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  1  Intr,   0|          writings in their original state has been brought within
  2  Intr,   0|             a more or less complete state, were published at Saragossa
  3  Unic,   3|            He would bring me to the state in which I was to serve
  4  Unic,   3|             of preparing me for the state of life which was best for
  5  Unic,   3|        gradually prepare me for the state in which He was to be pleased
  6  Unic,   3|             was the best and safest state, and so, little by little,
  7  Unic,   4|             many devious ways, to a state so secure and to a house
  8  Unic,   4|           therefore, in a very poor state of health, though I do not
  9  Unic,   5|             me. I continued in this state of blindness, I believe,
 10  Unic,   5|             been in a most perilous state because of his affection
 11  Unic,   5|          day. Altogether I was in a state of great misery.~
 12  Unic,   5|           have been in this serious state for more than three months:
 13  Unic,   5|    occasions and in a more perilous state still. I do not believe
 14  Unic,   6|          four days, I was in such a state that only the Lord can know
 15  Unic,   6|             me, for I was in such a state of distress that I could
 16  Unic,   7|             now reached such a high state of prayer he used not to
 17  Unic,   7|         unworthiness by imagining a state of real virtue. This accounts
 18  Unic,   7|       realized that I was in such a state as to be on the point of
 19  Unic,   9|          was able to live in such a state of torment. God be praised,
 20  Unic,  11|          you have reached so high a state as this, in which you desire
 21  Unic,  11|             living as it is in this state of misery, it cannot do
 22  Unic,  12|    Continues to describe this first state. Tells how far, with the
 23  Unic,  12|                             In this state it can make many acts of
 24  Unic,  12|        suitable for persons in this state, because in it the understanding
 25  Unic,  13|    Continues to describe this first state and gives counsels for dealing
 26  Unic,  13|             have risen to as high a state as they did. His Majesty
 27  Unic,  13|       people who are in the married state and have to live in accordance
 28  Unic,  13|          vocation; but in any other state I should not at all like
 29  Unic,  13|          might have brought me to a state in which these desires were
 30  Unic,  13|        importance.) For there is no state of prayer, however sublime,
 31  Unic,  14|                                This state, in which the soul begins
 32  Unic,  14|            the buckets; but in this state the water is higher and
 33  Unic,  14|             soul more clearly. This state is a recollecting of the
 34  Unic,  14|        which the Lord gives in this state makes the virtues grow much
 35  Unic,  14|          soon as it arrives at this state, it begins to lose its covetousness
 36  Unic,  14|            for souls who reach this state and find themselves alone;
 37  Unic,  14|           be a soul which reaches a state in which Thou dost grant
 38  Unic,  15|            said that, in this first state of recollection and quiet,
 39  Unic,  15|  understanding and memory back to a state of recollection again. For,
 40  Unic,  15|          many souls that reach this state and few that pass beyond
 41  Unic,  15|            the great dignity of its state and the greatness of the
 42  Unic,  15|         favour as to attain to this state to learn to know themselves,
 43  Unic,  15|          this union of the will and state of tranquillity), and the
 44  Unic,  15|            reason has to do in this state is to understand that there
 45  Unic,  15|          itself in so much better a state. Let it make certain acts
 46  Unic,  15|             of them will reach this state, and it may be they will
 47  Unic,  15|                  Thus, when in this state of Quiet, I, who understand
 48  Unic,  15|            in the world. So in this state there is no room for argument
 49  Unic,  15|          able to do so; for, if the state of Quiet is intense, it
 50  Unic,  15|            possible to tell if this state comes from the Spirit of
 51  Unic,  15|           over and we are left in a state of aridity. If it comes
 52  Unic,  15|             reached a more advanced state, and a greater degree of
 53  Unic,  16|          the soul that reaches this state is able to do and the effects
 54  Unic,  16|            for those who reach this state.~
 55  Unic,  16|           Who does everything. This state is a sleep of the faculties,
