266. The lover saw the secrets of his beloved by diversity, concordance, which revealed to him plurality, unity in his beloved, for the greater suitability of essence without conflict. 267. The lover was told that if corruption, which is against being inasmuch as it is against generation, which is against no-being, were eternally corrupting the corrupted, it would be impossible for either no-being or end to agree with corruption or the corrupted. Whereby, through these words, the lover saw in his beloved eternal generation. 268. If falsehood were that through which the lover can better love his beloved, then truth would be the reason why the lover cannot love his beloved best; and this being the case, failure of the major and of thruth would follow in the beloved, and in him there would be concordance of falsehood and the minor. 269. The lover praised his beloved, and he said that inasmuch as his beloved has the greatest possibility of perfection, and the greatest impossibility of imperfection, it suits his beloved to be simple, pure realization in essence and in operation. Whereby, while the lover was praising his beloved in this way, the trinity of his beloved was being revealed to him. 270. The lover saw in the numbers one or three a greater concordance than in other numbers, because every corporal form came from no-being to being through the above said numbers. And hence the lover watched the unity and the trinity of his beloved by means of the greater concordance of number. 271. The lover praised the power, the knowledge, and the will of his beloved, which had created everything except for sin; which sin would not exist without the power, the knowledge and the will of his beloved; which sin is not brought about by neither the power, nor the knowledge, nor the will of his beloved. 272. The lover praised and loved his beloved for having created him and given everything to him; and he praised and loved him because he was pleased to have taken his resemblance and his nature. And one should ask which of these acts of praise and love has the greatest perfection. 273. The lover was tempted by love with his wisdom, and was asked if the beloved was loving him the most by taking his nature, or by recreating him. And the lover was puzzled, till he answered that recreation was needed to avoid misfortune, and incarnation was needed to give his blessing. And from the answer another question arose: which one the greatest love was. 274. The lover went asking for alms by the doorsteps to remind the love of his beloved to his servants, and to make use of humility, poverty and patience, which are pleasant to his beloved. 275. The lover was asked for forgiveness for the love of his beloved; and the lover not only forgave, but he gave himself and his estate as well. 276. With tears in his eyes the lover narrated the passion and the pain that his beloved endured for his love; and with sadness and thoughts, he wrote the words he was uttering; and with grace and hopefulness, he was comforted. 277. The beloved and love came to see the lover, who was sleeping. The beloved called his lover, and love awoke him. And the lover obeyed love, and he answered to his beloved. 278. The lover was nourished by his beloved to love; and love taught him to confront danger, and patience educated him to sustain hardship for the love of that one to whom he had given himself as servant. 279. The beloved asked the people if they had seen his lover, and they asked him for the qualities of his lover; and the beloved said that his lover was bold, fearful, wealthy and poor, joyous, sad, thoughtful, and that he grieved every day for his love. 280. And the lover was asked if he wanted to sell his wish; and he answered he had sold it to his beloved for a kind of money that could buy all the world. 281. - Do pray, you crazy one, and speak words about your beloved. Do cry out, do fast! The lover renounced the world, and he went searching for his beloved with love, and he praised him in those places where he was dishonored. 282. The lover built and worked on a beautiful city where his beloved would dwell. With love, thoughts, plants, cries and sorrows, he constructed it; and with pleasure, hopefulness, devotion, he adorned it; and with faith, justice, caution, fortitude, temperance, he garnished it. 283. The lover drank love in the fountain of his beloved, in which the beloved washed his lover's feet, who has often forgotten and neglected his principles; whereby the world is in failure. 284. - Tell me, fool: what is sin? He replied: - It is intention reversed and turned against the final intention and reason for which my beloved has created everything. 285. The lover saw that the world is created on account that eternity is better suited to his beloved, who is infinite essence in greatness and in all perfection, than with the world, which is of finite quantity. And therefore, in the justice of his beloved, the lover saw that his beloved's eternity must prevail over time and over finite quantity. 286. The lover defended his beloved from those who said the world is eternal by saying that his beloved would not have perfect justice if he did not deliver to each soul its body, to which body neither place nor prime matter would be enough; and the world would not be directed toward one end only if it were eternal; and if it were not directed toward one end, perfection of will and knowledge would fail in his beloved. 287. - Tell me, you fool: what gives you the knowledge that the catholic faith is true, and the beliefs of the jews and the moors is in falsehood and error? He replied: - Through the ten conditions of the Book of the Gentle and the three wise men . 