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"This second reproof, dearest daughter, is indeed a
condemnation, for the soul has arrived at the end,
where there can be no remedy, for she is at the
extremity of death, where is the worm of conscience,
which I told you was blinded self-love.
"Now at the time of death, since she cannot get out
of My hands, she begins to see, and therefore is
gnawed with remorse, seeing that her own sin has
brought her into so great evil. But if the soul have
light to know and grieve for her fault, not on
account of the pain of Hell that follows upon it, but
on account of pain at her offense against Me, who am
Supreme and Eternal Good, still she can find mercy.
"But if she pass the Bridge of death without light,
and alone, with the worm of conscience, without the
hope of the Blood, and bewailing herself more on
account of her first condemnation than on account of
My displeasure, she arrives at eternal damnation. And
then she is reproved cruelly by My Justice of
injustice and of false judgment, and not so much of
general injustice and false judgment which she has
practiced generally in all her works, but much more
on account of the particular injustice and false
judgment which she practices at the end, in judging
her misery greater than My mercy.
"This is that sin which is neither pardoned here nor
there, because the soul would not be pardoned,
depreciating My mercy. Therefore is this last sin
graver to Me than all the other sins that the soul
has committed. Wherefore the despair of Judas
displeased Me more, and was more grave to My Son than
was his betrayal of Him. So that they are reproved of
this false judgment, which is to have held their sin
to be greater than My mercy, and, on that account,
are they punished with the devils, and eternally
tortured with them. And they are reproved of
injustice because they grieve more over their
condemnation than over My displeasure, and do not
render to Me that which is Mine, and to themselves
that which is theirs.
"For to Me, they ought to render love, and to
themselves bitterness, with contrition of heart, and
offer it to Me, for the offense they have done Me.
And they do the contrary because they give to
themselves love, pitying themselves, and grieving on
account of the pain they expect for their sin; so you
see that they are guilty of injustice and false
judgment, and are punished for the one and the other
together.
" Wherefore, they, having depreciated My mercy, I
with justice send them, with their cruel servant,
sensuality, and the cruel tyrant the Devil, whose
servants they made themselves through their own
sensuality, so that, together, they are punished and
tormented, as together they have offended Me.
Tormented, I say, by My ministering devils whom My
judgment has appointed to torment those who have done
evil."
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