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CHAPTER III.
COMPLETING THE EXPLANATION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST
CHAPTER OF THE APOCALYPSE.
26. This holy city of Jerusalem, Mary our Mistress,
according to the Evangelist, "Having the glory of God,
and the light thereof, was like to a precious stone, as to
the jasper stone, even as a crystal."
From her very be
and,
ginning, the soul of the most holy Mary was filled
as it were, bathed, in new participations of the Divinity,
such as was never seen or known of any other creature;
for She alone was the aurora sending forth the splendors
of the Sun, Christ, true God and man, to whom She was
and clearness went
to give birth. And this divine light
on increasing until She reached the highest state, seated
at the right hand of her Son on the very throne of the
blessed Trinity and clothed in the variety of all the gifts,
graces, virtues, merits and glory beyond all creatures
(Ps. 44, 10). When I saw Her in this place of inacces
sible light, it seemed to me, that She possessed no other
splendor than that of God himself, who seemed to com
municate it to Her from the fount and origin of his im
mutable Being. Through the humanity of his Onlybegotten
the same light and clearness seemed to be both
in the Mother and the Son, each according to their de
gree; yet in substance seeming one and the same, not
found in any of the other blessed, nor in all of them to
gether. In variety She seemed like jasper, in preciousness
She was inestimable, and in beauty of body and soul
She was like translucent crystal, permeated by the very
substance of clearness and light.
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