GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN
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WHILE I AM OUTSIDE OF MYSELF AND I FIND MYSELF IN THE HEIGHT OF THE HEAVENS, I SEEM TO SEE GOD WITHIN A LIGHT. HE, HIMSELF, SEEMS TO BE LIGHT AND WITHIN THIS LIGHT THERE IS A BEAUTY, STRENGTH, WISDOM, IMMENSITY, HEIGHT, DEPTH - ENDLESS AND BOUNDLESS. EVEN IN THE AIR WE BREATHE IS GOD PRESENT AND WE BREATHE HIM; SO, EACH ONE CAN MAKE HIM HIS OWN LIFE, AS INDEED HE IS. NOTHING ESCAPES HIM AND NOTHING CAN ESCAPE HIM. THIS LIGHT SEEMS TO BE ALL VOICE THOUGH IT DOES NOT SPEAK AND ALL OPERATING, THOUGH IT ALWAYS RESTS. IT IS PRESENT EVERYWHERE, THOUGH IT OCCUPIES NO SPACE AND WHILE IT IS PRESENT EVERYWHERE, IT HAS IT'S OWN CENTER. OH GOD, HOW INCOMPREHENSIBLE YOU ARE! I SEE YOU, I FEEL YOU, YOU ARE MY LIFE AND YOU RESTRICT YOURSELF IN ME BUT YOU REMAIN ALWAYS IMMENSE AND LOSE NOTHING OF YOURSELF - THE SUN IS FIRE BUT IT IS ALSO LIGHT AND HEAT. HERE IS THE MOST HOLY TRINITY VEILED IN THE SUN: THE FIRE IS THE FATHER, THE LIGHT IS THE SUN AND THE HEAT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT. HOWEVER, THE SUN IS ONE AND JUST AS ONE CANNOT SEPARATE FIRE FROM LIGHT AND HEAT, SO ONE IS THE POWER OF THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT WHO IN REALITY CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER. AND JUST AS THE FIRE PRODUCES LIGHT AND HEAT AT THE SAME TIME, IN SUCH A WAY THAT FIRE CANNOT BE CONCEIVED WITHOUT LIGHT AND HEAT; IN THE SAME WAY, THE FATHER CANNOT BE CONCEIVED BEFORE THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT AND VICE VERSA BUT ALL THREE OF THEM HAVE THE SAME ETERNAL BEGINNING...I ADD THAT THE LIGHT OF THE SUN DIFFUSES EVERYWHERE IN THE SAME WAY , GOD PENETRATES EVERYWHERE WITH HIS IMMENSITY. HOWEVER, LET US REMEMBER THAT THIS IS BUT A SHADOW BECAUSE THE SUN CANNOT REACH WHERE IT CANNOT PENETRATE WITH ITS LIGHT, WHILE GOD PENETRATES EVERYWHERE. GOD IS MOST PURE SPIRIT, AND WE CAN REPRESENT HIM WITH THE SUN, WHICH MAKES ITS RAYS PENETRATE EVERYWHERE AND NO ONE CAN GRAB THEM WITH THEIR HANDS. MOREOVER, GOD LOOKS AT EVERYTHING - THE INIQUITIES AND THE EVILS OF MEN - BUT HE REMAINS ALWAYS AS HE IS, PURE, HOLY AND IMMACULATE. A SHADOW OF GOD IS THE SUN WHICH SENDS ITS LIGHT OVER RUBBISH BUT REMAINS IMMACULATE; IT SPREADS IS LIGHT IN THE FIRE BUT IS NOT BURNED; IN THE SEA AND IN THE RIVERS BUT IT IS NOT DROWNED. IT GIVES LIGHT TO ALL, IT FECUNDATES EVERYTHING, IT GIVES LIFE TO ALL WITH ITS HEAT BUT DOES NOT BECOME POOR IN LIGHT NOR DOES IT LOSE ANY OF IS HEAT. EVEN MORE, WHILE IT DOES SO MUCH GOOD TO ALL, IT NEEDS NO ONE AND REMAINS ALWAYS AS IT IS - MAJESTIC, SHINING, EVER IMMUTABLE. OH, HOW WELL ONE CAN SEE THE DIVINE QUALITIES IN THE SUN! WITH HIS IMMENSITY, GOD IS PRESENT IN THE FIRE BUT IS NOT BURNED, IN THE SEA BUT IS NOT DROWNED, UNDER OUR STEPS BUT IS NOT TRAMPLED. HE GIVES TO ALL BUT DOES NOT BECOME POOR AND NEEDS NO ONE. HE LOOKS AT EVERYTHING - EVEN MORE, HE IS ALL EYES AND THERE IS NOTHING HE DOES NOT HEAR. HE IS AWARE OF EACH FIBER OF OUR HEARTS, OF EACH THOUGHT OF OUR MINDS BUT, BEING MOST PURE SPIRIT, HE HAS NEITHER EARS NOR EYES AND NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, HE NEVER CHANGES. THE SUN INVESTS THE WORLD WITH ITS LIGHT AND IT DOES NOT TIRE; IN THE SAME WAY, GOD GIVES LIFE TO ALL, HELPS AND RULES THE WORLD AND HE DOES NOT TIRE....NO CREATED MIND CAN RESTRICT THE DIVINE SUN WITH ITS LITTLE MIND SO AS TO COMPREHEND IT IN ALL THAT IT IS AND IF IT WANTED TO DO IT, IT WOULD REMAIN DAZZLED AND CONFUSED.
ALL HEAVEN IS VEILED IN MY CHURCH. JUST AS IN HEAVEN ONE IS THE HEAD, WHICH IS GOD AND MANY ARE THE SAINTS, OF DIFFERENT CONDITIONS , ORDERS AND MERITS, SO IN MY CHURCH IN WHICH ALL HEAVEN IS VEILED, ONE IS THE HEAD, WHICH IS THE POPE AND THE SACROSANCT TRINITY IS VEILED EVEN IN THE TRIPLE TIARA THAT COVERS HIS HEAD AND MANY ARE THE MEMBERS THAT DEPEND ON THIS HEAD.
THIS MORNING,AS I WAS OUTSIDE MYSELF, I FOUND MYSELF WITH BABY JESUS IN MY ARMS AND WHILE I DELIGHTED IN LOOKING AT HIM, I DON'T KNOW HOW, FROM THE SAME BABY, A SECOND ONE CAME OUT AND AFTER A FEW INSTANTS, A THIRD BABY, BOTH OF THEM SIMILAR TO THE FIRST, THOUGH DISTINCT AMONG THEMSELVES. STUPEFIED IN LOOKING AT THIS, I SAID: "HOW ONE CAN TOUCH WITH HAND THE SACROSANCT MYSTERY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY, THAT WHILE YOU ARE ONE, YOU ARE ALSO THREE". IT SEEMED TO ME THAT ALL THREE OF THEM SPOKE TO ME BUT AS THE WORD CAME OUT, IT BECAME ONE SINGLE VOICE: OUR NATURE IS FORMED OF MOST PURE, MOST SIMPLE, COMMUNICATIVE LOVE AND THE NATURE OF TRUE LOVE HAS THIS OF IT S OWN: IT PRODUCES FROM ITSELF IMAGES FULLY SIMILAR TO ITSELF IN POWER, IN GOODNESS, IN BEAUTY AND IN EVERYTHING IT CONTAINS; AND ONLY TO GIVE MORE SUBLIME PROMINENCE TO OUR OMNIPOTENCE IT PLACES THE MARK OF DISTINCTION , IN SUCH A WAY, THAT, MELTING IN LOVE, THIS NATURE OF OURS - WHICH IS SIMPLE, WITH NO MATTER AT ALL WHICH MIGHT PREVENT OUR UNION - FORMS THREE(PERSONS) AND RETURNING TO MELT, IT FORMS ONE. IT IS SO TRUE THAT THE NATURE OF TRUE LOVE HAS THIS PREROGATIVE OF PRODUCING IMAGES FULLY SIMILAR TO ITSELF OF ASSUMING THE IMAGE OF THE BELOVED, THAT THE SECOND PERSON, IN REDEEMING MANKIND, ASSUMED THE NATURE AND THE IMAGE OF MAN AND COMMUNICATED THE DIVINITY TO MAN.
SO, EVEN IN HEAVEN, ME DEAREST BROTHERS, ANGELS AND SAINTS, BEING CREATURES, DO NOT HAVE THE CAPACITY OF COMPREHENDING THEIR CREATOR IN EVERYTHING. THEY ARE LIKE MANY CONTAINERS FILLED WITH GOD WHICH IF ONE WANTS TO FILL THEM MORE, OVERFLOW OUTSIDE. I BELIEVE I AM SPEAKING NONSENSE, THEREFORE, I STOP HERE.
THIS MORNING, FINDING MYSELF OUTSIDE OF MYSELF, FOR A LITTLE WHILE I SAW ADORABLE JESUS IN THE ACT OF HIS RESURRECTION - ALL CLOTHED WITH REFULGENT LIGHT, SO MUCH THAT THE SUN REMAINED OBSCURED BEFORE THAT LIGHT. I WAS ENCHANTED AND I SAID: "LORD, IF I AM NOT WORTHY TO TOUCH YOUR GLORIFIED HUMANITY, LET ME AT LEAST TOUCH YOUR GARMENTS." AND HE TOLD ME: "MY BELOVED, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? AFTER I ROSE AGAIN, I HAD NO NEED FOR MATERIAL GARMENTS; RATHER, MY GARMENTS ARE OF SUN, OF MOST PURE LIGHT WHICH COVERS MY HUMANITY AND WHICH WILL SHINE ETERNALLY, GIVING UNSPEAKABLE JOY TO ALL THE SENSES OF THE BLESSED. THIS HAS BEEN CONCEDED TO MY HUMANITY BECAUSE THERE WAS NOT ONE PART OF IT WHICH WAS NOT COVERED WITH OPPROBRIUM, WITH PAINS, WITH WOUNDS.
