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501 2, 6 | grateful, but, going from bad to worse, and from guilt to 502 2, 6 | to worse, and from guilt to guilt, even persecuting 503 2, 6 | given them, and continue to give them, that, not only 504 2, 6 | what they have received to grace, but seem to themselves 505 2, 6 | received to grace, but seem to themselves on occasion to 506 2, 6 | to themselves on occasion to receive injuries from Me, 507 2, 6 | I say to you that they will be more 508 2, 6 | under great obligations to Him from whom he receives 509 2, 6 | then, was closely bound to Me through his being which 510 2, 6 | which reason, he was bound to render Me glory, but he 511 2, 6 | deprived Me of it, and wished to give it to himself. Thus 512 2, 6 | it, and wished to give it to himself. Thus he came to 513 2, 6 | to himself. Thus he came to transgress My obedience 514 2, 6 | have incurred -- that is to say, the treasure of the 515 2, 6 | they have been procreated to grace. See, therefore, how 516 2, 6 | For they are now obliged to render Me glory and praise 517 2, 6 | genuine virtue, as I have said to you above, and if they do 518 2, 6 | receive. Wherefore I say to you, that they ask for death 519 2, 6 | but sinners neither seem to perceive this, nor to pay 520 2, 6 | seem to perceive this, nor to pay any attention to their 521 2, 6 | nor to pay any attention to their own sins, and so become 522 2, 6 | appease My wrath -- that is to say, by means of My servants, 523 2, 6 | servants, if they are jealous to constrain Me by their desire. 524 2, 6 | given you, because I wished to do mercy to the world. ~ 525 2, 6 | because I wished to do mercy to the world. ~ 526 2, 6 | beauty will be restored to her, not by the knife nor 527 2, 7 | How the road to Heaven being broken through 528 2, 7 | way in which they ought to have, as they did not participate 529 2, 7 | that I have created man to My own image and similitude, 530 2, 7 | flesh immediately began to war against the Spirit, 531 2, 7 | would have been obedient to him, had he remained in 532 2, 7 | Eternal Life. And so, wishing to remedy your great evils, 533 2, 7 | obligations the creature is to Me, and how ignorant he 534 2, 7 | how ignorant he is, not to take the remedy which I 535 2, 7 | which I have offered, but to be willing to drown." ~ 536 2, 7 | offered, but to be willing to drown." ~ 537 2, 8 | How God induces the soul to look at the greatness of 538 2, 8 | as it reaches from earth to Heaven. ~ 539 2, 8 | darkness. I also wish you to look at the Bridge of My 540 2, 8 | for it reaches from Heaven to earth, that is, that the 541 2, 8 | your humanity is joined to the greatness of the Deity 542 2, 8 | Bridge reaches from Heaven to earth, and constitutes the 543 2, 8 | was necessary, in order to reform the road which was 544 2, 8 | which was broken, as I said to you, in order that man should 545 2, 8 | earth sufficiently large to span the flood and give 546 2, 8 | nature was not sufficient to satisfy for guilt, to remove 547 2, 8 | sufficient to satisfy for guilt, to remove the stain of Adam' 548 2, 8 | a stench, as I have said to you above. It was, therefore, 549 2, 8 | was, therefore, necessary to join human nature with the 550 2, 8 | that it might be sufficient to satisfy for the whole human 551 2, 8 | of My only Son, offered to Me to take death from you 552 2, 8 | only Son, offered to Me to take death from you and 553 2, 8 | take death from you and to give you life. ~ 554 2, 8 | of the Divinity, humbled to the earth, and joined with 555 2, 8 | order that man might come to his true happiness with 556 2, 9 | How this soul prays God to show her those who cross 557 2, 9 | Goodness. What moves You to do us such mercy through 558 2, 9 | Son, fastened and nailed to the Cross, of which You 559 2, 9 | Lord, that You were willing to show me who are those who 560 2, 9 | it please Your goodness to manifest this to me, willingly 561 2, 9 | goodness to manifest this to me, willingly would I see 562 2, 10 | and how these words are to be understood: "If I am 563 2, 10 | Then the Eternal God, to enamor and excite that soul 564 2, 10 | salvation of souls, replied to her, and said: "First, as 565 2, 10 | ask Me, I will now explain to you the nature of this Bridge. 