1. And if a soul were presented to the vision of God while still having a little left to purge, a great wrong would be done to it, and it would be a greater suffering to it than ten Purgatories.
2. For that pure goodness and supreme justice could not bear it, and it would be an unseemly thing on God's part.
3. And to that soul which saw that God was not yet fully satisfied by it, so that it still lacked even a single blink of an eye of purgation, it would be intolerable; and to remove that little rust, it would sooner cast itself into a thousand Hells (if it could choose them for itself) than remain before the divine presence not yet wholly purified.
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Remember Eternity · remembereternity.org. AI-assisted English translation drafted with SWE-2 Max from the Italian; selected source comparisons and corrections only. No complete independent translation audit or ecclesiastical approval is claimed. Catherine’s teaching was transmitted by her disciples and first printed in 1551. This translation follows the supplied Italian transcription; the introductory note is editorial. No general reuse licence is specified for this modern translation or its source transcription.