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1002 Unic, 32 | paralysis251 and many and divers more, some of them, as I
1003 Unic, 25 | with true locutions no such diversion is possible. A further indication,
1004 Lette, 0(370)| before it was rewritten and divided into chapters. To this version
1005 Outl, 0 | on behalf of the plan for dividing the Order and asking that
1006 Unic, 36 | my spirit seemed to be divining all that it would have to
1007 Unic, 23 | I do not mean that they divulged what I had told them in
1008 Unic, 23 | have done me great harm, divulging things which should have
1009 Abbr | Saint John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church. Translated
1010 Intr, 0 | in judgment and an undue dogmatism of tone. This Aragonese
1011 Unic, 38(342)| leaves intact a reference to Dominicans and Franciscans and in the
1012 Unic, 14 | there are no riches, or dominions, or honours, or delights
1013 Unic, 36(325)| a patent giving leave to Dona Teresa de Ahumada, Maria
1014 Unic, 27 | was the same thing out of doors. At women he never looked
1015 Intr, 0 | at El Escorial, asked P. Doria (Fray Nicol‡s de Jesœs Mar'
1016 Pref, 2 | considerable force --~Con esto, mal dormir, todo trabajo, todo cruz! ~(
1017 Unic, 6 | during these days, I was all doubled up, like a ball, and no
1018 Unic, 22 | from the corporeal must doubtless be good, since it is advised
1019 Unic, 14 | them by the owner of the dovecot, without their having worked
1020 Unic, 14 | such a time they are like doves which are not pleased with
1021 Unic, 15 | think it will begin to go downhill, as I should have done had
1022 Unic, 13 | really, I am sometimes downright ashamed to think of it.
1023 Intr, 0 | of desires! ~By all thy dowr of Lights and Fires; ~By
1024 Unic, 36 | they were taken without dowries)312 who were great servants
1025 Unic, 31 | place and go and take my dowry to another convent, much
1026 Unic, 28 | and he settles down to doze, and does all he can to
1027 Unic, 16(137)| under the leadership of Dr. Aust'n Cazalla, a Canon
1028 Unic, 38 | horrified at this: they were dragging it about in turn with large
1029 Unic, 14 | the teeth of the horrible dragon.~
1030 Unic, 11(107)| or "pundonor" in Spanish drama.]~
1031 Intr, 0 | By thy last Morning's draught of liquid fire; ~By the
1032 Intr, 0 | deaths of love; ~By thy larg draughts of intellectuall day, ~And
1033 Unic, 32 | great deal) was a serious drawback to me, for there were certain
1034 Unic, 23 | I had awaited with such dread. During the intervening
1035 Unic, 40 | over anything he may have dreamed. My soul has been awakened
1036 Unic, 10 | enough to make my wings droop -- how much more, then,
1037 Unic, 32 | appeared to be right. So he dropped the matter and refused to
1038 Unic, 39 | less did I trouble about drops of water! When I reached
1039 Unic, 20 | to consider it as useless dross, how well the world would
1040 Unic, 29 | physical torture which can drown it. There is no relief to
1041 Unic, 23 | greater and yet he is almost drowning. This is a very great trial,
1042 Unic, 29 | have been dipped in some drug which leads it to hate itself
1043 Unic, 30 | tell them even the most dubious and suspicious things about
1044 Unic, 39 | gives us back a thousand ducats? For the love of God, let
1045 Unic, 30 | soul to Fray Peter without duplicity or concealment.~
1046 Unic, 20 | sees every little speck of dust, however small; and so,
1047 Unic, 36 | fail them if they do their duty, as at present He is giving
1048 Intr, 0 | Unto all life of mine may dy.58]~
1049 Unic, 39 | someone whom he sees to be eagerly listening to him. The first
1050 Unic, 39 | by God, are soaring like eagles move like hens with their
