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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 she2 would 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
1 Me.
2 The soul.
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