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501 3, 20 | their own will, so that it may not seek or wish anything 502 3, 20 | in this sweet light know it, and remain constantly in 503 3, 20 | perfect humility: 'To-day it is your turn, and tomorrow 504 3, 20 | your turn, and tomorrow it will be mine unless the 505 3, 20 | some one else, they endure it with compassion of this 506 3, 20 | injury, or him who received it, because their love is not 507 3, 20 | in your mind, even though it may externally be open mortal 508 3, 21 | because they wait to receive it in Me, the Eternal Life, 509 3, 21 | the flawless Food of Life. It is true that, in this life, 510 3, 21 | receive the earnest, and taste it in this way, namely that 511 3, 21 | satiates him who feeds on it, the eater being insatiable 512 3, 21 | because the soul who tastes it has not, as yet, the perfection 513 3, 21 | own self-love, depriving it of sensual delights and 514 3, 22 | had become enamored of it, and said, "Oh! Supreme 515 3, 22 | ourselves! What moved you to do it? Love, because You loved 516 3, 22 | whoever wishes to follow it, because without You is 517 3, 22 | I know, from seeing what it has pleased You to manifest, 518 3, 22 | commit today; wherefore if it should please Your goodness 519 3, 22 | matter, I will gladly hear it, so as to have material 520 3, 24 | in those who truly taste it. Then said the Eternal God: " 521 3, 24 | whoever wishes to be warmed by it, and is not defiled by any 522 3, 24 | by any impurity on which it shines, for its light and 523 3, 24 | color shone brightly when it became perfect through its 524 3, 24 | you that this Body is, as it were, a Sun. Wherefore, 525 3, 24 | a million particles (if it were possible) in each particle 526 3, 24 | reflection to be seen in it is not broken; similarly, 527 3, 24 | order to take light from it -- the light itself does 528 3, 24 | and yet each person has it all. It is true that everyone 529 3, 24 | each person has it all. It is true that everyone participates 530 3, 24 | without light, and lights it by receiving this Sacrament. 531 3, 24 | receive this light and feed it. The material is love, for 532 3, 24 | candle with no wick inside it, which cannot burn or receive 533 3, 24 | the Doctrine of My Truth. It is true that the soul becomes 534 3, 24 | according to the material which it brings to the fire; for 535 3, 24 | your free-will, by using it while you have time, for 536 3, 24 | with which you approach It. ~ 537 3, 24 | and not divided, because It cannot be divided, as has 538 3, 24 | dispose yourselves to receive it. He who should go to this 539 3, 24 | sooner has the fire touched it, than it is extinguished, 540 3, 24 | the fire touched it, than it is extinguished, and nothing 541 3, 24 | and, not having heated it at the fire of true contrition 542 3, 24 | defect of him who administers it, as I told you of the sun 543 3, 24 | diminished in any way, nor can it be detached from its orbit. ~ 544 3, 24 | came to take light from it, each would have it entire, 545 3, 24 | from it, each would have it entire, and yet it would 546 3, 24 | have it entire, and yet it would remain whole." ~ 547 3, 25 | those of the soul; therefore it is, with the latter, that 548 3, 25 | must see, taste, and touch It; and of a beautiful vision 549 3, 25 | and how should you touch it? Not only with the bodily 550 3, 25 | the soul. With what eye is It to be seen? With the eye 551 3, 25 | the intellect if within it is the pupil of the most 552 3, 25 | intellect remained. I showed it to you for your enlightenment 553 3, 25 | without being separated from it, out of the midst of which 554 3, 25 | means of vision, inasmuch as it cannot be deceived; wherefore, 555 3, 25 | deceived; wherefore, with it you should look on this 556 3, 25 | Sacrament. How do you touch It? By the hand of love. With 557 3, 25 | faith. How do you taste It? With the palate of holy 558 3, 26 | from the hot wax upon which it has been impressed, leaves 559 3, 26 | to Its Center, not that it was ever really separated 560 3, 26 | ever really separated from It, but constantly united