Now this blessed and becoming bride enter the last and longest night which will endure until she will walk through the gates of the Celestial City in order to dwell there forever in glory at the Throne of grace.

On the diagram above we see these three nights displayed. We have already discussed the two first or the Night of the senses and the Night of the powers or spirit. As a becoming queen in the live of grace and true bride of her Beloved the lesson the Holy Spirit gives her here when see reads this eight chapter in the Book of Life in the illumination of the eight jewel in the charitable knowledge which the cherubim share with her is the constitution or Magna Charta of the Kingdom of her becoming husband – His Majesty – established on earth: THE EIGHT BEATITUDES. The bride has thus in the beneficence of her virtues become a theological being able to live in God’s theocracy. 

(1). She is poor in spirit (Mt 5. 3) and thus blessed because she has ascended Mount Purity, the same mountain which Jesus Himself ascended with His disciples to reveal to them His glory (Mt 17. 1-8). She listened attentively when He preached His sermon on this mountain in the silence of her heart and as all the saints she has lost herself in this deepest ground of her being which is the source of all the Beatitudes.  Thus she lives in peaceful endurance in the “union of heart and soul” (Ac 4. 32) and knows that all of God’s gifts – both material and spiritual – are intended in accordance with God’s constitution of theocracy to be “distributed to any who might be in need.” She didn’t reject the stone which the builders rejected who has become her corner stone of justice (see Ac 4. 11).
   She knows by heart that Jesus meant actual poverty for His disciples (Mt 6. 25; 9. 9; 19. 21; Lk 5. 1; 12. 33; Mk 10. 28; Ac 2. 32 and 2. 42)  and set the example of poverty as the Son of man had “nowhere to lay his head (Mt 8, 20; Lk 2. 7). She has emptied her own dwelling of all the trash of sensuous greediness and is free and poor in her rest in God. She is poor against her own will and desires and thus nothing can hinder her in loving God. Thus she has a continuous intercourse with the source of her own being and walks secure and in the purity of her heart she would immediately discern all hindrances to this intercourse with her Bridegroom and return speedily to Him as no traces of pride can be found in her.

(2). She is gentle (Mt 5. 4) and thus blessed and undemanding on her own behalf because her own happiness is the same as God’s and she desires with burning love to follow the only movement of the Sacred Heart: to abolish all sins and lead the souls to God, His Father. Her peaceful endurance enkindles kindness to all living beings and the love of the charity which she carries within in the lamps of her heart as a precious oil as a wise virgin soul. Thus she can behold when her Bridegroom comes and goes out to meet Him (see Mt 25. 6). Thus all traces of the second mortal sin or the envy have been uprooted in herbecause she heals all wounded and inflected by the oil of mercy which burns in her heart.

(3). She is mournful (Mt 5. 5) and thus blessed while in this earthly tabernacle as a pilgrim and desires with all her heart that all men will know her Beloved and turn to Him. When she sees the injustice and erroneous disorder prevailing on earth she beseech God to let His gracious gifts stream forth like a river and remove from the face of the earth all anger, the third mortal sin, which has been uprooted in herself in the silence of her heart. 

(4). She hungers and thirsts for uprightness (Mt 5. 6) and is thus blessed because her love has been put in order under the banner of charity. She knows by her own experience that “return” to God’s justice is to return to her own true essence or approach God in true self-knowledge. Thus all remains of the fourth mortal sin or sloth have been uprooted in her as she knows that sloth and idleness is indifference regarding the dominance of God’s glory which is only possessed in righteousness and preserved in the purity of the heart.

(5). She is merciful (Mt 5. 7) and thus blessed because she knows that it is because of ignorance and weakness of the human nature that the enemy of our salvation has separated human beings from God. Thus she doesn’t recedes from works of mercy and busies herself with the miseries of her fellow human beings as her brothers and sisters and children of their heavenly Father. Thus all remains of the fifth mortal sin have been uprooted in her or the avarice. Thus she is generous to all human beings and offer her intercessions continuously on their behalf.

(6). She is pure in heart (Mt 5. 8) and thus blessed as she followed her new habits in the live of grace in the operations of the infused virtues which made her actions holy. The purity of the heart is threefold: purity of the spirit, purity of the soul and purity of the body. By this threefold purity all the remains of the sixth mortal sin or the gluttony have been uprooted in her. The purity of the spirit is nothing but to cleave to God and to praise His glory by growth in the infused virtues. The purity of the soul is nothing but to reject all incitements and evil inclinations appearing in the powers and faculties of the soul. The purity of the body is to reject all gluttony or impurity and honor the commandments and will of God.

(7). She is peacemaker (Mt 5. 9) and thus blessed as all remains of the seventh mortal sin or the lust have been uprooted in her. The opposite of the vice of lust is the virtue of sobriety or temperance. Firstly she has made peace with her Lord and Creator and nothing can disturb this peace as He is the source and cause of all peace. It is here where all everlasting peace is found, “I promise you peace in this place” (Jr 14. 13).
   Secondly she has made peace with herself within and all her powers and faculties are subjects of the Spirit of Life and don’t hinder any work which God requires of her. Thirdly she has quenched the fiery darts of the enemy of her salvation which had deprived her of her spiritual peace if she had not dedicated herself to the prayer. Thus she has bound him with the fiery bands of her prayers. Her God is the living God of unity and peace and thus she is given a share in His peace and this peace streams from God through her as a channel to other human beings as a living Tetramorph.

(8). She is persecuted (Mt 5. 10) and thus blessed because she has become a true reflection of the Kingdom of her heavenly Father on earth which has nothing in common with the kingdom of the masters of darkness and wages thus continuously warfare against the enemy of salvation. She follows the Way of the Cross and is ready to offer her live thousand times for her Beloved’s sake. She bears the Cross witness and as a martyr offers her own life as a ransom and sweet offering to God on behalf of other human beings and is persecuted because the world of the flesh senses that she is its own judgment.

All the eighth Beatitudes of the gospel shine in  their brightness in her spiritual breastplate as their focal point. Thus she is abused (Mt 5. 11) and thus blessed and mocked at because she speaks the truth courageously and tells the “glory of the flesh” openly that its scale of value judgment is a lie and from the “Prince of this world” (Jn 12. 31) who is “liar” (Jn 8. 44). This truth became a death sentence for her Archetype on earth and offers no compromises because the Ways are only two: the Way of Life and the Way of Death and no soul can walk them both simultaneously.

In this beauty the King of Life and becoming husband leads her into the bridal chamber. And His Majesty says,