AS I WAS IN MY USUAL STATE, I SEEMED TO SEE THE MOST HOLY TRINITY. THEY WERE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER AND IN THOSE GAZES, THEIR BEAUTY WAS SO GREAT THAT THEY WOULD REMAIN ECSTATIC AT THE MERE GAZING UPON ONE ANOTHER. IN THIS STATE, THEY OVERFLOWED WITH LOVE AND WERE AS THOUGH STIRRED BY THAT LOVE, TO THEN BECOME MORE INTENSELY ECSTATIC. SO, ALL OF THEIR GOOD AND DELIGHT WAS COMPRISED WITHIN THEMSELVES AND THE WHOLE OF THEIR ETERNAL LIFE, BEATITUDE AND EXERCISE WAS ENCLOSED IN THIS WORD ALONE: "LOVE", AND THE WHOLE BEATITUDE OF THE SAINTS WAS FORMED BY THIS PERFECT OPERATING OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY. WHILE I WAS SEEING THIS, THE SON ASSUMED THE FORM OF THE CRUCIFIED, COMING OUT FROM THEIR MIDST, HE CAME TO ME, SHARING WITH ME THE PAINS OF THE CRUCIFIXION. AND WHILE REMAINING WITH ME, HE BROUGHT HIMSELF AGAIN INTO THEIR MIDST AND OFFERED HIS SUFFERINGS AND MINE, SATISFYING FOR THE LOVE THAT ALL CREATURES OWED THEM. WHO CAN SAY THEIR DELIGHT AND HOW SATISFIED THEY WERE BY THE OFFERING OF THE SON! IT SEEMED THAT, SINCE IN CREATING THE CREATURES NOTHING HAD COME OUT OF THEIR INTERIOR BUT FLAMES OF LOVE, SO MUCH SO, THAT IN ORDER TO GIVE VENT TO THIS LOVE, THEY BEGAN TO CREATE MANY OTHER IMAGES OF THEMSELVES - ONLY WHEN THEY RECEIVE WHAT THEY HAVE GIVEN ARE THEY THEN SATISFIED - THAT IS, LOVE THEY GAVE, LOVE THEY WANT. SO, THE MOST AWFUL AFFRONT IS TO NOT LOVE THEM. YET, OH GOD, THREE TIMES HOLY, WHO IS THERE THAT LOVES YOU?
I SEEMED TO BE OUTSIDE OF MYSELF AND IT SEEMED THERE WAS A SPECIAL FEAST IN HEAVEN AND I WAS INVITED TO THAT FEAST. IT SEEMED I WAS SINGING WITH THE VERY BLESSED, BECAUSE, UP THERE, THERE IS NO NEED TO LEARN BUT ONE FEELS AS THOUGH INFUSED IN ONE'S INTERIOR AND WHATEVER THE OTHERS SING OR DO ONE IS ABLE TO DO AS WELL. NOW, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT EACH BLESSED IS A KEY, A MELODY HIMSELF BUT ALL ARE IN HARMONY AMONG THEMSELVES, THOUGH EACH ONE IS DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER. ONE SINGS THE NOTES OF PRAISE, ONE THE NOTES OF GLORY, ONE OF THANKSGIVING, ONE OF BLESSING BUT ALL THESE NOTES REUNITE INTO ONE SINGLE NOTE AND THIS NOTE IS LOVE.
AND JESUS, TAKING MY HANDS IN HIS, SEEMED TO MITIGATE MY PAINS AND THEN HE SHOWED ME TWO HIGH STAIRWAYS FROM EARTH UP TO HEAVEN. ON ONE OF THEM WERE MORE PEOPLE - VERY FEW ON THEM ON THE OTHER. THE ONE ON WHICH THERE WERE ONLY FEW PEOPLE WAS OF SOLID GOLD AND IT SEEMED THAT THOSE FEW WHO WERE GOING UP WERE AS MANY JESUSES - EACH ONE OF THEM WAS ONE JESUS. THE OTHER ONE, ON WHICH THERE WERE MORE PEOPLE, SEEMED TO MADE OF WOOD AND ONE COULD DISTINGUISH WHO THE PEOPLE WERE - ALMOST ALL OF THEM SHORT AND NOT VERY DEVELOPED. JESUS TOLD ME,: " MY DAUGHTER, THOSE WHO LIVED THEIR LIVES IN MY LIFE ASCEND ON THE GOLDEN STAIRWAY; SO, I CAN SAY: "THEY ARE MY FEET , MY HANDS, MY HEART - THE WHOLE OF MYSELF." AS YOU CAN SEE, THEY ARE ANOTHER ME - THEY ARE ALL FOR ME AND I AM THEIR LIFE. THEIR ACTIONS ARE ALL OF GOLD AND OF INCALCULABLE VALUE BECAUSE THEY ARE DIVINE. NO ONE WILL EVER BE ABLE TO REACH THEIR HEIGHT BECAUSE THEY ARE MY VERY LIFE. ALMOST WITHOUT ANYONE KNOWING THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE HIDDEN IN ME, ONLY IN HEAVEN WILL THEY BE PERFECTLY KNOWN.
THERE ARE TWO WAYS IN WHICH THE SOUL SEEMED TO GO OUT OF THE BODY AND IN THESE TWO WAYS IN WHICH THE SOUL GOES OUT, GOD SPEAKS TO ME. THIS WAY OF SPEAKING HE, HIMSELF CALLS INTELLECTUAL SPEAKING. I WILL TRY TO EXPLAIN IT; AFTER THE SOUL HAS GONE OUT OF THE BODY, FINDING HERSELF BEFORE JESUS, SHE HAS NO NEED OF WORDS IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND WHAT JESUS WANTS TO TELL HER; NOR DOES THE SOUL NEED TO SPEAK IN ORDER TO MAKE HERSELF UNDERSTOOD BUT THROUGH THE INTELLECT - OH! HOW WELL WE UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER WHEN WE ARE TOGETHER. FROM A LIGHT THAT COMES FROM JESUS INTO MY INTELLECT, I FEEL EVERYTHING THAT MY JESUS WANTS TO MAKE ME UNDERSTAND BEING IMPRESSED WITHIN ME. THIS IS VERY HIGH AND SUBLIME; SO MUCH SO, THAT THE HUMAN NATURE CAN HARDLY ADAPT ITSELF TO EXPLAIN IT WITH WORDS - IT CAN BARELY GIVE A FEW IDEAS. THIS WAY OF JESUS MAKING HIMSELF UNDERSTOOD IS EXTREMELY RAPID - IN ONE SINGLE INSTANT, ONE LEARNS MANY SUBLIME THINGS, MORE THAN BY READING ENTIRE BOOKS. OH! WHAT A MOST INGENIOUS TEACHER JESUS IS - IN ONE SIMPLE INSTANT, HE TEACHES SO MANY THINGS WHILE IT WOULD TAKE ENTIRE YEARS FOR SOMEONE ELSE, IF HE MANAGES AT ALL BECAUSE THE TERRESTRIAL TEACHER DOES NOT HAVE THE POWER TO DRAW THE WILL OF HIS DISCIPLE OR TO INFUSE THINGS IN HIS MIND WITHOUT EFFORT AND TOIL. BUT NOT WITH JESUS, HIS SWEETNESS, THE LOVELINESS OF HIS GESTURE, THE GENTLENESS OF HIS SPEAKING ARE SO GREAT - AND THEN HE IS SO BEAUTIFUL THAT AS SOON AS THE SOUL SEES HIM, SHE FEELS SO DRAWN THAT SOMETIMES THE SPEED WITH WHICH SHE RUNS AFTER JESUS IS SO GREAT THAT ALMOST WITHOUT REALIZING IT, SHE FINDS HERSELF TRANSFORMED INTO THE BELOVED, IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE SOUL IS NO LONGER CAPABLE OF DISTINGUISHING HER TERRESTRIAL BEING, SO MUCH IS SHE IDENTIFIED WITH THE DIVINE BEING. WHO CAN TELL WHAT THE SOUL FEELS IN THIS STATE? IT WOULD TAKE JESUS HIMSELF!
EACH MORNING - I DON'T REMEMBER WELL BUT I THINK ABOUT THREE MONTHS HAD PASSED OF MY CONTINUOUSLY STAYING IN BED - WHILE I WAS IN MY USUAL STATE, MY SWEET JESUS CAME WITH A LOOK ALL LOVABLE, AS A YOUNG MAN OF THE AGE OF ABOUT EIGHTEEN . OH! HOW BEAUTIFUL HE WAS! WITH HIS GOLDEN HAIR, ALL CURLY, HE SEEMED TO CHAIN MY THOUGHTS, MY AFFECTIONS, MY HEART. FROM HIS FOREHEAD, SERENE AND SPACIOUS, ONE COULD ADMIRE THE INTERIOR OF HIS MIND, AS FROM WITHIN A CRYSTAL AND ONE COULD DISCOVER HIS INFINITE WISDOM, HIS IMPERTURBABLE PEACE. OH! I FELT MY MIND, MY HEART BRIGHTEN UP; EVEN MORE, BEFORE JESUS, MY VERY PASSIONS ARE KNOCKED DOWN AND DO NOT DARE TO GIVE ME THE SLIGHTEST BOTHER. I DON'T KNOW IF I AM WRONG BUT I BELIEVE THAT ONE CANNOT SEE THIS JESUS, SO BEAUTIFUL, IF ONE IS NOT IN THE MOST PROFOUND CALM; SO MUCH SO, THAT THE SLIGHTEST BREATH OF DISTURBANCE PREVENTS ONE FROM RECEIVING A SIGHT SO BEAUTIFUL, AH! YES, AT JUST SEEING THE SERENITY OF HIS ADORABLE FOREHEAD, THE INFUSION OF PEACE THAT ONE RECEIVES IN THE INTERIOR IS SO GREAT THAT THERE IS NO DISASTER OR WAR SO FIERCE WHICH DO NOT APPEASE THEMSELVES BEFORE JESUS.