to 561 3, 27 | dignity, for I have given it to those men whom I have 562 3, 28 | Sun, have become like to It, as I told you of Peter, 563 3, 28 | what have they administered it? With the light of grace, 564 3, 28 | the virtue which preserves it, and, in that light, he 565 3, 28 | on which account he hates it, and thereby receives the 566 3, 28 | of Me, affection follows it, loving that which the intellect 567 3, 28 | And, in order to correct it and to speak the truth, 568 3, 28 | servile fear, being free from it, and without any sin, for 569 3, 28 | the bad physician, when it had already begun to corrupt, 570 3, 28 | ointment immediately upon it, without having first burnt 571 3, 28 | they would only see that it is by holy justice they 572 3, 28 | would be able to maintain it; but they do not, because 573 3, 28 | prelacy will not fear to lose it, and will reprove manfully, 574 3, 28 | who watches the city if it be not guarded by Me. All 575 3, 28 | labor or solicitude to keep it, because I alone keep it. 576 3, 28 | it, because I alone keep it. It is true that I desire 577 3, 28 | because I alone keep it. It is true that I desire you 578 3, 28 | will not save you without it. I loved you before you 579 3, 28 | companion of whosoever desires it, with the light of faith, 580 3, 28 | ignorance, but rather recognized it to be from Me, and exercised 581 3, 28 | be from Me, and exercised it with care and profound humility 582 3, 28 | pain than they who received it; and there were even those 583 3, 28 | when they had seen that it had appeared particularly 584 3, 28 | Me. They ran to feed on it at the table of the holy 585 3, 29 | and of the lord who sent it to you. His state would 586 3, 29 | dispose themselves to receive it, and you to pray for it; 587 3, 29 | it, and you to pray for it; for it is not according 588 3, 29 | you to pray for it; for it is not according to My will 589 3, 29 | and suns, as I have said. It not being My will that they 590 3, 29 | if they will only receive it, but if they do not correct 591 3, 30 | and therefore renounced it with all its delights. His 592 3, 30 | difficult, and on account of it man naturally fears death; 593 3, 30 | natural fear and overcoming it with holy hatred of himself 594 3, 30 | stands at the door, and when it sees enemies warns the guards 595 3, 30 | It is true that a just soul, 596 3, 30 | in herself, is caused by it to throw herself before 597 3, 30 | drowned in the same. How is it that the devils cannot reprove 598 3, 30 | him no terror or fear, as it would do to another who 599 3, 30 | love, I should reply, yes it is possible that he may 600 3, 30 | possible that he may attain to it, but an individual case 601 3, 30 | their very marrow, and with it they see their place of 602 3, 30 | the pearl of justice which it always carried before it, 603 3, 30 | it always carried before it, doing justice to all, and 604 3, 30 | the true light, and kept it on your subjects, and have 605 3, 31 | suffered in this world than see it; and so greatly does he 606 3, 31 | sting of conscience that it gnaws him horribly. The 607 3, 31 | is this battle, because it finds them disarmed, without 608 3, 31 | they have been deprived of it all. Wherefore they have 609 3, 31 | they did not understand it, the horns of their pride 610 3, 31 | procure them mercy. But it is no fragility of your 611 3, 31 | intolerable suffering in it. One who despairs despises 612 3, 31 | creature can commit; wherefore it greatly displeases Me that 613 3, 31 | here nor hereafter, and it is because despair displeases 614 3, 31 | not so inclined to abandon it, on account of the severe 615 3, 31 | but because they have used it in the darkness of self-love, 616 3, 31 | sin, they have not known it in truth, but in so far 617 3, 31 | mercy they have thought of it with great presumption. 