566 2, 10 | Bridge reaches from Heaven to earth; this is through the 567 2, 10 | was given gall and vinegar to drink. In these three steps 568 2, 10 | soul, which I will explain to you below. The feet of the 569 2, 10 | His Side, Which manifests to you the secret of His Heart, 570 2, 10 | her affection, commences to taste the love of His Heart, 571 2, 10 | you can be of no profit to Him, He being one and the 572 2, 10 | step, the soul reaches out to the third -- that is -- 573 2, 10 | the third -- that is -- to the Mouth, where she finds 574 2, 10 | at the same time, joined to the earth. Do you know when 575 2, 10 | nature remaining joined to the lowliness of the earth 576 2, 10 | For this reason I said to you that, being lifted on 577 2, 10 | high I will draw all things to Me.' My Goodness, seeing 578 2, 10 | other way could you be drawn to Me, I sent Him in order 579 2, 10 | should be re-made, in order to free you from death, and 580 2, 10 | free you from death, and to restore you to the life 581 2, 10 | death, and to restore you to the life of grace; wherefore 582 2, 10 | wherefore He drew everything to Himself by this means, namely, 583 2, 10 | could not show you, than to lay down My life for you; 584 2, 10 | ignorant man should be unable to resist being drawn to Me. ~ 585 2, 10 | unable to resist being drawn to Me. ~ 586 2, 10 | He would draw all things to Him. And this is to be understood 587 2, 10 | things to Him. And this is to be understood in two ways. 588 2, 10 | powers of the soul are drawn to Him, all the actions are 589 2, 10 | the actions are also drawn to Him. Secondly, everything 590 2, 10 | for the service of man, to serve the necessities of 591 2, 10 | them, but for Me, in order to serve Me with all his heart, 592 2, 11 | hostelry where food is given to the travelers; and how he 593 2, 11 | goes over the Bridge goes to life, while he who goes 594 2, 11 | he who goes under It goes to perdition and death. ~ 595 2, 11 | even those who attempted to walk by the road of virtue 596 2, 11 | Word, of whom I have spoken to you, He, who was Himself 597 2, 11 | Bread of Life, and gives to drink of the Blood, so that 598 2, 11 | wholly man, may be ministered to you. The pilgrim, having 599 2, 11 | says, 'That no man can come to Me if not by Him,' and so 600 2, 11 | lie that the Devil told to Eve, with which he broke 601 2, 11 | which he broke up the road to Heaven, and the Truth brought 602 2, 11 | and find themselves united to Me, who am the Door and 603 2, 11 | drowning; thus have come to pass the sins, and the condition 604 2, 11 | river, although it seems to him that he stands still 605 2, 11 | passing himself continually to the end of his journey -- 606 2, 11 | through death, by which he has to leave them, or through my 607 2, 12 | roads, and both are hard to travel. Wonder, then, at 608 2, 12 | which causes such delight to those who use It, that every 609 2, 12 | burden light, yet prefers to walk over the water. For 610 2, 12 | which promises refreshment to him who wearies himself 611 2, 12 | grateful and just, and render to every man according as he 612 2, 12 | would not be sufficient to relate the delight felt 613 2, 12 | good, and chooses rather to receive in this life, the 614 2, 12 | soul at the offense done to Me, and in compassion for 615 2, 12 | I have told you in order to explain My words, that My 616 2, 13 | this Bridge, having reached to Heaven on the day of the 617 2, 13 | only-begotten Son returned to Me, forty days after the 618 2, 13 | the day of the Ascension, to the disciples, standing 619 2, 13 | ascended on high, and returned to Me the Father, I sent the 620 2, 13 | the Holy Spirit, who came to you with My power and the 621 2, 13 | the minds of the disciples to confess the truth, and to 622 2, 13 | to confess the truth, and to announce this road, that 623 2, 13 | I will in time discourse to you at greater length. ~ 624 2, 13 | This much I have said to you in order that there 625 2, 13 | this, and where is the road to be found? I will tell you, 626 2, 13 | of which I have spoken to you, confirmed by the Apostles, 627 2, 13 | whom stand as witnesses