OH! MY ALL AND BEAUTIFUL JESUS, IF YOU COMMUNICATE SO MUCH PEACE IN THE FEW MOMENTS YOU MANIFEST YOURSELF IN THIS LIFE - IN SUCH A WAY THAT ONE CAN SUFFER THE MOST PAINFUL MARTYRDOM , THE MOST HUMILIATING PAINS WITH THE MOST PERFECT TRANQUILITY ( IT SEEMS TO ME A BLEND OF PEACE AND SORROW) - WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE IN PARADISE? OH! HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE HIS MOST PURE EYES, SPARKLING WITH LIGHT. IT IS NOT LIKE THE LIGHT OF THE SUN,THAT IF SHE LOOKS AT IT, IT HARMS HER SIGHT - NO, IN JESUS, WHILE BEING LIGHT, ONE CAN VERY WELL FIX HIS GAZE ON IT AND BY JUST LOOKING AT THE INTERIOR OF HIS PUPILS, OF A DARK SKY-BLUE - OH! HOW MANY THINGS THEY WOULD TELL ME. THE BEAUTY OF HIS EYES IS SUCH THAT ONE ALONE OF HIS GAZES IS ENOUGH TO MAKE ME GO OUT OF MYSELF AND RUN AFTER HIM THROUGH PATHS AND THROUGH MOUNTAINS, THROUGH THE THE EARTH AND THROUGH THE HEAVENS. ONE SINGLE GLANCE IS ENOUGH TO TRANSFORM ME IN HIM AND MAKE ME FEEL A CERTAIN SOMETHING DIVINE DESCEND INTO ME. WHO CAN TELL,THEN, THE BEAUTY OF HIS ADORABLE FACE? HIS WHITE COMPLEXION LOOKS LIKE SNOW COLORED WITH SHADES OF ROSES, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ONES. IN HIS ROSY CHEEKS ONE DISCOVERS THE GREATNESS OF HIS PERSON WITH A MOST MAJESTIC LOOK, FULLY DIVINE, WHICH STRIKES FEAR AND REVERENCE AND AT THE SAME TIME INFUSES SUCH CONFIDENCE THAT, AS FOR MYSELF, I HAVE NEVER FOUND ANYONE WHO WOULD GIVE ME THE LEAST SHADOW OF CONFIDENCE THAT MY DEAR JESUS GIVES - NEITHER MY PARENTS, NOR THE CONFESSORS, NOR MY SISTERS. AH! YES, THAT HOLY FACE WHILE BEING SO MAJESTIC, IS ALSO SO LOVABLE AND THAT LOVELINESS ATTRACTS ONE SO MUCH, THAT THE SOUL DOES NOT HAVE THE SLIGHTEST DOUBT OF BEING WELCOMED BY JESUS, AS UGLY AND SINFUL AS SHE MAY SEE HERSELF. BEAUTIFUL ALSO IS HIS NOSE WHICH DESCENDS TO A VERY FINE POINT, PROPORTIONED TO HIS MOST SACRED FACE. GRACIOUS IS HIS MOUTH - SMALL, BUT EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL AND HIS FINEST LIPS OF A SCARLET COLOR; WHILE HE SPEAKS, HE CONTAINS SO MUCH GRACIOUSNESS THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DESCRIBE IT, SWEET IS THE VOICE OF MY JESUS, IT IS GENTLE, IT IS HARMONIOUS WHILE HE SPEAKS, THERE IS SUCH FRAGRANCE COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH THAT IT SEEMS THERE IS NOTHING LIKE IT ON EARTH. IT IS SO PENETRATING AS TO PENETRATE EVERYWHERE; ONE FEELS IT DESCEND FROM THE HEARING TO THE HEART AND - OH! HOW MANY AFFECTIONS IT PRODUCES. BUT WHO CAN SAY EVERYTHING? THEN, IT IS SO PLEASANT THAT I BELIEVE THAT NO OTHER PLEASURES CAN BE FOUND, AS MANY AS ARE THE ONES WHICH CAN FINE IN ONE SINGLE WORD OF JESUS. THE VOICE OF MY JESUS IS IMMENSELY POWERFUL, IT IS OPERATIVE AND AT THE VERY MOMENT HE SPEAKS, HE ALREADY OPERATES THAT WHICH HE SAYS. AH! YES, BEAUTIFUL IS HIS MOUTH BUT IT DISPLAYS MORE IT'S BEAUTIFUL GRACE IN THE ACT OF HIS SPEAKING WHILE ONE CAN SEE THOSE TEETH SO CLEAR AND SO WELL ARRANGED ANS HIS BREATH OF LOVE COMES OUT, IGNITING, DARTING THROUGH, CONSUMING THE HEART. BEAUTIFUL ARE HIS HANDS, SOFT, WHITE, MOST DELICATE WITH THOSE FINGERS SO PERFECTLY CRAFTED - AND HE MOVES THEM WITH SUCH MASTERY AS TO BE AN ENCHANTMENT. OH! HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE - ALL BEAUTIFUL, OH MY SWEET JESUS. WHAT I HAVE SAID OF YOUR BEAUTY IS NOTHING; RATHER, IT SEEMS TO BE THAT I HAVE SAID A LOT OF NONSENSE - BUT WHAT CAN I DO? FORGIVE ME, IT IS OBEDIENCE THAT WANTS IT SO. BY MYSELF, I WOULD NOT HAVE DARED TO SAY ONE WORD, KNOWING MY INSUFFICIENCY.
SOMETIMES, CARRYING ME WITH HIM, HE WOULD TAKE ME TO PARADISE AND THERE I COULD LISTEN TO THE CANTICLES OF THE BLESSED AND I COULD SEE THE DIVINITY, THE DIFFERENT CHOIRS OF ANGELS, THE ORDER OF THE SAINTS, ALL IMMERSED IN THE DIVINITY OF GOD - ABSORBED, IDENTIFIED WITH IT. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THERE WERE MANY LIGHTS AROUND THE THRONE WHICH WERE MORE BRILLIANT THAT THE SUN; AND THESE LIGHTS DISPLAYED IN CLEAR NOTES ALL THE VIRTUES AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. BY REFLECTING THEMSELVES IN ONE OF THESE LIGHTS, THE BLESSED REMAIN ENRAPTURED IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY COULD NOT ARRIVE AT PENETRATING THE WHOLE IMMENSITY OF THAT LIGHT, THEREFORE, THEY WOULD MOVE TO A SECOND LIGHT WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING ALL THE DEPTH OF THE FIRST ONE. SO,THE BLESSED IN HEAVEN CANNOT COMPREHEND GOD PERFECTLY BECAUSE THE IMMENSITY, THE GREATNESS, THE SANCTITY OF GOD IS SUCH, THAT A CREATED MIND CANNOT COMPREHEND AN UN-CREATED BEING. NOW, IT SEEMED TO ME THAT BY REFLECTING THEMSELVES IN THESE LIGHTS, THE BLESSED WOULD COME TO PARTICIPATE IN THE VIRTUES OF THESE LIGHTS. THEREFORE, IN HEAVEN, THE SOUL RESEMBLES GOD - WITH THIS DIFFERENCE: THAT GOD IS THAT IMMENSE SUN, WHILE THE SOUL IS THE LITTLE SUN.
MY DAUGHTER, SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL ALL OF CREATION IS? WHAT FASCINATION OF LIGHT, WHAT ENCHANTMENT OF VARIETIES, WHAT RARE BEAUTY! YET, THESE ARE NONE OTHER THAN THE ORNAMENTS OF OUR DIVINE BEING. IF SUCH ARE OUR ORNAMENTS, OUR BEING SURPASSES IN AN UNFATHOMABLE WAY OUR OWN ORNAMENTS AND THE CREATURE IS INCAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF OUR OWN BEING.
AND SHE(IN PURGATORY) ADDED: " IF JESUS WANTS IT BECAUSE WE ARE SO IMMERSED IN GOD THAT WE CANNOT EVEN FLUTTER OUR EYELIDS IF WE DO NOT HAVE HIS CONCOURSE. WE DWELL IN GOD JUST LIKE A PERSON WHO DWELT IN ANOTHER BODY, WHO CAN THINK, SPEAK, LOOK, WORK, WALK, INSOFAR AS IT IS ALLOWED TO HIM BY THAT BODY WHICH SURROUNDS HIM ON THE OUTSIDE. IN FACT, FOR US IT IS NOT LIKE FOR YOU WHO EXERCISE YOUR FREE VOLITION, YOUR OWN WILL, FOR US EVERY WILL HAS CEASED AS OUR WILL IS ONLY THE WILL OF GOD - FROM IT WE LIVE AND IN IT WE FIND ALL OUR CONTENTMENT AND IT FORMS ALL OUR GOOD AND OUR GLORY. AND AS SHE WAS SHOWING AN UNSPEAKABLE CONTENTMENT FOR THIS WILL OF GOD, WE SEPARATED.
OH! HOW THE BLESSED WERE SWIMMING IN GOD! ONE COULD SEE THEIR LIVES IN GOD AND THE LIFE OF GOD IN THEM. THIS ALONE SEEMS TO ME TO BE THE WHOLE ESSENCE OF THEIR HAPPINESS. IT ALSO SEEMS THAT EACH BLESSED IS A NEW HEAVEN IN THAT BLESSED DWELLING BUT ALL DISTINCT AMONG THEMSELVES - THERE IS NO ONE SIMILAR TO ANYONE ELSE AND THIS HAPPENS ACCORDING TO THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY COMPORTED THEMSELVES WITH GOD ON EARTH. ONE TRIED TO LOVE HIM MORE, HE WILL LOVE HIM MORE IN HEAVEN AND RECEIVE FROM GOD EVER NEW AND INCREASING LOVE IN SUCH A WAY THAT THIS HEAVEN WILL HAVE A DIVINE SHADE AND FEATURE ALL SPECIAL
MY GOODNESS IS SO GREAT THAT A GREAT WRONG IS DONE BY THOSE WHO MAKE ME KNOWN AS VERY DEMANDING AND RIGOROUS. OH! WHAT AN AFFRONT THEY GIVE TO MY LOVE! I WILL ASK FOR NO OTHER ACCOUNT BUT OF THE LITTLE FIELD GIVEN TO THEM AND I WILL ASK FOR AN ACCOUNT BUT TO GIVE THEM THE FRUIT OF THEIR HARVESTS. I WILL GIVE IT TO THE INTELLIGENCE FOR THE MORE IT HAS COMPREHENDED ME IN LIFE. THE MORE IT WILL COMPREHEND ME IN HEAVEN AND THE MORE IT WILL COMPREHEND ME, THE GREATER JOY AND BEATITUDE WITH WHICH IT WILL BE INUNDATED AND SO WITH ALL THE REST
THE FATHER FORMS ONE SINGLE THING WITH ME; THEREFORE, WHATEVER THE FATHER DOES, I DO AND WITH THE SAINTS I GIVE MYSELF CONTINUOUSLY; SO I AM THEIR LIFE, JOY, HAPPINESS, IMMENSE GOOD WITHOUT END AND WITHOUT BOUNDARIES. THEY ARE FILLED WITH ME; THEY FIND EVERYTHING IN ME - I AM EVERYTHING FOR THEM AND THEY ARE ALL FOR ME.
