VI. Responsum pietatis.

VI. Responsum pietatis.

Again, I heard a voice coming from that troubled cloud saying to me: 'You are diabolical and cruel, and you have great wickedness within you.' If God were to allow you to do all that you wanted, who would you be then? And if God allowed you to do all the good you wanted, who would you be then? VIII. Would He give you good things for the evils you do, where would be the scepter of His power? When you began to do evil, God cast you down like lead into hell, from where all creatures also lead you into persecution. Where, then, is your power now? Darkness and blasphemy, along with oppression, are within you. Where do you lie down? In curses. Where are you being fed? In confusion. Where is your dwelling place? There, where everyone is against one another, and where everyone always broods over their own misery, and where murder is in the wickedness of bloodshed. 4i. The fourth image was surrounded by such a dense darkness that I could hardly discern any distinction of its parts, except that I could barely recognize it as a deformed and monstrous shape of a human being in that same darkness. And this stood above a certain dry and hard foam, and a fiery flame emitting many sparks. He said: