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"Thus in all things created, in all rational
creatures, and in the devils is seen the glory and
praise of My Name. Who can see it?
"The soul who is denuded of the body and has
reached Me, her End, sees it clearly, and, in seeing,
knows the truth. Seeing Me, the Eternal Father, she
loves, and loving, she is satisfied. Satisfied, she
knows the Truth, and her will is stayed in My Will,
bound and made stable, so that in nothing can it
suffer pain, because it has that which it desired to
have, before the soul saw Me, namely, the glory and
praise of My Name.
"She now, in truth, sees it completely in My
saints, in the blessed spirits, and in all creatures
and things, even in the devils, as I told you. And
although she also sees the injury done to Me, which
before caused her sorrow, it no longer now can give
her pain, but only compassion, because she loves
without pain, and prays to Me continually with
affection of love, that I will have mercy on the
world.
"Pain in her is ended, but not love, as the
tortured desire, which My Word, the Son, had borne
from the beginning when I sent Him into the world,
terminated on the Cross in His painful death, but His
love -- no. For had the affection of My charity,
which I showed you by means of Him, been terminated
and ended then, you would not be, because by love you
are made, and had My love been drawn back, that is,
had I not loved your being, you could not be, but My
love created you, and My love possesses you, because
I am one thing with My Truth, and He, the Word
Incarnate with Me.
"You see then, that the saints and every soul in
Eternal Life have desire for the salvation of souls
without pain, because pain ended in their death, but
not so the affection of love.
"Thus, as if drunk with the Blood of the
Immaculate Lamb, and clothed in the love of the
neighbor, they pass through the Narrow Gate, bathed
in the Blood of Christ crucified, and they find
themselves in Me, the Sea Pacific, raised from
imperfection, far from satiety, and arrived at
perfection, satisfied by every good."
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