618 3, 31 | you might gain more with it, but you in your presumption 619 3, 31 | My will, rather you hid it under the ground of disordinate 620 3, 31 | you now see shining as it really is, and you know 621 3, 31 | relations, and have thrown it away on gluttony and on 622 3, 31 | how even when you recited it with your mouth your heart 623 3, 31 | and how you were giving it, the Devil puts this also 624 3, 31 | you ought to have given it, not on account of pleasant 625 3, 31 | when they are separated. So it happens to these wretches, 626 3, 31 | despair if they do not wish it, but the suffering of condemnation, 627 3, 31 | you with regard to what it really is, to the suffering, 628 3, 31 | happiness of the other, that it is but a trifle. See how 629 3, 31 | light of faith and renounced it, while the pagan never had 630 3, 31 | while the pagan never had it. ~ 631 3, 32 | Love are the cause, because it is always love which constrained 632 3, 32 | the sin of Adam, You sent it a Physician, the sweet and 633 3, 32 | which light, according as it has pleased You to manifest 634 3, 32 | pleased You to manifest it to me, I have known the 635 3, 32 | human race, administering to it the entire God- Man in the 636 3, 32 | enough; for she cannot desire it in itself, nor in the way 637 3, 32 | answered; to knock, and it would be opened to us; to 638 3, 32 | opened to us; to beg, and it would be given to us. Oh! 639 3, 32 | wherefore You can not destroy it or refuse it to him who 640 3, 32 | not destroy it or refuse it to him who asks for it. 641 3, 32 | refuse it to him who asks for it. Your servants knock at 642 3, 32 | ours, for You have made it our bath, wherefore You 643 3, 32 | wherefore You can not deny it to any one who truly asks 644 3, 32 | any one who truly asks for it. Give, then, the fruit of 645 3, 32 | door, begging You through it to do mercy to the world, 646 3, 32 | before even we can knock, for it is with the affection of 647 3, 32 | will not save us without it. I beg of You to force their 648 4, 1 | obedience may be found, and what it is that destroys it, and 649 4, 1 | what it is that destroys it, and what is the sign of 650 4, 1 | sign of a man's possessing it, and what accompanies and 651 4, 1 | reply that you will find it in its completeness in the 652 4, 1 | that, in order to fulfill it, He hastened to the shameful 653 4, 1 | Me, the Eternal Father. It was pride, which was produced 654 4, 1 | impatience the sign that you have it not, and you will find that 655 4, 1 | porter of that door, opened it, and no one can enter except 656 4, 1 | Lamb, and the source whence it proceeds. What caused the 657 4, 1 | which gives you life, for it is the straight way, having 658 4, 1 | fall, without perceiving it. For He has cast from Himself 659 4, 2 | how the soul should fasten it by means of a cord to her 660 4, 2 | founded upon obedience, for by it you prove your fidelity. 661 4, 2 | you all derive grace from it, just as from disobedience 662 4, 2 | derive death. Wherefore it is not enough that it should 663 4, 2 | Wherefore it is not enough that it should be only in word, 664 4, 2 | vicar. This vicar placed it in the hands of everyone 665 4, 2 | mud of impurity, breaking it with the hammer of pride, 666 4, 2 | hammer of pride, rusting it with self-love. It would 667 4, 2 | rusting it with self-love. It would have been entirely 668 4, 2 | in His hands and purified it in the fire of divine love, 669 4, 2 | divine love, having drawn it out of the mud, and cleansed 670 4, 2 | of the mud, and cleansed it with His blood, and straightened 671 4, 2 | blood, and straightened it with the knife of justice, 672 4, 2 | perfectly did He repair it that no matter how much 673 4, 2 | My grace, he can repair it with the same instruments 674 4, 2 | do not think of mending it! Do you think, forsooth, 675 4, 2 | door of Heaven will open it? that the pride which fell 676 4, 2 | imagine that you can, for it is a fantastical delusion; 677 4, 2 | of the world, and fasten it to the love of pleasing 678 4, 2 | to bind your loins with it, for fear you lose it. Know, 679 4, 2 | with it, for fear you lose it. Know, My daughter, there 680 4, 2 | damnation; but they hold it in their hand without wearing 681 4, 2 | or fastening the key to it with the cord of self-contempt, 682 4, 2 | its grasp, they will lose it. They can indeed find it 683 4, 2 | it. They can indeed find it again