True Life in God Notebook 109 1116 and rejoicing while giving them; and how eager You are to let everyone know of Your new conquest! You once said, my God “do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; fear him rather who can destroy both body and soul in hell;” Yes, why should one fear once we become Your property, and Your possession? If in this divine spiritual matrimony You possess the soul and the soul possesses You, my Lord, who would ever dare approach to break this union? Not even all hell put together! My joy now lies in being close to God, and I look to no one else in heaven, but on Him in whom I live and who dwells in me... anyone united to Me will be encircled by various virtues; I will fence My delightful garden with these and I will seal it with the angelic virtue: impassibility in order to attain perfection; the Holy One who transcends heaven and earth can help you attain such a freedom through His Grace; free from carnal feelings and temptations, bringing death to them, annihilating these evil odours by replacing them with fragrant light; I will offer you, once united to Me true freedom of the flesh and will crystallise your spirit in such an ineffable way that you will appear like a diamond; I, who am the Absolute, will infuse in you the desire to adore Me, the desire to be permanently inside of Life, the desire of being arrayed with perfumed light, the desire that I keep breathing over you My scent to keep My Flame alive in you; now My beloved that I have you near Me, surrounded by My radiance shrouding you with My Glory, I have you grafted on Me; Lord, You who are Love, never ceased to amaze me for the choice You have made to entrust such grandeur and noble Odes to one who often mistakes her left hand for her right! how could You engage such Themes to me? but how can I deny that it is through Your exuberant Love You teach and give me knowledge of all the unknowable Themes to me! You have grafted me on You to take shape in an incongruous being1 with the assurance to perfect such a being; the corpse will take life; then, this being will not help but despise all worldly riches, for she2would have discovered the ineffable Kingdom and the One who is vested in Glory, she has discovered the Miracle of miracles, so let Your Words drop on me like dew; intertwined with You I blossom like a flower and all that was drought within me transmogrified into a garden; fragrance now your Bridegroom, and I will enrich your soul with graciousness; let your love increase daily; let anyone know this fundamental truth: “the Lord God knows those who are His Own and so allows them to come near Him;” these are the ones favoured to reach deification in sharing My matrimonial bed in a divine union with Me; these are the ones destined to become light for having given their life for Me and having allowed Me to wholly assimilate them in Me; this Great Bridegroom whose Love is the cause of your wound and the 1Me. 2The soul.
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