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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 way is very high and sublime; so much so, that the
nature can hardly adapt itself to explain it with words it can
barely give some idea. This way of Jesus of making Himself

understood is extremely rapid in one simple instant one
learns many sublime things, more than by reading entire

books. O! what a most ingenious Teacher Jesus is in one
simple instant He teaches so many things, while to someone
else it would take entire years, if he manages at all, because
the terrestrial teacher does not have the power of being able

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 say what the soul feels in this state? It would
take Jesus Himself, or a soul perfectly separated from the

body, because in finding herself surrounded once again by
the wall of this body, and losing that Light which before kept

her submerged, the soul loses much and remains obscured.
So, if she tries to say something, she can only do it roughly.
To give an idea, I will say that I imagine someone born
blind, who has never had the good of seeing what is contained

in the entire universe, and for a few minutes he had the good
of opening his eyes to the light and was able to see everything
that is contained in the world—the sun, the heavens, the sea,

the many cities, the many machines, the varieties of flowers
and the many other things that are in the world; and after
those few minutes of light, he returned to the blindness of

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