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210 By following this advice, your enemies shall not be able to prevail against you. And thus will you open the road which will lead you joyfully to the Heavenly Jerusalem.

F our obstinate enemy, who is never tired of troubling us, assails you by false appearances, by transformations of himself into an angel of light, stand firm and unshaken in the knowledge of your own nothingness, and say to him daringly: "Return, unhappy one, into your darkness, for I am unworthy of visions, nor have I need of anything but the Mercy of my Jesus, and the prayers of the Virgin Mary, of St. Joseph, and of the other Saints."

And if, nevertheless, it appears to you that these things come from Heaven, by many almost convincing signs, yet refuse them, and drive them as far as possible from you. Fear not lest this resistance, founded on your own unworthiness, be displeasing to the Lord; since if the thing be from Him, He knows how to make it clear to you, and you will lose nothing; because He Who