Chapter IX — Part
2
Shows in what manner one comes, thereafter, to hear the Voice of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
LO, thus are we all one with God in our Eternal Archetype, Which is His Wisdom, Who has put on the nature of us all. And, although we are already one with Him Therein, by that putting on of our nature; we must also be like God in grace and virtue, if we would find ourselves one with Him in our Eternal Archetype, Which is Himself. And thus was, and is, the Humanity of Our Lord Jesus Christ lifted up and made One with the Wisdom of God; and His Soul and all His Powers were filled, and are still filled, with the fulness of all good gifts.
And He is to us like a Living Fountain, Whence we receive all that we need.
And He Himself says:
"My Father has sent Me to live, as God and Man, for each one who desires Me.
My Well-beloved, chosen from all, behold how that I am yours without reserve. I have lived for you , taught you, trained you, and died for your sake. I have offered you to My Father with My Death, and I have paid your debt with My own Sacred Blood.
I have risen, glorious in Soul and Body, that you may arise in glory, at the Last Day, in soul and body, and may behold My Glory and the Glory of My Father for ever, world without end.
I have ascended to the right hand of My Father, above all choirs and hierarchies of men and angels; and I have prepared a place for each, according to his deserving.
And I shall come again, at the Last Day, in Glory, with My Angels and My Saints, to judge both good and evil according to their deserts and in utter justice.
Look well, beloved, what more I have done for you: I have given to you and left with you My Flesh and My Living Blood for Food and Drink; and, as is the strength of his desire, so can each one taste and know the abiding Heavenly Savour of it.
Your longing and your life of the Senses, these I have nourished and have filled with My Glorious Martyred Body.
Your love and your life of the Reason, these, too, I have nourished and have filled with My Spirit and with all My Gifts, and with the Merits, whereby I am pleasing to My Father.
Your Contemplation and the lifting up of your spirit, these, also, I have nourished and have filled with My Own Person, so that you live in Me, and I, God and Man, live in you, in the similitude of virtues, and in Oneness of fruition.
My Father and I have filled this world with Our Spirit, with Our good Gifts, and with Our Sacraments, in the measure in which each one has need and desire it.
O Man, behold, and see Who I am; how I have lived for you; what I have suffered for you; and that which I have promised you. Be thankful, and account to Me for all, to the utmost of your power. "