, and is moved by the affection, 1433 2, 30 | moved by the affection, and nourishes it, and the hand 1434 2, 30 | affection, and nourishes it, and the hand of love -- that 1435 2, 30 | with the remembrance of Me and of the benefits received, 1436 2, 30 | which it does with care and gratitude, and so one power 1437 2, 30 | with care and gratitude, and so one power spurs on another, 1438 2, 30 | power spurs on another, and the soul is nourished in 1439 2, 30 | because she is made of love, and, by love, I created her. 1440 2, 30 | by love, I created her. And therefore I told you that 1441 2, 30 | that which you can love.' And at once it arises, considering 1442 2, 30 | the dignity of the soul, and the indignity into which 1443 2, 30 | My inestimable goodness, and the increate charity with 1444 2, 30 | with which I created her, and, in contemplating her misery, 1445 2, 30 | her misery, it discovers and tastes My mercy, and sees 1446 2, 30 | discovers and tastes My mercy, and sees how, through mercy, 1447 2, 30 | mercy, I have lent her time and drawn her out of darkness. 1448 2, 30 | with which it eats hatred and displeasure of its own sensuality, 1449 2, 30 | united with true humility and perfect patience, which 1450 2, 30 | to themselves perfectly and imperfectly, according as 1451 2, 30 | displeasure of virtue, and love of vice, whence she 1452 2, 30 | whence she draws pride and impatience, and the memory 1453 2, 30 | draws pride and impatience, and the memory is filled with 1454 2, 30 | intellect that it can discern and see nothing but such glittering 1455 2, 30 | intellect to perceive them and the affection to love them; 1456 2, 30 | desire anything but good, and vice, appearing to him thus, 1457 2, 30 | blindness, does not discern, and knows not the truth, it 1458 2, 30 | truth, it errs, seeking good and delights there where they 1459 2, 30 | Me, are venomous thorns, and, that the vision of the 1460 2, 30 | intellect is deluded by them, and the affection of the will 1461 2, 30 | deluded into loving them, and the memory into retaining 1462 2, 30 | bound to the affection, and it moves as it pleases, 1463 2, 30 | parts in you -- sensuality and reason. Sensuality is appointed 1464 2, 30 | the body, you may prove and exercise the virtues. The 1465 2, 30 | by the Blood of My Son, and she cannot be dominated 1466 2, 30 | controlled by her free choice, and when this free choice agrees 1467 2, 30 | becomes one thing with it. And I tell you truly, that, 1468 2, 30 | actions, both spiritual and temporal, that the creature 1469 2, 30 | that the creature can do, and free choice gets rid of 1470 2, 30 | choice gets rid of sensuality and binds itself with reason. 1471 2, 30 | rest in the midst of them; and this is what My truth, the 1472 2, 30 | I in the midst of them.' And this is the truth. I have 1473 2, 30 | come to Me except by Him, and therefore I made of Him 1474 2, 30 | Bridge with three steps. And those three steps figure, 1475 2, 31 | three powers of the soul, and no one who wishes to pass 1476 2, 31 | wishes to pass by the Bridge and doctrine of My Truth can 1477 2, 31 | mount one without the other, and the soul cannot persevere 1478 2, 31 | river. There are two goals, and, for the attainment of either, 1479 2, 31 | needful -- they are vice and virtue. If you desire to 1480 2, 31 | must persevere in virtue, and if you would have eternal 1481 2, 31 | arrive at Me who am Life, and with perseverance that they 1482 2, 32 | thirsts, let him come to Me and drink." ~ 1483 2, 32 | were all invited, generally and in particular, by My Truth, 1484 2, 32 | thirsts, let him come to Me and drink, for I am the Fountain 1485 2, 32 | not say 'Go to the Father and drink,' but He said 'Come 1486 2, 32 | My Son there can be pain. And you, while you are pilgrims 1487 2, 32 | while you are pilgrims and wayfarers in this mortal 1488 2, 32 | sin, brought forth thorns. And why did He say 'Let him 1489 2, 32 | say 'Let him come to Me and drink'? Because whoever 1490 2, 32 | nature with the human nature. And you, finding yourselves 1491 2, 32 | I am one thing with Him, and He with Me. So that you 1492 2, 32 | of Living Water of Grace, and it is right for you, with 1493 2, 32 | prosperity or adversity, and to persevere till you find 1494 2, 32 | by means of this sweet and amorous Word, My only-begotten 1495 2, 32 | Word, My only-begotten Son. And why did He say: 'I am the 1496 2, 32 | Why did He say 'Come to Me and drink'? Because you cannot 1497 2, 32 | mortal life without pain, and in Me, the Father, there 1498 2, 32 | in Him there can be pain, and therefore of Him did I make 1499 2, 32 | what way you should keep, and how, namely with perseverance, 1500 2, 32 | receives the crown of glory and victory in the life everlasting." ~