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"Wherefore I have told you that I have made a Bridge
of My Word, of My only-begotten Son, and this is the
truth. I wish that you, My children, should know that
the road was broken by the sin and disobedience of
Adam, in such a way, that no one could arrive at
Eternal Life.
"Wherefore men did not render Me glory in the way in
which they ought to have, as they did not participate
in that Good for which I had created them, and My
truth was not fulfilled. This truth is that I have
created man to My own image and similitude, in order
that he might have Eternal Life, and might partake of
Me, and taste My supreme and eternal sweetness and
goodness. But, after sin had closed Heaven and bolted
the doors of mercy, the soul of man produced thorns
and prickly brambles, and My creature found in
himself rebellion against himself.
"And the flesh immediately began to war against the
Spirit, and, losing the state of innocence, became a
foul animal, and all created things rebelled against
man, whereas they would have been obedient to him,
had he remained in the state in which I had placed
him. He, not remaining therein, transgressed My
obedience, and merited eternal death in soul and
body. And, as soon as he had sinned, a tempestuous
flood arose, which ever buffets him with its waves,
bringing him weariness and trouble from himself, the
devil, and the world. Every one was drowned in the
flood, because no one, with his own justice alone,
could arrive at Eternal Life.
"And so, wishing to remedy your great evils, I have
given you the Bridge of My Son, in order that,
passing across the flood, you may not be drowned,
which flood is the tempestuous sea of this dark life.
See, therefore, under what obligations the creature
is to Me, and how ignorant he is, not to take the
remedy which I have offered, but to be willing to
drown."
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