288. - Tell me, fool one: what does wisdom start from? He replied: - From faith and devotion, which are a ladder where intelligence climbs on to understand the secrets of my beloved. - And how about faith and devotion, where do they start from? He replied: - From my beloved, who enlightens faith and warms up devotion. 289. The lover was asked which one was greater: possibility or impossibility. He replied that possibility is greater in creation, and impossibility in his beloved; because possibility and potentiality are concordant, and so are impossibility and actuality. 290. - Tell me, fool one: which one is greater, difference or concordance? He replied that, except in his beloved, difference was greater in plurality, and concordance in unity, but in his beloved they are equal in difference and unity. 291. - Tell me, loving one: what is worthiness? He answered that it is the opposite of this world's worth, which is desired by the false, vain lovers, who wish to be worthy while possessing worthlessness, and to be persecutors of worthiness. 292. - Tell me, fool one: have you seen any man who is mad? He replied he had seen a bishop who had in his table many cups, bowls and silver cutlery, and who had in his bedroom many robes and a great bed, and in his chests a lot of money; and at the door of his palace there were but few paupers. 293. - Fool one: do you know what vileness is? - Vile thoughts. - And what is loyalty ? - It is fear of my beloved, born from charity and shyness, which is afraid of the blame of the people. - And what are honorings? He replied: - To meditate of my beloved, and to wish and pray for his honorings. 294. The lover was altered and was led to impatience by the trouble and tribulations he was sustaining for love; and the beloved reprimanded him with his honorings and his promises, by saying that whoever is altered by either setbacks or bliss knows little of love. The lover cried and repented, and he prayed to his beloved to deliver love to him. 295. - Fool one, tell me: what is love? He replied that love is that thing that places the free ones into servitude and gives freedom to the servants. And it was wondered which one love is closest to: freedom, or servitude. 296. The beloved was calling his lover, and he answered him saying: - What is it that pleases you, my beloved, you who are eyes of my eyes, and thought of my thoughts, and fulfillment of my fulfillments, and love of my loving acts, and even beginning of my beginnings? 297. - Beloved - the lover said -, I go to you and I go in you, for you are calling me. I go to contemplate contemplation, by contemplation of your contemplation. I am in your virtue, and I come with your virtue, whereby I obtain virtue. I greet you in your greeting, which is my greeting in your greeting, from which I expect a lasting greeting in blessing of your blessing, in which I am blessed in my blessing. 298. You are high, my beloved, in your highness, to which you exalt my will, which is exalted in your exalting with your highness, which exalts in my remembrance my understanding, which is exalted in your exalting to come to know your principles, so that its love may be exalted by the will and memory may have it in high remembrance. 299. - You are, beloved, glory of my glory, and with your glory and in glory you give glory to my glory, which is glorious of your glory. And for this glory of yours, the trouble and grief that came to me to honor your glory are equally glorious to me as the pleasure and thoughts, that come to me from your glory. 300. - Beloved: in the prison of love you are holding me in love with your love, which has enamored me of your love, for your love and in your love. Because you are nothing but love, in which you make be alone and in the company of your love and your honorings. Because you are alone in me being alone, me lonely with my thoughts, like your own solitude, which is alone in honors and is the only one whose values I praise and honor without fear of the misunderstandings that do not have you alone in their love. 301. You are solace, my beloved, of solace; because I console my thoughts in your solace, which is solace and comfort of my sorrows and my tribulations, which are distressed in your solace when you do not console the ignorant with your solace, and when you do not more strongly engage those knowledgeable of your solace to honor your principles. 302. The lover complained to his lord about his beloved, and to his beloved about his lord. The lord and the beloved said: - Who is driving separation into us, we who are only one? The lover answered, and said it was grace from the lord and tribulation from the beloved. 303. The lover was in danger in the great sea of love, and he trusted his beloved, who came to his rescue with tribulations, thoughts, tears and plants, sighs and sorrows, since the sea was one of love and of honoring his principles. 304. The lover rejoiced in the existence of his beloved because through his being all beings are realised, and sustained, and bound, and subdued to honor and to serve the being of their beloved, who cannot be pleased, blamed, lessened or grown by any other being. 305. - Beloved: in your magnificence you magnify my desires, my thoughts and my troubles; for your magnificence is so great, that everything that has remembrance, understanding and pleasure from you is great; and your greatness belittles everything that is against your principles and commands. 