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501   3,     20  |            and not alive, wherefore they never assume the right to
502   3,     20  |           into such iniquities, for they are separated from Me, while
503   3,     21  |                         In what way they, who stand in the above-mentioned
504   3,     21  |           Why did I say to you that they received the earnest of
505   3,     21  |            eternal life? I say that they receive the earnest-money,
506   3,     21  |           the full payment, because they wait to receive it in Me,
507   3,     21  |             the Eternal Life, where they have life without death,
508   3,     21  |             is far away, and though they have what they desire, disgust
509   3,     21  |           and though they have what they desire, disgust is far from
510   3,     21  |            true that, in this life, they receive the earnest, and
511   3,     21  |         said, in My sweet Will, and they are full of grief through
512   3,     21  |         their neighbor, and because they afflict their own self-love,
513   3,     22  |            particular love, because they will be my refreshment to
514   3,     22  |     infernal Devil, so that at last they may arrive at You, their
515   3,     22  |             make one soul, and that they attend to nothing else than
516   3,     22  |            place, of the sins which they commit today; wherefore
517   3,     23  |             truth, a means by which they may each receive, according
518   3,     23  |             but do not you fail, or they either, in your hope in
519   3,     24  |            having placed them where they are through My Goodness,
520   3,     24  |             light of grace, so that they may administer this light
521   3,     27  |             may be more intense. If they themselves considered their
522   3,     27  |        considered their own dignity they would not be in the darkness
523   3,     27  |             the face of their soul. They would not only see their
524   3,     27  |      against Me, but also, that, if they gave their bodies to be
525   3,     27  |          their bodies to be burned, they would not repay the tremendous
526   3,     27  |    tremendous grace and favor which they have received, inasmuch
527   3,     27  |        dignity exists in this life. They are My anointed ones, and
528   3,     27  |            purity and charity, that they should love Me and their
529   3,     27  |           fellow-creatures, because they cannot use cruelty to themselves
530   3,     27  |    fellow-creatures; for, if by sin they are cruel to themselves,
531   3,     27  |            are cruel to themselves, they are cruel to the souls of
532   3,     27  |            their neighbors, in that they do not give them an example
533   3,     27  |          being cruel to themselves, they are cruel to others." ~
534   3,     28  |         Holy Spirit. With what have they administered it? With the
535   3,     28  |           the light of grace, which they have drawn from this True
536   3,     28  |           warmth and the color, for they are united together and
537   3,     28  |         soul with Me, the true Sun, they become like Me. The Sun
538   3,     28  |          life from this Blood; this they do in two ways, actually,
539   3,     28  |         doctrine of My Truth, which they administer in the ardent
540   3,     28  |          the ardent love with which they cause barren souls to bear
541   3,     28  |            charity. So you see that they are the Sun, because they
542   3,     28  |           they are the Sun, because they have taken the condition
543   3,     28  |          through affection of love, they are one thing with Me, and
544   3,     28  |             will see how much light they have thrown over this spouse,
545   3,     28  |             famished for such food, they feed upon My honor, and
546   3,     28  |          with the light of science, they brought forth fruit in this
547   3,     28  |           them, principally because they justly paid Me My due, in
548   3,     28  |             neighbor. With humility they trampled on pride, and,
549   3,     28  |       furnace of love. And, because they first had done justice to
550   3,     28  |         done justice to themselves, they therefore did justice to
551   3,     28  |           any servile fear, because they were not thinking of themselves,
552   3,     28  |        footsteps, and therefore did they correct them, and did not
553   3,     28  |             want of correcting, but they charitably corrected them
554   3,     28  |             and to speak the truth, they did not even fear death.
555   3,     28  |            did not even fear death. They were true gardeners who,
556   3,     28  |            the holy Church (because they were not deprived of correction,
557   3,     28  |            and without any sin, for they balanced exactly the scales
558   3,     28  |     putrefaction of mortal sin. But they act not so today, but, in
559   3,     28  |             in cases of evil doing, they even pretend not to see.
