in
me only a triumphant, dominant love, which acknowledges no master but
Love. It is my experience, that the closer the union of the soul with
God, the more it is separated from all dependence on the creature. I
find also, that the secret operations of divine love upon the soul,
cannot be expressed. These operations do not consist in sweet and
flattering expressions, neither in consolations, in the ordinary way,
but in the discovery of mysterious truths; truths, which give so
profound a knowledge of God, that the soul can find no language to give
expression to these views.

To speak, and to act, is the same thing with God. "He spake, and it
was done." When the divine Word operates in the soul, without any
obstruction, the soul becomes what this Word wills it should become.
When Mary Magdalene was made whole, it was no more Mary Magdalene, but
Jesus Christ, who lived in her. St. Paul says, "I live, yet not I,
Christ liveth in me." In the same manner, the Word is incorporated
into my soul.

Some time since, there was given me a view of the States of Mary, the
mother of our Lord. I was alone in my chamber, and my soul was
completely filled with divine love. The divine Word seemed to say
within me, "I will show thee the chief work of my hands,--a perfect
nothing in itself,--the heart of Mary." In this manner was conveyed to
me, the inexpressible love of God for men--his operation in pure souls.
It was shown me, that her silence and acquiescence in the will of God;
her entire self-crucifixion and hidden life were worthy of imitation;
and that this same love which had operated so powerfully upon this
soul, emptied of self, desired to draw other souls also to her states,
and to make an effusion of the same grace and love in them, as in her.
O divine love! how great are thy wonders, how marvellous thy operations
on human hearts! My soul is lost in the depths of thy secret wonders!
Silence, silence--only silence!

I write to you, my Father, for the last time, to bid you a final adieu.
I can no longer listen to any other teachings, than this divine Word of
eternal Truth, which is spoken in the depths of my heart. But however
far separated from you, in the relation of Director, you are very near
and dear in the affections of my heart; in that pure love, which is
alone the operation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

GLORY OF GOD THE ONE DESIRE.

What have we to desire in heaven and on earth, only the glory of God?