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See, had I not drawn you into this bed, since you would have

to carry out your family duties and submit yourself to other
sacrifices, I could not come so often and let you share in the
offenses, as I receive them; at most, I would have to wait for
when you have fulfilled your duties. But now no, we are

free, there is no one left who may bother us and interrupt our
conversation. From now on, My afflictions will be yours,

and yours Mine; My sufferings yours, and yours Mine; My
consolations yours, and yours Mine. We will unite all things
together, and you will take interest in My things as if they
were your own; and so I will do with yours. Between the two

of us there will no longer be ‘this is Mine, and this is yours’,
but everything will be in common, on both sides.

“Do you know how I acted with you? Like a king when
he wants to speak with his queen and spouse, and she is
with other ladies on other affairs. What does the king do?
He takes her and brings her inside his room; they close the

door, so that no one may go and interrupt their conversation
and hear their secrets; and so, once they are alone, they
communicate their consolations and their afflictions to each

other. Now, if someone, imprudent, went to knock, shouting
from behind the door, and did not leave them alone to enjoy
their conversation would the king not take offense? So have
I done for you, and in the same way I would be displeased if

anyone wanted to take you away from this state.”

He continued, telling me: “From you I want perfect
conformity to My Will, in such a way that your will may
be undone within Mine; and absolute detachment from
everything so much so, that I want all that is earth to be

considered by you as dung and rot, which one is horrified by just
looking at. And this, because even if one had no attachment to
earthly things, just by having them around and looking at them,

they cast a shadow over the Celestial Things and prevent the
fulfillment of that Mystical Marriage which I promised you.

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