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"I have told you of the dignity of the Righteous, so
that you may the better know the misery of the
damned. For this is another of their pains, namely,
the vision of the bliss of the righteous, which is to
them an increase of pain, as, to the righteous, the
damnation of the damned is an increase of exultation
in My goodness.
"As light is seen better near darkness, and darkness
near light, so the sight of the Blessed increases
their pain. With pain they await the Last Day of
Judgment, because they see, following it, an increase
of pain to themselves. And so will it be, because
when that terrible voice shall say to them, 'Arise,
you dead, and come to judgment,' the soul will return
with the body, in the just to be glorified, and in
the damned to be tortured eternally.
"And the aspect of My Truth, and of all the blessed
ones will reproach them greatly, and make them
ashamed, and the worm of conscience will gnaw the
pith of the tree, that is the soul, and also the bark
outside, which is the body. They will be reproached
by the Blood that was shed for them, and by the works
of mercy, spiritual and temporal, which I did for
them by means of My Son, and which they should have
done for their neighbor, as is contained in the Holy
Gospel.
"They will be reproved for their cruelty towards
their neighbor, for their pride and self-love, for
their filthiness and avarice; and when they see the
mercy that they have received from Me, their reproof
will seem to be intensified in harshness.
"At the time of death, the soul only is reproved,
but, at the General Judgment, the soul is reproved
together with the body, because the body has been the
companion and instrument of the soul -- to do good
and evil according as the free-will pleased. Every
work, good or bad, is done by means of the body. And,
therefore, justly, My daughter, glory and infinite
good are rendered to My elect ones with their
glorified body, rewarding them for the toils they
bore for Me, together with the soul.
"And to the perverse ones will be rendered eternal
pains by means of their body, because their body was
the instrument of evil. Wherefore, being their body,
restored, their pains will revive and increase at the
aspect of My Son, their miserable sensuality with its
filthiness, in the vision of their nature (that is,
the humanity of Christ), united with the purity of My
Deity, and of this mass of their Adam nature raised
above all the choirs of Angels, and themselves, by
their own fault, sunk into the depths of Hell.
"And they will see generosity and mercy shining in
the blessed ones, who receive the fruit of the Blood
of the Lamb, the pains that they have borne remaining
as ornaments on their bodies, like the dye upon the
cloth, not by virtue of the body but only out of the
fullness of the soul, representing in the body the
fruit of its labor, because it was the companion of
the soul in the working of virtue. As in the mirror
is represented the face of the man, so in the body is
represented the fruit of bodily toils, in the way
that I have told you.
"The pain and confusion of the darkened ones, on
seeing so great a dignity (of which they are
deprived), will increase, and their bodies will
appear the sign of the wickedness they have
committed, with pain and torture. And when they hear
that terrible speech, 'Go, cursed ones, to the
Eternal Fire,' the soul and the body will go to be
with the Devil without any remedy or hope -- each one
being wrapped up in diverse filth of earth, according
to his evil works.
"The miser with the filth of avarice, wrapping
himself up with the worldly substance which he loved
disordinately, and the burning in the fire; the cruel
one with cruelty; the foul man with foulness and
miserable concupiscence; the unjust with his
injustice; the envious with envy; and the hater of
his neighbor with hatred. And inordinate self-love,
whence were born all their ills, will be burnt with
intolerable pain, as the head and principle of every
evil, in company with pride. So that body and soul
together will be punished in diverse ways.
"Thus miserably do they arrive at their end who go by
the lower way, that is, by the river, not turning
back to see their sins and My Mercy. And they arrive
at the Gate of the Lie, because they follow the
doctrine of the Devil, who is the Father of Lies; and
this Devil is their Door, through which they go to
Eternal Damnation, as has been said, as the elect and
My sons, keeping by the way above, that is by the
Bridge, follow the Way of Truth, and this Truth is
the Door, and therefore said My Truth, 'No one can go
to the Father but by Me.' "He is the Door and the Way
through which they pass to enter the Sea Pacific.
"It is the contrary for those who have kept the Way
of the Lie, which leads them to the water of death.
And it is to this that the Devil calls them, and they
are as blind and mad, and do not perceive it, because
they have lost the light of faith. The Devil says, as
it were, to them: 'Whosoever thirsts for the water of
death, let him come and I will give it to him.'"
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