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dinary proofs of our devotion. And as the admirable
blessing of the Catholic faith and the other benefits I
have mentioned, have come to us through our great
patron and Apostle saint James, let our devotion and
confidence toward him likewise be renewed, in order that
the Almighty through his intercession may renew his
wonders.
INSTRUCTION WHICH THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN, MOST
BLESSED MARY, GAVE ME.
361. My daughter, thou knowest, that not without
some mysterious reason I have in the course of this
history so many times shown thee the secret machina
tions and treacherous counsels of hell for the ruin of
mankind, and the furious and restless wrath with which
Lucifer seeks to encompass
it. In this assault hell
misses no opening, no occasion, and lets no stone un
turned, nor forgets any path, any state or person in
laying snares for their fall and in trying to find ways so
much the more dangerous and deceitful, the more they
find their victims desirous of eternal life and of the
friendship of God. Besides these general warnings thou
hast often been shown the council-meetings and the plots
laid against thee. It is important for all the children of
the Church to escape the ignorance in which they live
concerning the dangers besetting their eternal salvation;
for they do not know or take notice, that their igno
rance of these secrets is the chastisement of the sin of
Adam, and how, after being enlightened, they again
lose it and become more unworthy of it than before
through their own sins. Many of the faithful are as
oblivious and careless, as if there were no demons to
persecute and deceive them; and if they sometimes think
of them, it is superficially and lightly, falling immedi-
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