Verba creatoris ad sponsam, qualiter nunc despicitur et vituperatur ab hominibus, non attendentes, quid fecerit ex caritate monendo in prophetis et eciam ipse paciendo pro ipsis, nec curantes de eius ira, quam contra obstinatos exercuit crudeliter corrigendo.
The Buzz of Indifference
The Creator laments that the world, which He made, now scorns Him with a harsh and indifferent spirit.
I am the Creator of all things and the Lord. I made the world, and the world scorns me. I hear a voice from the world like that of a great bee, gathering honey on the earth. Just as a large bee, when it flies, immediately drops back to the earth and lets out a harsh, grating buzz, so in the world today I hear that same harsh voice saying, 'I don't care what happens after this.' In fact, everyone is already shouting, 'I don't care.'
Unheeded Love and Justice
Humanity ignores both the history of God's redemptive love and the warnings of His past judgments.
Truly, people don't pay attention, nor do they care what I have done out of love: warning them through the prophets, preaching through my own self, and suffering for their sake. They don't care what I have done in my anger by correcting the wicked and the disobedient. People see that they are mortal and uncertain of death, yet they don't care. They hear about and see my justice—the justice I exercised against Pharaoh and the Sodomites because of sin, the justice I carried out against kings and other princes, and the justice I allow to happen daily through the sword and other tribulations. And to them, all these things are as if blind.
The Flight of Pride and Earthly Gain
People live for earthly pride and bodily pleasure, ultimately turning temporary gains into eternal suffering.
That’s why they fly wherever they please, just like the larger bees. They do sometimes fly as if leaping, because they lift themselves up in their pride, but they bring themselves down all the faster when they return to their lust and gluttony. They also gather sweetness, but only for themselves and on earth, because people labor and gather for the benefit of the body, not the soul, and for earthly honor, not eternal. They turn what is temporary into a source of pain for themselves, and they turn what is completely useless into eternal punishment.
A Call to Mercy
Through the intercession of His mother, the Creator promises to send a final call of mercy to those who will listen.
And so, because of my mother's prayers, I will send to these bees—from whom my friends, who are in the world only in body, have been set apart—my clear voice, which will proclaim mercy; and if they hear it, they will be saved.
Read the original Latin
"Ego sum creator omnium et Dominus. Ego feci mundum et mundus spernit me. Ego audio de mundo vocem quasi apis maioris, que in terra congregat mel.
Nam sicut apis maior, cum volat, statim ad terram iterum se deprimit et nimis raucam vocem emittit, sic in mundo nunc audio vocem illam raucam dicentem: 'Non curo, quid sequitur post hec.' Omnes quippe iam clamant: 'Non curo.'
Vere, homo non attendit nec curat, quid feci ex caritate monendo in prophetis, predicando per me ipsum, paciendo pro ipsis. Non curant, quid feci in ira mea corrigendo malos et inobedientes.
Vident se mortales et incertos de morte et non curant. Audiunt et vident iusticiam meam, quam exercui propter peccata in Pharaone et Sodomitis, quam feci in regibus et aliis principibus, quam permitto cotidie fieri in gladio et aliis tribulacionibus. Et hec sunt eis quasi ceca omnia.
Ideo sicut apes maiores volant ad quodcumque volunt. Volant quippe quandoque quasi saltando, quia superbia sua se eleuant sed deprimunt se cicius, quando ad luxuriam et gulam suam reuertuntur.
Congregant eciam dulcedinem, sed sibi ipsis et in terra, quia homo laborat et congregat ad utilitatem corporis, non anime, et ad honorem terrenum, non eternum.
Vertunt sibi temporale in penam, illud, quod ad nichil est utile, in supplicium sempiternum.
Ideo propter preces matris mee mittam apibus istis, a quibus exempti sunt amici mei, qui non sunt in mundo nisi corpore, vocem meam claram, que predicabit misericordiam; quam si audierint, saluabuntur."
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