306. - My beloved is eternally begun, and has begun and will begin eternally; and he does not begin nor he began nor will begin eternally. And these beginnings are not contradiction in my beloved, because it is eternal, and he includes unity and trinity. 307. - My beloved is one, and in his unity my will and my thoughts and my loving acts are united; and the unity of my beloved encompasses all unity and all plurality; and the plurality that is in my beloved encompasses all unity and all plurality. 308. - Supreme goodness is the goodness of my beloved, who is goodness of my goodness; for my beloved is goodness without any other good, for were he not, my goodness would be of another supreme good. And since it is not, let all of my goodness spent in this life be dedicated to honor the supreme good, as it should. 309. - Even though you know me, beloved, a sinner, you make yourself merciful and forgiving. And because what you know in yourself is better than myself, thereby the better I come to know forgiveness and love in you the more you let me know contrition, and grief, and desire to encounter death to praise your worth. 310. - Your power, my beloved, may save me by graciousness, piety and forgiveness, and may condemn me by justice and by guilt in my mistakes. Let your power fulfill your will in me; for everything is plenitude, whether you give me salvation or damnation. 311. - Beloved: truth visits the construction of my heart, and raises water to my eyes because she is loved by my willpower; and since your truth is supreme, truth lifts my will to honor your principles, and lowers it to dislike my failings. 312. That which my beloved was not in was never true, and false is that which my beloved is not in, and false will be that which my beloved will not be in. And therefore everything that will be, or was, or is, must be truth if my beloved is there; and hence, false is the one who is in some truth where my beloved is not, with no contradiction being implied. 313. The beloved created and the lover destroyed. The beloved judged, the lover cried. The beloved recreated, and he glorified the lover. The beloved finished his operation, and the lover remained eternally in the company of his beloved. 314. Along the paths for vegetating, and for feeling, imagination, understanding, willingness, the lover went searching for his beloved; and in those paths the lover endured danger and sorrow for his beloved to exalt his intelligence and willpower to his beloved, who wants his lovers to understand and love him highly. 315. The lover is moved to being by the perfection of his beloved, and he is moved to no-being by his enfeeblement. And hence one wonders which of the two movements naturally holds the greatest power in the lover. 316. - You have placed me, my beloved, between my wrong and your goodness. Let there be on your part piety, mercy, patience, humility and forgiveness, help and healing; let there be on my part contrition, perseverance, remembrance, with sighs, tears and weeping coming from your holy passion. 317. - Beloved, you who makes me love: if you are not helping me, why did you want to create me ? And why did you endure so much grief for me, and bear so severe a passion ? Since you have helped me to rise so much, please help me, my beloved, to come down, to remember, to despise my offences and my failures, so that my thoughts may better rise to desire, to honor, to praise your worth. 318. - You have made my will free to love your honor, and to undervalue your worth, so that you may multiply your love in my will. 319. - By means of this freedom you have put, my beloved, my willpower in danger. Beloved: in this danger you ought to remember your lover, who obtains from his free will the servitude to praise your honorings and to multiply in his heart sorrows and weepings. 320. - Beloved: no guilt or failing in your lover ever came from you, nor did any fulfillment reach your lover without your gift and forgiveness. Therefore, since the lover is possessed of you in this way, do not forget him in his trouble and endangerement. 321. - Beloved, you who are called man and God in one name! In that name, Jesus Christ, my will wants you to be man of God; and if you, beloved, have so much honored your lover without his merit in the way he calls and wishes your name, why do you not honor so many ignorant men who have not knowingly been so guilty toward your name, Jesus Christ, as your lover has been ? 322. The lover was crying, and he spoke to his beloved in these words: - Beloved, you were never mean or greedy toward your lover in giving him being, in recreating him, or in providing many creatures to his service. So how could you, my beloved who are supreme freedom, ever be mean to your lover in giving him weepings, thoughts, sorrows, wiseness and love to honor your glory ? Therefore, my beloved, your lover asks you for a long life, so he may receive from you many of the above said gifts. 323. - Beloved: if you help the just men from their mortal enemies, help to multiply my thoughts to desire your honorings; and if you help the unjust men to recover justice, help your lover to sacrifice his will for your praising, and to sacrifice his body to be testimony of love by way of martyrdom. 324. - There is no difference in my beloved between humbleness, the humble one, and the humbling one, for everything is humbleness in pure reality. And therefore the lover rebukes pride, who wants to raise to their beloved those who have been so greatly honored by my beloved's humility and who have been dressed up by pride in hipocrisy, vileness, vanity. 325. Humility humbled the beloved down to the lover, by contrition; and it was done by devotion too. And it is questioned in which of the two the beloved was most strongly humbled down to the lover. 