I REMEMBER THAT HE WOULD SAY: MY SPOUSE, VIRTUES BECOME WEAK IF THEY ARE NOT STRENGTHENED AND FORTIFIED BY THE GRAFTING OF THE CROSS. BEFORE MY COMING UPON EARTH, PAINS, CONFUSIONS. DISGRACES, CALUMNIES, POVERTY, ILLNESSES AND ESPECIALLY THE CROSS WERE CONSIDERED DISHONORS; BUT FROM THE MOMENT THEY WERE BORNE BY ME, THEY WERE SANCTIFIED AND DIVINIZED BY MY CONTACT. THEY ALL CHANGED THEIR APPEARANCE BECOMING SWEET, PLEASANT AND THE SOUL WHO HAS THE GOOD OF HAVING SOME OF THEM, RECEIVES HONOR - AND THIS, BECAUSE SHE HAS RECEIVED THE VESTMENT OF ME, SON OF GOD.
MY DAUGHTER, MORTIFICATION, MISERIES, PRIVATIONS, SUFFERINGS, CROSSES, FOR THOSE WHO MAKE USE OF THEM, SERVE FOR NOTHING BUT EMBELLISHING HERSELF WITH ALL THE VARIETIES OF THE DIVINE COLORS. EVEN MORE, THEY ARE NOTHING OTHER THAN MANY FRAGRANCES OF HEAVEN WITH WHICH THE SOUL REMAINS ALL PERFUMED.
PEACE IS DIVINE VIRTUE WHILE THE OTHER VIRTUES ARE HUMAN. SO, ANY VIRTUE, IF IT IS NOT CROWNED WITH PEACE, CANNOT BE CALLED VIRTUE - BUT VICE. THIS IS WHY I CHERISH PEACE SO MUCH - BECAUSE PEACE IS THE SUREST SIGN THAT ONE SUFFERS AND WORKS FOR ME AND IT IS THE HERITAGE I GIVE TO MY CHILDREN OF THE ETERNAL PEACE THEY WILL ENJOY WITH ME IN HEAVEN.
NOW, YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT IN HEAVEN, ONE DOESN'T ENTER IF ONE DOESN'T POSSESS OUR DIVINE LIFE OR AT LEAST BE CONCEIVED OR BORN AND SUCH WILL BE THE GLORY, THE BEATITUDE OF THE BLESSED FOR HOW MUCH GROWTH HAS BEEN FORMED OF OUR LIFE IN THEM. NOW WHAT WILL BE THE DIFFERENCE FOR ONE WHO HAS HARDLY LET HIM BE CONCEIVED, BE BORN OR LET GROW WITH LITTLE PROPORTIONS FROM ONE WHO HAS LET US FORM COMPLETE LIFE? SO MUCH WILL BE THE DIFFERENCE, THAT IT IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO THE HUMAN CREATURE. THOSE WILL BE AS THE PEOPLE OF THE CELESTIAL KINGDOM; INSTEAD OUR IMAGES WILL BE AS PRINCES, MINISTERS, THE NOBLE COURT, THE REGAL ARMY OF THE KING
UNDERSTAND THAT BEFORE DYING, YOU MUST DIE TO EVERYTHING - TO SUFFERING, TO DESIRES, TO FAVORS, TO EVERYTHING AND THAT EVERYTHING MUST DIE IN MY WILL AND IN MY LOVE. THAT WHICH ENTERS ETERNITY IN HEAVEN IS MY WILL AND LOVE...ONLY MY WILL AND LOVE NEVER END. THEREFORE, YOU MUST DIE IN ADVANCE IN MY WILL AND IN LOVE
A DIVINE WILL ALWAYS FULFILLED AND A LOVE NEVER INTERRUPTED IS THE GREATEST THING THAT CAN BE FOUND IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH WHICH IS ONLY OF OUR DIVINE BEING AND OF ONE WHO GIVES HIMSELF IN DEPENDENCY UPON OUR VOLITION.
THE BLESSED IN HEAVEN HAVE NOT LOST THEIR FREE WILL; THIS IS A GIFT WHICH I GAVE TO MAN AND WHAT I GIVE ONCE, I NEVER TAKE BACK. SLAVERY HAS NEVER ENTERED HEAVEN; I AM THE GOD OF SONS AND DAUGHTERS, NOT OF SLAVES. I AM THE KING WHO MAKES EVERYONE REIGN - THERE IS NO DIVISION BETWEEN ME AND THEM. BUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF MY WILL AND OF MY HAPPINESS IS SO GREAT AND SO VAST THAT THEY ARE FILLED WITH IT TO THE BRIM, TO OVERFLOWING OUTSIDE AND THEIR WILL FINDS NO PLACE TO ACT. AND WHILE THEY ARE FREE, THE KNOWLEDGE OF AN INFINITE WILL AND OF THE GOODS IN WHICH THEY ARE IMMERSED, LEADS THEM WITH AN IRRESISTIBLE FORCE TO USE THEIR WILL AS IF THEY DID NOT HAVE IT, CONSIDERING THIS THEIR GREATEST FORTUNE AND HAPPINESS BUT SPONTANEOUSLY FREE AND OF THEIR OWN WILL
MY DAUGHTER, WHEN MY WILL DOMINATES ON EARTH, THEN THERE WILL BE PERFECT UNION BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH. ONE WILL BE THE ORDER, ONE THE HARMONY, ONE THE ECHO, ONE THE LIFE BECAUSE ONE WILL BE THE WILL. EVEN MORE, IN HEAVEN, MANY MIRRORS WILL BE SEEN AND THE CREATURES, REFLECTING THEMSELVES IN THEM, WILL LOOK AT WHAT THE BLESSED IN HEAVEN ARE DOING. THEY WILL HEAR THEIR CHANTS, THEIR CELESTIAL MELODIES AND BY IMITATING WHAT THEY DO - THEIR CHANTS, THEIR MELODIES - THERE WILL BE THE LIFE OF HEAVEN IN THE MIDST OF CREATURES
MY DAUGHTER, IN MY CELESTIAL COUNTRY THERE REIGNS THE UNIQUE AND UNIVERSAL ACT AND ONE IS THE ACT OF EVERYONE AND WHAT ONE WANTS, THE OTHERS WANTS. NO ONE CHANGES ACTION OR WILL. EVERY BLESSED FEELS MY VOLITION AS THEIR OWN LIFE AND WITH EVERYONE HAVING ONE WILL ALONE IT FORMS THE SUBSTANCE OF THE HAPPINESS OF ALL HEAVEN. MORE SO, THAT MY DIVINE WILL DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO DO, NOR CAN WE DO, BROKEN BUT CONTINUOUS AND UNIVERSAL ACTS AND SINCE IN HEAVEN,HE REIGNS WITH HIS FULL TRIUMPH AND WITH THE TOTALITY OF HIS DOMINION, EVERYONE FEELS AS IN NATURE HIS UNIVERSAL LIFE AND ARE FULL EVEN TO THE BRIM WITH ALL THE GOODS THAT HE POSSESSES, ACCORDING TO THE CAPACITY OF EACH ONE AND OF THE GOOD THEY HAVE DONE IN LIFE BUT NO ONE CAN CHANGE, NEITHER WILL, NOR ACTION, NOR LOVE. THE POWER OF MY DIVINE WILL HOLDS ALL THE BLESSED ABSORBED, UNIFIED, FUSED IN HIMSELF AS IF THEY WERE ONE ALONE...HENCE THE CREATURE CAN SAY AND BE CONVINCED THAT AS ONE LIVES IN HEAVEN, THUS SHE LIVES ON EARTH, ONLY THERE IS THE DIFFERENCE OF PLACE BUT ONE IS THE LOVE, ONE IS THE WILL AND ONE IS THE ACTION.
