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THE CORONATION 461
INSTRUCTION WHICH MARY, THE QUEEN OF THE ANGELS,
GAVE: ME.
529. My daughter, with the rebellion of Lucifer and
his demons in heaven have commenced the battles be
tween the kingdom of light and that of darkness, between
Jerusalem and Babylon; and these battles will not cease
to the end of the world. The Captain and Head of the
children of light is the incarnate Word, as the Author
of holiness and grace; and Lucifer, as the author of sin
and perdition, has constituted himself as the leader of
the children of darkness. Each one of these chieftains
defends his followers and seeks to increase his reign
and the number of his adherents. Christ seeks to draw
men to Himself by the truths of his divine faith, by the
favors and gifts of his grace, by the holiness of his
virtues, by his consolations in labors and by the certain
hope of his promised happiness, commanding his angels
to accompany, to console and defend them until they
should be able to bring them to heaven; Lucifer, on the
other hand, gains his followers by lies, deceits and treach
ery, by the allurements of ignominious and abominable
vices, by darkness and confusion ;
he treats them in this
life like a tyrant, afflicting them relentlessly and depriving
them of all consolation ;
while in the next life he holds in
readiness for them eternal and horrible torments, which
he himself and through his demons shall inflict
upon them
with inhuman cruelty as long as God is God.
530. But alas ! in spite of this truth, so infallible and
so well known to mortals, in spite of the infinite differ
ence of the recompense, how few, my daughter,
are the
soldiers that follow Christ, as their legitimate Lord, as
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