1051 Unic, 25 | not heard with the bodily ear; yet they are understood
1052 Unic, 39 | has practised prayer has earned him these spiritual consolations
1053 Unic, 28 | very muddy stream, in an earthy bed and overshadowed by
1054 Unic, 20(159)| tanquam stultas dementias, et earum raptus, sicut rabiamenta."
1055 Unic, 30 | is given it and which it eats almost unconsciously. For
1056 Outl, 0 | letter from the Princess of Éboli about a foundation at Pastrana.~
1057 Unic, 9(101)| has it that this was an Ecce Homo, which is still venerated
1058 Intr, 0 | this was approved by the ecclesiastical censor in 1580 and published
1059 Outl, 0 | Seville (Leaves, May 18; at Ecija, May 23: R XL; arrives at
1060 Unic, 33(269)| to-day is the capital of Ecuador and married a daughter of
1061 Unic, 2 | which were anything but edifying. What was worse, my soul
1062 Abbr | de Santa Teresa de Jesœs. Editadas y anotadas por el P. Silverio
1063 Intr, 0 | Saint's complete works. The editorship was entrusted, not to a
1064 Pref, 4 | My friend P. Edmund Gurdon, who, when Prior
1065 Unic, 2 | habits than I, were being educated. The reason for this was
1066 Unic, 22 | will help us to rise more effectually than our own efforts; and
1067 Unic, 9 | I desired, seemed to me effeminate and weak. But all the same
1068 Unic, 15 | return to the flesh-pots of Egypt. And if, through their weakness
1069 Unic, 36 | of necessity, there is an eight-months' fast, and there are other
1070 Intr, 0 | Andrˇs de la Encarnaci-n, an eighteenth-century editor and critic of St.
1071 Intr, 0 | further volume of letters and eighty-seven fragments, and was the last
1072 Intr, 0 | to it a volume containing eighty-two previously unpublished letters.
1073 Unic, 18 | small fire, a long time elapses before a small piece of
1074 Pref, 2 | s usage here being very elastic, I have called all religious
1075 Unic, 11 | devotion, and neither to be elated when the Lord gives them
1076 Outl, 0 | LL 378).~September 10. Elected Prioress of St. Joseph's,
1077 Pref, 3 | sacrificed this to smoothness and elegance of diction. In an attempt
1078 Pref, 2 | guard, when there is some "elegant" word that exactly expresses
1079 Pref, 2 | books which put it more elegantly."24 That no doubt was true,
1080 Unic, 40 | there must be an imaginary element in some of them; but, as
1081 Unic, 10 | said, to experience in an elementary form, and very fleetingly,
1082 Pref, 2 | amortecimiento, "swoon"; elevamiento and levantamiento, "elevation";
1083 Unic, 20(165)| texts, which amend this to ella.]~
1084 Intr, 0 | parentheses, her transpositions, ellipses and sudden suspensions of
1085 Pref, 1 | hand, with footnotes of an elucidatory rather than a piously discursive
1086 Unic, 8(100)| Discomfort," "embarrassment," "depression" would be
1087 Pref, 2 | levantamiento, "elevation"; embebecimiento, "absorption"; and hablas, "
1088 Unic, 22(171)| specifically eulogize or embroider this exposition.~
1089 Unic, 34(291)| autograph; but P. Banez emended the phrase so that it read: "
1090 Unic, 30 | abundance. My soul seemed to emerge from the crucible like gold,
1091 Unic, 34 | and from all these he has emerged like one who has amply proved
1092 Unic, 38 | made of little shells which emitted a great brilliance. It was
1093 Unic, 25 | in tears and other brief emotional outlets are merely frail
1094 Pref, 2 | phrases it is generally for emphasis --~
1095 Unic, 37 | only get it attended to by employing roundabout methods and currying
1096 Unic, 39 | obtained a Brief from Rome empowering me to found this convent
1097 Unic, 21 | into Thy presence with such empty hands, since a man's reward
1098 Unic, 36 | pleased to comfort me by enabling me to keep the Rule, though