560   3,     28  |            alive in them, wherefore they bear perverted and servile
561   3,     28  |           and servile fear. Because they fear to lose their position
562   3,     28  |            goods, or their prelacy, they do not correct, but act
563   3,     28  |            like blind ones, in that they see not the real way by
564   3,     28  |          position is to be kept. If they would only see that it is
565   3,     28  |          that it is by holy justice they would be able to maintain
566   3,     28  |            able to maintain it; but they do not, because they are
567   3,     28  |            but they do not, because they are deprived of light. But,
568   3,     28  |            position with injustice, they do not reprove the faults
569   3,     28  |            of those under them; and they are deluded by their own
570   3,     28  |           lordship and prelacy, and they correct not the faults they
571   3,     28  |         they correct not the faults they should correct in others,
572   3,     28  |         greater ones are their own. They feel themselves comprehended
573   3,     28  |      comprehended in the guilt, and they therefore lose all ardor
574   3,     28  |           fettered by servile fear, they make believe not to see.
575   3,     28  |           to see. And, moreover, if they do see they do not correct,
576   3,     28  |            moreover, if they do see they do not correct, but allow
577   3,     28  |             with many presents, and they themselves find the excuse
578   3,     28  |           the blind lead the blind, they both fall into the ditch.'
579   3,     28  |             be any now) act so. And they are truly suns, as I have
580   3,     28  |            or of ignorance, because they follow the doctrine of My
581   3,     28  |           the doctrine of My Truth. They are not tepid, because they
582   3,     28  |         They are not tepid, because they burn in the furnace of My
583   3,     28  |             of My love, and because they are despisers of the grandeurs,
584   3,     28  |          and delights of the world. They fear not to correct, for
585   3,     28  |      resplendent in them, wherefore they embraced voluntary poverty,
586   3,     28  |                                     They were cursed, and they blessed,
587   3,     28  |               They were cursed, and they blessed, and, with true
588   3,     28  |            and, with true patience, they bore themselves like terrestrial
589   3,     28  |           My only-begotten Son. And they are truly angels. Because,
590   3,     28  |        guardians, and therefore had they their eye continually over
591   3,     28  |            of life. So you see that they are angels, placed by My
592   3,     28  |          With how much humility did they govern those under them,
593   3,     28  |      therefore with liberality, did they distribute to the poor the
594   3,     28  |           substance diminished. And they scarcely observed that which
595   3,     28  |        scarcely observed that which they were really bound to do,
596   3,     28  |             the poor in the Church. They saved nothing, and after
597   3,     28  |       charity, and of the hope that they had placed in My Providence,
598   3,     28  |            placed in My Providence, they were without servile fear
599   3,     28  |           fear with a servile fear. They who hope in themselves are
600   3,     28  |          their own small knowledge, they spend so much miserable
601   3,     28  |    preserving temporal things, that they turn their back on the spiritual,
602   3,     28  |            caring not for them. But they, miserable, faithless, proud
603   3,     28  |            that I am He who is, and they are they who are not, and
604   3,     28  |             He who is, and they are they who are not, and that they
605   3,     28  |          they who are not, and that they have received their being,
606   3,     28  |            knew this, and therefore they loved Me ineffably, and
607   3,     28  |         hoped so greatly in Me that they feared nothing. Sylvester
608   3,     28  |           their every fear, because they were not alone but were
609   3,     28  |           in the enjoyment of love, they were in Me, and from Me
610   3,     28  |             were in Me, and from Me they acquired the light of the
611   3,     28  |      only-begotten Son, and from Me they received the faculty to
612   3,     28  |           of the world, and from Me they had the fire of the Holy
