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 1  Outl,   0|       to Avila [L XXIV].)~1558. Experiences her first rapture (L XXIV)
 2  Intr,   0| profoundest and most continuous experiences of Divine grace is the best
 3  Intr,   0|      continuity of her mystical experiences, and she had a quickness
 4  Unic,  10|          I am describing my own experiences, as I have been commanded
 5  Unic,  10|        that. I will describe my experiences, so that, if what I write
 6  Unic,  10|        His Majesty has given me experiences, ill as I have walked and
 7  Unic,  11|   something, then, of the early experiences of those who are determined
 8  Unic,  11|     finds that for many days he experiences nothing but aridity, dislike,
 9  Unic,  12|        unusual and supernatural experiences before they are bestowed
10  Unic,  15|         so eager for delectable experiences that it tries to get all
11  Unic,  15|       for, quite apart from the experiences which have done me so much
12  Unic,  18|        who have attained to the experiences in prayer which the Lord
13  Unic,  18|  intimate part of what the soul experiences in this condition. The persons
14  Unic,  20|        these are my most recent experiences, more recent than all the
15  Unic,  23|        I was quite sure that my experiences were supernatural because
16  Unic,  23|        me to think well over my experiences in prayer, so far as I understood
17  Unic,  23|        could not describe these experiences; it is only quite recently
18  Unic,  23|        be advised to keep their experiences very secret and it is well
19  Unic,  23|        whom I have discussed my experiences in prayer. By talking about
20  Unic,  24|       him and tell him about my experiences in prayer, as they knew
21  Unic,  25|        the soul, and the soul's experiences on receiving them, so that
22  Unic,  25|    prayer and not to have these experiences, how can its understanding
23  Unic,  26|      the whole of our spiritual experiences, and the favours granted
24  Unic,  26|         advised me, now that my experiences were proved to be due to
25  Unic,  28|          At the beginning of my experiences, as I have said, this happened
26  Unic,  28|    quite clear to me that these experiences had immediately made me
27  Unic,  30|  understand me and interpret my experiences. He enlightened me wonderfully
28  Unic,  30|    retains no memory of its own experiences of Him. To go and say its
29  Unic,  30|          whereas in these other experiences the effects are so noticeable
30  Unic,  31|        great benefit from these experiences, but of this benefit I will
31  Unic,  34|                    To one of my experiences with him I will refer here.
32  Unic,  38|        I had been sharing their experiences. In the end, though feeling
33  Unic,  38|   produced by visions and other experiences of that kind, but, as I