1099 Unic, 20 | the better set in it the enamel of His gifts: it was being
1100 Intr, 0 | of the Holy Spirit in the enamoured soul, of the interior strife
1101 Unic, 18(142)| Break the web of this sweet encounter": Living Flame of Love,
1102 Unic, 36 | delighted the foundation was encountering all this opposition, for
1103 Pref, 1 | what an unexpectedly and encouragingly large public there now was
1104 Unic, 4 | and if he does so it will endanger his health, since it is
1105 Unic, 8 | loving-kindness with which the Lord endeavours to bring it back to Himself.
1106 | ending
1107 Unic, 15 | God with which His Majesty endows the souls of the perfect.~
1108 Unic, 9 | suffers and what torments it endures when it loses its freedom
1109 Intr, 0 | not only graven upon the enduring marble of history but taken
1110 Unic, 25 | beginning, and the emotions they engender are holy ones, but I do
1111 Unic, 3 | which had become deeply engrained in me. If I saw anyone weeping
1112 Unic, 20 | put it better, the Lord engulfs it in Himself -- and, when
1113 Unic, 7 | my good name95 but rather enhance it. On subsequent occasions
1114 Intr, 0 | translations have so much enhanced their value. England, it
1115 Unic, 19 | on, to recite the prayers enjoined upon me, as all the nuns
1116 Unic, 22 | since it brings with it the enjoyment of more than we seem to
1117 Unic, 21 | child's play. It sometimes enjoys a quiet laugh when it sees
1118 Unic, 23 | without a reason; I seem to be enlarging upon small points, and yet
1119 Intr, 0 | Andrˇs de la Encarnaci-n, who enlisted the aid of a competent palaeographer,
1120 Pref, 2 | there are hundreds of them enlivening her narratives and illumining
1121 Unic, 5 | about this priest by making enquiries of members of his household.
1122 Unic, 29(228)| sister Juana to Do-a Mar'a Enr'quez de Toledo, Duchess
1123 Unic, 20 | that the Lord was going to enrapture me (once it happened during
1124 Unic, 22 | absent, because He was firmly enshrined in his heart. Since realizing
1125 Unic, 30 | allow it to be free, and enslave it only in the sense that
1126 Unic, 9 | miserable habits which now enslaved it would not allow it to
1127 Unic, 39 | will strive their utmost to ensnare it -- friends, relatives,
1128 Unic, 19 | Describes the harm that will ensue if they do not follow this
1129 Unic, 12 | describes the harm that ensues when the spirit attempts
1130 Unic, 22 | as an hour I could have entertained the thought that Thou couldst
1131 Pref, 2 | commentary on the Song of Songs entitled the Conceptions of the Love
1132 Unic, 40 | near to God. I began to entreat His Majesty for the Church.
1133 Unic, 35 | this time that, through my entreaties, for the lady had never
1134 Unic, 18 | completely wasted. How canst Thou entrust this fortified city and
1135 Lette, 0 | obligations to one who thus entrusts you with her soul.~
1136 Unic, 4(79) | Incarnation. As to the date of her entry into the Convent, there
1137 Unic, 33 | these trials which I have enumerated often comforted and strengthened
1138 Unic, 28 | of an imaginary vision. Enumerates the important effects and
1139 Unic, 3 | other virtues, I now greatly envied her; for my heart was so
1140 Unic, 32 | never remember having been envious in such a way as grievously
1141 Unic, 5 | own part I had only great envy of her patience. I begged
1142 Unic, 39 | accomplish anything by merely envying them and desiring to imitate
1143 Unic, 20(159)| contra bonos mores, abhorreas eorum visionem et judicia, tanquam
1144 Unic, 11(109)| as to the twenty-second epistle of St. Jerome "Ad Eustochium",
1145 Unic, 3 | new life. I would read the epistles of Saint Jerome;77 and these
1146 Intr, 0 | inaugurated for the mystics an epoch of what may almost be termed
