Discourse

...who in the most clever manner promoted the schemes.

Through this now, and many other kinds of tribulation original: tribulation; refers to the trials and spiritual hardships that test a person's faith and resolve., man is unexpectedly driven to sink himself entirely into divine mercy. There, the infinite Divine Love refreshes him, as it once again increases his noble understanding with holy light, so that he may resist these temptations and encounter all the lies of malice. For then he would find the divine promise of Christ, that he should obtain whatever he might ask of God the Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ; further, he would find the reminder of David Refers to Psalm 37:4: "Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.", that God would give what the heart desires, provided one takes his delight in the Lord.

If the Liar The personified "spirit of doubt" or tempter discussed on the previous page. were to object here: that this concerns only the future i.e., the afterlife or the world to come., and that nothing temporal is to be understood by it; then the understanding would nonetheless ponder the wish of the longing desire, and consider every condition and consequence. Because it recognized that in this Mystery of Nature original: Mysterio Naturæ; the hidden spiritual and alchemical laws governing the physical world, which reflect the Creator. there lay a mirror of the Divine Majesty, and that within it the soul could perceive its resuscitation original: resuscitation; the spiritual revival or "rising again" of the soul's divine nature while still in the body. and God's Omni-