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from the mouth of Our Lord, and communicates it to the
body. It is not so easy when it is through the intellect.

To me, I think that Jesus has this way of speaking in order
to adapt Himself to the human nature. It is not that He needs
the word in order to make Himself understood, but in this way

the soul understands more easily, and she can manifest it to
the confessor. In sum, Jesus acts like a most knowledgeable,

wise, intelligent teacher, who possesses all sciences to the
highest degree, and no one can equal him. But since he finds
himself amid disciples who have not yet learned the first
syllables of the alphabet, keeping all the other studies within

himself, he teaches the a b c to the disciples.

O! how Good is Jesus. He adapts Himself to the learned

and speaks to them in a very high manner, in such a way that
in order to understand Him, they have to study well what He
tells them. And He adapts Himself to the ignorant, pretending
to be, He Himself, a little bit ignorant; and He speaks in a low

manner, in such a way that no one may remain on an empty
stomach from the lesson of this Divine Teacher.

3- The third way in which Jesus speaks to me is when,
in speaking, He communicates its very substance to the soul.
It seems to me that, just as when the Lord created the world,
at one word things were created, in the same way, since His

word is Creative, in the very act in which He pronounces the
word, He creates in the soul that very thing which He is saying.

As for example, Jesus says to the soul: “See how beautiful
things are. As much as your eye may run over the earth and in
Heaven, you will never find a Beauty similar to Me.” At this
speaking of Jesus, the soul feels a certain something Divine

enter into herself; the soul remains so very drawn toward this
Beauty, and at the same time she loses attraction for all other
things. As beautiful and precious as they might be, they make

no impression on her soul. What remains fixed in her, and
almost transmuted into herself, is the Beauty of Jesus of
that Beauty she thinks, with that Beauty she feels invested,

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