1147 Unic, 30 | bears its existence with equanimity, but it is quite unconscious
1148 Unic, 8(100)| depression" would be modern equivalents of the substantive, but
1149 Unic, 7 | so, Your Reverence must erase them; if not, I beg you
1150 Unic, 22 | some, encouraging others, ere He ascends to the Heavens.
1151 Intr, 0 | a considerable number of errata, notably in punctuation --
1152 Unic, 6(89) | Pascua florida. Lewis (p. 33) erroneously translates "Palm Sunday."]~
1153 Outl, 0 | Marchioness of Villena at Escalona (LL 6).~June 2-30. At St.
1154 Unic, 2 | told about their childish escapades and crazes, which were anything
1155 Unic, 30 | of both, and yet, after escaping from the devil's wiles,
1156 Intr, 0 | the "Biblioteca de Autores Espa-oles."~
1157 Unic, 7(98) | The metaphor, hacerse espaldas, is St. Teresa's.]~
1158 Unic, 28 | the greatest bliss. A most especial bliss, then, will it be
1159 Unic, 35(297)| fratrum sibi aliquid proprium esse dicat, sed sint vobis omnia
1160 Unic, 20(157)| Quien est‡ de lo alto . . . I give
1161 Unic, 34(283)| confiar) for the "be certain" (estar cierta) of the original
1162 Unic, 18 | really very difficult to estimate, so I will merely say that
1163 Pref, 2 | considerable force --~Con esto, mal dormir, todo trabajo,
1164 Unic, 20 | will thus experience a new estrangement from things of earth, which
1165 Unic, 27 | blessings you may gain in eternity?~
1166 Unic, 32(253)| A Bull published by Pope Eugenius IV on February 15, 1432.~
1167 Unic, 22(171)| here and many specifically eulogize or embroider this exposition.~
1168 Unic, 16(135)| No doubt they were words eulogizing P. Ib‡-ez.~
1169 Unic, 11(109)| epistle of St. Jerome "Ad Eustochium", which describes how vividly
1170 Pref, 2 | correct."13 No less apt to evade one are innumerable little
1171 Pref, 2 | more substantial than the evanescent contentos and often contrasted
1172 Intr, 0 | her faithfulness to the Evangelical counsels and the soundness
1173 Unic, 39 | wondered if they were the Evangelists.355 But I could not see
1174 Pref, 2 | of nerves on All Souls' eve in the sparsely furnished
1175 Unic, 39 | this and they put aside evens other consideration, forgetting
1176 Unic, 1(65) | ceremony commemorating the event described in the text takes
1177 Pref, 2 | but in the introduction of everyday, semi-proverbial phrases,
1178 Unic, 32 | which looked like filthy, evil-smelling mud, and in it were many
1179 Unic, 7 | others, whose wills are evilly inclined, to reveal their
1180 Unic, 20 | do not think I am greatly exaggerating. For, although the distress
1181 Unic, 32 | have said is in no way an exaggeration.~
1182 Intr, 0 | frequent inaccuracies of fact, exaggerations in judgment and an undue
1183 Unic, 25 | new words with which to exalt Thy works as my soul knows
1184 Intr, 0 | bent. The most superficial examination reveals it to be clearly
1185 Unic, 40 | often: it seemed to make me exasperated with myself, and whenever
1186 Pref, 2 | any emotion from playful exasperation to profound distress, is
1187 Unic, 28 | whiteness and radiance alone, it exceeds all that we can imagine.~
1188 Unic, 37 | me by comparison with the excellences and glories which I have
1189 Unic, 29 | refers to all visions, none excepted. There is nothing that we
1190 Unic, 13 | right. This makes us so excited that is prevents us from
1191 Unic, 13 | being right, causes us no excitement. Safety, then, for the soul
1192 Unic, 18 | anything), I am often wont to exclaim "Lord, consider what Thou
1193 Pref, 4 | Stanbrook, who, holding exclusive copyright for the English
1194 Outl, 0 | voting for St. Teresa are excommunicated. Ana de Toledo chosen (LL
