Chapter IX, Part 2

Showeth in what manner one cometh, thereafter, to hear the Voice of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

LO, thus are we all one with God in our Eternal Archetype, Which is His Wisdom, Who hath put on the nature of us all. And, although we are already one with Him Therein, by that putting- on of our nature ; we must also be like God in grace and virtue, if we would find ourselves one with Him in our Eternal Archetype, Which is Himself. And thus was, and is, the Humanity of Our Lord Jesus Christ lifted up and made One with the Wisdom of God ; and His Soul and all His Powers were filled, and are still filled, with the fulness of all good gifts.

And He is to us like a Living Fountain, Whence we receive all that we need.

And He Himself saith : —

"My Father hath sent Me to live,

" as God and Man, for each one who " desireth Me.

" My Well-beloved, chosen from all, " behold how that I am thine with- " out reserve. I have lived for thee 20, " taught thee, trained thee, and died for " thy sake. I have offered thee to My " Father with My Death, and I have " paid thy debt with My own Sacred " Blood. "

" I have risen, glorious in Soul and " Body, that thou mayest arise in " glory, at the Last Day, in soul and " body, and mayest behold My Glory " and the Glory of My Father for ever, " world without end.

" I have ascended to the right hand " of My Father, above all choirs and " hierarchies of men and angels ; and " I have prepared a place for each, " according to his deserving.

" And I shall come again, at the " Last Day, in Glory, with My Angels " and My Saints, to judge both good " and evil according to their deserts and 11 in utter justice.

" Look well, beloved, what more I " have done for thee :

" I have given to thee and left with " thee My Flesh and My Living Blood " for Food and Drink ; and, as is the " strength of his desire, so can each one " taste and know the abiding Heavenly " Savour Thereof.

" Thy longing and thy life of the " Senses, — these I have nourished and " have filled with My Glorious Martyred " Body.

"Thy love and thy life of the " Reason, — these, too, I have nour- " ished and have filled with My Spirit " and with all My Gifts, and with the " Merits, whereby I am pleasing to My " Father.

" Thy Contemplation and the lifting- " up of thy spirit, — these, also, I have " nourished and have filled with My " Own Person, so that thou livest in " Me, and I, God and Man, live in thee, " in the similitude of virtues, and in " Oneness of fruition.

" My Father and I have filled this " world with Our Spirit, with Our good " Gifts, and with Our Sacraments, in the " measure in which each one hath need " and desire thereof.

" O Man, behold, and see Who I am ; how I have lived for thee ; what I have suffered for thee; and that which I have promised thee. " Be thou thankful, and account to Me for all, to the utmost of thy power. "