“’And enwrapped in such bad faith, he dares to qualify as a slanderer, imposter and ignoramus, the man who only quoted me!

“’But such proceeding is worthy of Friar Rodriguez, who, following his system of confusing a part with the whole, tries to condemn another’s book, and mistakes the rays of the sun for the sun itself, all with the purpose of slandering the author and calling him Freemason.

“’Tell me, Holy Doctor, after what I have told you, who is the real ignoramus, impostor and slanderer?

“’6th.  Instead of accusing others of ignorance, and presuming to know everything, he should be careful, because he has not even read your books, notwithstanding you are his father, and that it is his duty to know what you have said.  Should he have done so, he would neither have written so much nonsense nor would he have shown the shallowness of his knowledge, which, by the way, he derives from some little books, which, to propagate and maintain obscurantism, were published in Cataluna, [8] by Sarda y Salvany.’

“Thus was old Tasio expressing himself, when the voice of the Almighty was heard summoning me to His presence.

“Trembling, I approached, and prostrated myself at His feet.’

“‘Go to Earth,’ said the voice, ’and tell those who call themselves your sons that I, having created millions of suns, around which, thousands of worlds, inhabited by millions of millions of beings, created by my infinite Mercy, gyrate, cannot be an instrument to the fulfilment of a few ungrateful creatures’ passions, simply handfuls of dust carried away by a gust of wind; insignificant particles of the inhabitants of one of my smallest worlds!’

“’Tell them that my Name must not be used to extend the misery or ignorance of their brothers, nor shall they restrain in my Name, intelligence and thought, which I created free.  That they must not commit abuses in my Name, cause a tear, nor a single drop of blood to be shed.  That they must not represent me as being cruel, revengeful, subject to their whims and executor of their will.  Not to represent me, The Fountain of Goodness, as a tyrant, or an unkind Father, pretending that they are the only possessors of Light and Eternal Life.  How?  I, who have given to each being air, light, life and love, that he may be happy, could I deny to one of the most transcendental, true happiness, for the sake of others?  Impious!  Absurd!  Tell them that I, who am All, and apart from whom nothing exists, nor could exist, I have not and cannot have enemies.  Nothing equals me, and no one can oppose my will!

“’Tell them that their enemies are not my enemies; that I have never identified myself with them, and that their maxims are vain, insensible, blasphemous!  Tell them that I pardon error, but punish iniquity; that I will forgive a sin against me, but will prosecute those who should torture an unfortunate.  That being infinitely Powerful, all the sins of all the inhabitants of all the worlds, thousands of times centuplicated, can never dim an atom of my glory.  But the least injury to the poor and oppressed I will punish, for I have not created man to make him unhappy nor the victim of his brothers.  I am the Father of all existent; I know the destiny of every atom; let me love all men, whose miseries and needs I know.  Let each one perform his duty, that I, The God of Mercy, know my own will.’