Himmlische Offenbarungen

place [God] before the eyes, or that through which the revelation happens, as Augustine speaks in the 14th book of On the Trinity original: "14. de Trinit.": When we recognize God, a likeness of God is made in us, so it is not unlike the truth what the blessed Birgitt says, namely that she saw God through the form of God; that is, through a likeness of God that was imprinted into her understanding by God; but not through the form which is called the bare essence of the Godhead itself. For through this form is accomplished the blessed beholding the Beatific Vision, in which a thing is the blessed-making object and the intelligible form, to which the Church Militant desires to be led in the prayer of the current Feast of the Epiphany original: "Erscheinung", speaking thus: O God, who on this day revealed Your Only-begotten Son to the Gentiles by the leading of a star, graciously grant that we, who already know You by faith, may be led even unto the beholding of the form of Your Majesty. And thus it is manifest that the slanderer has no cause to revile herein. See, Reverend Fathers, what has occurred to my small understanding to say, saying nothing presumptuously of all the articles, about which you have asked me to apply diligence and to write according to the grace given to me by God. Truly, I have looked through them all together carefully enough, and find none of them, when it is understood faithfully and moderately, that would be against the Holy Scripture or against the sayings of the holy Fathers; rather, I judge that each one sufficiently meets and agrees therewith; and that they all together, according to their moderate and faithful understanding, are permissible, and may be read in the holy Church of God in the manner that the books of many other teachers and the histories and legends of the saints are allowed for the faithful to read. If I have perhaps, either due to my unskillfulness, or small understanding, or because of the short available time, not done enough for your desire and the honor of such a distinguished saint, I ask for forgiveness. But for that which I have done with such upright inclination and fervent heart for the rescue of the holiness of the blessed Birgitt, your renowned foundtress, being invited thereto by your request, I pray that you would, trusting in the intercession of this most devout servant of Christ, obtain from the Lord for me the grace of love in this [life], and the heartiness in the future life, Amen.

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Attestation and Recognition of the Lord Judge of the Apostolic Chamber regarding the above-stated explanations of Lord John, Cardinal of Turrecremata.

To each and every Christian faithful who shall see, read, or hear this letter or public attestation read, Ludwig von Garsis, Doctor of Both Laws Civil and Canon Law, Canon of the Church of Bologna, and Elect of the Apostolic Chamber, as well as deputy by command of our most holy Lord Pope for the Reverend Father Lord John of Carnayalis, Auditor General of the same Apostolic Chamber, wishes salvation in the Lord, and that you give undoubted faith to this letter. To you all in common, because it is good and according to reason to give testimony to the truth of what we have seen and heard, as the Holy Scripture confirms and approves, we hereby testify and make known by virtue of this, that a book of certain proven writings for the explanation of certain articles, drawn from the revelations of the blessed Birgitt, written together, covered with real leather, and sealed with a long seal of white wax imprinted into red wax hanging from the same book on a red cord, and at the end of the same signed by another hand for the sake of the contents' validation with these words: That this is so, I, John of Turrecremata, commonly called Priest Cardinal of the Title of St. Maria across the Tiber, formerly of St. Sixtus, acknowledge—has been brought forth and exhibited before us as administrators of the Roman Court. And so that the mentioned book and what is contained therein may henceforth, and because of the frailty of human nature in the future, be believed the more and more securely, and that which is issued and made by the holy Fathers in the general assemblies be powerful and constant, we, the aforementioned deputy Ludwig, at the instance and request of the spiritual men and brothers Magnus Bunonis, General Confessor, and Olavus Petri, Conventual of the Monastery of the Holy Virgin Mary and Birgitta of Vadstena of the Order of St. Augustine, called St. Savior's, in the Kingdom of Sweden, Diocese of Linköping, have [called] each and every one who thought they were concerned therein in common or particularly, also their advocates, if any are at the Roman Court for the same, whom the following business concerns or may concern in the future, however it be, to see and to hear how the mentioned writing or hand at the end of the same book was signed, and the attached seal was applied and accepted: and when they were applied and accepted, to see and hear how certain witnesses regarding and over the inspection of the writing or signed hand, and of the attached seal, [would testify].