And what must I do for you, Ephraim? What must I do for you, Judah?… Simon, Bart, Judas, and you, My cousins, you who are more experienced in the Book, do you recognise these words? They do not come from a mad spirit, but from one who possesses Wisdom and Science. Like a king who calmly opens his coffers, because he knows where a certain gem is, which he is looking for, as he put it in there himself, I quote the prophets. I am the Word. For ages I spoke through human lips. And for ages I will speak through human lips. But all the supernatural that has been spoken is My word. Even the most learned and holy man would not be able to rise, with the soul of an eagle, beyond the limits of the blind world, to snatch and utter the eternal mysteries.
The future is “present” only in the Divine Mind. Foolish are those who claim to make prophecies and revelations, without being supported by Our Will. And God soon gives them the lie and strikes them, because only One can say: “I am”, and say: “I see”, and say: “I know”. But when a Will that is not to be measured, that is not to be judged, that is to be accepted with bowed head, without discussion, saying: “Here I am”, when such Will says: “Come, rise, hear, see, repeat”, then the soul, immersed in the eternal present of its God, called by the Lord to be “voice”, sees and trembles, sees and weeps, sees and rejoices; then the soul, called by the Lord to be “word”, hears and, thrown into ecstasy or into the perspiration of agony, says the tremendous words of the Eternal God.
Because every word of God is tremendous, as it comes from Him Whose verdict is immutable and Whose Justice is inexorable and is addressed to men, too few of whom deserve love and blessings instead of anathema and conviction. Now this word, that is spoken and despised, is it not the cause of dreadful sin and punishment for those who reject it, after hearing it? It is.