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of all the works of a God; therefore, as a consequence, from her derive
all goods from her do they come, to her do they return. See, then, how

fortunate you are; you cannot fully comprehend what it means to have
primacy in love and in all the things of your Creator.”

On hearing this, I said to Him: “My Love, what are You saying? And
besides, what good comes to me from such great fortune You are
talking about, when You deprive me of Yourself? All goods convert for

me into bitternesses without You. And then, I have told You many times
that You alone do I want, because You are enough for me in everything;
and if I had everything, without You, everything changes for me into
martyrdom and indescribable pain. Love, grace, light, the whole

Creation, speak to me about You they make me know who You are,
and, not finding You, I become delirious, I go into mortal agonies.
Therefore, the primacy, the rights of firstborn give them to whomever

you want; I don’t care about them. If you want to make me happy,
remain with me, You alone this is enough for me.”

And Jesus added: “My daughter, I alone must not be enough for you,

nor do I want you to say that you do not care about everything else. No,
no, if it is not enough for Me to give you Myself alone without giving you
all of My things, if I care that you have the primacy and be the firstborn

daughter, you too must care about it. Don’t you know that My frequent
coming is bound to your being My firstborn daughter? Don’t you know
that, as long as Adam remained the firstborn son of My Will, having

therefore primacy over everything, I visited him often? My Will reigning
in him administered to him all the manners necessary in order to be with
Me, as the son who forms the consolation of his father. So, I spoke to

him as to a son, and he to Me as to his Father.

“As he withdrew from My Will, he lost his primacy, the rights of firstborn,
and along with them he lost all of My goods; and he no longer felt the

strength to sustain My Presence, nor did I feel drawn by a Divine force
and Will to go to him. So, all his bonds with Me were broken; nothing
was due to him by right any more, nor did he see Me unveiled any

longer, but amidst lightnings and eclipsed within My Light that light of
My Will that he had rejected.

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