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faculties of the most blessed Mary and
;
since faith teaches
us, that we cannot measure or comprehend the power
of the Almighty, it is proper to confess, that He can
operate in Her much more than we can understand and
that we need only deny such excellence in Her, as would
imply an evident and manifest contradiction. In that
which has been shown me for the purpose of recording
it in this history, supposing that I understand it, I do not
see any contradiction in the way I see it; although the
proper terms for recording it fail me in what I write.
537. I say then, that after Mary our Leader and
Mistress had triumphed in her battles over the dragon
and his demons, God raised Her to a state in which He
manifested to Her the Divinity, not by an intuitive vision
like that of the blessed, but by another clear vision
through created species, which in this history I have al
ways called abstractive vision; because it
depends not
upon the actual presence of the object seen, nor moves
the understanding by the object itself; but by other
species, which present the object as it is in itself, although
absent ; namely in the same manner as God can show me
the city of Rome as it is in itself by infusing into my
mind all the images and likenesses of that city. This
kind of vision of the Divinity the most blessed Virgin
had enjoyed before during her life, as I have often
demonstrated in this history. Although
it was thus not
altogether new to Her, since She enjoyed abstractive
vision at the moment of her Conception (as said at the
time), yet it was new now in two respects. First, from
this time on it was permanent and continual, enduring
till her death and till She passed into the beatific vision ;
while before that time it had been occasional and passing.
Secondly, from this time it continued to increase in in
tensity day by day, and thus reached a degree more
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