to confess the Truth, is found 628 2, 13 | placed on a candlestick, to show forth the way of the 629 2, 13 | of the Truth which leads to life with a perfect light, 630 2, 13 | perfect light, as I have said to you, and, as they themselves 631 2, 13 | as they themselves say to you, with proof, since they 632 2, 13 | he will, be illuminated to know the Truth, unless he 633 2, 13 | Truth, unless he choose to deprive his reason of light 634 2, 13 | remained like a lifeboat to draw the soul out of the 635 2, 13 | the tempestuous sea and to conduct her to the port 636 2, 13 | tempestuous sea and to conduct her to the port of salvation. ~ 637 2, 13 | the virtue of fortitude to whoever follows this road, 638 2, 13 | the Bridge which leads you to the height of Heaven. This 639 2, 13 | the Father, and I return to the Father, and shall return 640 2, 13 | Father, and shall return to you'; that is to say, 'My 641 2, 13 | return to you'; that is to say, 'My Father sent Me 642 2, 13 | say, 'My Father sent Me to you, and made Me your Bridge, 643 2, 13 | from the river and attain to life.' Then He says, 'I 644 2, 13 | He says, 'I will return to you, I will not leave you 645 2, 13 | Truth should say, 'I will go to the Father and return; that 646 2, 13 | away from him who wishes to follow it, because it is 647 2, 13 | Now I have fully shown to you the Bridge as it actually 648 2, 13 | it. And I have shown it to the ignorant, in order that 649 2, 13 | shown how My Son, returning to Me, none the less, returned 650 2, 13 | none the less, returned to you, not in His bodily presence, 651 2, 13 | Majesty and Divine Power to judge the world, to render 652 2, 13 | Power to judge the world, to render good to the virtuous, 653 2, 13 | the world, to render good to the virtuous, and reward 654 2, 13 | both in body and soul, and to dispense the evil of eternal 655 2, 13 | the evil of eternal death to those who have lived wickedly 656 2, 13 | And now I wish to tell you that which I, the 657 2, 13 | promised you, that is, to show you the perfect, the 658 2, 13 | in the river, attaining to punishment and torment; 659 2, 13 | torment; wherefore I say to you, My dearest sons, walk 660 2, 13 | whom I will presently speak to you. These are those sinners 661 2, 13 | sinners for whom I beg you to pray to Me, and for whom 662 2, 13 | for whom I beg you to pray to Me, and for whom I ask in 663 2, 14 | many gifts and graces given to the human race. ~ 664 2, 14 | abandon mortal sin and return to You, 'I do not remember 665 2, 14 | wonder that You say this to those who are converted, 666 2, 14 | persecute You, 'I wish you to pray for such, in order 667 2, 14 | Your Mercy caused Your Son to do battle for us, hanging 668 2, 14 | in Your saints. If I turn to the earth, it abounds with 669 2, 14 | Blood, and by Mercy You wish to converse with Your creatures. 670 2, 14 | was it not enough for You to become Incarnate, that You 671 2, 14 | thence the holy fathers to fulfill Your Mercy and Your 672 2, 14 | goodness promises a reward to them that serve You in truth, 673 2, 14 | in truth, You descended to Limbo, to withdraw from 674 2, 14 | You descended to Limbo, to withdraw from their pain 675 2, 14 | Your Mercy constrains You to give even more to man, namely, 676 2, 14 | constrains You to give even more to man, namely, to leave Yourself 677 2, 14 | even more to man, namely, to leave Yourself to him in 678 2, 14 | namely, to leave Yourself to him in food, so that we, 679 2, 14 | every day You give Yourself to man, representing Yourself 680 2, 14 | of you, for on every side to which I turn my thought, 681 2, 14 | ignorance, that I presume thus to chatter to You, but the 682 2, 14 | presume thus to chatter to You, but the love of Your 683 2, 15 | fulfillment of the promise made to her, and God continuing 684 2, 15 | mercy, because I gave it you to taste and to see in the 685 2, 15 | gave it you to taste and to see in the word which I 686 2, 15 | in the word which I spoke to you when I said: 'these 687 2, 15 | those for whom I pray you to intercede with Me,' but 688 2, 15 | themselves, and at the baseness to which they are fallen by 689 2, 15 | love of the world, are dead to grace. Wherefore because 