"Heaven and earth will pass away,
but my words will never pass away." Mark 13:31
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Our Lord Jesus Christ's words to his chosen
and dearly beloved bride declaring
his most excellent incarnation,
condemning the profane violation
and breach of our faith and baptism,
and inviting his beloved bride to love him.
Our Lord Jesus Christ's words to the daughter
he had taken as his bride concerning the articles
of the true faith, and about what adornments and tokens
and intentions the bride should have
with respect to the bridegroom.
Our Lord Jesus Christ's words to his bride
about her formation in love and honor toward him, the bridegroom,
and about the hatred of the wicked for God,
and about the love of the world.
Our Lord Jesus Christ's words to his bride
about how she should not worry or think
that the things revealed to her come from an evil spirit,
and about how to recognize
a good or an evil spirit.
Christ's most loving words to his bride
containing the wonderful image of a noble castle,
which stands for the church militant,
and about how the church of God will now be rebuilt
through the prayers of the glorious Virgin and of the saints.
Christ's words to his bride about how his spirit
cannot dwell in the wicked, and about the separation
of the wicked from the good and the sending
of good people armed with spiritual weapons
to war against the world.
The glorious Virgin's words to her daughter
about the way to dress and the sort of clothes
and ornaments with which the daughter
should be adorned and clothed.
The Queen of Heaven's words to her beloved daughter
teaching her how she ought to love
and praise her Son together with his Mother.
The words of the Queen of Heaven
to her beloved daughter concerning
the beautiful love the Son had for his Virgin Mother,
and about how the Mother of Christ was conceived
in a chaste marriage and sanctified in the womb,
and about how she was assumed body and soul into heaven,
and about the power of her name,
and about the angels assigned to men for good or bad.
The Virgin Mary's words to her daughter,
offering a useful teaching about how she should live,
and describing many marvelous details
about the passion of Christ.
Christ's words to his bride about
how he delivered himself up, of his own free will,
to be crucified by his enemies,
and about how to control the body from illicit movements
through the consideration of his sweet passion.
About how an angel prays for the bride
and how Christ asks the angel what it is
that he asks for the bride and what is good for her.
About how an enemy of God had three demons
within him and about the sentence
passed on him by Christ.
Christ's words to his bride
about the manner and the reverence
she should maintain in prayer,
and about the three kinds of people
who serve God in this world.
Christ's words to his bride
describing himself as a great king,
and about two treasuries symbolizing the love of God
and the love of the world, and a lesson about
how to make improvement in this life.
On how the bride saw a saint
speaking to God about a woman
who was being terribly afflicted by the devil
and who was later delivered
through the prayers of the glorious Virgin.
Christ's words to his bride
comparing a sinner to three things:
an eagle, a fowler, and a fighter.
Christ's words to his bride about how there
ought to be humility in the house of God,
and about how such a house denotes the religious life,
and about how buildings and alms and so forth
ought to be donated from goods properly acquired,
and about how to make restitution.
The Creator's words to the bride
about the splendor of his power, wisdom, and virtue,
and about how those who are now said
to be wise sin the most against him.
A pleasant dialogue of the Virgin Mother
and the Son with each other
and of the Virgin Mother and the Son with the bride,
and about how the bride should get ready
for the wedding.
The bridegroom's words to his bride
making admirable use of a fine allegory
about a sorcerer in order to illustrate
and explain the devil.
The Mother's gentle question to the bride,
and the bride's humble answer to the Mother,
and the Mother's useful reply to the bride,
and about the progress of good people among the wicked.
Christ's words to his bride describing an insincere man,
who is called an enemy of God,
and especially about his hypocrisy
and all about his characteristics.
God the Father's words before the heavenly host,
and the answer of the Son and Mother to the Father
requesting a grace for his daughter the church.
The Creator's words to the bride
about how his justice keeps the wicked in existence
for a threefold reason, and how his mercy spares
the wicked for a threefold reason.
The angelic host's words of praise to God,
and about how children would have been born
if our first parents had not sinned, and about how God
showed miracles to the people through Moses
and later through himself to us on his own coming,
and about the perversion of bodily matrimony in this age,
and about the conditions of spiritual wedlock.
The Mother's words to the bride about
how there are three things in a dance,
and about how this dance symbolizes this world,
and about the Mother's suffering at Christ's death.
The Lord's words to the bride describing
how someone came to be judged before God's tribunal,
and about the awful and terrible sentence
passed on him by God and all the saints.
The Virgin's words to the daughter
regarding two ladies, one of whom was called Pride
and the other Humility, the latter symbolizing
the most sweet Virgin, and about how the Virgin
goes to meet those who love her
at the hour of their death.
The Lord's loving words to the bride
about how the number of false Christians
is being multiplied to the point of recrucifying Christ
and about how he is still ready to accept death
once more for the sake of sinners,
if this were possible.
About how the bride saw the sweet Virgin Mary
furnished with a crown and other adornments
of inestimable beauty, and how Saint John the Baptist
explained to the bride the meaning
of the crown and the other things.
About how, after God's admonishment,
the bride chose poverty for herself
and renounced riches and carnality,
and about the truth of the things revealed to her,
and about three remarkable things
shown to her by Christ.
The Lord's admonishments to the bride
regarding true and false wisdom,
and about how good angels
assist the learned who are good
while devils assist the learned who are bad.
Christ's instruction to the bride about the way to live.
Also about how the devil admits to Christ
that the bride loves Christ above all things,
and about the question put by the devil to Christ
about why he loves her so much, and about the charity
that Christ has for the bride as disclosed by the devil.
The Virgin's words to the bride,
explaining her own sorrow at the passion of Christ,
and about how the world was sold
through Adam and Eve and bought back
through Christ and his Virgin Mother.
The Lord's answer to an angel
who was praying that distress in body and soul
might be granted to the bride,
and about how greater distress
is given to more perfect souls.
The Mother's words to the bride
describing the excellence of her Son,
and about how Christ is now being crucified
more harshly by his enemies, the bad Christians,
than he was by the Jews, and about how,
as a consequence, such people will receive
a harsher and more bitter punishment.
A pleasant dialogue of God the Father with the Son,
and about how the Father gave the Son a new bride,
and how the Son took her with pleasure to be his own,
and about how the bridegroom teaches the bride
about patience and simplicity through a parable.
About how faith, hope, and love
were found perfectly in Christ at the time of his death
and are found deficiently in us wretches.
Words in which the Creator
puts three gracious questions to the bride:
first about the husband's servitude and the wife's domination;
second about the husband's work and the wife's spending;
third about the Lord being disdained and the servant honored.
The Creator's words, in the presence
of the heavenly host and the bride, in which he
complains about five men representing
the pope and his clergy, the wicked laity, the Jews and the pagans.
Also about the help sent to his friends,
who stand for all mankind, and about the harsh sentence
passed on his enemies.
The Virgin's words of exhortation to the bride
concerning how she ought to love her Son above all things,
and about how every virtue and grace
is contained in the glorious Virgin.
The Son's words to the bride
about how people rise up from a small good
to the perfect good and sink down
from a small evil to the greatest punishment.
The Creator's words to the bride about
how he is now despised and reviled by people
who pay no heed to what he did for love
by admonishing them through the prophets
and by his own suffering for their sake,
and about how they do not care about the anger he directed
against the obstinate by correcting them severely.
The answer of the Mother and the angels,
the prophets, the apostles, and the devils to God,
in the presence of the bride,
testifying to his greatness in creation, incarnation,
redemption, and so forth,
and about how people now contradict all these things,
and about his severe judgment on them.
Mutual words of praise of the Mother and Son
in the bride's presence, and about how people now
regard Christ as ignoble, disgraceful, and base,
and say him to be so,
and about the eternal damnation of such people.
The Lord's words to the bride about
the addition of the New Law, and about how that same Law
is now rejected and scorned by the world,
and about how bad priests are not priests of God
but betrayers of God, and about their
malediction and damnation.
About how, in the presence of the heavenly host
and of the bride, the divine nature speaks
to the human nature against the Christians,
just as God spoke to Moses against the people,
and about damnable priests who love the world
and despise Christ and about their
condemnation and damnation.
Christ's words to the bride about
how Christ is figuratively likened to Moses
leading the people out of Egypt,
and about how the damnable priests,
whom he has chosen in place of the prophets
as his closest friends, now cry: "Depart from us!"
The mutual words of blessing and praise
of the Mother and the Son, and about the grace conceded
by the Son to his Mother for the souls in purgatory
and those remaining in this world.
The Mother's words of blessing to the Son,
in the bride's hearing, and about how the Son of glory
makes a lovely comparison of his sweet Mother
to a flower growing in a valley.
The Mother's words of blessing
and her prayer to the Son that his words
might be spread throughout the world and take root
in the hearts of his friends, and about how the same Virgin
is wonderfully compared to a flower growing in a garden.
And about Christ's words conveyed through the bride
to the pope and to other prelates of the church.
The words of mutual blessing and praise
of the Mother and of the Son, and about how the Virgin
is likened to the ark where the staff,
the manna and the tablets of the Law were kept.
Many wonderful details are contained in this image.
An angel's words to the bride
about whether the spirit of her thoughts is good or bad,
and about how there are two spirits,
one uncreated and one created,
and about their characteristics.
About how Christ is likened to a powerful lord
who builds a great city and a fine palace,
which stand for the world and the church,
and about how the judges and defenders
and laborers in the church of God
have been turned into a useless bow.
Words in which God explains the immediately preceding chapter,
and about the sentence handed down against such people,
and about how God for a while
puts up with the wicked for the sake of the good.
The Lord's words to the bride
about how he is loathsome and despicable nourishment
in the souls of Christians while the world is
delightful and beloved to them, and about the terrible sentence
passed on such people.
The Mother's words to the bride
and the sweet words of the Mother and the Son to each other,
and about how Christ is bitter, bitterer, most bitter for the wicked,
but sweet, sweeter, most sweet for the good.
Christ's words, in the bride's presence,
containing similes in which Christ is compared to a peasant,
good priests to a good shepherd,
bad priests to a bad shepherd,
and good Christians to a wife.
These similes are helpful in many ways.
The Son's words to the bride about
three kinds of Christians, symbolized by the Jews
living in Egypt, and about how these revelations
were given to the bride in order to be transmitted
and published and preached to ignorant persons
by the friends of God.