The Divine Spirit says:
“I wounded your intellect with the statement ‘Immortality resides in intimate union with Wisdom’ (Wisdom 8:17). I shall now explain this truth to you.
“Let us compare the soul to just any creature and Wisdom, to a powerful king. The creature, as long as she is only a subject of that king, or just a being the king sees when going on a journey over the earth, is nothing but a creature with no particular distinction. Today content with her little well-being, tomorrow trembling with fear of excessive power, the day after busying herself with matters of slight value, and the following day weeping over a loss in her goods. The king is always the same: rich, powerful, and secure. But the poor creature is never secure. But if that king, from the height of his coach, lets his gaze fall upon the creature and, seeing that she is lovable in her poverty, feels love for her and says, ‘I want to take her with me, instruct her so she will not cut a poor figure at my side, and then, when she has become learned in the art of the kingdom, make her my wife,’ and does so, doesn’t this soul, by such a choice, acquire the gifts of power and wealth and security of her husband-king?
“When Wisdom says to a soul, ‘Come. You are mine,’ and instructs her in his truths and chooses her as his consort, giving himself in continual loving embraces, revealing himself in all his sublime perfection on the marriage bed, opening all his coffers and saying, ‘Take my gems - they exist to adorn you,’ and handing her the chalice of vivifying wine which grants wholeness and eternal life, saying, ‘Drink from my cup in order to be preserved from corruption and death,’ then the soul passes from subjection to union, and, if faithful to this election, she acquires immortality. True immortality, not the relative one given by men to men.
“How many who in their time regarded themselves as and were called ‘immortal’ are now among the ‘unknown’ dead, even in terms of remembrance! Most men do not even know they lived, and, among those who know them by name, who knows their works with precision? An exiguous minority. True immortality is that known to God and his blessed ones. It is that which will be proclaimed on the day of the Last Judgment in the sight of the resurrected multitude. It is that which is conquered by union with Wisdom. With Me. For those who live with Me and love Me, adorn themselves with my gems, and drink my waters walk in the ways of holiness and conquer immortality by conquering the Kingdom of God.
“I won’t leave you. If the repose of the Son of God is in the hearts that love Him, my joy is to remain close to those who love Me. The Love feeding on love, who feels He is sinking into his love because He can pour the waves of his goodness into too few, expands, full and constant like a great perennial river, over the souls faithful to Him. He embraces them with his very sweet waves, lifts them up, and transports them, bearing them into the great sea of the knowledge of God as far as the gulf of blessedness: to the breast of the Eternal Father.
“Be good. Remain at peace. The flower on the wave does not offer resistance. It sails into the azure wherein it quenches its thirst, shining in the sunbeams because of the water adorning it, and heads into open sea. Go in the same way. I bless you.”