690 2, 15 | and so their will is dead to My will because it loves 691 2, 15 | has become insupportable to himself, and, wishing to 692 2, 15 | to himself, and, wishing to govern the world, is governed 693 2, 15 | as I have already said to you. Do you know how this 694 2, 16 | dignity? You were made sister to the angels, and now you 695 2, 16 | are become a brute beast. To such misery come sinners, 696 2, 16 | nature gave them the light to know that this sin obscured 697 2, 16 | in continence the better to study. Thus also they flung 698 2, 17 | fruit of the earth belongs to some others, who are covetous 699 2, 17 | generosity, selling time to their neighbor. They are 700 2, 17 | they would not be cruel to themselves or to their neighbor; 701 2, 17 | be cruel to themselves or to their neighbor; on the contrary, 702 2, 17 | compassionate and merciful to themselves, practicing the 703 2, 17 | riches, so that she cares not to observe My commandments. ~ 704 2, 17 | opinions, goes on from bad to worse. It is a fire which 705 2, 17 | that which does not belong to it. It is a root which has 706 2, 17 | whence proceeds his desire to be greater than his neighbor. 707 2, 17 | give of their substance to the poor, when they rob 708 2, 17 | relations, and cause them to fall with them into great 709 2, 17 | do not command the earth to swallow them up, that they 710 2, 18 | and against themselves -- to themselves by not paying 711 2, 18 | which debt they are bound to pay. But they, like thieves, 712 2, 18 | what is Mine, and give it to the service of their own 713 2, 18 | and rendered not His due to the Eternal Truth, who was 714 2, 18 | debt of honor and glory to Me, and to Him, who was 715 2, 18 | honor and glory to Me, and to Him, who was one thing with 716 2, 18 | with much ignominy, even to the death of the Cross. ~ 717 2, 18 | are such as these unjust to themselves, to Me, and to 718 2, 18 | these unjust to themselves, to Me, and to their neighbor, 719 2, 18 | to themselves, to Me, and to their neighbor, unjustly 720 2, 19 | judgment; and of the indignity to which one comes. ~ 721 2, 19 | judgment, as I will explain to you below. They are continually 722 2, 19 | servants, whom they judge to be feignedly practicing 723 2, 19 | taste, good things seem evil to them, and bad things, that 724 2, 19 | and bad things, that is to say disorderly living, seem 725 2, 19 | disorderly living, seem good to them. Oh, how blind is the 726 2, 19 | Himself becoming as a servant to take you out of servitude, 727 2, 19 | imposing on Himself obedience to do away the disobedience 728 2, 19 | Adam, and humbling Himself to the shameful death of the 729 2, 19 | shameful death of the Cross to confound pride. By His death 730 2, 19 | out with pains, as I said to you above, when I said that 731 2, 19 | All the remedies are ready to save men from eternal death, 732 2, 20 | continuous reproof that I make to the world by means of the 733 2, 20 | Spirit on their tongues to announce My truth, even 734 2, 20 | of his servants, that is to say, of those who pass through 735 2, 20 | because the truth is revealed to them showing them vice and 736 2, 20 | the hurtfulness of vice, to give them love and holy 737 2, 20 | My Truth has been given to them with your mortal flesh. ~ 738 2, 20 | opposition of the flesh to the Spirit, as had the glorious 739 2, 20 | will succor him who wishes to be succored by Me. Man wants 740 2, 20 | truth are constantly given to them. Wherefore, if they 741 2, 20 | when My Justice will cry to them, 'Rise, you dead, and 742 2, 20 | Rise, you dead, and come to judgment!' That is to say, ' 743 2, 20 | come to judgment!' That is to say, 'You, who are dead 744 2, 20 | say, 'You, who are dead to grace, and have reached 745 2, 20 | which you set your sails to winds which were contrary 746 2, 20 | winds which were contrary to your salvation, for with 747 2, 20 | brought you with himself to eternal damnation." ~ 748 2, 21 | of My hands, she begins to see, and therefore is gnawed 749 2, 21 | But if the soul have light to know and grieve for her 750 2, 21 | is this last sin graver to Me than all the other sins 751 2, 21 | more, and was more grave to My Son than was his betrayal 752 2, 21 | false judgment, which is to have held their sin to be 753 2, 21 | is to have held their sin to be greater than My mercy, 754 2, 21 | displeasure, and do not render to Me that which is Mine, and 755 2, 21 | that which is Mine, and to themselves that which is 756 2, 21 | that which is theirs. For to Me, they ought to render 757 2, 21 | theirs. For to Me, they ought to render love, and to themselves 758 2, 21 | ought to render love, and to themselves bitterness, with 759 2, 21 | contrition of heart, and offer it to Me, for the offense they 760 2, 21 | contrary because they give to themselves love, pitying 761 2, 21 | My judgment has appointed to torment those who have done 762 2, 22 | tongue is not sufficient to narrate the pain of these 763 2, 22 | follow upon these. So I say to you, that in Hell, the souls 764 2, 22 | of Me, which is such pain to them, that, were it possible, 765 2, 22 | tortures and torments, and to see Me, than to be without 766 2, 22 | torments, and to see Me, than to be without the torments 767 2, 22 | without the torments and not to see Me. ~ 768 2, 22 | third pain and redoubles to them their every toil. As 769 2, 22 | revive these wretched ones to torments, because in seeing 770 2, 22 | themselves more, that is to say, they know that, by 771 2, 22 | Conscience never ceases to burn. And the sight is more 772 2, 22 | the sight is more painful to them, because they see him 773 2, 22 | you know that I showed him to you in his own form for 774 2, 22 | after you had returned to yourself) rather to walk 775 2, 22 | returned to yourself) rather to walk on a road of fire, 776 2, 22 | the Day of Judgment, than to see him again. With all 777 2, 22 | he appears more horrible to the soul that is deprived 778 2, 22 | and more or less according to the gravity of her sin. 779 2, 22 | have permitted the fire to burn them with torments, 780 2, 22 | in diverse ways according to the diversity of their sins, 781 2, 22 | diversity of their sins, to some more, and to some less, 782 2, 22 | sins, to some more, and to some less, according to 783 2, 22 | to some less, according to the gravity of their fault. 784 2, 22 | grieve for the offense done to Me, but only for their own 785 2, 23 | Now it remains to tell of the third reproof 786 2, 23 | with My Divine Majesty to reprove the world with Divine 787 2, 23 | let Him suffer like man to satisfy for your guilt. 788 2, 23 | He will come, with power, to reprove in His Own Person, 789 2, 23 | Person, and will render to everyone his due, and there 790 2, 23 | Day who will not tremble. To the miserable ones who are 791 2, 23 | tongue cannot describe it. To the just it will cause the 792 2, 23 | thing with Me according to the divine nature, and, 793 2, 23 | divine nature, and, according to the human nature, His face 794 2, 23 | of the Resurrection. But, to the eye of the damned, it 795 2, 23 | bright, appears all darkness to the infirm eye, but to the 796 2, 23 | darkness to the infirm eye, but to the healthy eye light (and 797 2, 23 | that makes it appear other to the blind than to the illuminated 798 2, 23 | other to the blind than to the illuminated one, but 799 2, 23 | with which He will come to judge the world, but through 800 2, 24 | as they have, the time to do so. If they finish their 801 2, 24 | been the cause of damnation to others, as that rich man, 802 2, 24 | was damned, demonstrated to you when he begged the favor 803 2, 24 | favor that Lazarus might go to his brothers, who were in 804 2, 24 | who were in the world, to tell them of his pains. 805 2, 24 | souls cannot do any good to their neighbor, and they 806 2, 24 | and he saw pain increased to himself, on account of their 807 2, 24 | torment together with him, to be gnawed forever by hatred, 808 2, 25 | virtue, time having come to naught, but she can always 809 2, 25 | affection with which she comes to Me, and that measure that 810 2, 25 | measure that is measured to her. She always desires 811 2, 25 | Myself, everyone according to his measure, that is that, 812 2, 25 | with which they have come to Me, is it measured to them. 813 2, 25 | come to Me, is it measured to them. Because they have 814 2, 25 | they are