I ABANDONED MYSELF ALL IN THE SUPREME FIAT AND MY POOR MIND LOST ITSELF IN HIM AND I REMAINED ENRAPTURED IN SEEING BEFORE ME THE DIVINE BEING AND AN INTERMINABLE LIGHT ARRANGED IN SO MANY INNUMERABLE RAYS(THAT) WENT FORTH FROM HIM. THESE RAYS WERE VERY OFTEN WOVEN BY LITTLE LIGHTS THAT WERE TIED UP IN THE INTERMINABLE RAYS OF THE ADORABLE MAJESTY WHICH SEEMED BIRTH OF THE LIGHT ITSELF AND THAT WERE FED WITH LIGHT IN ORDER TO FORM THE LIFE OF LIGHT AND TO GROW AS GOD WANTED THEM TO. WHAT ENCHANTMENT IS THE DIVINE HEIGHTS! HIS PRESENCE ENRAPTURES, THE EYES LOSES ITSELF IN HIS IMMENSITY, SO MUCH IS HIS BEAUTY, THE MULTIPLICITY OF HIS INFINITE JOYS THAT IT SEEMS THAT MORE THAN COPIOUS RAIN IT FALLS FROM HIS DIVINE BEING; SO THAT ONE FEELS STRUCK DUMB AND THEREFORE, ONE KNOWS HOW TO SAY LITTLE OR NOTHING. HENCE, WHILE I WAS ALL IMMERSED IN THAT WHICH WAS PRESENT TO MY MIND, MY BELOVED JESUS SAID TO ME: DAUGHTER OF MY DIVINE VOLITION, LOOK AT THIS IMMENSE LIGHT. IT IS NONE OTHER THAN THE EMANATION OF OUR WILL FROM THE CENTER OF OUR DIVINE BEING; AS WE PRONOUNCED THE FIAT, THUS HE EXTENDED HIMSELF IN ORDER TO FORM WITH HIS CREATIVE STRENGTH EVERY CREATED THING AND IN ORDER TO MAKE THAT NOT ONE THING MIGHT GO FORTH FROM INSIDE OF HIS LIGHT, HE REMAINED IN THAT WHICH WENT FORTH FROM OUR CREATIVE HANDS. SO THAT THESE INTERLACEMENTS THAT YOU SEE WITH THE RAYS OF OUR LIGHT ARE NONE OTHER THAN ALL CREATED THINGS: SOME ARE AS IN CUSTODY IN OUR LIGHT SO THAT THEY DON'T UNDERGO ANY CHANGE, OTHERS ARE THE CREATURES THAT LIVE IN OUR VOLITION WHO ARE NOT ONLY IN CUSTODY BUT IN THE ACT OF CONTINUALLY RECEIVING FROM GOD IN ORDER TO GROW, IN ORDER TO FEED THEMSELVES WITH LIGHT AND WITH THEIR LITTLE LIGHTS TO FORM (AN) INTERLACEMENT WITH THE DIVINE VOLITION HIMSELF IN ORDER TO LET HIM WORK IN THE LITTLE LIGHT...
BLESSED DAUGHTER OF MY VOLITION, YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT AT THE HEAD OF THE KINGDOM OF MY DIVINE WILL IS GOD HIMSELF; OUR DIVINITY DOESN'T DO OTHER THAN ONE CONTINUOUS ACT OF HIS.WE DON'T EVER DO THE ACT OF ANYONE BUT ALWAYS OURS; THE CROWN OF OUR ATTRIBUTES ARE DOMINATED BY OUR FIAT AND HIS KINGDOM IS INSIDE OF US IN OUR IMMENSITY, IN OUR LOVE AND GOODNESS IN EVERYTHING. SO THAT FOR US EVERYTHING IS OUR WILL.
JESUS BECAME SILENT AND I REMAINED AS SOAKED IN THIS SEA AND I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT I FELT MYSELF TRANSPORTED IN THE CELESTIAL FATHERLAND, IN THE MIDDLE OF THREE CIRCLES OF LIGHT AND AT THE HEAD OF THEM, THERE WAS THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN AT ONE POINT AND JESUS AT THE OTHER POINT WITH AN ENCHANTING BEAUTY AND INDESCRIBABLE LOVE AND IN THE MIDST OF THESE WAS A MULTITUDE OF SOULS ALL TRANSFORMED IN THE LIGHT IN WHICH THEY LIVED AND GREW BUT GUARDED, DIRECTED AND FED BY JESUS AND THE CELESTIAL MOTHER; HOW MANY BEAUTIFUL SURPRISES WERE SEEN; THESE SOULS POSSESSED THE LIKENESS AND THE LIFE OF THEIR CREATOR. MY SWEET JESUS AND HIS MOTHER SAID TO ME: THESE CIRCLES OF LIGHT THAT YOU SEE ARE SYMBOLS OF THE SACROSANCT TRINITY AND THE SOULS ARE THOSE WHO WILL FORM THE KINGDOM OF THE DIVINE WILL; THIS KINGDOM WILL BE FORMED IN THE BOSOM OF THE DIVINITY AND THE RULERS OF THIS KINGDOM WILL BE THE MOTHER AND THE SON WHO WILL GUARD IT WITH JEALOUSY. YOU SEE, THEREFORE, THE CERTAINTY OF THIS KINGDOM AS IT IS ALREADY FORMED BECAUSE IN GOD THINGS ARE AS ALREADY DONE. THEREFORE, PRAY THAT WHICH IS HEAVEN IS REALIZED ON EARTH.
MY DAUGHTER, THE FORCE WOULD BE LACKING TO NOT ELEVATE THE CREATURE TO THE LEVEL OF OUR LIKENESS AND TO MAKE HER POSSESS OUR GOODS BECAUSE SHE LIVES IN OUR WILL. SO VERY TRUE IS THIS THAT MY CELESTIAL MOTHER, SINCE SHE LIVED, SHE POSSESSED THE LIFE OF MY DIVINE FIAT AND WE LOVE EACH OTHER WITH ONE LOVE ALONE. WE LOVE SOULS WITH A TWIN LOVE. AND OUR LOVE IS SO MUCH FOR THE CREATURE THAT, AS WE HOLD THE HIERARCHY OF THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN, THE DIVERSITY OF THE ORDERS OF THE SAINTS, WITH HER BEING THE CELESTIAL EMPRESS, THE HEIRESS OF THE GREAT INHERITANCE OF OUR WILL, WHEN THIS KINGDOM WILL BE FORMED ON EARTH, THE GREAT LADY WILL CALL HER CHILDREN TO POSSESS HER INHERITANCE AND WE WILL GIVE THE GREAT GLORY TO THEM TO HAVE THEM FORM THE NEW HIERARCHY, SIMILAR TO THE NINE CHOIRS OF ANGELS; SO THAT,IT WILL HAVE THE CHOIR OF THE SERAPHIM , OF THE CHERUBIM AND SO ON, AS IT ALSO FORMS THE ORDER OF THE SAINTS WHO LIVED IN HER INHERITANCE AND HAVE FULLY FORMED THEM ON EARTH, SHE WILL TRANSPORT THEM TO HEAVEN, SURROUNDING HERSELF WITH THE NEW HIERARCHY, REGENERATED IN THE DIVINE FIAT. THIS WILL BE THE CONCLUSION OF THE WORK OF CREATION, OUR "CONSUMATUM EST" BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE HAD THE KINGDOM OF OUR VOLITION IN CREATURES, IN VIRTUE OF THE CELESTIAL HEIRESS, WHO WANTED TO GIVE HER LIFE FOR EACH IN ORDER TO MAKE HIM REIGN.
NOW, SO MUCH IS THE GLORY THAT WE RECEIVE WHEN THE SOUL WORKS IN OUR VOLITION, THAT WE COMMUNICATE THEM TO ALL THE BLESSED IN HEAVEN HOW MANY DIVINE SEEDS THE SOUL ACQUIRES OF VIRTUE OF THE KNOWLEDGES ON MY FIAT, SO MANY MORE DEGREES OF OUR KNOWLEDGE AND OUR GLORY WE PARTICIPATE HER IN WHEN HAVING HER LIFE DOWN HERE, SHE WILL COME INTO OUR CELESTIAL COUNTRY, TO CORRESPOND TO THE KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED ON EARTH, SHE WILL ACQUIRE DOUBLE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR SUPREME BEING IN OUR CELESTIAL SOJOURN... SO, THE GLORY OF THE BLESSED WILL CORRESPOND TO HOW MANY ACTS OF WILL THEY HAVE DONE IN OUR DIVINE VOLITION; IT WILL AUGMENT THE GLORY, JOY FOR HOW MANY MORE KNOWLEDGES THEY HAVE ACQUIRED.
YOU MUST KNOW THAT THERE ARE INNUMERABLE MANSIONS IN HEAVEN BUT THOSE PREPARED FOR THE SOULS WHO HAVE LIVED IN MY VOLITION ON EARTH WILL BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND DISTINCT FROM THE OTHERS; THEY WILL POSSESS HARMONIES AND DIVINE SCENES ENCHANTING JOYS ALWAYS NEW THAT WILL RISE FROM THE DEPTH OF MY WILL IN WHICH THEY HAVE LIVED. NOW, I WANT TO TELL YOU ANOTHER SURPRISE MORE BEAUTIFUL. IN HEAVEN, EVERY BLESSED WILL HAVE ME INSIDE OF HIMSELF AS HIS CREATOR, KING, FATHER AND GLORIFIER ; HE WILL HAVE ME OUTSIDE OF HIMSELF, TRULY NEXT TO HIM IN A WAY AS TO FEEL HIMSELF CARRIED IN MY ARMS; WE WILL LOVE TOGETHER, WE WILL FELICITATE OURSELVES TOGETHER. I WON'T BE ONE GOD FOR EVERYONE BUT A GOD FOR EACH ONE. RATHER, I WILL KEEP MYSELF BI-LOCATED INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF HIM; I WILL POSSESS HIM INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF ME AND THEY WILL POSSESS ME INSIDE AND OUTSIDE AS IF I MIGHT BE FOR EACH ONE ALONE, WE WILL NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF EACH OTHER; WE WILL ENJOY CLOSE LOVE, NOT FROM AFAR AS HOW MUCH WE WOULD HAVE LOVED AND KNOWN EACH OTHER ON EARTH, THE MORE WE WILL LOVE EACH OTHER IN HEAVEN.
I CONTINUE MY ABANDONMENT IN THE DIVINE VOLITION WITH THE TORMENT, ALMOST CONTINUOUS OF THE PRIVATION OF MY SWEET JESUS. OH! GOD, WHAT AWFUL SUFFERING! OH! HOW I REGRET MY PAST - HIS SWEET SMILE, HIS AFFECTIONATE KISSES, THE SOFTNESS OF HIS VOICE, HIS ENCHANTING AND ENRAPTURING BEAUTY, HIS CHASTE EMBRACES, HIS TENDER HEARTBEATS THAT WITH SO MUCH LOVE, HE MADE BEAT IN MINE; THAT DIVINIZED ME AND TRANSFORMED HIS LIFE IN ME; EVERY ACT OF JESUS, EVERY WORD AND EVERY LOOK, THEY WERE SO MANY MORE PARADISES THAT HE FORMED IN HIS LITTLE DAUGHTER AND NOW REMEMBERING THEM, THEY ARE WOUNDS, ACUTE DARTS, FIERY ARROWS OF INTENSE SORROW, OF MARTYRDOM AND OF CONTINUOUS DEATH.
