CHAPTER III.
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.
The Blessed Virgin speaks.
And it is a truth that I was conceived without original sin, and not in sin; because, as my Son and I never sinned, so no marriage was more holy than that from which I was born. — Lib. vi., c. 49.
A golden hour was my conception, for then began the principle of the salvation of all, and darkness hastened to light. God wished to do in his work something singular and hidden from the world, as he did in the dry rod blooming. But know that my conception was not known to all, because God wished that as the natural law and the voluntary election of good and bad preceded the written law, and the written law followed, restraining all inordinate notions, so it pleased God, that his Mends should piously doubt of my conception, and that each should show his zeal till the truth became clear in its preordained time. — Lib. vi., c. 55.
