Dubitante sponsa de quodam monacho, an illuderetur, quia dicebat se videre visiones celestes, respondit Christus dicens, quod ille illuditur a demone sub specie angeli lucis. Quod probat Christus per libros illius continentes ambicionem et propriam laudem. Et precipit Christus, quod moneatur, vt se corrigat; alioquin cito et male morietur, quod prochdolor postea sic euenit.
The Deception of Pride
Christ reveals the root of the monk's delusion, tracing it to his impatience, disobedience, and the vanity found in his own writings.
The Son says to the bride, "I am telling you about that monk you're doubting." You should know that it was impatience that made him leave his first monastery, and he entered the second one under false pretenses. And because he came into my city, Jerusalem, while excommunicated, he deserved to be deluded and deceived, for he was ashamed to be a humble monk and to remain in the calling to which he had been called. Examine the books he has, and you'll find ambition and self-praise in them. You've read in his books that Peter and Paul supposedly called him worthy of the highest priesthood, and that he should be both pope and emperor at the same time.
A Warning Against False Visions
Christ exposes the demonic nature of the monk's visions and issues a final call to humble repentance to avoid a tragic end.
And that, when he was in need, he found some gold coins and a strange, unknown currency at his bedside; and that the archangel Michael appeared to him in the body of a merchant; and how he had gathered together all the prophecies of those who came before him. You should know, then, that all these things are from the devil, who is deceiving him. Tell him, therefore, that he won't become pope or emperor; on the contrary, unless he returns quickly to his monastery and lives as a humble monk, he'll die within a very short time as an apostate, unworthy of the Communion of the saints and the fellowship of the monks.
Read the original Latin
Filius loquitur ad sponsam: "Dico tibi de illo monacho, de quo tu dubitas. Scias enim, quod impaciencia fecit eum relinquere suum monasterium primum et mendaciter intrauit secumdum.
Et quia excommunicatus venit in ciuitatem meam Iherusalem, ideo illudi et decipi meruit, quia erubuit esse monachus humilis et stare in vocacione, ad quam fuit vocatus.
Audi igitur libros, quos habet, et inuenies in eis ambicionem et propriam laudem. Nam legisti in libris suis, quod Petrus et Paulus dixerunt eum dignum summo sacerdocio et quod fieret simul papa et imperator
et quod, quando fuit necessitatus, inuenit ad caput suum quosdam deniaros aureos et quandam monetam incognitam, et quod Michael archangelus apparuit ei in corpore cuiusdam mercatoris et quomodo ipse congregauerat omnes precedencium prophecias.
Ideo scito, quod omnia ista sunt a dyabolo, qui illudit eum. Propterea dic ei, quod nec papa nec cesar fiet, ymmo, nisi cito redierit ad monasterium suum et steterit sicut monachus humilis, morietur infra breuissimum tempus sicut apostata, indignus communione sanctorum et consorcio monachorum."
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