1. How their will is disposed toward the works offered in this world in suffrage for them. If the souls in Purgatory could purify themselves by contrition, in an instant they would pay all their debt, so burning an impulse of contrition would come upon them; and this because of the clear light they have of the importance of that impediment which does not let them be joined to their end and their Love, God.
2. And know for certain that, of the payment owed by those souls, not even the smallest farthing is forgiven, such having been established by divine justice; and this is so far as concerns God's part.
3. As for the souls' part, they no longer have any choice of their own, and can no longer see except as much as God wills, nor would they wish for anything else, for so they are established.
4. And if some alms is done for them by those who are in the world, which lessens their time, they can no longer turn with affection to look upon it, except under that most just balance of the divine will, in all this leaving God to act, who pays Himself as it pleases His infinite goodness. And if they could turn to see those alms outside that divine will, it would be a selfhood in them that would take away their sight of the divine will; and that would be a Hell to them.
5. Therefore they remain immovable before all that God gives them, whether of pleasure and contentment or of pain: and never again can they turn to themselves, so intimate are they and so transformed into the will of God; and in everything they content themselves with His most holy ordinance.