XI. Reaponsum coelesiis Gavdii.

XI. Reaponsum coelesiis Gavdii.

But from that troubled cloud, I heard a voice giving this response: "Blind and deaf, you don’t know what you’re saying within yourself." God created man to be clear-sighted, but because of his own transgression, the Serpent led him into this pit of misery. You are deceitful, treacherous, and wicked, and you always have hell in your trust; you neither know nor think about what salvation from God is. Who gives you those things that you have in these clear and good moments, except God? When the day rushes toward you, you call it night; and when salvation is near, you say it’s a curse; and when all your causes and things are good, you call them bad. From where does the hellish fire come? I have heaven, since I rightly see all that God has created, which you call harmful. I gently gather the flowers of roses and lilies, and all the greenery into my bosom, while I praise all the works of God, in which you collect the pain of pain for yourself, as you are sad in all your works. You are like the spirits of the hens, who deny God in all their works. But I do not do that; rather, I attribute all my works to God, since in a certain sadness there is joy, and in a certain joy there is prosperity; it is not as the days are and as the nights are. For God established day and night, so also are the deeds of man. When greed builds its stronghold, God quickly tears it down; and when the flesh craves indulgence, God crushes it; and when desire seeks to circle the heavens in vain glory, God scatters it. What is just and right. Consider the nature of the birds of the sky and the quality of the worst worms of the earth, for both the useful and the useless exist, even if they devour each other. So too, the prosperity and adversity of this world are. Not everything should be completely rejected, but both useful and useless things can purify each other, just like gold is tested in fire. But you consent to useless things, which I do not do. For I consider both useful and useless things in this way, since God has established them. The soul testifies to heaven, but the flesh bears witness to the earth, and the flesh afflicts the soul, while the soul constrains the flesh. So, foolish and blind one, consider what you say. > 18. And behold, before the aforementioned man, a bronze rod appeared, fixed in the abyss, like the rod of a striker, moving this way and that, as if to strike. And its movement produced a sound that said this: