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except from the Truth. God and the Angels are pure Spirits, no one can see them as they really are, with corporal eyes. That is why I have never desired extraordinary favours. I would rather await the Eternal Vision."
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
I have asked God to send me a beautiful
dream to console me when you are
gone," said a novice.
"Ah! that is a thing I should never do—ask for consolation!. . . Since you wish to be like me you well know that I say:
Oh! fear not, Lord, that I shall waken Thee:
I await in peace th' eternal shore. . . .
"It is so sweet to serve the good God in the dark night of trial; we have this life only in which to live by faith."
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
