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  1  Pref,   2     |          can be sure whether some vision is of Christ or of a saint:~
  2  Outl,   0     |            L XXVIII) an imaginary vision of Christ (usually dated
  3  Intr,   0     |         foretaste of the Beatific Vision of the life to come. But,
  4  Unic,   7     |         However, just because the vision did not please me, I forced
  5  Unic,  10     |            This was in no sense a vision: I believe it is called
  6  Unic,  19     |          It seems to have a clear vision of the reward and believes
  7  Unic,  20     |          for it sees it by direct vision, and, willy-nilly, shuts
  8  Unic,  21     |         this life we have a clear vision of the reward and the gain
  9  Unic,  25     |           that this was a genuine vision, as I have since realized
 10  Unic,  25     |          had not yet had a single vision -- these words alone were
 11  Unic,  26(209)|         this, her first imaginary vision (see n. 221) cannot have
 12  Unic,  27     |         use of words. Describes a vision and a great favour, not
 13  Unic,  27     |         this was not an imaginary vision,210 I could not discern
 14  Unic,  27(210)|               On various types of vision, see Vol. II, p. 279, n.]~
 15  Unic,  27     |           describing this kind of vision, there is no comparison
 16  Unic,  27     |           of the highest kinds of vision possible. This was told
 17  Unic,  27     |       same thing. Of all kinds of vision it is that in which the
 18  Unic,  27     |    because it is not an imaginary vision, how can I know and affirm
 19  Unic,  27     |           prayer. But it is not a vision. The soul recognizes the
 20  Unic,  27     |           presence felt: but in a vision the soul distinctly sees
 21  Unic,  27     |          after the manner of this vision aforementioned. Consider
 22  Unic,  27     |          Lord expounds to me some vision which His Majesty is pleased
 23  Unic,  27     |                      This kind of vision and this kind of language
 24  Unic,  27     |  necessary to explain the kind of vision and favour which God bestows
 25  Unic,  28     |        the nature of an imaginary vision. Enumerates the important
 26  Unic,  28     |      though only a few, with that vision continually in my mind,
 27  Unic,  28     |           complete? Although this vision is imaginary, I never saw
 28  Unic,  28     |        never saw it, or any other vision, with the eyes of the body,
 29  Unic,  28     |       than I say that the type of vision already described222 is
 30  Unic,  28     |         it. And no sooner had the vision faded -- the very moment,
 31  Unic,  28     |           I had told him what the vision really looked like to me
 32  Unic,  28(222)|            I.e., the intellectual vision. By "this", of course, is
 33  Unic,  28(222)|            is meant the imaginary vision.]~
 34  Unic,  28     |       such light, enters into the vision: on the contrary, it is
 35  Unic,  28     | indistinctness, I would think the vision was an image, though it
 36  Unic,  28     |        greatness and majesty, the vision has such exceeding great
 37  Unic,  28     |         the fruition of which the vision of that Divine Presence
 38  Unic,  28     |          true that afterwards the vision is forgotten, the majesty
 39  Unic,  28     |         though the former type of vision which, as I said, reveals
 40  Unic,  28     |     within it. These two kinds of vision almost invariably occur
 41  Unic,  28     |                              This vision is to be very highly esteemed,
 42  Unic,  28     |   counterfeit the glory which the vision has when it comes from God.
 43  Unic,  28     |        the effects of the genuine vision that the soul has experienced;
 44  Unic,  28     |        very different from a true vision that I think, even if a
 45  Unic,  28     |     course, who has had a genuine vision from God will recognize
 46  Unic,  28     |           shall now say. If, in a vision, the representation proceeded
 47  Unic,  28     |         which are produced when a vision is of God, or, indeed, any
 48  Unic,  28     |     exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul:
 49  Unic,  28     |         me; for, whenever I had a vision involving a new experience,
 50  Unic,  29     |          reasons why this kind of vision cannot be the work of the
 51  Unic,  29     |            But with regard to the vision which we are discussing
 52  Unic,  29     |            if I tried, I lost the vision altogether. Though I sometimes
 53  Unic,  29     |           it loses this beauteous vision in order to have the greater
 54  Unic,  29     |         or not wanting to see the vision. It is clear that the Lord
 55  Unic,  29(225)|            If the first imaginary vision occurred on January 25,
 56  Unic,  29(225)|        correct. To date the first vision in January 1558 would bring
 57  Unic,  29     |        the Cross whenever I had a vision, and to snap my fingers
