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When the Divine Master freed me from the external
world, then He put His hand into purifying my interior, and

through an interior voice He told me: “Now we are alone
there is no one left who may disturb us. Aren’t you happier
now than before, when you had to content many upon many?
You see, it is easier to content one alone. You must consider

as if you and I were alone in the world; promise Me to be
faithful, and I will pour such and so many Graces into you,

that you yourself will be amazed.”

Then He continued, telling me: “I have made great
designs upon you, as long as you correspond to Me I want

to make of you a Perfect Image of Me, beginning from the
moment I was born up to My death. I Myself will teach you,
little at a time, the way you will do it.”

And it happened in this way: every morning, after
Communion, He would tell me what I was supposed to do
during the day. I will say everything briefly, because after so

much time it is impossible to say everything. I don’t remember
for sure, but it seems to me that He told me that the first thing
which was necessary in order to purify the interior of my

heart, was the annihilation of myself that is, humility. And
He continued, telling me: “See, so that I may pour My Graces
into your heart, I really want to make you understand that by
yourself you can do nothing. I AM very much wary of those

souls who attribute what they do to themselves, wanting to
make of My Graces as many thefts. On the other hand, with

those who know themselves, I AM generous in pouring My
Graces in torrents. Knowing very well that they can attribute
nothing to themselves, they are grateful to Me, they hold it in
that esteem which befits it, and they live with the continuous

fear that, if they do not correspond to Me, I may take away
from them that which I gave, knowing that it is not something
of their own. All the opposite in the hearts which reek of

pride. I cannot even enter into their hearts because they are
so swollen with themselves that there is no space in which
to put Myself. The miserable ones take My Graces into

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