placed, according to their diverse and various 815 2, 25 | the one was the occasion to the other of manifesting 816 2, 25 | their love being added to the universal good, and 817 2, 25 | nor that there be need to fill it, because it is full, 818 2, 25 | desires forever cry out to Me, for the salvation of 819 2, 25 | the way that I will relate to you. So you see that in 820 2, 25 | are conformed so entirely to My will, that they cannot 821 2, 25 | and even are contented to see them punished as My 822 2, 25 | desire of the blessed is to see My honor in you wayfarers, 823 2, 25 | salvation, and always pray to Me for you, which desire 824 2, 25 | They have a desire too, to regain the gifts of their 825 2, 25 | bliss is thereby lacking to them. Wherefore they feel 826 2, 25 | resurrection gives more bliss to the soul, for, if this were 827 2, 25 | no perfection is lacking to them. So it is not the body 828 2, 25 | the body that gives bliss to the soul, but the soul will 829 2, 25 | the soul will give bliss to the body, because the soul 830 2, 25 | which virtue is of Me, given to her by grace, and by the 831 2, 25 | intellect is not sufficient to see, nor your ear to hear, 832 2, 25 | sufficient to see, nor your ear to hear, nor your tongue to 833 2, 25 | to hear, nor your tongue to tell of the good of the 834 2, 25 | having that delight from now to the general Judgment, they 835 2, 25 | because no bliss is lacking to them, the soul being satisfied 836 2, 25 | continually cry for mercy for you, to Me, the Supreme and Eternal 837 2, 25 | of My Son will not seem to them terrible, or full of 838 2, 25 | His Face, when He comes to judge with My Divine Majesty, 839 2, 25 | who will be judged by Him. To the damned He will appear 840 2, 25 | hatred and with justice. And to the saved with love and 841 2, 26 | the righteous, which is to them an increase of pain, 842 2, 26 | an increase of pain, as, to the righteous, the damnation 843 2, 26 | it, an increase of pain to themselves. And so will 844 2, 26 | terrible voice shall say to them, 'Arise, you dead, 845 2, 26 | Arise, you dead, and come to judgment,' the soul will 846 2, 26 | with the body, in the just to be glorified, and in the 847 2, 26 | glorified, and in the damned to be tortured eternally. And 848 2, 26 | their reproof will seem to be intensified in harshness. 849 2, 26 | instrument of the soul -- to do good and evil according 850 2, 26 | infinite good are rendered to My elect ones with their 851 2, 26 | together with the soul. And to the perverse ones will be 852 2, 26 | speech, 'Go, cursed ones, to the Eternal Fire,' the soul 853 2, 26 | soul and the body will go to be with the Devil without 854 2, 26 | filth of earth, according to his evil works. The miser 855 2, 26 | river, not turning back to see their sins and My Mercy. 856 2, 26 | Door, through which they go to Eternal Damnation, as has 857 2, 26 | My Truth, 'No one can go to the Father but by Me.' He 858 2, 26 | through which they pass to enter the Sea Pacific. It 859 2, 26 | the Lie, which leads them to the water of death. And 860 2, 26 | water of death. And it is to this that the Devil calls 861 2, 26 | Devil says, as it were, to them: 'Whosoever thirsts 862 2, 26 | come and I will give it to him.'" ~ 863 2, 27 | instrument of My Justice to torment the souls who have 864 2, 27 | have set him in this life to tempt and molest My creatures, 865 2, 27 | creatures, not for My creatures to be conquered, but that they 866 2, 27 | the Devil that may come to him, because I have made 867 2, 27 | is, if he do not consent to his temptations and molestations, 868 2, 27 | his intellect is opened to see My love which allowed 869 2, 27 | My love which allowed him to be tempted, so as to arrive 870 2, 27 | him to be tempted, so as to arrive at virtue, by being 871 2, 27 | because then man knows himself to be nothing, being unable 872 2, 27 | be nothing, being unable to lift off himself the pains 873 2, 27 | so that it does not yield to these thoughts. And he has 874 2, 27 | conquered, and that you may come to a perfect knowledge of yourself, 875 2, 27 | that he is my Minister to torture the damned in Hell, 876 2, 27 | Hell, and in this life, to exercise and prove