613   3,     28  |             So you see that because they were not alone but were
614   3,     28  |          alone but were accompanied they feared nothing. He only
615   3,     28  |             injure their souls; but they on the contrary could injure
616   3,     28  |           the love, faith, and hope they had placed in Me. Your tongue
617   3,     28  |    intellect to see the fruit which they receive in everlasting life,
618   3,     28  |          follow in their footsteps. They are like precious stones,
619   3,     28  |     precious stones, and as such do they stand in My presence, because
620   3,     28  |         poverty and the light which they shed with the odor of virtues
621   3,     28  |           the greatest dignity, and they receive blessing and glory
622   3,     28  |          glory in My sight, because they gave the example of an honorable
623   3,     28  |             I placed in their hands they did not hide through negligence
624   3,     28  |          them in so much excellency they never rested like good shepherds
625   3,     28  |           love and hunger for souls they gave themselves to die,
626   3,     28  |             the hands of the devil. They made themselves infirm with
627   3,     28  |            who were infirm, so that they might not be overcome with
628   3,     28  |           exposing their infirmity, they would oftentimes lend countenance
629   3,     28  |           too, am infirm with you.' They wept with those who wept,
630   3,     28  |          rejoiced; and thus sweetly they knew to give everyone his
631   3,     28  |    neighbors, and those under them. They drew the imperfect ones
632   3,     28  |           them penance for the sins they committed -- they through
633   3,     28  |          the sins they committed -- they through love endured their
634   3,     28  |             them. For through love, they who gave the penance, bore
635   3,     28  |        penance, bore more pain than they who received it; and there
636   3,     28  |        penance, and especially when they had seen that it had appeared
637   3,     28  |                Oh! My beloved ones, they made themselves subjects,
638   3,     28  |           subjects, being prelates, they made themselves servants,
639   3,     28  |   themselves servants, being lords, they made themselves infirm,
640   3,     28  |            mortal sin, being strong they made themselves weak, with
641   3,     28  |         with the foolish and simple they showed themselves simple,
642   3,     28  |     insignificant. And so with love they knew how to be all things
643   3,     28  |            salvation of souls which they had conceived in Me. They
644   3,     28  |           they had conceived in Me. They ran to feed on it at the
645   3,     28  |            the spread of the faith, they put themselves in the midst
646   3,     28  |       prayers. With tears and sweat they anointed the wounds of their
647   3,     29  |            paid to priests, whether they are good or bad. ~
648   3,     29  |           of light, that is to say, they illuminate and warm their
649   3,     29  |            love. And with this heat they cause virtues to spring
650   3,     29  |          appointed them, how worthy they are of being loved; when
651   3,     29  |            are of being loved; when they also possess the adornment
652   3,     29  |           you should hold them, for they are My beloved children
653   3,     29  |             which I forbid, because they are My Christs, and you
654   3,     29  |            great treasure, by which they administer to you the whole
655   3,     29  |           to do them grace, if only they will dispose themselves
656   3,     29  |           according to My will that they should administer to you
657   3,     29  |    themselves in darkness, not that they should be stripped of the
658   3,     29  |           It not being My will that they should be in this state,
659   3,     29  |      prayers, will do them mercy if they will only receive it, but
660   3,     29  |             only receive it, but if they do not correct their life,
661   3,     29  |         cause of their ruin. For if they do not accept the breadth
662   3,     29  |           their last extremity, and they will be sent to the eternal
663   3,     30  |             in accordance with mine they would endure no suffering,
664   3,     30  |       endure no suffering, not that they would have no labors on
665   3,     30  |           endures them, seeing that they are ordained by My will.
666   3,     30  |          themselves. Wherefore when they come to the point of death,
667   3,     30  |         come to the point of death, they die peacefully, because
668   3,     30  |             die peacefully, because they have vanquished their enemies
669   3,     30  |             malice with wisdom, yet they come round him to see if
670   3,     30  |            come round him to see if they can acquire anything, and
671   3,     30  |       angels, for in this life have they lived with greater knowledge,
672   3,     30  |           science, by which science they knew more of My Truth, and
673   3,     30  |                                     They also receive greater dignity
674   3,     30  |           their priesthood, because they have personally received
675   3,     30  |                        Wherefore if they do this solicitously and
676   3,     30  |             and with love of virtue they receive, as has been said,
677   3,     30  |          happy are their souls when they come to the extremity of
678   3,     30  |             extremity of death! For they have been the defenders
679   3,     30  |          their neighbor. This faith they have incarnated in their
680   3,     30  |            very marrow, and with it they see their place of repose
681   3,     30  |             Me. The hope with which they have lived, confiding in
682   3,     30  |        trust in themselves, in that they did not hope in their own
683   3,     30  |        ardent charity with My name, they showed forth with the example
684   3,     30  |         because of the vision which they have of Me, which they see
685   3,     30  |        which they have of Me, which they see by faith and hold by
686   3,     30  |            but holy fear. Wherefore they do not fear the demon's
687   3,     30  |             light of Holy Scripture they know them, so that they
688   3,     30  |             they know them, so that they do not cause them darkness
689   3,     30  |             or disquietude. So thus they gloriously pass, bathed
690   3,     31  |            as members of the Devil, they have been deprived of it
691   3,     31  |       deprived of it all. Wherefore they have not the supernatural
692   3,     31  |           light of science, because they did not understand it, the
693   3,     31  |             now in the great battle they know not what to do. They
694   3,     31  |           they know not what to do. They are not nourished in hope,
695   3,     31  |          nourished in hope, because they have not hoped in Me, neither
696   3,     31  |           that unless in their life they have taken the habit of
697   3,     31  |           despair, and with despair they would arrive with the Devil
698   3,     31  |            grant them this, so that they should offend Me by means
699   3,     31  |           My mercy, but rather that they should dilate themselves
700   3,     31  |   consideration of My goodness. But they act in a contrary way, because
701   3,     31  |             a contrary way, because they offend Me in the hope which
702   3,     31  |         offend Me in the hope which they have in My mercy. And nevertheless,
703   3,     31  |             that at the last moment they may have something which
704   3,     31  |            may have something which they may lay hold of, and by
705   3,     31  |         with the condemnation which they receive, and thus arrive
706   3,     31  |            all the other sins which they have committed. And this
707   3,     31  |          displeasing to Me, because they commit other sins through
708   3,     31  |           their own sensuality, and they sometimes grieve for them,
709   3,     31  |             grieve for them, and if they grieve in the right way
710   3,     31  |          greatly displeases Me that they should consider their sins
711   3,     31  |          themselves with this hope, they arrive at death, they are
712   3,     31  |         hope, they arrive at death, they are not so inclined to abandon
713   3,     31  |             the severe condemnation they receive, as if they had
714   3,     31  |    condemnation they receive, as if they had not so nourished themselves. ~
715   3,     31  |       inestimable love, but because they have used it in the darkness
716   3,     31  |          proceeded their every sin, they have not known it in truth,
717   3,     31  |             truth, but in so far as they have turned their affections
718   3,     31  |           the sweetness of My mercy they have thought of it with
719   3,     31  |              reproving them in that they should have used the time
720   3,     31  |        breadth of My mercy in which they hoped, in charity and love
721   3,     31  |          and great hope of My mercy they did nothing but offend Me
722   3,     31  |             to you the reward which they are accustomed to give their
723   3,     31  |         confusion and condemnation; they wish to bring you to despair,
724   3,     31  |          their hands, and therefore they try to confuse you, so that
725   3,     31  |   afterwards when you are with them they may render to you of the
726   3,     31  |     blackness on a white, than when they are separated. So it happens
727   3,     31  |             have of virtue and vice they see only too clearly the
728   3,     31  |       indeed the harm of despair if they do not wish it, but the
729   3,     31  |             ministers, for the more they have received of Me, and
730   3,     31  |        received of Me, and the more they are enlightened by the Holy
731   3,     31  |            intolerable confusion do they receive for not fulfilling
732   3,     31  |           fulfilling them; the more they knew of Holy Scripture during
733   3,     31  |           their life, the better do they know at their death the
734   3,     31  |          their death the great sins they have committed, and their
735   3,     31  |         holy Sacrament, and because they had the light of science,
736   3,     31  |           themselves and others had they wished to; wherefore they
737   3,     31  |           they wished to; wherefore they justly receive the greater
738   3,     31  |           do not know this, for did they consider their state at
739   3,     31  |        consider their state at all, they would not come to such misery,
740   3,     31  |             but would be that which they ought to be and are not.
