How There Are Five Kinds of Tears
Then said the Supreme and Sweet Truth of God, “Oh,
beloved and dearest daughter, you beg knowledge of the reasons and fruits of
tears, and I have not despised your desire; open well the eye of your intellect
and I will show you, among the aforesaid states of the soul, of which I have
told you, concerning the imperfect tears caused by fear; but first rather of
the tears of wicked men of the world. These are the tears of damnation. The
former are those of fear, and belong to men who abandon sin from fear of punishment,
and weep for fear. The third are the tears of those who, having abandoned sin,
are beginning to serve and taste Me, and weep for very sweetness; but since
their love is imperfect, so also is their weeping, as I have told you. The
fourth are the tears of those who have arrived at the perfect love of their
neighbor, loving Me without any regard whatsoever for themselves. These weep
and their weeping is perfect. The fifth are joined to the fourth and are tears
of sweetness let fall with great peace, as I will explain to you. I will tell
you also of the tears of fire, without bodily tears of the eyes, which satisfy
those who often would desire to weep and cannot. And I wish you to know that
all these various graces may exist in one soul, who, rising from fear and
imperfect love, reaches perfect love in the unitive state. Now I will begin to
tell you of these tears in the following way.”
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