virtue 877 2, 27 | the intention of the Devil to prove virtue in you (for 878 2, 27 | has not love), but rather to deprive you of it, and this 879 2, 27 | not that they were forced to do so, for as I told you 880 2, 27 | desperately, despairingly, come to eternal damnation. Wherefore 881 2, 27 | through their hate, surges up to them in the extremity of 882 2, 27 | fast with pressure of love to Me, the Supreme and Eternal 883 2, 27 | aforesaid Bridge, for, wishing to fly pains, they fall into 884 2, 27 | that the Devil invites men to the water of death, that 885 2, 27 | water of death, that is, to that which he has, and, 886 2, 27 | would not allow themselves to be caught if they saw that 887 2, 27 | that no good or pleasure to themselves were to be obtained 888 2, 27 | pleasure to themselves were to be obtained thereby. For 889 2, 27 | true good, and of profit to the soul and to the body. 890 2, 27 | of profit to the soul and to the body. And, therefore, 891 2, 27 | delights, colored so as to have the appearance of some 892 2, 27 | benefit or good; and he gives to everyone according to his 893 2, 27 | gives to everyone according to his condition and those 894 2, 27 | and those principal vices to which he sees him to be 895 2, 27 | vices to which he sees him to be most disposed -- of one 896 2, 27 | disposed -- of one kind to the secular, of another 897 2, 27 | the secular, of another to the religious, and others 898 2, 27 | the religious, and others to prelates and noblemen, according 899 2, 27 | and noblemen, according to their different conditions. 900 2, 27 | this, because I now speak to you of those who drown themselves 901 2, 27 | nothing but themselves, to love themselves to My injury, 902 2, 27 | themselves, to love themselves to My injury, and I will relate 903 2, 27 | injury, and I will relate to you their end. ~ 904 2, 27 | Now I want to show you how they deceive 905 2, 27 | themselves, and how, wishing to flee troubles, they fall 906 2, 27 | them. For, because it seems to them that following Me, 907 2, 27 | life, when you prayed Me to have mercy on the world, 908 2, 27 | sensuality kept away, and ran to a mountain of Lolla, in 909 2, 27 | Lolla, in which you figured to yourself all the delights 910 2, 27 | world. That Lolla seemed to be of corn and was not, 911 2, 27 | deceits of the world, returned to the Tree and passed the 912 2, 27 | is a thorn which appears to man to stand in the way 913 2, 27 | thorn which appears to man to stand in the way of following 914 2, 27 | his mind, saying, 'I wish to follow Christ crucified,' 915 2, 27 | and some less, according to their disposition and desire. 916 2, 27 | you know that then I said to you, 'I am your God, unmoving 917 2, 27 | from any creature who wants to come to Me. I have shown 918 2, 27 | creature who wants to come to Me. I have shown them the 919 2, 27 | Truth, making Myself visible to them, and I have shown them 920 2, 27 | have shown them what it is to love anything without Me. 921 2, 27 | they are, choosing rather to die of hunger than to pass 922 2, 27 | rather to die of hunger than to pass a little thorn. And 923 2, 27 | because -- by sin, as I said to you above -- the world germinates 924 2, 28 | Now I want to show you to whom the thorns 925 2, 28 | Now I want to show you to whom the thorns and tribulations, 926 2, 28 | through sin, do harm, and to whom they do not. And as, 927 2, 28 | own sensuality, now I wish to tell you how it is only 928 2, 28 | will that gives trouble to man. Pain of mind and of 929 2, 28 | of whom I have narrated to you, who, in this life, 930 2, 28 | preventing it from seeing Me face to face. But after the soul 931 2, 28 | desire is full, for, desiring to see Me, she sees Me, in 932 2, 28 | that is, the desire she had to see and know Me; wherefore 933 2, 28 | that which they desired to have, and so are they satisfied. 