 56  Unic,  16|        greater than in the previous state, for the water of grace
 57  Unic,  16|           to laugh or to weep. This state is a glorious folly, a heavenly
 58  Unic,  16|            higher than the previous state of prayer; but I confess
 59  Unic,  16|      describe what the soul in this state must do. I was certainly
 60  Unic,  16|             are spoken, during this state, in praise of God, but,
 61  Unic,  16|          aloud, for it is in such a state that it cannot contain itself --
 62  Unic,  16|          cannot contain itself -- a state of delectable disquiet.
 63  Unic,  16|             like when it is in this state! It would fain be all tongue,
 64  Unic,  16|            those who attain to this state! Light, because it is sweet;
 65  Unic,  17|           hindrances caused in this state by the imagination and the
 66  Unic,  17|                             In this state I think it is well, as Your
 67  Unic,  17|          that which belongs to this state, He can do all this and
 68  Unic,  17|         with reading. Those in this state, however, are not wholly
 69  Unic,  17|        attainment to a very restful state of quiet, since it gives
 70  Unic,  17|           so here: the soul in this state is not satisfied by the
 71  Unic,  17|            can set it free. In this state, in short, it is a slave.
 72  Unic,  17|            has himself reached this state and is a man of learning.
 73  Unic,  18|          Lord upon the soul in this state. This chapter is meant for
 74  Unic,  18|          strive to reach this lofty state, which it is possible to
 75  Unic,  18|             last water, for in that state the soul still feels that
 76  Unic,  18|             all, but bliss. In this state of prayer to which we have
 77  Unic,  18|         that they feel; but in this state the soul's rejoining is
 78  Unic,  18|        anything, towards reaching a state of such sublimity.~
 79  Unic,  18|            see. If a person in this state attempts to read, he is
 80  Unic,  18|             of the soul are in this state of suspension, it is a very
 81  Unic,  18|          rejoice together. But this state in which they are completely
 82  Unic,  18|          that comes to pass in this state is so obscure. I can only
 83  Unic,  19|           for few can attain such a state without these), and if it
 84  Unic,  19|            just earth in the virgin state and as full of thorns as
 85  Unic,  19|           find myself in my present state, it is not surprising if
 86  Unic,  19|            a soul should be in this state, it must not trust itself
 87  Unic,  19|             feet as do those in the state which I shall describe later.~
 88  Unic,  19|       unless a soul brought to this state by God completely abandons
 89  Unic,  20|             when he was in the same state of loneliness (except that,
 90  Unic,  20|        seems to be going about in a state of the greatest need, and
 91  Unic,  20|        consciousness, though such a state as that lasts only for a
 92  Unic,  20|          during which it is in that state, the faculties are inactive:
 93  Unic,  20|         what it is, for this is the state in which my soul now continually
 94  Unic,  20|           the deserted and solitary state I am in seems better than
 95  Unic,  20|                    The soul in this state is also tormented because
 96  Unic,  20|     believes it, too, to be a safer state, because it is the way of
 97  Unic,  20|          not be forgotten that this state, in which the Lord is now
 98  Unic,  20|             I said of the preceding state of prayer, it makes itself
 99  Unic,  20|         when He has kept it in this state for a short time, He retains
100  Unic,  20|             finding himself in this state, with the body unable to
101  Unic,  20|             days, and be as if in a state of stupor, so that they
102  Unic,  20|           It sees clearly that this state is in no way due to itself,
103  Unic,  20|          soul which attains to this state neither speaks nor does
104  Unic,  20|           soul had experienced that state of ecstasy, it thought it
105  Unic,  21|        feelings of the soul in this state on its return to life in
106  Unic,  21|   discussion, I remark that in this state there is no need for the
107  Unic,  21|            of the truth! Oh, what a state this would be for kings!
108  Unic,  21|             a blessing would such a state be for one who is more bound
109  Unic,  21|         provided I remain in such a state as not to offend Thee, I
110  Unic,  21|             a soul has reached this state, it has not merely desires