MY DAUGHTER, EVERYTHING HERE BELOW, AS MUCH AS IN THE SUPERNATURAL ORDER AS IN THE NATURAL ORDER ARE ALL VEILED. ONLY IN HEAVEN ARE THEY UNVEILED BECAUSE IN THE CELESTIAL FATHERLAND, VEILS DO NOT EXIST BECAUSE THINGS ARE SEEN AS THEY ARE IN THEMSELVES. SO, UP ABOVE, THE INTELLECT DOES NOT HAVE TO WORK TO UNDERSTAND THEM BECAUSE BY THEMSELVES, THEY SHOW THEMSELVES FOR WHAT THEY ARE AND IF THERE IS WORK TO DO IN THE BLESSED DWELLING, IF ONE CAN CALL IT WORK, IT IS TO ENJOY AND BE HAPPY IN THE THINGS THAT ONE OPENLY SEES.
MY DAUGHTER, ONLY BY ONE WHO LIVES IN MY WILL, DO I FEEL AS THOUGH REPAID FOR CREATION, REDEMPTION AND SANCTIFICATION AND SHE GLORIFIES ME IN THE WAY IN WHICH THE CREATURE SHOULD GLORIFY ME. THEREFORE, THESE SOULS WILL BE THE GEMS OF MY THRONE AND WILL TAKE AMONG THEMSELVES ALL THE CONTENTMENT AND THE GLORY WHICH EACH BLESSED WILL HAVE FOR HIMSELF ALONE. THESE SOULS WILL BE AS QUEENS AROUND MY THRONE AND ALL THE BLESSED WILL BE AROUND THEM AND JUST AS THE BLESSED WILL BE AS MANY SUNS THAT WILL SHINE IN THE CELESTIAL JERUSALEM,THE SOULS WHO HAVE LIVED IN MY WILL, WILL SHINE IN MY OWN SUN. THEY WILL BE AS CIRCUMFUSED WITH MY SUN AND THESE SOULS WILL SEE THE BLESSED WITHIN ME BECAUSE IT IS RIGHT THAT HAVING LIFE ON EARTH UNITED WITH ME, WITH MY WILL, AS THEY LIVED NO LIFE OF THEIR OWN, THEY HAVE A PLACE DISTINCT FROM ALL OTHERS IN HEAVEN AND THEY CONTINUE IN HEAVEN THE LIFE WHICH THEY LIVED ON EARTH - COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED IN ME AND IMMERSED IN THE SEA OF MY CONTENTMENT.
SOMETIMES, CARRYING ME WITH HIM, HE WOULD TAKE ME TO PARADISE AND THERE I COULD LISTEN TO THE CANTICLES OF THE BLESSED AND I COULD SEE THE DIVINITY, THE DIFFERENT CHOIRS OF ANGELS, THE ORDER OF THE SAINTS, ALL IMMERSED IN THE DIVINITY OF GOD - ABSORBED, IDENTIFIED WITH IT. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THERE WERE MANY LIGHTS AROUND THE THRONE WHICH WERE MORE BRILLIANT THAT THE SUN; AND THESE LIGHTS DISPLAYED IN CLEAR NOTES ALL THE VIRTUES AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. BY REFLECTING THEMSELVES IN ONE OF THESE LIGHTS, THE BLESSED REMAIN ENRAPTURED IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY COULD NOT ARRIVE AT PENETRATING THE WHOLE IMMENSITY OF THAT LIGHT, THEREFORE, THEY WOULD MOVE TO A SECOND LIGHT WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING ALL THE DEPTH OF THE FIRST ONE. SO,THE BLESSED IN HEAVEN CANNOT COMPREHEND GOD PERFECTLY BECAUSE THE IMMENSITY, THE GREATNESS, THE SANCTITY OF GOD IS SUCH, THAT A CREATED MIND CANNOT COMPREHEND AN UN-CREATED BEING. NOW, IT SEEMED TO ME THAT BY REFLECTING THEMSELVES IN THESE LIGHTS, THE BLESSED WOULD COME TO PARTICIPATE IN THE VIRTUES OF THESE LIGHTS. THEREFORE, IN HEAVEN, THE SOUL RESEMBLES GOD - WITH THIS DIFFERENCE: THAT GOD IS THAT IMMENSE SUN, WHILE THE SOUL IS THE LITTLE SUN.
MY DAUGHTER, SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL ALL OF CREATION IS? WHAT FASCINATION OF LIGHT, WHAT ENCHANTMENT OF VARIETIES, WHAT RARE BEAUTY! YET, THESE ARE NONE OTHER THAN THE ORNAMENTS OF OUR DIVINE BEING. IF SUCH ARE OUR ORNAMENTS, OUR BEING SURPASSES IN AN UNFATHOMABLE WAY OUR OWN ORNAMENTS AND THE CREATURE IS INCAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF OUR OWN BEING.
AND SHE(IN PURGATORY) ADDED: " IF JESUS WANTS IT BECAUSE WE ARE SO IMMERSED IN GOD THAT WE CANNOT EVEN FLUTTER OUR EYELIDS IF WE DO NOT HAVE HIS CONCOURSE. WE DWELL IN GOD JUST LIKE A PERSON WHO DWELT IN ANOTHER BODY, WHO CAN THINK, SPEAK, LOOK, WORK, WALK, INSOFAR AS IT IS ALLOWED TO HIM BY THAT BODY WHICH SURROUNDS HIM ON THE OUTSIDE. IN FACT, FOR US IT IS NOT LIKE FOR YOU WHO EXERCISE YOUR FREE VOLITION, YOUR OWN WILL, FOR US EVERY WILL HAS CEASED AS OUR WILL IS ONLY THE WILL OF GOD - FROM IT WE LIVE AND IN IT WE FIND ALL OUR CONTENTMENT AND IT FORMS ALL OUR GOOD AND OUR GLORY. AND AS SHE WAS SHOWING AN UNSPEAKABLE CONTENTMENT FOR THIS WILL OF GOD, WE SEPARATED.
OH! HOW THE BLESSED WERE SWIMMING IN GOD! ONE COULD SEE THEIR LIVES IN GOD AND THE LIFE OF GOD IN THEM. THIS ALONE SEEMS TO ME TO BE THE WHOLE ESSENCE OF THEIR HAPPINESS. IT ALSO SEEMS THAT EACH BLESSED IS A NEW HEAVEN IN THAT BLESSED DWELLING BUT ALL DISTINCT AMONG THEMSELVES - THERE IS NO ONE SIMILAR TO ANYONE ELSE AND THIS HAPPENS ACCORDING TO THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY COMPORTED THEMSELVES WITH GOD ON EARTH. ONE TRIED TO LOVE HIM MORE, HE WILL LOVE HIM MORE IN HEAVEN AND RECEIVE FROM GOD EVER NEW AND INCREASING LOVE IN SUCH A WAY THAT THIS HEAVEN WILL HAVE A DIVINE SHADE AND FEATURE ALL SPECIAL
MY GOODNESS IS SO GREAT THAT A GREAT WRONG IS DONE BY THOSE WHO MAKE ME KNOWN AS VERY DEMANDING AND RIGOROUS. OH! WHAT AN AFFRONT THEY GIVE TO MY LOVE! I WILL ASK FOR NO OTHER ACCOUNT BUT OF THE LITTLE FIELD GIVEN TO THEM AND I WILL ASK FOR AN ACCOUNT BUT TO GIVE THEM THE FRUIT OF THEIR HARVESTS. I WILL GIVE IT TO THE INTELLIGENCE FOR THE MORE IT HAS COMPREHENDED ME IN LIFE. THE MORE IT WILL COMPREHEND ME IN HEAVEN AND THE MORE IT WILL COMPREHEND ME, THE GREATER JOY AND BEATITUDE WITH WHICH IT WILL BE INUNDATED AND SO WITH ALL THE REST
THE FATHER FORMS ONE SINGLE THING WITH ME; THEREFORE, WHATEVER THE FATHER DOES, I DO AND WITH THE SAINTS I GIVE MYSELF CONTINUOUSLY; SO I AM THEIR LIFE, JOY, HAPPINESS, IMMENSE GOOD WITHOUT END AND WITHOUT BOUNDARIES. THEY ARE FILLED WITH ME; THEY FIND EVERYTHING IN ME - I AM EVERYTHING FOR THEM AND THEY ARE ALL FOR ME.
I REMEMBER THAT HE WOULD SAY: MY SPOUSE, VIRTUES BECOME WEAK IF THEY ARE NOT STRENGTHENED AND FORTIFIED BY THE GRAFTING OF THE CROSS. BEFORE MY COMING UPON EARTH, PAINS, CONFUSIONS. DISGRACES, CALUMNIES, POVERTY, ILLNESSES AND ESPECIALLY THE CROSS WERE CONSIDERED DISHONORS; BUT FROM THE MOMENT THEY WERE BORNE BY ME, THEY WERE SANCTIFIED AND DIVINIZED BY MY CONTACT. THEY ALL CHANGED THEIR APPEARANCE BECOMING SWEET, PLEASANT AND THE SOUL WHO HAS THE GOOD OF HAVING SOME OF THEM, RECEIVES HONOR - AND THIS, BECAUSE SHE HAS RECEIVED THE VESTMENT OF ME, SON OF GOD.
MY DAUGHTER, MORTIFICATION, MISERIES, PRIVATIONS, SUFFERINGS, CROSSES, FOR THOSE WHO MAKE USE OF THEM, SERVE FOR NOTHING BUT EMBELLISHING HERSELF WITH ALL THE VARIETIES OF THE DIVINE COLORS. EVEN MORE, THEY ARE NOTHING OTHER THAN MANY FRAGRANCES OF HEAVEN WITH WHICH THE SOUL REMAINS ALL PERFUMED.