if they wish to while 684 4, 2 | wish they will never find it, and what will prove to 685 4, 2 | them, that they have lost it? Impatience, for patience 686 4, 2 | endurance, so long that it reaches from earth to heaven 687 4, 3 | their conscience, and though it is true that they can obey 688 4, 3 | repenting of their disobedience, it is very hard for them to 689 4, 3 | endure intolerable pain, for it has seduced them from the 690 4, 3 | shared by all those who taste it truly. What has placed them 691 4, 3 | the virtue of the blood, it has been able to unlock 692 4, 3 | put upon these words as if it should have been said, if 693 4, 3 | also should you observe it, and if you do not you will 694 4, 3 | your own soul, depriving it of the life of grace. Take, 695 4, 4 | in general, and as I know it to be your will that I should 696 4, 4 | is to be found and whence it proceeds, and the cause 697 4, 5 | but only the offender. It is true that the mistake 698 4, 5 | tongue could not narrate it. I say, then, that the soul, 699 4, 5 | imperfect when she enters, it does not follow that she 700 4, 5 | the contrary, she attains it by exercising herself in 701 4, 5 | destitution do they come. It is just that even in the 702 4, 5 | pearls of virtue, steering it in the way of lofty perfection, 703 4, 5 | they are all founded on it, in no other is this the 704 4, 5 | for this poverty, and made it very strict for those who 705 4, 5 | beloved son: he ordered it most perfectly, wishing 706 4, 5 | voluntary poverty, but having it also. And as a sign that 707 4, 5 | And as a sign that he had it truly, and that the contrary 708 4, 5 | care of temporal things. It is true that some failed 709 4, 5 | that all should observe it, with true and perfect obedience, 710 4, 5 | obedience, although today it is badly observed. They 711 4, 5 | transgresses the vow of obedience, it rarely happens that he does 712 4, 5 | and true poverty; he made it a royal ship, not obliging 713 4, 5 | transgress its vows, have turned it into a desert and defiled 714 4, 5 | into a desert and defiled it with their scanty virtue 715 4, 5 | is in this condition, for it still possesses every delight, 716 4, 5 | by grace, for he obtained it rather by means of prayer 717 4, 5 | that he not only confessed it in his life but even at 718 4, 6 | but however he may enter it (for I have told you that 719 4, 6 | this key when they have got it, and not throw it away. 720 4, 6 | have got it, and not throw it away. And because the truly 721 4, 6 | erect, and if sometimes it suits their convenience 722 4, 6 | to spend, for if they had it not they could not spend 723 4, 6 | not they could not spend it. They fall into mental and 724 4, 6 | themselves mentally, for it is impossible for a man 725 4, 6 | he would be able to pass it, having no key of obedience 726 4, 6 | obedience wherewith to open it, for as I said to you, he 727 4, 6 | obliged to pass through it. Wherefore it is that whether 728 4, 6 | pass through it. Wherefore it is that whether he will 729 4, 6 | separated from My Will, it is not in order to conform 730 4, 6 | of My kindness, and that it is I who permit this suffering 731 4, 6 | himself and come to Me. And if it should seem to him that 732 4, 6 | choir and the last to leave it, and when he sees a brother 733 4, 6 | the refectory, but visits it continually and delights 734 4, 6 | does not think of laying it by for his own use, but 735 4, 6 | own use, but freely shares it with his brethren, not thinking 736 4, 6 | macerating his flesh, stripping it bare of all pleasures and 737 4, 6 | and delights and clothing it with the labors of the order 738 4, 7 | obedient taste eternal life. It is not by faith that they 739 4, 7 | charity, but the joy of it makes the heart large and 740 4, 8 | himself. What a terrible thing it is, My daughter, to see 741 4, 8 | is the contrary to what it would be for the obedient 742 4, 8 | own will, and pride keeps it erect, all his desires are 743 4, 8 | voluntary poverty, and he avoids it, possessing and acquiring 744 4, 8 | by force or by love, and it would have been better and 745 4, 8 | obeyed by love than without it. Oh! how deluded he is, 746 4, 8 | and continually proves it to him; for when he is in 747 4, 8 | the contrary falls into it, for his blindness does 748 4, 8 | Son, who removed pain from it, so that he walks by the 749 4, 8 | knowledge, and will not navigate it in the arms of his order, 750 4, 8 | in mind; he has quitted it in desire, not observing 751 4, 8 | you fly your cell as if it were a prison, for you have 752 4, 8 | wretched man, to whose taste it is painful to eat in the 753 4, 8 | refectory, wherefore he avoids it; he is always the last to 754 4, 8 | and the first to leave it; with his lips he approaches 755 4, 8 | the faults which he felt it no shame to commit. What 756 4, 8 | the merit of obedience, it gives him continual bitterness, 757 4, 8 | with every evil in life it gives him the earnest of 758 4, 9 | the length of time which it takes, but according to 759 4, 9 | prompt, and has become, as it were, so incarnate in them, 760 4, 9 | will, seeing and judging it by the light of faith to 761 4, 9 | had not space to finish it; wherefore to show how pleasing 762 4, 9 | signs and testimonies, for it proceeds from the height 763 4, 9 | order to show how pleasing it is to Me, the earth obeys 764 4, 9 | virtue, the animals obey it -- water grows solid under 765 4, 9 | ordered by obedience to plant it in the earth and water it 766 4, 9 | it in the earth and water it every day, did not proceed 767 4, 9 | proceed to ask how could it possibly do any good, but, 768 4, 9 | caught a dragon and brought it to his abbot, but the abbot, 769 4, 9 | command were not hurt by it. This was the case of the 770 4, 9 | to be, and how pleasing it is to Me. Everything that 771 4, 9 | if he serve his neighbor, it is obedience that he serves. 772 4, 9 | being the infinite good, it cannot be understood by 773 4, 9 | only that quantity which it contains. The sea alone 774 4, 9 | in the measure in which it is given to him. Thus, then, 775 4, 10 | come to the knowledge of it through the knowledge of 776 4, 10 | darkness and persecutions from it, punishing its iniquities 777 4, 10 | the Infinite Good, unless it is united with the desire 778 4, 10 | destroyed. I have shown it to you as a universal key, 779 4, 10 | a universal key, and so it is. I have also spoken to 780 4, 11 | obedience, hearing and tasting it with love and ecstatic desire, 781 4, 11 | for she knows the truth; it is a deep which manifests 782 4, 11 | Trinity, bid me gaze, holding it with the hand of love, that 783 4, 11 | truth and have not loved it. Why did I not know You? 784 4, 11 | the question, You reply to it, and satisfy Your servant, 785 Lette, 0| received your letter and read it with much pleasure, and 786 Lette, 0| pleasure, and communicated it to my afflicted mothers 787 Lette, 0| so loathsome to her, that it was only with the greatest 788 Lette, 0| had the habit of rejecting it. Moreover, not one drop 789 Lette, 0| as dead, remaining under it for a long time without 790 Lette, 0| physical, but not natural; for it seems that God has given 791 Lette, 0| pleasure." And, in truth, it evidently was so; for, if 792 Lette, 0| Ascension; but by that time it was reduced to such a state 793 Lette, 0| reduced to such a state that it seemed like a corpse in 794 Lette, 0| pains due to them, and so it was done. After which she 795 Lette, 0| feeble. On account of this it seemed right to give her 796 Lette, 0| Antimo did, while she lay as it were deprived of feeling. ~ 797 Lette, 0| right arm, and then letting it fall and strike the bed. 798 Lette, 0| image of the cross set in it, and began to adore it, 799 Lette, 0| in it, and began to adore it, explaining, in words, certain 800 Lette, 0| and, in particular, said: "It is my fault, oh eternal 801 Lette, 0| torments and labors which it pleased You to accumulate 802 Lette, 0| indulgence, saying that it had been granted her by 803 Lette, 0| crucifix, began afresh to adore it with the greatest devotion, 804 Lette, 0| all that I can say is that it was a bitter sweet to her. 805 Lette, 0| himself who was able to touch it. Almighty God also worked