"that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father" philippians 2:10-11
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content book 5 "the book of questions"
I saw a throne in the sky, and on it sat the Lord Jesus Christ as Judge.
Before his feet sat the Virgin Mary; and around the throne,
there was an army of angels
and an infinite multitude of saints...
Second question. "Item. You have given me temporal goods.
Why then may I not possess those things that I crave...
"O Judge, I ask you: Why did you give us bodily senses
if we are not to move and live according
to the feelings of the flesh...
The first revelation in the Book of Questions -
made to Lady Birgitta by the Virgin Mary -
in which Mary informs her about five virtues which she ought
to have inside herself and five others outside.
Second question. "Why should I mourn and weep when
the world's joy and glory are mine in abundance...
First question. Again, the same religious appeared as before and said:
"O Judge, why have you created worms which
can harm and cannot profit...
The second revelation in the Book of Questions,
in which the Virgin Mary speaks to blessed Birgitta and says
that one who desires to taste divine sweetness
must first endure bitterness.
Fifth question. "Item. Why do you suffer men
to go to war with deliberate wrath and envy
and in a spirit of vengeance...
Fifth question. "Item. Why may I not seek my own praise
although I am good and praiseworthy...
"O Judge, I ask you: Why do you permit it that gods are placed
in temples and honored as yourself when your kingdom
is nobler than any other...
The third revelation, in which Christ speaks to his bride,
blessed Birgitta, and gives her - in a similitude -
instruction concerning a true physician who is a healer,
a false physician who is a murderer, and a man who makes a guess...
First question. When these things had been said,
the same religious appeared on his rung as before and said:
"O Judge, I ask you: Why do you seem so unfair in your gifts
and graces that you preferred your mother Mary to every other
creature and exalted her above the angels?
The fourth revelation in the Book of Questions,
wherein Christ most beautifully praises all the limbs
of his Virgin Mother Mary - moralizing the said limbs in a spiritual way
by comparing them to virtues...
Fourth question. "Item. Since you can do all things
and are everywhere present, why did you not immediately appear
in the stature that you had when you reached your thirtieth year...
The fifth revelation in the Book of Questions,
in which Christ speaks to his bride, blessed Birgitta,
instructing her not to be worried about the care of earthly riches
and informing her of the patience to be had in times of tribulation
together with the virtues of perfect self-denial and humility.
Fifth question. "Item. At the approach of death,
why did you not show yourself in the might of your divinity;
and why did you not show your severity on your enemies
when you said, 'All is consummated...
The sixth revelation in the Book of Questions
in which Christ speaks to his bride, blessed Birgitta,
and teaches her - saying that in the spiritual life,
labor and vigorous perseverance and humble acquiescence
in an elder's advice and manly resistance to temptations will gain,
for her, repose of mind and eternal glory...
Fourth question. "Item. Why did you flee before Herod
into Egypt, and why did you permit
innocent boys to be killed...
The seventh revelation in the Book of Questions,
in which Christ speaks to his bride, blessed Birgitta,
and praises frequent confession in order
that man may not lose the divine grace that he has.
The eighth revelation in the Book of Questions,
in which Christ speaks to the bride and says of those who find
their pleasure in carnal and earthly delights - neglecting
heavenly desires and charity and the memory
of his passion and of eternal judgment...
Sixth question. "Item. Why is greater prosperity given
in this world to the wicked rather than to the good...
The ninth revelation in the Book of Questions,
in which Christ speaks to his bride, blessed Birgitta,
and shows her that she has already been rescued and delivered
from the house of the world and of vices and that she has now
been brought to dwell in the mansion of the Holy Spirit...
Third question. "Item. Why does an infant carry the sin
of its father when it does not know how to sin...
The tenth revelation in the Book of Questions,
in which Christ speaks to the bride and warns her
not to be disturbed if his divine words,
given to her in revelations, are found to be
sometimes obscure, sometimes dubious, and sometimes uncertain;
for this happens from certain causes designated here
and out of the hidden justice of God...
Seventh question. "Item. Why does the devil adhere
to some, being always present to them, but never to others...
The eleventh revelation in the Book of Questions,
in which Christ speaks to his bride, blessed Birgitta,
and tells her why and when he began to administer
and infuse into her the words of divine
revelations in spiritual vision...
Third question. "Item. Since your Holy Spirit
spoke in the evangelists, why is there such great
discrepancy in the gospels...
The twelfth revelation in the Book of Questions,
in which Christ speaks to his bride, blessed Birgitta,
and says to her that she must not be disturbed by
the fact that he does not do justice at once in the case
of a man who is a great sinner.
For he defers the sentence of his justice
in order that his justice...
The thirteenth revelation in the Book of Questions,
in which God the Father speaks to blessed Birgitta
and subtly informs her about the virtue of those
five sacred places which are in Jerusalem and Bethlehem,
and about the grace received by pilgrims who,
with devout humility and true charity, visit those places...