PEACE IS DIVINE VIRTUE WHILE THE OTHER VIRTUES ARE HUMAN. SO, ANY VIRTUE, IF IT IS NOT CROWNED WITH PEACE, CANNOT BE CALLED VIRTUE - BUT VICE. THIS IS WHY I CHERISH PEACE SO MUCH - BECAUSE PEACE IS THE SUREST SIGN THAT ONE SUFFERS AND WORKS FOR ME AND IT IS THE HERITAGE I GIVE TO MY CHILDREN OF THE ETERNAL PEACE THEY WILL ENJOY WITH ME IN HEAVEN.
NOW, YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT IN HEAVEN, ONE DOESN'T ENTER IF ONE DOESN'T POSSESS OUR DIVINE LIFE OR AT LEAST BE CONCEIVED OR BORN AND SUCH WILL BE THE GLORY, THE BEATITUDE OF THE BLESSED FOR HOW MUCH GROWTH HAS BEEN FORMED OF OUR LIFE IN THEM. NOW WHAT WILL BE THE DIFFERENCE FOR ONE WHO HAS HARDLY LET HIM BE CONCEIVED, BE BORN OR LET GROW WITH LITTLE PROPORTIONS FROM ONE WHO HAS LET US FORM COMPLETE LIFE? SO MUCH WILL BE THE DIFFERENCE, THAT IT IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO THE HUMAN CREATURE. THOSE WILL BE AS THE PEOPLE OF THE CELESTIAL KINGDOM; INSTEAD OUR IMAGES WILL BE AS PRINCES, MINISTERS, THE NOBLE COURT, THE REGAL ARMY OF THE KING
UNDERSTAND THAT BEFORE DYING, YOU MUST DIE TO EVERYTHING - TO SUFFERING, TO DESIRES, TO FAVORS, TO EVERYTHING AND THAT EVERYTHING MUST DIE IN MY WILL AND IN MY LOVE. THAT WHICH ENTERS ETERNITY IN HEAVEN IS MY WILL AND LOVE...ONLY MY WILL AND LOVE NEVER END. THEREFORE, YOU MUST DIE IN ADVANCE IN MY WILL AND IN LOVE
A DIVINE WILL ALWAYS FULFILLED AND A LOVE NEVER INTERRUPTED IS THE GREATEST THING THAT CAN BE FOUND IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH WHICH IS ONLY OF OUR DIVINE BEING AND OF ONE WHO GIVES HIMSELF IN DEPENDENCY UPON OUR VOLITION.
THE BLESSED IN HEAVEN HAVE NOT LOST THEIR FREE WILL; THIS IS A GIFT WHICH I GAVE TO MAN AND WHAT I GIVE ONCE, I NEVER TAKE BACK. SLAVERY HAS NEVER ENTERED HEAVEN; I AM THE GOD OF SONS AND DAUGHTERS, NOT OF SLAVES. I AM THE KING WHO MAKES EVERYONE REIGN - THERE IS NO DIVISION BETWEEN ME AND THEM. BUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF MY WILL AND OF MY HAPPINESS IS SO GREAT AND SO VAST THAT THEY ARE FILLED WITH IT TO THE BRIM, TO OVERFLOWING OUTSIDE AND THEIR WILL FINDS NO PLACE TO ACT. AND WHILE THEY ARE FREE, THE KNOWLEDGE OF AN INFINITE WILL AND OF THE GOODS IN WHICH THEY ARE IMMERSED, LEADS THEM WITH AN IRRESISTIBLE FORCE TO USE THEIR WILL AS IF THEY DID NOT HAVE IT, CONSIDERING THIS THEIR GREATEST FORTUNE AND HAPPINESS BUT SPONTANEOUSLY FREE AND OF THEIR OWN WILL
MY DAUGHTER, WHEN MY WILL DOMINATES ON EARTH, THEN THERE WILL BE PERFECT UNION BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH. ONE WILL BE THE ORDER, ONE THE HARMONY, ONE THE ECHO, ONE THE LIFE BECAUSE ONE WILL BE THE WILL. EVEN MORE, IN HEAVEN, MANY MIRRORS WILL BE SEEN AND THE CREATURES, REFLECTING THEMSELVES IN THEM, WILL LOOK AT WHAT THE BLESSED IN HEAVEN ARE DOING. THEY WILL HEAR THEIR CHANTS, THEIR CELESTIAL MELODIES AND BY IMITATING WHAT THEY DO - THEIR CHANTS, THEIR MELODIES - THERE WILL BE THE LIFE OF HEAVEN IN THE MIDST OF CREATURES
MY DAUGHTER, IN MY CELESTIAL COUNTRY THERE REIGNS THE UNIQUE AND UNIVERSAL ACT AND ONE IS THE ACT OF EVERYONE AND WHAT ONE WANTS, THE OTHERS WANTS. NO ONE CHANGES ACTION OR WILL. EVERY BLESSED FEELS MY VOLITION AS THEIR OWN LIFE AND WITH EVERYONE HAVING ONE WILL ALONE IT FORMS THE SUBSTANCE OF THE HAPPINESS OF ALL HEAVEN. MORE SO, THAT MY DIVINE WILL DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO DO, NOR CAN WE DO, BROKEN BUT CONTINUOUS AND UNIVERSAL ACTS AND SINCE IN HEAVEN,HE REIGNS WITH HIS FULL TRIUMPH AND WITH THE TOTALITY OF HIS DOMINION, EVERYONE FEELS AS IN NATURE HIS UNIVERSAL LIFE AND ARE FULL EVEN TO THE BRIM WITH ALL THE GOODS THAT HE POSSESSES, ACCORDING TO THE CAPACITY OF EACH ONE AND OF THE GOOD THEY HAVE DONE IN LIFE BUT NO ONE CAN CHANGE, NEITHER WILL, NOR ACTION, NOR LOVE. THE POWER OF MY DIVINE WILL HOLDS ALL THE BLESSED ABSORBED, UNIFIED, FUSED IN HIMSELF AS IF THEY WERE ONE ALONE...HENCE THE CREATURE CAN SAY AND BE CONVINCED THAT AS ONE LIVES IN HEAVEN, THUS SHE LIVES ON EARTH, ONLY THERE IS THE DIFFERENCE OF PLACE BUT ONE IS THE LOVE, ONE IS THE WILL AND ONE IS THE ACTION.
I ABANDONED MYSELF ALL IN THE SUPREME FIAT AND MY POOR MIND LOST ITSELF IN HIM AND I REMAINED ENRAPTURED IN SEEING BEFORE ME THE DIVINE BEING AND AN INTERMINABLE LIGHT ARRANGED IN SO MANY INNUMERABLE RAYS(THAT) WENT FORTH FROM HIM. THESE RAYS WERE VERY OFTEN WOVEN BY LITTLE LIGHTS THAT WERE TIED UP IN THE INTERMINABLE RAYS OF THE ADORABLE MAJESTY WHICH SEEMED BIRTH OF THE LIGHT ITSELF AND THAT WERE FED WITH LIGHT IN ORDER TO FORM THE LIFE OF LIGHT AND TO GROW AS GOD WANTED THEM TO. WHAT ENCHANTMENT IS THE DIVINE HEIGHTS! HIS PRESENCE ENRAPTURES, THE EYES LOSES ITSELF IN HIS IMMENSITY, SO MUCH IS HIS BEAUTY, THE MULTIPLICITY OF HIS INFINITE JOYS THAT IT SEEMS THAT MORE THAN COPIOUS RAIN IT FALLS FROM HIS DIVINE BEING; SO THAT ONE FEELS STRUCK DUMB AND THEREFORE, ONE KNOWS HOW TO SAY LITTLE OR NOTHING. HENCE, WHILE I WAS ALL IMMERSED IN THAT WHICH WAS PRESENT TO MY MIND, MY BELOVED JESUS SAID TO ME: DAUGHTER OF MY DIVINE VOLITION, LOOK AT THIS IMMENSE LIGHT. IT IS NONE OTHER THAN THE EMANATION OF OUR WILL FROM THE CENTER OF OUR DIVINE BEING; AS WE PRONOUNCED THE FIAT, THUS HE EXTENDED HIMSELF IN ORDER TO FORM WITH HIS CREATIVE STRENGTH EVERY CREATED THING AND IN ORDER TO MAKE THAT NOT ONE THING MIGHT GO FORTH FROM INSIDE OF HIS LIGHT, HE REMAINED IN THAT WHICH WENT FORTH FROM OUR CREATIVE HANDS. SO THAT THESE INTERLACEMENTS THAT YOU SEE WITH THE RAYS OF OUR LIGHT ARE NONE OTHER THAN ALL CREATED THINGS: SOME ARE AS IN CUSTODY IN OUR LIGHT SO THAT THEY DON'T UNDERGO ANY CHANGE, OTHERS ARE THE CREATURES THAT LIVE IN OUR VOLITION WHO ARE NOT ONLY IN CUSTODY BUT IN THE ACT OF CONTINUALLY RECEIVING FROM GOD IN ORDER TO GROW, IN ORDER TO FEED THEMSELVES WITH LIGHT AND WITH THEIR LITTLE LIGHTS TO FORM (AN) INTERLACEMENT WITH THE DIVINE VOLITION HIMSELF IN ORDER TO LET HIM WORK IN THE LITTLE LIGHT...
BLESSED DAUGHTER OF MY VOLITION, YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT AT THE HEAD OF THE KINGDOM OF MY DIVINE WILL IS GOD HIMSELF; OUR DIVINITY DOESN'T DO OTHER THAN ONE CONTINUOUS ACT OF HIS.WE DON'T EVER DO THE ACT OF ANYONE BUT ALWAYS OURS; THE CROWN OF OUR ATTRIBUTES ARE DOMINATED BY OUR FIAT AND HIS KINGDOM IS INSIDE OF US IN OUR IMMENSITY, IN OUR LOVE AND GOODNESS IN EVERYTHING. SO THAT FOR US EVERYTHING IS OUR WILL.
