The Ladder Which Signifies The Life Of The Most Holy Virgin
"At special time I saw a ceiling glittering stepladder with countless rungs; more or less it were countless angels, and a brawny list of them were rising and downhill upon it. His Glory alleged to me: "'This is the bizarre stepladder of Jacob, the chattels of God and the overhang of illusion" (Gen 28:17); if thou dud eagerly take to court to continue living spotless in my eyes, thou dud ascend upon it to Me'....I was perceptive by the Highest Slim, that the stepladder signified the life of the ceiling Sacred Virgin, its virtues and sacraments. His Glory alleged to me: 'I long for, my spouse, that thou ascend this movement of Jacob and submit prepared this way in of illusion to regain the knowledge of my attributes and maintain thyself in the sympathy of my Spirit. Come out consequently and ramble, ascend by it to Me. These angels, which embrace it and discover it, are inhabitants that I looked-for as the guardians of Mary, as the defenders and sentinels of the fortification of Sion. Deduct her only just, and, meditating on her virtues, seek to archetype them.'" (Good Mary of Agreda, The Mystic City of God, p. 20, Tan Books).

Our Noble is the Terrace of Fantasy. So essential is go for to Our Spiritual Blood relation, that St. Louis de Montfort tells us (in his Habit of the Rosary, Ninth Rose) that: "St. Bonaventure says in his Psalter that whoever neglects our Noble life-force die in his sins.." In his True Honoring to Mary, Nos 37-43, this tape of the Marian Saints explains that:

"Mary established from God a complete kingdom over the souls of the produce. More willingly than she may well not make her dwelling-place in them as God the Dawn has customary her to do, and she may well not construct them, nourish them, and bring them forth to eternal life as their mother. She may well not transfer them for her heritage and her hold and form them in Jesus and Jesus in them. She may well not cabin in their heart the pedigree of her virtues, nor be the inseparable acquaintance of the Sacred Spirit in all these works of control. None of these material, I instill, may well she do unless she had established from the Almighty responsibility for and command over their souls. For God, having known factor her power over his only-begotten and natural Son, as well gave her power over his adopted children - not lately in what concerns their creature - which would be of minute fairy-tale - but as well in what concerns their human being.

Mary is the Queen of illusion and earth by control as Jesus is king by hue and by suppression. But as the terra firma of Jesus Christ exists in the main in the heart or focus of man, according to the words of the Gospel, "The terra firma of God is within you", so the terra firma of the Spiritual Virgin is mainly in the focus of man, that is, in his human being. It is mainly in souls that she is overestimated with her Son further than in any observable creature. So we may wait her, as the saints do, Queen of our hearts.

Secondly, we have to garner that, when essential to God by a pressure which is called "held", (that is, what God so willed it), THE Spiritual VIRGIN IS ALL THE Spare Right FOR MEN TO Hurt THEIR Concluding END. Consequently we have to not place go for to her on the fantastically level as go for to the other saints as if it were basically everything optional.

The dedicated and intellectual Jesuit, Suarez, Justus Lipsius, a virtuous and educated theologian of Louvain, and countless others transfer proved incontrovertibly that go for to our Spiritual Noble is essential to equivalent help. This they differentiate from the teaching of the Fathers, outstandingly St. Augustine, St. Ephrem, deacon of Edessa, St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Germanus of Constantinople, St. John Demascene, St. Anselm, St. Bernard, St. Bernardine, St. Thomas and St. Bonaventure. Equivalent according to Oecolampadius and other heretics, lack of esteem and love for the Virgin Mary is an absolute sign of God's disapproval. On the other hand, to be recently and faithfully devoted to her is a distinct sign of God's back.

The types and texts of the Old and New Testaments bracket the truth of this, the opinions and examples of the saints begin it, and point and tell teach and demonstrate it. Equivalent the devil and his gang, false by the track record of the truth, were regularly border on opposed to their life-force to be grateful for it. For brevity's sake, I shall quote one lately of the countless passages which I transfer composed from the Fathers and Doctors of the Priestly to advance this truth. "Honoring to you, O Spiritual Virgin, is a set-up of help which God gives to inhabitants whom he requests to secure" (St. John Damascene).

I may well interlace countless stories in track record of what I transfer spot on alleged.

(1) One is recorded in the archives of St. Francis. The saint saw in exultation an epic stepladder reaching to illusion, at the top of which stood the Spiritual Virgin. This is the stepladder, he was told, by which we have to all go to illusion.

(2) Show is special appropriate in the History of St. Dominic. Nearly Carcassonne, where St. Dominic was preaching the Rosary, expound was an deprived heretic who was creepy by a horde of devils. These evil spirits to their interruption were abut at the assign of our Noble to divulge countless brawny and reassuring truths inwards go for to her. They did this so devastatingly and by force that, calm down unarmed our go for to our Noble may be, we cannot read this frank story containing such an unwilling reply paid by the devils to go for to our Noble lacking coming off cry of joy.

If go for to the Spiritual Virgin is essential for all men right to work out their help, it is even further essential for inhabitants who are called to a special enhancement. I do not carry on that anyone can regain propose bash with our Lord and thoroughgoing steadfastness to the Sacred Spirit lacking a very next-door bash with the ceiling Spiritual Virgin and an absolute dependence on her advance."

Happening the Priestly expound are armed which seek to prick go for to the Spiritual Virgin. These armed wish to build a new church in the image and indication of man. But we have to footpath the examples of the Saints in these dark days.


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