2. "Before you read any further, kneel down and devoutly say a prayer. Ask God to help you understand and appreciate this secret, which is really given by him. You must prepare your soul if you would profit from this secret. You may certainly pray that God deliver you from any deception, and that he illumine your mind with a spirit of discernment. Any illumination that comes from God always has a good effect upon the soul. Pray that God give you the grace of discernment, that you may understand what I am about to teach you."
One could take that as DeMontfort saying if you do this you'll see what I see.
The problem with this is that his "prayer" is a misleading one. The implication is if you don't see what DeMontfort does then God hasn't given you the "grace of discernment."
However, this would contradict NT passages about the Holy Spirit being given to all believers as the Helper.
I've read what DeMontfort has written and it's bogus. The lofty elevation he has placed Mary and the attributes he's assigned to her are non-Scriptural.
I think that's a fair conclusion. Perhaps even better is that he may be claiming that if one takes paragraph 2 seriously, one will eventually be able to see how he can say the later things he does.
Regardless one thing is certain: unless and until one does do what is described in paragraph 2, again with a heart desirous of the TRUTH, not with a desire to be "right", one will never really know what the outcome of reading the Saint's writings will be.
In other words unless one actually does do that as described above, one really can't speak with any authority on the authenticity and veracity of his writings there. It's just that simple.
I hear talk talk all the time from many about how the Holy Spirit is the teacher (which He is) of all things well here's an opportunity to put that into action. For anyone reading this: desire the truth over being "right" and He will indeed teach you. In ways you'll never expect.