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LUCIFER TO THE DOUBLE: I see you at Mary's side; what lives in your soul will not be able to leave her. My spiritual adversaries have implanted strong impulses in your being — which draw you to her; but they have well ensnared your spiritual eye with deception; so it seems to you that you are connected to her in spirit = that gives me strength for my work = you will not want to break the bonds with Mary, for you will not want to kill yourself — you will reinterpret her in a spiritual sense, and thus you will be lost to me —
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