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Chapter 1LiVM.4.1

I. Vcrba Injustiiiae.

I. Vcrba Injustiiiae.

And the same image said, "On whom shall I place my justice?" What good is it to you to be above others, if you are not above your own desires? For if I were to examine this and that creature, I wouldn't be a creation of God, but like a donkey that walks slowly unless prodded by a goad. For I am wiser and more prudent than others. I know the sun, the moon, the stars, and all other creatures, and I rightly establish each thing and its cause. And why should I reject myself, as if I knew nothing? If I were to reject someone’s constitution, perhaps that same person would do the same to me. But if I do this, my own institution is still more useful. So why should I waste away in myself, as if I knew nothing good, when everything that belongs to me is better and more useful than what belongs to others? For I am worth only as much as those who can discern and judge all things. TI. The response of justice is this. I heard a voice responding from the dark cloud that came from the south to the west, saying: "O diabolical and shameless art, what are you saying?" God has established every instrument in such a way that each one looks toward another. The more one person understands what they don't know, the more knowledge they have; and for this reason, they also have insight through knowledge, so they can take care to avoid danger and not fall into any peril. If a person doesn't look closely, to whom would they be subject? What creature would obey them, and what creature would serve them? A person works with the help of creatures to accomplish what is necessary for themselves. For he digs gardens with a hoe, plows fields with a plow, and even plows with oxen, commanding them to walk. And each kind of creature fulfills its role according to its nature, and according to what it needs for its own benefit. And why do you despise the human being, in whom heaven and earth are understood? So why do you also reject the teaching and gift of the Holy Spirit, which the Holy Spirit has poured out on people? A person builds a structure and an altar for God, in which they may serve Him. Therefore, I know that the gifts of the Holy Spirit that I recognize in people are the works of God, and I am in harmony with them. I have the crown of the king in creation and in its works with justice, and I look upon these with honor, and I work with their deeds, so that they may have joy in me, because I am their staff on the path of justice. Therefore, whoever despises me will fall into the pit. For from the flowing fountain, pour forth! I have departed, and no earthly cause will hold me back. I rose at dawn, and I am a most diligent friend of God, and I will dwell with God, nor will I depart from Him. For I am solid health itself; and in the burning drought, I do not fall, because I am the flourishing of all trees, which winter does not wither, and which the storm does not shake. I dwell on Mount Zion, and I am at peace; I walk in the gentleness of the Lamb, and I rise in His victory, for I am the victory of the King, and I will not be found defeated, for no one can.

Read the original Latin

Et eadem imago dicebat: « Super quem justitiam meam ponam?

Super nul> lum.

Nam si illum et illum inspicerem, creatura Dei non essem, sed sicut asellus essem, qui tarde incedit, nisi per stimulum minetur.

Sapientior enim et pru- ' dentior aliis sum.

Solem quoque et lunam ac stellas ac caeteras creaturas scio, et unamquamque rem et causam recte constituo.

Et quare me ipsam repudiarem, quasi nihil scirem?

Si etiam alicujus constitutionem repudiavero, forsitan > ille idem mihi faciet.

Quod si tamen fecero, mea tamen institutio utilior est.

Et cur in memetipsa tabescerem, velut nihil boni scirem, cum omnia quae mea sunt, meliora et utiliora sunt quam aliorum.

Nam tantum valeo, quantum illi qui omnia discernunt et dijudicant.» TI.

Kesponsum Justiiiae, 3.

El dc turbida nube, quae sc ab Austro ad Occideiilem cxlenderal, ul praedictum est, audivi vocem verbis istis sic respondentem: « O ars diabolica et impudi' ca, quid loqueris?

Omne instrumentum Deus sic instituit, quod unumquodque in aliud respiciat.

Quanto plus enim alius ab alio sapit, quod in se nescit, tanto plus scientia illi adest; et ob hoc etiam oculos per scientiam habet, ut sibi provideat^ ne periculum incurrat, et ne in ullo periculo periclitetur.

Si enim homo non inspiceret, cui imperio praeesset? quae creatura illi obediret, et quae crea)) tura illi ministraret?

Homo cum adjutorio creaturarum ea quae sibi necessaria j> sunt operatur.

Nam hortos rostro fodit, agros aratro evertit, cum bubus quoque 7> arat, et eos ambulare jubet.

Ac unumquodque genus creaturarum secundum officium suum capit, et secundum quod illius ad utilitatem suam indiget.

Et quare contemnis hominem, in quo coelum et terra intelligitur?

Aut cur etiam doctrinam et donum Spiritus Sancti, quod Spiritus Sanctus hominibus infudit, repudias?

Homo namque aedificium et altare Deo aedificat, in quo ei serviat.

Unde ego dona Spiritus Sancti quae in homine cognosco, opera Dei esse scio, et illis symphonia sum.

Diadema quoque regis in creaturis et in operibus earum cum justitia habeo, et hos in honore inspicio, ac cum operibus ipsorum operor, ita > quod in gaudio me habent, quoniam per viam justitiae baculus eorum sum.

Quapropter illi qui me contempserit, in puteum cadet.

Nam de saliente fonte proj! > cessi, nec uUa terrena causa terrebit me.

Ego diluculo surrexi, ac diligentissima amica Dei sum, et cum Deo morabor, nec ab eo recedam.

Per ipsum enim > solida salubritas sum; et in ardente ariditate non cado, quia floriditas omnium arborum sum, quas hiems non arefacit, et quae propter tempestatem non caj> dunt.

In monte Sion habito, et in quiete sum, ac in mansuetudine Agni ambulo, D et in victoria ejus surgo, ac victoria regis sum, nec victa inveniar, nemo enim

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