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attracted by the variety of so many beauties, all will feel as though
enraptured and will strive to live in My Kingdom.

“Now, if you lacked the dispositions to receive the communications of
the effects of the Sun of My Will and to put them out in order to write

them, so as to make known the good It contains and Its unheard-of
prodigies, My Will would act like the sun It would burn you, in such a
way that you would become like sterile and infertile land. And besides,

how can I write alone without you? My manifestations must be tangible,
not invisible; they must fall before the senses of creatures. The human
eye does not have the virtue of seeing invisible things; it would be as if I
said to you: ‘Write without ink, without pen and without paper.’ Would it

not be absurd and unreasonable?

“So, since My manifestations must serve for the use of creatures,

formed of soul and body, I too need matter in order to write and it is you
who must lend it to Me. So, you will serve as ink, as pen and as paper
for Me, and with this I form in you My characters; and you, feeling them
within yourself, put them out and render them tangible by writing them

on paper. Therefore, you cannot write without Me, for you would lack
the topic, the subject, the dictation from which to copy, and therefore
would not be able to say anything; and I cannot write without you, for I

would lack the main things to be able to write: the paper of your soul,
the ink of your love, the pen of your will. Therefore, this is a work that
we must do together, and in mutual agreement.”

Then, while I was writing, I was thinking to myself: “Before I write certain
little things that Jesus tells me, it seems to me that they are of very little

importance, and therefore it seems that it is not necessary to put them
on paper. But as I am in the act of writing them, the way in which Jesus
orders them in my interior changes the scene, and though small in their
appearance, they seem to be of great importance in their substance.

Given all this, what an account will those who have had, and those who
have authority over me, have to give God, when they have not imposed
themselves through obedience in order to make me write? How many

things have I neglected, when I received no command?”

And Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “Daughter, indeed they will
have to give Me an account. If they believe it is I, the account will be

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