"The law of the spirit, through Jesus Christ, has freed from sin and from the flesh, by redeeming from original sin, and by cleansing from carnal sins arisen through the foments left over by the first Sin, foments that man does not repress with an acute and heroic will.
However, the law of the spirit has not suppressed the law of free will. Had it done so, there would no longer have been any justice in rewarding the victorious, for everyone would have been without sin, but also without merit of not having wanted to sin.
Free will and the foments left behind by the first Sin are a danger of death for the creature created in divine image and likeness, predestined to grace and glory. However, they are a holy danger that has come and that has been given by the infinite Sanctity and permitted by the infinite Love in order to be able to give with justice to every creature that which he/she has merited with his/her love or disaffection, during the time of the flesh and with the help of the flesh, and with the victory of the spiritual will over the flesh out of love for God and aspiration towards Heaven. Not so to avoid Hell, but only out of an urge of love for the ineffable, unknowable Love which only a life and death in grace, will allow to understand, and know, and possess.
Amongst the crowd of Christians now, and amongst Christian-Catholics, there are many who bear the exterior sign of the Christian like the ancient Pharisees who wore phylacteries on their foreheads and on their wrists, but who then do not have the true sign of the Christian in their hearts, as the Pharisees did not have the true law within their hearts, a rule to those and to these of the true life as the children of God. They have the name and the exterior sign of Christians. However, they do not have Christian life.
Christian life is love. All love. Love gave the commandments to Christians. And the love of Christians makes the true fulfillment of the commands possible. Love proposes and disposes in order to reward. And the love of Christians receives and carries it out in order to merit the reward and to please the Love.
However, love, the movement which comes from the Generator of everything who is God the Creator of all created things, of the creatures of His Will - from the stem of grass to the sun, from the opaque and inert stone to a star shining and flying across the heavens, from the worm to the man whom Grace divinizes, from the animal to the angel - is a spiritual movement, as the purest Spirit is He, who being the infinite Love, has infused it in one with the existence in the creatures inhabiting the Kingdom of Heaven from their creation (the faithful angels) to those who have risen and will rise (beatified spirits) throughout the millenniums.
And love, being a spiritual thing, cannot be tasted and possessed by those in whom the flesh dominates. The flesh usually calls "love" the concupiscent appetite for another or many other fleshes. However, that is not love: that is lechery, lust and concupiscence of the flesh.
They, (the Son of Man, Mary His Mother, and Joseph the Just one), had perfect love, however much can be in a creature and according to his/her merits and holiness. Three different degrees of perfection which shine, separated from the other perfections of the just, from those of John, the virgin apostle of Jesus to those of the just of all times, that is, to the ones of those who walk according to the spirit, a spirit divinized by the love which is still God in man.
These, the separated ones, the segregated ones, sacred to God, possess and taste love. The others: Christians according to the word and not according to the spirit, possess and taste the concupiscence of the flesh which is not love, but the appetite of carnal pleasure. There is an abyss between the first and second ones; the impossibility of an alliance and the incomprehensibility in everything. A bridge is above the abyss, an ascending bridge: the name of God.
The first, with their compassionate love towards their poor brothers, call and hold out their hands to their poor brothers from the highest point of the bridge in order to make them cross the abyss and bring them on the way of the spirit with the holy seduction of that Name who enkindles visions of unspeakable joys.
The second ones, however, either do not welcome the invitation, or after ascending a little, are weighed down by the weight of the flesh, seduced by its fruits that are from the lower part of the bridge which joins Earth with Heaven, they precipitate again towards the palpable, material, and carnal fruits of the flesh, and there they graze by giving up craving for mysterious, spiritual, celestial fruits, insipid for their carnal and corrupt tastes, and which corruption brings to their spirit because "the wisdom of the flesh is death".
The second ones, however, who believe they can serve both God and Mammon by balancing and counter-balancing substantial actions of the flesh with faithful religious practices and rites and by mistakening divine Mercy for foolish goodness which is licit to mock for as long as life is beautiful, health is good, and business and riches are prosperous things, by reducing themselves to an extreme contrition in order to avoid hell, a contrition which is not always permitted of being performed by a God who has been scorned for a whole lifetime, they believe themselves to be "wise" because they know how to enjoy themselves and pray, oh! muddied prayers, a disgusting thing, for He who is the Purest One! This is "wisdom of the flesh" and it is not peace, and it is not life, and neither is it land and wealth of future and eternal peace and celestial life.
These, however, are the Judas-friends of God. Those whom, like the Traitor, pretend to have respect towards God and towards their neighbour, both present in the Man- God Jesus, and who call him "Friend" - He who is always present in His true children, in those who live according to the spirit and who graze and taste only spiritual food - and then betray God and are enemies to Him by disobeying His Law of love and all of the Decalogue, by obstructing His will and by oppressing and crucifying His servants, His voices and His instruments.
Now the end of Judas was not only death of the flesh, but also death of the spirit. He was already a "dead man", a "corpse" of Satan while he still ate the lamb with the Lamb and while the Bread of Life descended within him. Rather, it was correct then, on account of his hypocrisy, that Satan entered into him as the supreme, eternal master. Because God is Truth and God cannot be where there is falsehood, hypocrisy, and false testimony against one who is innocent. Judas was all this. The Bread of Life did not have the power to conquer the insipidity of the carnal fruit and Judas, by sacrilegiously mixing the concupiscent appetite of the flesh with the fruit of the sweetest and holiest Sacrament of love, signed his decree of eternal death.
Because love and hate cannot live together. Because God and Satan cannot be served together. Because there is no forgiveness for sin against Love, a deicidal and fratricidal sin. Because the hypocrite, the liar, and the calumniator cannot enter the Kingdom of Truth.
"Dogs, poisoners, the unchaste, murderers, idolaters, and whoever is fond of and practices lying will be outside of the heavenly Jerusalem." (Apocalypse c. 22, v.15) One poisons and kills now even without any other poison than that of calumny and sorrow given to one's brother. One is an idolater now even if, for an idol, one adores one's own I, by believing it to be perfect, or the idol of another I.
I say that it is easier to save a Disma, sincere in his confession, than a false servant of the Law and of Christ. Because God paternally loves a sinner who repents. However, His goodness rejects whoever turns the gifts of God into a concupiscent fruit and places carnal matters even where there is only divine concern.
And as Jesus rejected the false disciples of whom John speaks in chap. 6 v. 22-72 of his Gospel, so the Father does not like those false Christians, who by honouring Him with exterior forms, in truth oppose Him by criticizing His plans and His servants and judging, as fools, what only time and God Himself will explain; an action or an apparent contradiction that has a reason, and a divine reason for being, and which will be the seal of grace for the servant of God and a condemnation for those who wanted to judge Jesus and judge God with Him.»