[Jesus speaking] “ …with the soul who lives in Our Divine Will, We delight in showing her all Our acts, that appear as though being all present and in the act of being done. And We say to the soul: ‘Repeat Our act, so that what We do, you may do as well, so as to place the act of the Creator in common with the creature.’
“It happens as to someone who possesses many beautiful things, but keeps them under lock and key in separate rooms—no one knows that he has so many things of varied beauty. Now, a second person wins the favor of the first one, he proves to be faithful to him, nor is he capable of moving one comma of his will. He captures the heart of the first one, who feels his heart crack, because his love toward that person leads him with an irresistible force to show him the goods he possesses, and the variety and rarity of so many precious things. Therefore he opens the secret rooms and says to him, ‘I feel divided in love if I do not make you aware of my secrets, if I do not let you see what I possess, so that we may enjoy and possess together.’ Those things seem all new to the second one, because he had never seen things of that kind, but for the first those were ancient things.”