326. The beloved, through his perfection, had mercy for his lover, as well as for the needs of his lover. And it was wondered for which of the two reasons the beloved most strongly forgave the faults of his lover. 327. Our Lady and the angels and the saints prayed of glory to my beloved; and when I remembered the error the world is in because of ignorance, I remembered well the great justice of my beloved and the great ignorance of his enemies. 328. The lover raised the power of his soul through a ladder of humanity to glorify the divine nature; and through the divine nature he descended the power of his soul to glorify in the human nature of his beloved. 329. The narrower the paths the lover goes on towards his beloved, the wider love is; and the narrower love is, the wider the paths are. And thereby, the lover experiences in every way for his beloved friendship and hardship, and suffering and pleasure and consolation. 330. Love comes out of love, and thoughts out of sorrows, and plants out of sorrows, and love comes into love, and thoughts into plants, and sorrows into sighs. And the beloved watches his lover, who for his love goes throught all these tribulations. 331. The desires and remembrances of the lover stayed up at night and made festivals and pilgrimages for the nobleties of his beloved, and furnished shape to the lover, and filled his intelligence with brilliance, for which willpower multiplied his love. 332. With his imagination, the lover painted and formed the shapes of his beloved in the bodily things, and with his intelligence he polished them in the spiritual things, and with willpower he adored them in all creatures. 333. The lover bought one day of crying for another day of thoughts, and he sold one day of love for another day of tribulations; and his love and his thoughts were multiplied. 334. The lover was in a strange land, and he forgot his beloved, and he yearned for his lord and for his wife and infants and his friends. But he returned to remember his beloved, in order to be comforted and that his strangeness would not give him yearning or melancholy. 335. The lover was hearing words from his beloved which his intelligence saw him in, because his willpower felt pleasure in that hearing; and his memory remembered the virtues of his beloved, and his promises. 336. The lover was hearing blaming of his beloved, and in this blaming his intelligence saw the justice and the patience of his beloved, for justice punished the blamers, and patience awaited them to contrition, repentance. This is why it is wondered in which of the two the lover believed the most. 337. The lover was sick, and he made his will with advice from his beloved. Guilt and harm he bequeathed to repentance, penitence; and temporal desire he bequeathed to disdain; to his eyes he bequeathed crying, and to his hearth sighs and love; and to his intelligence he bequeathed the forms of his beloved; and to his memory the passion that his beloved bears for his love; and to his business he bequeathed the correction of the infidels, who go ignorantly to their ruin. 338. The lover smelt flowers, and he remembered the stench of the rich and miserly, and of the lustful, and of the unwise arrogant. The lover tasted sweets, and he perceived the bitterness in the temporal possessions, and in the entering and exiting from this world. The lover felt temporal pleasure, and intelligence understood the brief passage through this world and the lasting torments that are brought about by the delights that are nice in this world. 339. The lover bore hunger, thirst, heat and cold, poverty, nakedness, illness, tribulation; and he would have been finished if he had not remembered his beloved, who healed him with hopefulness, remembering, and through the renouncement of this world, and through the neglect of people's blame. 340. The lover's bed was between trouble and pleasure: with pleasure he fell asleep, and with trouble he woke up. And one wonders which one of these two the lover's bed is closest to. 341. The lover fell asleep in rage, for he feared people's blame; and he woke up in patience, when he remembered prasings to his beloved. And it is wondered who the lover felt most ashamed of: his beloved, or the people. 342. The lover reflected about death, and he was fearful until he remembered the city of his beloved, for which death and love are gates and entrance. 343. The lover complained to his beloved of the temptations that were coming to him every day to trouble his thoughts. And the beloved replied to him saying that temptations are opportunities to resort with his memory to remember God and love his honored demeanor. 344. The lover lost a jewel that he very much liked; and he was distressed until his beloved posed him the question of which thing was the most profitable to him: the jewel he had, or the patience he drew from the work of his beloved. 345. The lover was sleeping while reflecting on the trouble and the impediments he ran into to serve his beloved, and he feared that his work would die out because of those impediments. But the beloved sent him consciousness, which awoke him in his merit and in the power of his beloved. 346. The lover had to go on long, tough, harsh journeys; and it was time for him to go on those and to carry the large bundle that love compels her lovers to carry. And therefore the lover relieved his soul from temporal thoughts and pleasures, so that the body could carry the load more lightly and the soul would go through those journeys in the company of his beloved. 