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CHAPTER VII.
THE) MOST HOLY MARY ENDS THE BATTLE WITH THE
DEMONS, GLORIOUSLY TRIUMPHING OVER THEM AS IS
DESCRIBED BY SAINT JOHN IN THE TWELFTH CHAPTER
OP THE APOCALYPSE.
505. In order to understand better the mysteries to
be described in this chapter, it is necessary to presuppose
what I have written in the eighth, ninth and tenth chap
ter, of the first book, of the first part, where I explained
the twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse in so far as it
was made, known to me at that time. Not only there,
but during* the whole course of this heavenly history,
have I referred to the present chapters of this third part
for a description of the battles of the most holy Mary
with Lucifer and the demons, the triumphs She gained,
and the state in which She was left by the Almighty
after these battles for the rest of her earthly
life. Of
all these sacred mysteries the evangelist saint John had
a knowledge and he describes them in his Apocalypse
(as I have stated at other times), especially in the twelfth
and twenty-first chapters. On these two chapters I must
discourse in this history for two reasons.
506. First, the secrets contained in them are so ex
alted and magnificent, that they can never be adequately
explained or manifested; especially as the Evangelist,
considering it as the sacrament of the King and Queen,
has enveloped them in such enigmatical and metaphorical
language, as can be interpreted only through divine
revelation when and how the Lord shall please and in
;
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