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1 Chronicles 15:29
Jesus says:
“Write: ‘...Michal...having begun to look out of the window and observed King David, who was leaping and dancing, scorned him in her heart.’
“There are too many like Michal. Their hearts are rendered barren by so-called ‘good sense.’ They are - or, rather, believe they are - sensible minds: they are just arid minds placed as sovereigns over even more arid hearts. Pride governs them, and, as blood pulsates in the veins, in their spirits pride lives and circulates and blinds, deafens, and obscures them. They are no longer capable of seeing and understanding that which is supernatural joy and shake their heads before the ecstasy of the simple whom love renders capable of seeing God.
“To see God! A joy which is the joy of Heaven and which God grants to the living who love Him with their whole self. To see God by way of the forms brought to your carnality so as to become perceptible to you.
“David was not dancing before the ark for the sake of the ark. But because in it he saw the reflection of the Face of Grace, Beauty, and Power, of the Most High. Love produces a holy inebriation which compels man to sing and move to and fro, for the world surrounding him is restricted for his heart, which expands in passion, and the world itself is an incitement for him towards ever new expansion, for upon everything he sees that there is impressed the sign of God, before whom man, caught in the tremendous, gentle vortex of charity, dissolves in a transport of supernatural joy which only those like him comprehend. The others, like Michal, feel scorn in their hearts.
“Do not scorn the only ones who have understood that God is superior to all things, even to that esteem, that tranquillity, and that usefulness which you care so much about. Ask the Master of the world to make your hearts capable of loving and understanding.
“Strip yourselves of your ridiculous pride. You are not the repositories of perfection. These humble, simple, and little ones are the repositories, for they possess Knowledge, Truth, and Charity. They possess God. And like a banner and a voice they stand among you, so that the idea of God will not be completely erased from your arid hearts full of human knowledge.”
Leviticus 10:6-7
Jesus says:
“My beloved ones who live enclosed in the circle of my arms, as if within the enclosure of the ancient Tabernacle, I give you my order in these times of wrath which has come not for you, but because of the sins of the world.
“When, in the general misfortune, you see men become agitated and upset and start to writhe with unjust pain, do not join them. Have compassion for the common misfortunes, but while recognizing that they are a sign of Divine Justice, do not abandon yourselves to forms of human unbalance.
“My Spirit has skimmed over your pupils and has given them sight which the human eye does not have. You see beyond the earth and know the truth of things. Give this hour its name, then, and the attention it deserves: expiatory, not imprecatory, as men generally do, drawing down additional wrath from Heaven upon themselves.
“Let the blameworthy mourn because this hour is the result of them. You, prostrated before my glory, bless it, for with a punishment it is still calling faithless, idolatrous humanity to the one, holy God, and remain in Me.
“The oil of love is upon you and overflows from you upon the world. You are the ones who attract it, you precious vases in whom the sacrifices of your lives become incense, burning lamps which no wind disturbs, and keep your spirits enkindled like an upright flame towards my altar.
“Do not forget your election and do not profane the regal sign with human contamination. Remain in the Tabernacle to bless for those who curse, to pray for those who need all mercy. The world shall be saved through you.”