XIV. Responsum Contempius mundi.

XIV. Responsum Contempius mundi.

But from that turbulent cloud, I heard again a voice responding to the image: "You are the most deceitful trap, which entices those corporeal things that are present with various faculties and substances to carnal pleasure." Some generations of people once reached out in their minds toward wealth and worldly honors, seeking signs in the sun and the stars, and they claimed that the gods they trusted were present in them. And what good is this vanity to them? And where are the riches, honors, and territories now? In hell. But I sit in the form of the Holy Spirit, and I make a circle in the chariot of God's commandments; I walk in all His ways, I invoke the Father, and I lay low the carnal desires of my own will, and I manifest myself everywhere. But if I indulge in carnal desires, I will quickly awaken through the fear of God and the fiery wheel of the Holy Spirit. When the people honor me for the name of the Lord, and with all their possessions there, I am. They want to hand over HfLDEOARDIS to me, which is worth nothing, but only so that they may support me a little. I say: These things drive me away from the face of God, and I am greatly ashamed; for when sin calls me through suggestion, I give this response: You did not create me, nor can you free me from evil, therefore I will crush your deception. For when the fiery flame of the Holy Spirit ignites me, all worldly things are consumed within me, and thus I pass through all heavenly things in the celestial chariot. > 21. And I saw another image, with its feet raised, hanging in the aforementioned darkness, which had a head like a leopard, but the rest of its body was like a scorpion. He turned himself against the South and the West, and said: