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he distributes his farms, his villas, his lands to his people for free, giving
them even housing in his cities, in such a way that all can be rich, with

abundance, each one in his own condition. And he does all this great
good to his people for the sole purpose that they would recognise him
as their king, giving him absolute dominion, and recognizing that the

lands occupied by them have been given to them for free by the king,
that he might be glorified, recognised and loved for the good he has
done to them.

“Now, this people, ungrateful, does not recognise him as their king, and
they claim the right of property over the lands that they possess,
denying that they were gifts given by the king. Would this king, then, not

be defrauded in the glory of the good he has done to his people? And if
you add that they use his lands without benefit for themselves some do
not work them, some remove from them the most beautiful plantations,

some render the most pleasant gardens squalid, in such a way as to
procure for themselves their own unhappiness and misery all this would
add dishonour and a sorrow that no one could soothe, to the detriment
of the glory of the king.

“This is nothing but the mere shadow of what My Supreme Will has
done, and still does. No one has given Us a cent for receiving the good

of the sun, of the sea, of the earth; rather, We gave them everything for
free, and only to make them happy, and so that they would recognise
My Supreme Fiat, that loved them so much and wants nothing but love

and dominion.

“Now, who could repay that king for the detriment of the glory that his

people have not given him, and soothe his intense sorrow? Suppose,
again, that someone from that same people, investing himself with the
just sorrow of his king and wanting to repay him of his glory, begins, at
first, to renovate the land he occupies, in such a way as to make of it

the most beautiful and pleasant garden of the kingdom. Then he says to
everyone that his garden is a gift that the king has given him because
he loves him; and then he calls the king into his garden and says to

him: ‘These are your dominions it is right that they be all at your
disposal.’
“The king is pleased with this loyalty, and says: ‘I want that you be king
together with me, and that we reign together.’ Oh! how he feels his glory

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