19. But what did it help him? If he has read so much, but cannot attain to any living conviction through all that has been read, he continually resembles Joseph of Arimathea, who probably removes one corpse after the other from the cross, and anoints it and wraps it in white linen. - but the corpse remains a corpse and is always carried to the grave.

20. Let's look at our Magdalena again! She has indeed attended all this action; but she did not wrap the corpse or the word in linen, and laid it not in the grave, but in her loving heart; and when she came to the grave, the stone of doubt was swept away by the power of love. The linens laid well arranged in the tomb, which says: her love has lively arranged the Divine word in her. She no longer found a corpse; but for that she found the Living, Who rose from the grave.

21. What is better: to put the corpse in the grave – or to find the Living outside the grave? - I mean, obviously the second will be better than the first.

22. But why did Magdalene find what Joseph of Arimathea did not find? - Because she has read little but loved a lot; Joseph from Arimathea, however, has read a lot - like Nicodemus, but loved less. Therefore, he had to do with the corpse, but Mary Magdalene with the Living!

23. I think that will be clear too; but in the near future, yet again, a central sun!