Verba angeli ad sponsam de intencione pene anime a Deo in superiori capitulo iudicate; et de remissione eciam pene ipsius, quia ante eius mortem inimicis pepercit.
The Agony of Uncertainty
The angel describes the severe purgatorial suffering of a soul caught in the anguish of not knowing its final destiny.
The angel speaks again, saying: "That soul whose state you saw and whose judgment you heard is in the most severe pain of purgatory." And this is because it doesn't know whether it will come to rest after its purification, or if it has been damned. This is God's justice: that soul had a great conscience and discernment, yet used them for the world in a physical way rather than for the soul in a spiritual way, because for as long as it lived, it was too forgetful of God and neglected Him. Therefore, her soul now suffers the heat of fire and shivers from the cold; she is blinded by darkness, terrified by the horrible sight of demons, deafened by the clamor of the Devil, starving and thirsty within, and clothed in confusion without.
Mercy Amidst Judgment
Despite the soul's punishment, God grants relief through the soul's past acts of forgiveness and the intercession of others.
Yet God granted her one grace after death: that she would not come into contact with demons. This is because, for the sake of God’s honor alone, she spared her mortal enemies, forgave their grave offenses, and made peace with her own mortal enemy. Know also that whatever good she did, and whatever she promised and gave from wealth honestly acquired—and especially the prayers of God's friends—lessen and cool her punishment, just as it has been determined in the justice of God. As for other goods that were less than honestly acquired, whatever he gave away benefits those who previously owned them justly—either spiritually, or in a physical sense, if they are worthy according to God's arrangement.
Read the original Latin
Item loquitur angelus dicens: "Illa anima, cuius disposicionem vidisti et iudicium audisti, ipsa est in grauissima pena purgatorii. Et hoc ideo est, quia non intelligit utrum veniet ad requiem post purgacionem, an dampnata sit.
Et hec iusticia Dei est, quia ipse habuit conscienciam seu discrecionem magnam, qua utebatur ad mundum corporaliter et non ad animam spiritualiter, quia nimis oblitus est et neglexit Deum quamdiu vixit.
Ideo nunc anima eius patitur ardorem de igne et contremiscit de frigore; ipsa est ceca de tenebris et de demonum visu horribili timorosa, surda de clamore Dyaboli, esuriens et siciens intus et abextra vestita cum confusione.
Attamen Deus dedit ei unam graciam post mortem, quod scilicet non veniret ad tactum demonum. Quia propter solum honorem Dei pepercit et dimisit grauia delicta capitalibus inimicis suis et fecit amiciciam cum capitali inimico suo.
Scito eciam, quod quidquid boni fecit et quidquid promisit et dedit de bene acquisitis diuiciis et maxime preces amicorum Dei minuunt et refrigerant penam eius, iuxta quod diffinitum est in iusticia Dei.
Alia vero bona minus bene acquisita, que dedit, proficiunt hiis spiritualiter qui iuste antea possidebant ea, aut corporaliter, si sint digni iuxta disposicionem Dei."
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