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Dialog of Catherine of Siena

How this devoted soul looking in the Divine mirror saw the creatures going in diverse ways.

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How this devoted soul looking in the Divine mirror saw the creatures going in diverse ways.
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Then that soul, tormented with intense desire, gazing into the sweet Divine mirror, saw creatures setting out to attain their end in diverse ways and with diverse considerations. She saw that many began to mount, feeling themselves pricked by servile fear, that is, fearing their own personal pain, and she saw others, practicing this first state, arriving at the second state, but few she saw who arrived at the greatest perfection.

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The general method by which every rational creature can come out of the sea of the world, and go by the aforesaid holy Bridge. How servile fear is not sufficient, without the love of virtue, to give eternal life; and how the law of fear and that of love are united.