JESUS BECAME SILENT AND I REMAINED AS SOAKED IN THIS SEA AND I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT I FELT MYSELF TRANSPORTED IN THE CELESTIAL FATHERLAND, IN THE MIDDLE OF THREE CIRCLES OF LIGHT AND AT THE HEAD OF THEM, THERE WAS THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN AT ONE POINT AND JESUS AT THE OTHER POINT WITH AN ENCHANTING BEAUTY AND INDESCRIBABLE LOVE AND IN THE MIDST OF THESE WAS A MULTITUDE OF SOULS ALL TRANSFORMED IN THE LIGHT IN WHICH THEY LIVED AND GREW BUT GUARDED, DIRECTED AND FED BY JESUS AND THE CELESTIAL MOTHER; HOW MANY BEAUTIFUL SURPRISES WERE SEEN; THESE SOULS POSSESSED THE LIKENESS AND THE LIFE OF THEIR CREATOR. MY SWEET JESUS AND HIS MOTHER SAID TO ME: THESE CIRCLES OF LIGHT THAT YOU SEE ARE SYMBOLS OF THE SACROSANCT TRINITY AND THE SOULS ARE THOSE WHO WILL FORM THE KINGDOM OF THE DIVINE WILL; THIS KINGDOM WILL BE FORMED IN THE BOSOM OF THE DIVINITY AND THE RULERS OF THIS KINGDOM WILL BE THE MOTHER AND THE SON WHO WILL GUARD IT WITH JEALOUSY. YOU SEE, THEREFORE, THE CERTAINTY OF THIS KINGDOM AS IT IS ALREADY FORMED BECAUSE IN GOD THINGS ARE AS ALREADY DONE. THEREFORE, PRAY THAT WHICH IS HEAVEN IS REALIZED ON EARTH.
MY DAUGHTER, THE FORCE WOULD BE LACKING TO NOT ELEVATE THE CREATURE TO THE LEVEL OF OUR LIKENESS AND TO MAKE HER POSSESS OUR GOODS BECAUSE SHE LIVES IN OUR WILL. SO VERY TRUE IS THIS THAT MY CELESTIAL MOTHER, SINCE SHE LIVED, SHE POSSESSED THE LIFE OF MY DIVINE FIAT AND WE LOVE EACH OTHER WITH ONE LOVE ALONE. WE LOVE SOULS WITH A TWIN LOVE. AND OUR LOVE IS SO MUCH FOR THE CREATURE THAT, AS WE HOLD THE HIERARCHY OF THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN, THE DIVERSITY OF THE ORDERS OF THE SAINTS, WITH HER BEING THE CELESTIAL EMPRESS, THE HEIRESS OF THE GREAT INHERITANCE OF OUR WILL, WHEN THIS KINGDOM WILL BE FORMED ON EARTH, THE GREAT LADY WILL CALL HER CHILDREN TO POSSESS HER INHERITANCE AND WE WILL GIVE THE GREAT GLORY TO THEM TO HAVE THEM FORM THE NEW HIERARCHY, SIMILAR TO THE NINE CHOIRS OF ANGELS; SO THAT,IT WILL HAVE THE CHOIR OF THE SERAPHIM , OF THE CHERUBIM AND SO ON, AS IT ALSO FORMS THE ORDER OF THE SAINTS WHO LIVED IN HER INHERITANCE AND HAVE FULLY FORMED THEM ON EARTH, SHE WILL TRANSPORT THEM TO HEAVEN, SURROUNDING HERSELF WITH THE NEW HIERARCHY, REGENERATED IN THE DIVINE FIAT. THIS WILL BE THE CONCLUSION OF THE WORK OF CREATION, OUR "CONSUMATUM EST" BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE HAD THE KINGDOM OF OUR VOLITION IN CREATURES, IN VIRTUE OF THE CELESTIAL HEIRESS, WHO WANTED TO GIVE HER LIFE FOR EACH IN ORDER TO MAKE HIM REIGN.
NOW, SO MUCH IS THE GLORY THAT WE RECEIVE WHEN THE SOUL WORKS IN OUR VOLITION, THAT WE COMMUNICATE THEM TO ALL THE BLESSED IN HEAVEN HOW MANY DIVINE SEEDS THE SOUL ACQUIRES OF VIRTUE OF THE KNOWLEDGES ON MY FIAT, SO MANY MORE DEGREES OF OUR KNOWLEDGE AND OUR GLORY WE PARTICIPATE HER IN WHEN HAVING HER LIFE DOWN HERE, SHE WILL COME INTO OUR CELESTIAL COUNTRY, TO CORRESPOND TO THE KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED ON EARTH, SHE WILL ACQUIRE DOUBLE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR SUPREME BEING IN OUR CELESTIAL SOJOURN... SO, THE GLORY OF THE BLESSED WILL CORRESPOND TO HOW MANY ACTS OF WILL THEY HAVE DONE IN OUR DIVINE VOLITION; IT WILL AUGMENT THE GLORY, JOY FOR HOW MANY MORE KNOWLEDGES THEY HAVE ACQUIRED.
YOU MUST KNOW THAT THERE ARE INNUMERABLE MANSIONS IN HEAVEN BUT THOSE PREPARED FOR THE SOULS WHO HAVE LIVED IN MY VOLITION ON EARTH WILL BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND DISTINCT FROM THE OTHERS; THEY WILL POSSESS HARMONIES AND DIVINE SCENES ENCHANTING JOYS ALWAYS NEW THAT WILL RISE FROM THE DEPTH OF MY WILL IN WHICH THEY HAVE LIVED. NOW, I WANT TO TELL YOU ANOTHER SURPRISE MORE BEAUTIFUL. IN HEAVEN, EVERY BLESSED WILL HAVE ME INSIDE OF HIMSELF AS HIS CREATOR, KING, FATHER AND GLORIFIER ; HE WILL HAVE ME OUTSIDE OF HIMSELF, TRULY NEXT TO HIM IN A WAY AS TO FEEL HIMSELF CARRIED IN MY ARMS; WE WILL LOVE TOGETHER, WE WILL FELICITATE OURSELVES TOGETHER. I WON'T BE ONE GOD FOR EVERYONE BUT A GOD FOR EACH ONE. RATHER, I WILL KEEP MYSELF BI-LOCATED INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF HIM; I WILL POSSESS HIM INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF ME AND THEY WILL POSSESS ME INSIDE AND OUTSIDE AS IF I MIGHT BE FOR EACH ONE ALONE, WE WILL NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF EACH OTHER; WE WILL ENJOY CLOSE LOVE, NOT FROM AFAR AS HOW MUCH WE WOULD HAVE LOVED AND KNOWN EACH OTHER ON EARTH, THE MORE WE WILL LOVE EACH OTHER IN HEAVEN.
I CONTINUE MY ABANDONMENT IN THE DIVINE VOLITION WITH THE TORMENT, ALMOST CONTINUOUS OF THE PRIVATION OF MY SWEET JESUS. OH! GOD, WHAT AWFUL SUFFERING! OH! HOW I REGRET MY PAST - HIS SWEET SMILE, HIS AFFECTIONATE KISSES, THE SOFTNESS OF HIS VOICE, HIS ENCHANTING AND ENRAPTURING BEAUTY, HIS CHASTE EMBRACES, HIS TENDER HEARTBEATS THAT WITH SO MUCH LOVE, HE MADE BEAT IN MINE; THAT DIVINIZED ME AND TRANSFORMED HIS LIFE IN ME; EVERY ACT OF JESUS, EVERY WORD AND EVERY LOOK, THEY WERE SO MANY MORE PARADISES THAT HE FORMED IN HIS LITTLE DAUGHTER AND NOW REMEMBERING THEM, THEY ARE WOUNDS, ACUTE DARTS, FIERY ARROWS OF INTENSE SORROW, OF MARTYRDOM AND OF CONTINUOUS DEATH.
MY DAUGHTER, EVERYTHING HERE BELOW, AS MUCH AS IN THE SUPERNATURAL ORDER AS IN THE NATURAL ORDER ARE ALL VEILED. ONLY IN HEAVEN ARE THEY UNVEILED BECAUSE IN THE CELESTIAL FATHERLAND, VEILS DO NOT EXIST BECAUSE THINGS ARE SEEN AS THEY ARE IN THEMSELVES. SO, UP ABOVE, THE INTELLECT DOES NOT HAVE TO WORK TO UNDERSTAND THEM BECAUSE BY THEMSELVES, THEY SHOW THEMSELVES FOR WHAT THEY ARE AND IF THERE IS WORK TO DO IN THE BLESSED DWELLING, IF ONE CAN CALL IT WORK, IT IS TO ENJOY AND BE HAPPY IN THE THINGS THAT ONE OPENLY SEES.
MY DAUGHTER, ONLY BY ONE WHO LIVES IN MY WILL, DO I FEEL AS THOUGH REPAID FOR CREATION, REDEMPTION AND SANCTIFICATION AND SHE GLORIFIES ME IN THE WAY IN WHICH THE CREATURE SHOULD GLORIFY ME. THEREFORE, THESE SOULS WILL BE THE GEMS OF MY THRONE AND WILL TAKE AMONG THEMSELVES ALL THE CONTENTMENT AND THE GLORY WHICH EACH BLESSED WILL HAVE FOR HIMSELF ALONE. THESE SOULS WILL BE AS QUEENS AROUND MY THRONE AND ALL THE BLESSED WILL BE AROUND THEM AND JUST AS THE BLESSED WILL BE AS MANY SUNS THAT WILL SHINE IN THE CELESTIAL JERUSALEM,THE SOULS WHO HAVE LIVED IN MY WILL, WILL SHINE IN MY OWN SUN. THEY WILL BE AS CIRCUMFUSED WITH MY SUN AND THESE SOULS WILL SEE THE BLESSED WITHIN ME BECAUSE IT IS RIGHT THAT HAVING LIFE ON EARTH UNITED WITH ME, WITH MY WILL, AS THEY LIVED NO LIFE OF THEIR OWN, THEY HAVE A PLACE DISTINCT FROM ALL OTHERS IN HEAVEN AND THEY CONTINUE IN HEAVEN THE LIFE WHICH THEY LIVED ON EARTH - COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED IN ME AND IMMERSED IN THE SEA OF MY CONTENTMENT.
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