741   3,     31  |            has thus become corrupt, they being much more guilty than
742   3,     31  |        state; for with their stench they defile the face of their
743   3,     31  |        wherefore through these sins they make her grow pale, because
744   3,     31  |         make her grow pale, because they divert to themselves the
745   3,     31  |          the love and charity which they should have to this divine
746   3,     31  |          and great properties, when they ought to be seeking souls.
747   3,     31  |           the holy Church, not that they ought on that account to
748   3,     32  |       Eternal Good, and that we are they who are not. And because
749   3,     32  |             to the whole world, for they do harm to the world, being
750   3,     32  |           being mirrors of sin when they ought to be mirrors of virtue.
751   3,     32  |          those who are dead in that they live miserably. Wherefore
752   3,     32  |            You, by Your grace, that they may be as two streams of
753   3,     32  |           of Your only-begotten Son they know the ineffable love
754   3,     32  |         truth and pray. For what do they pray? For with the Blood
755   3,     32  |        given to Your servants, that they knock and cry to You, seeking
756   3,     32  |            only-begotten Son, which they ask of You for the praise
757   3,     32  |             wish for that for which they do not wish; and this I
758   4,      1  |            than the other, not that they are on that account separated,
759   4,      2  |            that in no other way can they escape eternal damnation;
760   4,      2  |       escape eternal damnation; but they hold it in their hand without
761   4,      2  |  self-contempt, that is to say that they are not perfectly clothed
762   4,      2  |          seek to please themselves; they do not wear the cord of
763   4,      2  |          cord of self-contempt, for they do not desire to be despised,
764   4,      2  |           to lose their key; for if they suffer a little extra fatigue,
765   4,      2  |           desire loosens its grasp, they will lose it. They can indeed
766   4,      2  |           grasp, they will lose it. They can indeed find it again
767   4,      2  |             indeed find it again if they wish to while they live,
768   4,      2  |         again if they wish to while they live, but if they do not
769   4,      2  |             while they live, but if they do not wish they will never
770   4,      2  |             but if they do not wish they will never find it, and
771   4,      2  |            will prove to them, that they have lost it? Impatience,
772   4,      3  |             virtue do the contrary; they, like unbridled horses,
773   4,      3  |          from death to death, until they finally reach the edge of
774   4,      3  |          and though it is true that they can obey the precepts of
775   4,      3  |          the precepts of the law if they will, and have the time
776   4,      3  |       wretched pride, through which they abandoned obedience, and
777   4,      3  |     disobedience. Being disobedient they are impatient, as has been
778   4,      3  |            with whom, unless indeed they amend themselves with patience,
779   4,      3  |           themselves with patience, they will go to the eternal torments.
780   4,      3  |     Observing this law in this life they taste peace without any
781   4,      3  |            without any disturbance, they receive and clothe themselves
782   4,      3  |            perfect peace, for there they possess every good without
783   4,      3  |            you do not love him; but they are to be taken naturally
784   4,      3  |            naturally and simply, as they were said to you by My Truth,
785   4,      4  |             love for obedience that they do not remain content with
786   4,      4  |             this self-hatred), that they are not content to observe
787   4,      4  |        greatest perfection, so that they become observers of the
788   4,      4  |          everything their own will. They either place themselves
789   4,      4  |          without entering religion, they bind themselves to some
790   4,      4  |           door of Heaven. These are they, as I have told you, who
791   4,      4  |        closely united together that they cannot be separated. I have
792   4,      5  |            depends on whether after they have entered they exercise
793   4,      5  |             after they have entered they exercise themselves in virtue,
794   4,      5  |             servants might be poor, they were never beggars. No more
795   4,      5  |              No more are these, for they find everything they need,
796   4,      5  |            for they find everything they need, and those who observe
797   4,      5  |    substance never failed them, but they had more than their needs
798   4,      5  |            has failed, and the more they possess to the greater destitution
799   4,      5  |          the greater destitution do they come. It is just that even
800   4,      5  |             in the smallest matters they should experience the fruit
801   4,      5  |            of disobedience, for had they been obedient and observed
802   4,      5  |             point?' Yes, but though they are all founded on it, in
803   4,      5  |         another to another, and yet they all remain in charity, so
804   4,      5  |         majority. I say few because they are not many who choose
805   4,      5  |       though now through their sins they are multiplied in numbers
806   4,      5  |         sons his curse and Mine, if they should hold any possessions,
807   4,      5  |            souls. And in order that they might do nothing else, he
808   4,      5  |           poverty for them, so that they might not have the care
809   4,      5  |       failed in faith, fearing that they would not be provided for,
810   4,      5  |           physical light with which they may more perfectly obtain
811   4,      5  |         today it is badly observed. They also prevent the light of
812   4,      5  |            light of science, though they are nourished at its breast.
