All the beauty of the creatures, compared with the infinite beauty of God is very ugly, as Solomon in Proverbs (31, 30) says: "Fallax gratia, et pulchritudo est vain "is deceitful and beauty is fleeting beauty. And so the soul who is fond of
beauty of any creature before God is very ugly, and therefore can not transform this ugly soul in the beauty that is God, because not enough ugliness to beauty.
All the grace and elegance of the creatures, compared with the grace of God, and unfortunately very high despondency; and, therefore, the soul that garment of grace and elegance of the creatures, is very unfortunate and tasteless before the eyes of God, and thus may not be capable of infinite grace and beauty, because it is far greatly unhappy what is infinitely gracious.
And all the goodness of the world's creatures, compared with the infinite goodness of God can be called evil. For nothing is good but God (Luke 18, 19), and therefore soul who puts his heart into the world's goods, is supremely evil God. And as evil can not comprehend the goodness, and this this soul can not unite with God, which is great kindness .
And all the pleasures and flavors of the will in all things in the world, compared with all the delights that is God, are extremely grief, torment and bitterness. And who put their heart in them is taken before God worthy of great sorrow, torment and bitterness. And can not come to embrace the joys of union with God, being worthy of sorrow and bitterness.
All the riches and glory of all creation, compared with the wealth that is God is great poverty and misery. And so the soul that loves him and has extremely poor and miserable before God, and therefore will not reach the wealth and glory, which is the state of transformation in God (because the extremely miserable and poor is far from what it is extremely rich and glorious).
( And in "Notices spiritual" we read: More indecency and impurity leads the soul to go to God if it carries with it the less appetite for anything in the world, if full of ugly and annoying all temptations and darkness can say ... )
appetites weary and fatigue the soul, they are like a restless and poor suckers happy, who are always asking their mother either, and never satisfied.
appetites weary and fatigue the soul, they are like a restless and poor suckers happy, who are always asking their mother either, and never satisfied.
appetite is like a fire that made wood, grows and then consuming it, necessarily must fail. And yet the appetite is poor condition in this part because the fire, finishing wood, descreces, descreces no more appetite in that which is increased when it became for work ...
Because this is the property of having appetites, always unhappy and tasteless as the hungry. For what is about the hunger that put all the creatures with the glut that causes the spirit of God? ...
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