934 2, 28 | this present life? I reply to you, they have it in seeing 935 2, 28 | of faith enables the soul to discern, to know, and to 936 2, 28 | enables the soul to discern, to know, and to follow the 937 2, 28 | to discern, to know, and to follow the way and the doctrine 938 2, 28 | pupil (which causes the eye to see) with a cloth. So the 939 2, 28 | sanctification. At once they set to, turning their back to the 940 2, 28 | set to, turning their back to the way below, and begin 941 2, 28 | the way below, and begin to ascend by the Bridge, and 942 2, 28 | desire. If I allow the Devil to trouble them, permitting 943 2, 28 | permitting temptations to prove them in virtue, as 944 2, 28 | and holy faith, looking to Me, who am the Supreme Good, 945 2, 28 | themselves favored because I wish to punish them in this life, 946 2, 28 | drawn out of them and united to Me by the affection of love. 947 2, 28 | sought for it where it was to be found, that is in the 948 2, 29 | of others, was saddened to hear of and to see the great 949 2, 29 | saddened to hear of and to see the great blindness 950 2, 29 | that could be an impediment to the salvation of creatures, 951 2, 29 | the river and had begun to come out, turn back again, 952 2, 29 | of GOD, who had deigned to manifest Himself to her. 953 2, 29 | deigned to manifest Himself to her. And, for this, she 954 2, 29 | that, when it is pleasing to Your Goodness, You would 955 2, 29 | would more clearly explain to me the three steps figured 956 2, 29 | method should be used so as to come entirely out of the 957 2, 29 | entirely out of the depths and to keep the way of Your Truth, 958 2, 30 | I will show and declare to you that which you ask Me. 959 2, 30 | which you ask Me. You ask Me to explain to you the figure 960 2, 30 | Me. You ask Me to explain to you the figure of three 961 2, 30 | figure of three steps, and to tell you what method they 962 2, 30 | what method they who want to come out of the river must 963 2, 30 | out of the river must use, to be able to ascend the Bridge. 964 2, 30 | river must use, to be able to ascend the Bridge. And, 965 2, 30 | although above, in relating to you the delusion and blindness 966 2, 30 | nevertheless, now I will declare it to you more fully, satisfying 967 2, 30 | without love, but always wants to love something, because 968 2, 30 | conceived, they give birth to themselves perfectly and 969 2, 30 | sensual affection wants to love sensual things, the 970 2, 30 | which the affection presents to it. This love so dazzles 971 2, 30 | that causes the intellect to perceive them and the affection 972 2, 30 | perceive them and the affection to love them; for had worldly 973 2, 30 | good, and vice, appearing to him thus, under color of 974 2, 30 | soul's good, causes him to sin. But, because the eye, 975 2, 30 | because the one presents to the other, as I told you, 976 2, 30 | good or evil, according to the pleasure of the free 977 2, 30 | This free will is bound to the affection, and it moves 978 2, 30 | Your reason is attached to Me when your will does not, 979 2, 30 | Sensuality is appointed to be the servant, so that, 980 2, 30 | when the soul undertakes to gather together, with the 981 2, 30 | you that no one could come to Me except by Him, and therefore 982 2, 30 | figure, as I will narrate to you below, the three states 983 2, 31 | I have explained to you the figure of the three 984 2, 31 | soul, and no one who wishes to pass by the Bridge and doctrine 985 2, 31 | and virtue. If you desire to arrive at life, you must 986 2, 32 | Whosoever thirsts, let him come to Me and drink." ~ 987 2, 32 | Whosoever thirsts, let him come to Me and drink, for I am the 988 2, 32 | Life.' He did not say 'Go to the Father and drink,' but 989 2, 32 | drink,' but He said 'Come to Me.' He spoke thus, because 990 2, 32 | did He say 'Let him come to Me and drink'? Because whoever 991 2, 32 | of common charity, finds to drink, tasting the fruit 992 2, 32 | So that you are invited to the Fountain of Living Water 993 2, 32 | you, with perseverance, to keep by Him who is made 994 2, 32 | prosperity or adversity, and to persevere till you find 995 2, 32 | nature. Why did He say 'Come to Me and drink'? Because you 996 2, 32 | Bridge. No one can come to Me except by Him, as He 997 2, 32 | words: 'No one can come to the Father except by Me.' ~ 998 2, 32 | Now you have seen to what way you should keep, 999 2, 33 | I will now return to the three steps, which you 1000 2, 33 | you must climb in order to issue from the river without