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"Sinners, such as those of whom I have just spoken,
are placed in this life in order to augment virtues
in My servants, as the devils are in Hell as My
justiciars and augmenters of My Glory; that is, My
instruments of justice towards the damned, and the
augmenters of My Glory in My creatures, who are
wayfarers and pilgrims on their journey to reach Me,
their End.
"They augment in them the virtues in diverse ways,
exercising them with many temptations and vexations,
causing them to injure one another and take one
another's property, and not for the motive of making
them receive injury or be deprived of their property,
but only to deprive them of charity.
"But in thinking to deprive My servants, they
fortify them, proving in them the virtues of
patience, fortitude, and perseverance. Thus they
render praise and glory to My Name, and My Truth is
fulfilled in them, which Truth created them for the
praise and glory of Me, Eternal Father, and that they
might participate in My beauty.
"But, rebelling against Me in their pride, they
fell and lost their vision of Me, wherefore they
rendered not to Me glory through the affection of
love, and I, Eternal Truth, have placed them as
instruments to exercise My servants in virtue in this
life and as justiciars to those who go, for their
sins, to the pains of Purgatory.
"So you see that My Truth is fulfilled in them,
that is, that they render Me glory, not as citizens
of life eternal, of which they are deprived by their
sins, but as My justiciars, manifesting justice upon
the damned, and upon those in Purgatory." |