 58  Unic,  29     |           protect me and take the vision away. This caused me great
 59  Unic,  29     |        though not in an imaginary vision. These glorious Saints were
 60  Unic,  29(227)|           indicate that the first vision was on June 29 (or possibly
 61  Unic,  29     |           to snap my fingers at a vision in which I saw the Lord
 62  Unic,  29     |        not have believed that the vision had come from the devil
 63  Unic,  29     |        snapping my fingers at the vision, for it hurt me too much
 64  Unic,  29     |        stones which I saw in that vision. On the cross, with exquisite
 65  Unic,  29     |       sometimes see the following vision. I would see beside me,
 66  Unic,  29     |          bodily form -- a type of vision which I am not in the habit
 67  Unic,  30     |       Lord revealed it to me in a vision: the soul is inwardly burning,
 68  Unic,  30     |         or, if I were to see some vision, it was as if there had
 69  Unic,  31     |           form, as in the kind of vision I have described, in which
 70  Unic,  31     |    understand the meaning of that vision, but before a fortnight
 71  Unic,  31     |         saw in myself, I knew the vision was a genuine one. The fact
 72  Unic,  32     |           have since seen another vision of frightful things, which
 73  Unic,  32     |         less fear. In the earlier vision the Lord was pleased that
 74  Unic,  32     |           repeat, then, that this vision was one of the most signal
 75  Unic,  32     |           had to bear during that vision. I am shocked at myself
 76  Unic,  32     |                              This vision, too, was the cause of the
 77  Unic,  32     |             After I had seen this vision, and other great things
 78  Unic,  32     |        the effect upon me of this vision and such was the nature
 79  Unic,  33     |     imagine the brightness of the vision which it was the Lord's
 80  Unic,  34     |           great glory.289 By this vision I understood that his soul
 81  Unic,  36(320)|                              This vision, then, occurred after October
 82  Unic,  36     |           occasions and had had a vision of the great bliss that
 83  Unic,  36(326)|         picture representing this vision.~
 84  Unic,  37     |         favours given by God in a vision or in a rapture that it
 85  Unic,  37     |          favour in the shape of a vision or a revelation which the
 86  Unic,  37     |           with very many. After a vision of Christ there remained
 87  Unic,  37     |       very day. And if one single vision sufficed to effect this,
 88  Unic,  37     |          are the benefits of this vision, setting aside other important
 89  Unic,  37     |        behind in the soul. If the vision is of God, its source will
 90  Unic,  38     |          same way as in the first vision. This I was quite well able
 91  Unic,  38     |           I have beheld this same vision on three other occasions:
 92  Unic,  38     |         think it is the sublimest vision which the Lord has granted
 93  Unic,  38     |            and it is this kind of vision that causes the greatest
 94  Unic,  38     |            Since the time of that vision I have never seen such great
 95  Unic,  38     |          I thought, had it been a vision from God, His Majesty would
 96  Unic,  38     |          bright and shining. This vision passed very quickly, but
 97  Unic,  38     |           that this was a genuine vision -- I mean, that it was no
 98  Unic,  38     |         as if I had not seen this vision; for, once the Lord had
 99  Unic,  38     |         hand, as in the preceding vision, and to be going up to Heaven.
100  Unic,  38     |         This was not an imaginary vision, as the last had been, but
101  Unic,  39     |           but, as I had seen this vision, I felt certain that it
102  Unic,  39     |             namely, the following vision. While I was at prayer,
103  Unic,  39     |                              This vision will seem meaningless, but
104  Unic,  39     |     whereupon I realized that the vision was a picture of the world,
105  Unic,  39     |           what I had seen in this vision. It was of great help to
106  Unic,  39     |         revealed it to me in this vision, so that I had no need to
107  Unic,  39     |          glory. The fruits of the vision were wonderful and I was
108  Unic,  40     |          said, I never forget the vision which I once had of myself
109  Unic,  40     |     describe. This, I know, was a vision which, whenever I recall
110  Unic,  40     |                              This vision seems to me a very beneficial
111  Unic,  40     |   Describe this I cannot, but the vision remained firmly imprinted
112  Unic,  40     |          for me to have seen this vision earlier, and if it had been
113  Unic,  40     |       been visible to me; but the vision comes in so subtle and delicate
114  Unic,  40     |          my account of an earlier vision, except that it is of a
115  Unic,  40     |    getting a little nearer to the vision of God.~