The Book of Heaven
—Unofficial Version—

August 12, 1904

Man disperses the beauty with which God created him.

As I continued struggling, all of a sudden I found all of myself inside Our Lord, and from His head a shining thread descended into mine, which bound me completely inside of Jesus.  Oh, how happy I was to be inside of Him!  As much as I looked, I could see nothing but Him alone.  This is my highest happiness – only Jesus, Him alone and nothing else.  Oh, how well one feels!  Meanwhile He told me:  “Courage my daughter, don’t you see how the thread of my Will binds you completely inside of Me?  So, if any other will wants to bind you, if it is not holy it cannot, because since you are inside of Me, if it is not holy it cannot enter into Me.”  And while saying this, He looked at me over and over again, and then He added:  “I created the soul with a rare beauty, I endowed her with a light superior to any other created light, and yet, man disperses this beauty inside ugliness, and this light inside darkness.”