347. Wrong things were being said one day next to the lover of his beloved, without the lover answering or excusing his beloved. And it is asked which one is the most guilty: the men who blamed the beloved, or the lover who kept quiet and did not excuse his beloved. 348. While contemplating his beloved, the lover grew subtler in his intelligence, and he fell in love in his willpower. And one wonders which of these two made the lover's memory subtler in the strongest way in remembering his beloved. 349. With fervor and awe, the lover went along his journey to honor his beloved: he was carried by fervor, and preserved by awe. As the lover was going in this way, he ran across sighs and cryings, who brought greetings from his beloved. And it is wondered which of the four the lover was best comforted by in his beloved. 350. The lover was watching himself so as to be the mirror where he could see his beloved, and he was watching his beloved so as he were the mirror where he could have knowledge of himself. And it is wondered which of the two mirrors his understanding was closest to. 351. Theology and Philosophy, Medicine and Law ran across the lover, who asked them again if they had seen his beloved. Theology cried, Philosophy doubted, Medicine and Law rejoiced. And it is wondered what each of the four signs mean to the lover who is searching his beloved. 352. Anguished and tearful, the lover went in search of his beloved through sensuous paths and intellectual routes. And it is wondered which of these two ways he first went into as he was searching his beloved, and in which the beloved showed himself most decisively to the lover. 353. On the day of the final judgement, the beloved will ask everyone to sort out on one side that which he has been given in this world, and to place on the other that which he has given to the world, to let it be seen how he has been heartily loved and which of the two gifts is the most noble and of the largest quantity. 354. The lover's willpower loved herself, and intelligence asked her if she was most similar to her beloved in loving herself or in loving her beloved, for her beloved loves himself better than anything else. And this is why it is wondered according to which answer willpower could reply to intelligence most truthfully. 355. - Tell me, fool one: which is the greatest and most noble love that is in any creature ? He replied: - That which is one with the creator. - Why? - Because the creator has nothing out of which he can make a more noble creature. 356. One day, the lover was in prayer and he felt his eyes were not crying; and to be able to cry, he sent out his thoughts to think about money, women, children, food, and vanity; and he found in his understanding that each of these things have more people as their servants than his beloved does. And thereby his eyes cried and his soul was in sadness and pain. 357. The lover was going thoughtful in his beloved, and he met along his way large numbers of people and groups who asked him of any news; and since he found pleasure in his beloved, the lover did not respond to what he was being asked and he said he did not want to answer their words so that he was not moved away from his beloved. 358. The lover was covered inside and outside by love, and he went searching for his beloved. Love said to him: - Lover, where are you going ? He replied: - I am going to my beloved so that you may become greater. 359. - Tell me, fool one: what is religion ? He replied: - Cleanness of thought, and wishing to die to honor my beloved, and renouncing to the world so that there is no encumbrance to contemplate it and to tell the truth about its honorings. 360. - Tell me, fool one: what are trouble, laments, sighs, weepings, tribulations, danger, in the lover ? He answered: - Pleasure from the beloved. - Why ? - So that the beloved is better loved, and the lover better rewarded. 361. The lover was asked which one love was greatest in: the lover who lived, or the lover who died. He replied it was in the lover who died. - Why ? - Because it can be no greater in the lover who dies for love, and it can be greater in the lover who lives for love. 362. Two lovers met each other; one displayed his beloved, the other one understood him. And it was questioned which one was closest to his beloved. And through the solution, the lover came to know the proof of trinity. 363. - Tell me, fool one: why do you speak so subtly? He answered: - To bring about an opportunity to exalt intelligence to the nobilities of my beloved, and to bring more men to honor, love and serve my beloved. 364. The lover got drunk from wine, who remembered, understood, and loved the beloved. That wine soaked the beloved with his cryings and with his lover's tears. 365. Love was arousing and warming up the lover in the remembrance of his beloved; and the beloved cooled him down through tears and cryings, and by forgetting the desires of this world, and by renouncing to vain honorings. And his loving acts grew when the lover remembered who he was sustaining grief and tribulations for, and who the mundane men sustained trouble and persecution for. 366. - Tell me, fool one: what is this world ? He replied: - It is prison of the lovers and servers of my beloved. - And who places them in prison ? He replied: - Consciousness, love, fear, renunciation, contriction, and the company of evil people; and it is work without reward, whereby punishment is found. Since Blanquerna had to treat on the book of the Art of Contemplation , he decided to finish the Book of the Lover and the Beloved . Which book is finished to the glory and praising of God our Lord.