813   4,      5  |            its subjects were not as they are now, but blooming flowers,
814   4,      5  |           hated him so that at last they took his life; yet while
815   4,      5  |             many others, who though they did not actually experience
816   4,      6  |              as I have said to you. They have taken a little key,
817   4,      6  |           may see in any real door. They should keep this key when
818   4,      6  |           should keep this key when they have got it, and not throw
819   4,      6  |             the light of faith that they will never be able to pass
820   4,      6  |         losing their life, and that they cannot walk with head erect
821   4,      6  |        breaking their neck; whether they wish to or not, they cast
822   4,      6  |        whether they wish to or not, they cast from them the load
823   4,      6  |            to possess anything, for they see by the light of faith
824   4,      6  |         light of faith to what ruin they would come if they transgressed
825   4,      6  |             ruin they would come if they transgressed obedience,
826   4,      6  |            the and of poverty which they promised to keep. The disobedient
827   4,      6  |           their convenience to obey they do not incline their heads
828   4,      6  |          but proudly do so, because they must, which force breaks
829   4,      6  |             neck of their will, for they fulfill their obedience
830   4,      6  |          superior. Little by little they are ruined on another point,
831   4,      6  |        ruined on another point, for they transgress the vow of continence,
832   4,      6  |        profit. From these relations they go on to close intimacies,
833   4,      6  |        close intimacies, their body they tend luxuriously, for being
834   4,      6  |          her sister, self-contempt, they live in their own pleasure
835   4,      6  |       things happen to them because they have money to spend, for
836   4,      6  |         have money to spend, for if they had it not they could not
837   4,      6  |              for if they had it not they could not spend it. They
838   4,      6  |            they could not spend it. They fall into mental and physical
839   4,      6  |            or through lack of means they abstain physically, they
840   4,      6  |            they abstain physically, they indulge themselves mentally,
841   4,      6  |           good and perfect, whether they be with just men or with
842   4,      6  |           of the blessed life, when they are rewarded for all their
843   4,      6  |            and in this life also do they taste eternal life." ~
844   4,      7  |            the other virtues, while they remain outside, bringing
845   4,      7  |             It is not by faith that they taste eternal life, for
846   4,      7  |             taste eternal life, for they experience in its essence
847   4,      7  |           in its essence that which they have believed through faith;
848   4,      7  |             faith; nor by hope, for they possess that for which they
849   4,      7  |         they possess that for which they had hoped, and so with all
850   4,      7  |         also eternal life, for here they receive the fire of divine
851   4,      7  |             been said). And because they have received this hundredfold
852   4,      7  |           this hundredfold from Me, they possess a wonderful and
853   4,      8  |              and of the fruit which they obtained by disobedience
854   4,      8  |          words, are so corrupt that they would be out of place in
855   4,      8  |             vow of poverty, so that they have nothing to spend, and
856   4,      8  |           fell from heaven, because they rebelled against Me. In
857   4,      9  |         shortness of the time, that they rejoin those who entered
858   4,      9  |            their childhood, because they have advanced but slowly.
859   4,      9  |           in them, that not only do they wish to see reason in what
860   4,      9  |         them by their superior, but they hardly wait until the word
861   4,      9  |             with the light of faith they understand his intention.
862   4,     10  |             of whom I told you that they went under the Bridge by
863   4,     10  |          states of tears and whence they proceed, I spoke to you
864 Lette,      0|            and all the sisters that they may be ready to do all that
865 Lette,      0|            labors, especially where they were necessary. Did You