The Dialogue

How no man can escape from the hands of God, for God visits him either in Mercy or in Justice.

•' AND know, My dearest daughter, that no one can escape from My hands, for I Am Who Am, and you are not in yourselves, but only in so far as you act through Me, Who am the Creator of all things which share the gift of being, except sin which is nothing, and therefore not made by Me, and, inasmuch as it is not found in Me, it is not worthy of being loved. For this reason the creature sins and offends, because she loves that which she ought not to love, namely sin, and hates Me, whom she is obliged and bound to love, because I am the Supreme Good, and have given her being with such fire of love. Outside of Me souls cannot go, because they are either in Me through justice for their

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sins, or through mercy. Open thou the eye of thine intellect to gaze into My hand, and thou wilt see that the truth is as I have said to thee."

Then she, lifting her eyes, in obedience to the Supreme Father, saw, clenched in the hollow of His hand, the whole universe, and God said to her : " My daughter, see now and learn that no one can be taken from Me ; for all who are here, are here through justice, or through mercy, as I have said, for they are Mine, and created by Me, and I love them ineffably ; and yet, in spite of their iniquity, I will do them mercy, by means of My servants, and will grant the petition which, with such grief and love, thou hast asked of Me."