111  Unic,  21|          which finds itself in this state to have to return to intercourse
112  Unic,  21|            for freedom. But in this state it often cries with such
113  Unic,  21|          Lord brings a soul to this state, He gradually communicates
114  Unic,  21|                             In this state of ecstasy occur true revelations,
115  Unic,  22|          the soul cannot reach this state, since the work wrought
116  Unic,  22|             have reached my present state, for I believe it to be
117  Unic,  22|             to remain with Him in a state of recollection. This type
118  Unic,  22|             by those who reach this state and yet do not give themselves
119  Unic,  23|       nearly perfect as his married state permits. His wife, too,
120  Unic,  23|       Considered in relation to his state of life, they were neither
121  Unic,  23|            whole life and spiritual state in the form of a general
122  Unic,  24|         freedom. I remained in that state for nearly two months, doing
123  Unic,  25|            is necessary before this state can be reached, I will explain
124  Unic,  25|           in union during an actual state of rapture, for then, as
125  Unic,  25|             not lost, are in such a state that they can do practically
126  Unic,  25|             Besides being left in a state of great aridity, the soul
127  Unic,  25|         When I was in this terrible state of exhaustion -- for at
128  Unic,  25|                              In the state I was in at that time, I
129  Unic,  26|             of those who reach this state is no longer hidden, as
130  Unic,  27|          given, I think this is the state in which the devil has the
131  Unic,  27|             brought me to so high a state. Reflect that what I am
132  Unic,  27|           the Lord to bring me to a state in which I can enjoy this
133  Unic,  27|           world is not yet in a fit state to bear such perfection.
134  Unic,  28|                                This state of things went on for a
135  Unic,  29|             how often, when in this state, do I remember that verse
136  Unic,  30|          Lord brings anyone to this state he will find no pleasure
137  Unic,  30| unconsciously. For the soul in this state cannot do otherwise than
138  Unic,  30|          souls which attain to this state. Love is continually bubbling
139  Unic,  33|             bring it to its present state. When the project was given
140  Unic,  33|         have brought to an advanced state: he makes them run, not
141  Unic,  33|           of scruple. While in this state, I thought I saw myself
142  Unic,  33|            order to bring it to the state it is now in.274 Blessed
143  Unic,  34|           behave according to their state, which hardly allows them
144  Unic,  34|             to me to know about the state of his soul, for I wished
145  Unic,  34|            no need to do so, for my state of mind was such that I
146  Unic,  34|         raised a soul to so lofty a state in so short a time. It filled
147  Unic,  34|             then my soul, in such a state that it could not endure
148  Unic,  35|         possible for a person in my state of life to go about begging
149  Unic,  35|          Lord, they would live in a state of discontent, and also
150  Unic,  35|           when my confessor saw the state I was in, he told me to
151  Unic,  35|            this plan of living in a state of such strict enclosure
152  Unic,  36|         When I found myself in this state, I went to visit the Most
153  Unic,  36|             ever saw anyone in that state, I should not be alarmed,
154  Unic,  36|         Finally, I was commanded to state my version of the matter
155  Unic,  37|        working within it. In such a state, the soul sees clearly that
156  Unic,  38|           more than an hour in this state, and the Lord had shown
157  Unic,  38|           soul had remained in that state for ever and that I had
158  Unic,  38|           But my soul was in such a state that, as it became lost
159  Unic,  38|             not in itself imply the state of greatest perfection,
160  Unic,  39|             not to be troubled: the state in which I found myself
161  Unic,  39|             that I had been in that state of rapture and bliss for
162  Unic,  40|         bewildered, and almost in a state of frenzy. This, as I say,
163  Unic,  40|           try to pray while in that state they may come to great harm.
164  Unic,  40|            been to some extent in a state of decline. In his hands
165  Unic,  40|            At other times I am in a state in which I do not feel I