Reuelacio nona in libro questionum, in qua Christus loquens sponse sue beate Birgitte ostendit ei, qualiter de domo mundi et viciorum est iam erepta et liberata et quod iam est deducta ad habitandum in mansione Spiritus Sancti. Et ideo monet eam, quod conformet se cum eodem Spiritu, perseuerando semper munda, humilis et deuota.
Leaving the House of the World
Christ contrasts the stained and smoky house of the world with the purity of the divine dwelling.
The Son speaks to his bride: "You are the one who, having been raised in a poor house, have come into the company of the great." For in a poor house there are three things: stained walls, harmful smoke, and soot that fills the air. But you have been led into a house where there is beauty without stain, warmth without smoke, and a sweetness that fills you without ever becoming cloying. The world is the house of the poor, and its walls are pride, forgetfulness of God, an abundance of sin, and a disregard for the future. These walls stain the soul because they destroy good works and hide the face of God from a person. The love of the world is smoke. It harms the eyes because it clouds the soul's understanding and makes it anxious about useless things. Soot, however, is pleasure; for even if it delights for a time, it never satisfies or fills you with eternal goodness.
Dwelling in the Holy Spirit
The bride is invited to abide in the Holy Spirit and conform her life to His purity and humility.
You've been drawn away from these things, then, and brought into the dwelling of the Holy Spirit—who is in me, just as I am in him—and he now holds you within himself. He is, in fact, the purest, most beautiful, and most steadfast, because He sustains all things. Therefore, conform yourself to the One who dwells in this house by remaining pure, humble, and devout.
Read the original Latin
Filius loquitur ad sponsam: "Tu es illa, que in paupere domo nutrita in societatem magnorum venisti. Quippe in domo paupere tria sunt, scilicet parietes maculosi, fumus nociuus et fuligo replens.
Sed tu es ducta in domum, vbi pulchritudo est sine macula, calor sine fumo, suauitas sine fastidio replens.
Domus vero pauper est mundus, cuius parietes sunt superbia, obliuio Dei, habundancia peccati, inconsideracio futurorum. Hii parietes maculant, quia opera bona annichilant et abscondunt ab homine faciem Dei.
Fumus vero amor est mundi. Hic nocet oculis, quia intellectum anime obfuscat et facit eam in superuacuis sollicitari. Fuligo vero voluptas est, quia et si delectat ad tempus, numquam tamen saciat nec replet bonitate eterna.
Ab hiis igitur tu es abstracta et ducta es in mansionem Spiritus Sancti, qui est in me et ego in eo, qui et concludit te in se.
Ipse quippe mundissimus est et formosissimus stabilissimusque, quia omnia sustentat. Ergo conforma te habitatori domus, manendo munda, humilis et deuota."
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