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XII. Resjionsum Fidei.

XII. Resjionsum Fidei.

And again, from the aforementioned turbulent cloud, I heard a voice responding to this image: "O most wicked part, you are the deceit of the Devil, who denies in his heart all that is good." From this, the heart of that person is revealed. For the thoughts of your heart tend toward the Devil, who stands at your right hand; therefore, your eyes are so blinded that you cannot see the way of salvation, which is hidden in heaven, and which compresses you, who are night, just as the right hand falls upon the left. The right hand oppresses you, and through this, its glorious ascent is because the knowledge of evil is called the servant of good knowledge. For she does not want to serve as a maid, just as a lady does not perform the lowly tasks of a maid; and therefore she has a glorious name, namely that she is called a lady. You are indeed condemned, since you spread out so many judgments against yourself, because you flee from all that is clear in faith. Your reasoning always leads the people you deceive to sin, because you don't want to walk in the way of God's commandments. But I faithfully praise God with my heart, wanting all that belongs to God, and with the Cherubim I contemplate the divine judgments that He reveals, just as He sees them in God. But I also judge all things through the prophets and the scribes. The kingdoms of the world also shine through the justice of God, and I am a reflection in God, because I shine in all of God's commandments. > 18. But I saw a sixth image in the form of a woman, whose head was covered with a feminine veil, and the rest of her body was clothed in dark garments. And before His face appeared as a mountain of burning sulfur, and to His right was an ominous side. It was like a mountain of the same sulfur, which caused a great noise among them. But from it came a sound like the greatest thunder. About these, all of them groaned greatly and their limbs trembled, and their hands were pressed to their chest, while they were completely submerged in the aforementioned darkness, saying:

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Et iterum de praefata turbida nube audivi vocem huic imagini responsum 4antem: « 0 pars nequissima, tu faliacia Diaboli es, qui in pectore suo omnia quae juata sunt, negat.

Unde et pectus illius signiflcas.

Nam propositio cogitationum * tuarum ad Diabolum tendit, qui a dextris tuis stat; unde etiam oculi tui ita obseurati sunt, quod videre non potes viam salvationis hqjus, quae in coeium aRcandit, et quae te, quae nox es, comprimit, sicut dextra super sinistram cadit.

Dexira etiam te opprimit, et per hoc ascensio ejus gloriosa est, quia mala scien> tia bonae scientiae ancilla vocatur.

Ipsa enim cum ancilla ministrare non vult, * quemadmodum domma servilia opera ancillae non operatur; et ideo gloriosum p nomen habet, scilicet quod domina vocatur.

Tu namque damnata exis, cum sen* tantiam judiciorum super te expandis, qaoniam omnia quae in fide lucida sunt, fugis.

Ratiocinatio etiam tua hominibus quos decipis, peccatum semper objicit; * quia in via praeceptorum Dei ambulare non vis.

Ego autem fideliter cum apge> lis Deum laudo, cum omnia quae Dei suut volo, et cum Cherubim orania judicia p ejqs pcriho, quae ipse profcrt, sicut in Deo videt.

Sed et ego per prophetas et * s^pi^ate^ et f^cribas omnia dijudico.

Guncta quoque regna mundi per justitiam 9 Dei re^Iendent in rae, et speculura in Deo sum, quia in omnibus praeceptis Dei * fulgeo. > 18.

Sextam vero imaginem in forraa mulieris videbam, cujus caput muliebri iDor^ te^ebrQso velamine tectum erat, ac reliquum corpus tenebroso indumento ind^tufo.

Et ante faciem ejus quasi mons ardentis sulphuris apparuit, et ^^ dextrum ei ad ainistrum latus ejus &im? liter, quasi raons ejusdem sulphuris, qqi iu praefatds tOQ^bra^ porruerunt, et multum fragorem in eis fecerunt. §ed et r^tro eam| sailiQe»t jiiata dor^um ejus, sonus maximi tonitrui factus est.

De quibus omnibtis iilii ej(tQrrita^ multo gemit^ et tremora braQbia sua et manus ad pectus 3aum conf^rimeb^t, at se praefatis tanebris totam immergebat, dicens:

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