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"I have now, oh dearest and best beloved daughter,
satisfied from the beginning to the end your desire
concerning obedience.
"If you remember well, you made four petitions of
Me with anxious desire, or rather I caused you to
make them in order to increase the fire of My love in
your soul: one for yourself, which I have satisfied,
illuminating you with My Truth, and showing you how
you may know this truth which you desired to know;
explaining to you how you might come to the knowledge
of it through the knowledge of yourself and Me,
through the light of faith.
"The second request you made of Me was that
I should do mercy to the world.
"In the third you prayed for the mystical body of
the holy Church, that I would remove darkness and
persecutions from it, punishing its iniquities at own
desire in your person. As to this I explained that no
penalty inflicted in finite time can satisfy for a
sin committed against Me, the Infinite Good, unless
it is united with the desire of the soul and
contrition of the heart. How this is to be done I
have explained to you. I have also told you that I
wish to do mercy to the world, proving to you that
mercy is My special attribute, for through the mercy
and the inestimable love which I had for man, I sent
to the earth the Word, My only-begotten Son, whom,
that you might understand things quite clearly, I
represented to you under the figure of a Bridge,
reaching from earth to heaven, through the union of
My divinity with your human nature.
"I also showed you, to give you further light
concerning My truth, how this Bridge is built on
three steps; that is, on the three powers of the
soul. These three steps I also represented to you, as
you know, under figures of your body -- the feet, the
side, and the mouth -- by which I also figured three
states of soul -- the imperfect state, the perfect
state, and the most perfect state, in which the soul
arrives at the excellence of unitive love.
"I have shown you clearly in each state the means
of cutting away imperfection and reaching perfection,
and how the soul may know by which road she is
walking and of the hidden delusions of the devil and
of spiritual self-love.
"Speaking of these three
states I have also spoken of the three judgments
which My clemency delivers -- one in this life, the
second at death on those who die in mortal sin
without hope, of whom I told you that they went under
the Bridge by the Devil's road, when I spoke to you
of their wretchedness. And the third is that of the
last and universal judgment. And I who told you
somewhat of the suffering of the damned and the glory
of the blessed, when all shall have reassumed their
bodies given by Me, also promised you, and now again
I repeat my promise, that through the long endurance
of My servants I will reform My spouse.
"Wherefore I
invite you to endure, Myself lamenting with you over
her iniquities. And I have shown you the excellence
of the ministers I have given her, and the reverence
in which I wish seculars to hold them, showing you
the reason why their reverence towards My ministers
should not diminish on account of the sins of the
latter, and how displeasing to me is such diminution
of reverence; and of the virtue of those who live
like angels.
"And while speaking to you on this
subject, I also touched on the excellence of the
sacraments. And further wishing you to know of the
states of tears and whence they proceed, I spoke to
you on the subject and told you that all tears issue
from the fountain of the heart, and pointed out their
causes to you in order.
"I told you not only of the four states of tears, but
also of the fifth, which germinates death. I have
also answered your fourth request, that I would
provide for the particular case of an individual; I
have provided as you know.
"Further than this, I have
explained My providence to you, in general and in
particular, showing you how everything is made by
divine providence, from the first beginning of the
world until the end, giving you and permitting
everything to happen to you, both tribulations and
consolations temporal and spiritual, and every
circumstance of your life for your good, in order
that you may be sanctified in Me, and My Truth be
fulfilled in you, which truth is that I created you
in order to possess eternal life, and manifested this
with the blood of My only-begotten Son, the Word.
"I have also in My last words fulfilled your desire
and My promise to speak of the perfection of
obedience and the imperfection of disobedience; and
how obedience can be obtained and how destroyed. I
have shown it to you as a universal key, and so it
is. I have also spoken to you of particular
obedience, and of the perfect and imperfect, and of
those in religion, and of those in the world,
explaining the condition of each distinctly to you,
and of the peace given by obedience, and the war of
disobedience, and how the disobedient man is
deceived, showing you how death came into the world
by the disobedience of Adam, and how I, the Eternal
Father, supreme and eternal Truth, give you this
conclusion of the whole matter, that in the obedience
of the only-begotten Word, My Son, you have life, and
as from that first old man you contracted the
infection of death, so all of you who will take the
key of obedience have contracted the infection of the
life of the new Man, sweet Jesus, of whom I made a
Bridge, the road to Heaven being broken.
"And now I urge you and My other servants to
grief, for by your grief and humble and continual
prayer I will do mercy to the world. Die to the world
and hasten along this way of truth, so as not to be
taken prisoner if you go slowly. I demand this of you
now more than at first, for now I have manifested to
you My Truth.
"Beware that you never leave the cell of
self-knowledge, but in this cell preserve and spend
the treasure which I have given you, which is a
doctrine of truth founded upon the living stone,
sweet Christ Jesus, clothed in light which scatters
darkness, with which doctrine clothe yourself, My
best beloved and sweetest daughter, in the truth."
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