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"There are three reproofs. One was
given when the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples,
who, as it is said, being fortified by My power, and
illuminated by the wisdom of My beloved Son, received
all in the plenitude of the Holy Spirit. Then the
Holy Spirit, who is one thing with Me and with My
Son, reproved the world by the mouth of the Apostles,
with the doctrine of My Truth. They and all others,
who are descended from them, following the truth
which they understand through the same means, reprove
the world.
"This is that continuous reproof that I make to the
world by means of the Holy Scriptures, and My
servants, putting the Holy Spirit on their tongues to
announce My truth, even as the Devil puts himself on
the tongues of his servants, that is to say, of those
who pass through the river in iniquity. This is that
sweet reproof that I have fixed forever, in the
aforesaid way, out of My most great affection of love
for the salvation of souls. And they cannot say 'I
had no one who reproved me,' because the truth is
revealed to them showing them vice and virtue. And I
have made them see the fruit of virtue, and the
hurtfulness of vice, to give them love and holy fear
with hatred of vice and love of virtue, and this
truth has not been shown them by an angel, so that
they cannot say, 'the angel is a blessed spirit who
cannot offend, and feels not the vexations of the
flesh as we do, neither the heaviness of our body,'
because the Incarnate Word of My Truth has been given
to them with your mortal flesh.
"Who were the others who followed this Word? Mortal
creatures, susceptible of pain like you, having the
same opposition of the flesh to the Spirit, as had
the glorious Paul, My standard-bearer, and many other
saints who, by one thing or another, have been
tormented. Which torments I permitted for the
increase of grace and virtue in their souls. Thus,
they were born in sin like you, and nourished with a
like food, and I am God now as then.
" My power is not weakened, and cannot become weak.
So that I can and will succor him who wishes to be
succored by Me. Man wants My succor when he comes out
of the river, and walks by the Bridge, following the
doctrine of My Truth. Thus no one has any excuse,
because both reproof and truth are constantly given
to them.
" Wherefore, if they do not amend while they have
time, they will be condemned by the second
condemnation which will take place at the extremity
of death, when My Justice will cry to them, 'Rise,
you dead, and come to judgment!' That is to say,
'You, who are dead to grace, and have reached the
moment of your corporal death, arise and come before
the Supreme Judge with your injustice and false
judgment, and with the extinguished light of faith
which you received burning in Holy Baptism (and which
you have blown out with the wind of pride), and with
the vanity of your heart, with which you set your
sails to winds which were contrary to your salvation,
for with the wind of self-esteem, you filled the sail
of self-love.'
"Thus you hastened down the stream of the delights
and dignities of the world at your own will,
following your fragile flesh and the temptations of
the devil, who, with the sail of your own will set,
has led you along the underway which is a running
stream, and so has brought you with himself to
eternal damnation."
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