Chapter 50

The bride's unfathomable vision of the judgment of a multitude of persons still in life, in which she heard: If people would rectify their sins, I, too, will lighten their sentence.”

It seemed to me as though a king was seated on a judgment seat, and each living person stood before him. Each person had two beings standing next to him, one of whom appeared like an armed soldier, the other like a black Ethiopian. A pulpit stood before the judgment seat. On it lay a book, arranged in the same way as I saw earlier when I saw three kings standing before him. It seemed to me that the whole world was standing before the pulpit. Then I heard the judge saying to the armed soldier: ’Call those whom you have served with love!”

Those who were named fell down immediately. Some of them lay there for a longer while, others for a shorter, before their souls were separated from the body. I am unable to grasp everything I heard and saw then, for I heard the sentences of many people still living but who will soon be called. However, the following was said to me by the judge: “If people would rectify their sins, I, too, will lighten their sentence.” Then I saw many people being sentenced, some to purgatory, others to everlasting woe.