The Eternal Word of God, out of which every creaturely spiritual Life
hath proceeded will move itself at that hour, according to Love and
Anger, in every Life which is come out of the Eternity, and will draw
every Creature before the Judgment of Christ, to be sentenced by this
motion of the Word. The Life will then be manifested in all its works,
and every Soul shall see and feel its judgment and sentence in itself.
For the Judgment is, indeed, immediately at the departure of the Body
manifested in and to every Soul. And the last Judgment is but a return
of the spiritual Body, and a separation of the World, when the Evil
shall be separated from the Good, in the substance of the World, and of
the human Body, and everything enter into its eternal receptacle. And
thus it is a manifestation of the Mystery of God in every substance and
life.
SCHOLAR
How will the sentence be pronounced?
MASTER
Here consider the words of Christ. He will say to those on his right
hand; _Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for
you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and ye gave me
meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger and ye took
me in; naked and ye clothed me. I was sick and ye visited me, in prison
and ye came unto me._
_Then shall they answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry,
thirsty, a stranger, naked, sick, or in prison, and ministered thus unto
thee?_
Then shall the King answer and say unto them; _Inasmuch as ye have done
it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me._
And unto the wicked on his left hand he will say; _Depart from me, ye
Cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels.
For I was hungry, thirsty, a stranger, naked, and in prison, and ye
ministered not unto me._
And they shall also answer him and say; _When did we see thee thus and
ministered not unto thee?_
And he will answer them, _Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have not
done it unto one of the least of these, ye did it not to me._
_And these shall depart into everlasting punishment, but the Righteous
into Life Eternal._
SCHOLAR
Loving Master, pray tell me why Christ saith, _What you have done to the
least of these you have done to me; and what you have not done to them,
neither have you done it to me_? And how doth a Man this _so_, as that
he doth it to Christ himself?
MASTER
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