art Cameron Gray
“The liberated soul no longer seeks God through penitence, nor
through any sacrament of Holy Church; not through thoughts, nor through
words, nor through works; not through creature here below, nor through
creature above; not through justice, nor through mercy, nor through
glory of glory; not through divine understanding, nor through divine
love, nor through divine praise.
Such Souls … possess as equally dear, shame as honor, and honor
as shame; poverty as wealth, and wealth as poverty; torment from God and
his creatures, as comfort from God and His creatures; to be loved as
hated, and hated as loved; to be in hell as in paradise, and in paradise
as in hell; and in small estate as in great, and great estate as small …
They neither will nor not-will anything of these prosperities nor of
these adversities.
Whoever would ask such free Souls, sure and peaceful, if they
would want to be in purgatory, they would say no; or if they would want
to be certain of salvation in this life, they would say no; or if they
want to be in paradise, they would say no. But then with what would they
will it? They no longer possess any will, and if they would desire
anything,
they would separate themselves from Love.
Such a Soul neither desires nor despises poverty nor tribulation,
neither mass nor sermon, neither fast nor prayer, and gives to Nature
all that is necessary, without remorse of conscience. But such Nature is
so well ordered through the transformation by unity of Love, to whom
the will is conjoined, that Nature demands nothing which is prohibited.
She has fallen into certainty of knowing nothing and into
certainty of willing nothing. And this nothingness … gives her the All,
and no one can possess it in any other way.”
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