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twelve thousand of each gift, reaching immense magni
tude. Though She was already measured thus when She
passed into existence by her Immaculate Conception and
prepared for the Mothership of God; yet She was
measured again on this occasion, when She returned from
the right hand of the eternal Son and her dimensions
were proportionate to take the place and office of her
Son and Redeemer of the world.
30. "And the building of the wall thereof was of
jasper stone : but the city itself pure gold,
like to clear
glass. And the foundations of the walls of the city
were adorned with all manner of precious
stones." The
doings and the outward behavior of most holy Mary,
which, like the walls surrounding a city, are visible to all,
were of such wondrous beauty and variety, that merely
by her example She conquered and attracted the hearts
of all that looked upon Her or conversed with Her. By
Her sole presence She routed the demons and all his fan
tastical illusions; and therefore the walls of this City
were of jasper. By her conduct and labors, as far as
they became known exteriorly, our Queen produced more
fruits and wrought greater wonders in the primitive
Church, than all the Apostles and saints of that age.
The interior of this city was of the finest gold of inex
plicable clearness, participated from her own Son and so
closely resembling the light of the infinite Being, that it
seemed but the reflex of it. And this City was not only
of the finest and most precious gold, but it seemed as of
the purest and transparent glass; for She was an im
maculate mirror of the Divinity, admitting no other
image. She was like a crystalline tablet on which was
written the evangelical law. In Her it should become
known to the whole world ;
therefore this tablet was of
clear glass and not of opaque stone, as that of Moses,
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