1195 Unic, 7(96) | 3, 1543, and his son and executor Lorenzo opened it on December
1196 Unic, 23 | married, but his life is so exemplary and virtuous, and so outstanding
1197 Pref, 2 | but he is not therefore exempted from the obligation to convey
1198 Unic, 14 | no way attain by its own exertions. True, it sometimes seems
1199 Unic, 19 | by this degree of prayer. Exhorts souls earnestly not to turn
1200 Unic, 36 | memory as if they had never existed. The only thing I remembered
1201 Unic, 29 | that some of them wanted to exorcize me. This troubled me very
1202 Pref, 2 | This, in English, has to be expanded somewhat as follows:~I know
1203 Unic, 31 | setting out on that road it expects him to be perfect all at
1204 Unic, 36 | them by suggesting certain expedients which did a great deal to
1205 Unic, 6(92) | afford to do so to pay the expenses of the yearly festival of
1206 Intr, 0 | furthermore, is in part an experimental science; and he who has
1207 Unic, 27 | leagues from here. When he expired, he appeared to me and said
1208 Unic, 13 | prevents me from describing and explaining in a few words a matter
1209 Unic, 10 | Lord granted her in prayer. Explains what part we ourselves can
1210 Unic, 32 | the Lord gave me the most explicit commands to work for this
1211 Unic, 2 | at hand and I should be exposing my father and brothers to
1212 Pref, 2 | narratives and illumining her expositions -- can be so easily spoiled
1213 Unic, 20 | The reason I am expounding this at such great length
1214 Unic, 27 | understand, when the Lord expounds to me some vision which
1215 Pref, 2 | elegant" word that exactly expresses her meaning, against using
1216 Unic, 20 | in what I say, or if I am expressing it properly, but to the
1217 Unic, 32 | did not venture to tell me expressly to give up the idea, but
1218 Unic, 29 | vision. On the cross, with exquisite workmanship, were portrayed
1219 Unic, 31 | some of them give up all external things for God. Then they
1220 Unic, 13 | and from one subject can extract many ideas and conceptions.
1221 Unic, 38 | degrees of profit to be extracted from them, and it is this
1222 Unic, 2 | I went to great extremes in my vain anxiety about
1223 Unic, 5 | actually found some wax on my eyelids.~
1224 Unic, 8(99) | An apparent reference to Ezechiel xviii, 21.]~
1225 Unic, 40 | fervour. They had lovely faces, quite lit up with zeal;
1226 Pref, 1 | furthermore, which would facilitate individual study by providing
1227 Unic, 36 | out, and there is every facility for its being kept permanently
1228 Intr, 0 | a considerable number of facsimile reproductions of these manuscripts
1229 Unic, 4(80) | only one which fits all the facts.]~
1230 Intr, 0 | are brief and in the main factual, though occasionally they
1231 Unic, 20 | higher degree): Vigilavi, et factus sum sicut passer solitarius
1232 Unic, 17 | of God's great power; the faculty which remains free causes
1233 Unic, 37 | Lord allows this memory to fade, I consider it impossible
1234 Unic, 28 | no sooner had the vision faded -- the very moment, indeed,
1235 Unic, 25 | Thou, Lord of them all, failest never. Little is the suffering
1236 Unic, 39 | too, I discovered signs of faintheartedness, and in many of them a lack
1237 Unic, 38 | had been a friar who had faithfully observed his Rule, the Bulls
1238 Intr, 0 | upon the virtuous life, her faithfulness to the Evangelical counsels
1239 Unic, 36 | attempt to frighten me with falsehoods. Then I began to remember
1240 Unic, 25(201)| The verb is faltar, translated "lack" and "
1241 Intr, 0 | country and abroad, her fame is still widespread and
1242 Unic, 33(267)| of St. Francis Borgia and famous in the history of the Society
1243 Unic, 25 | words it is inventing are fantastic and indistinct and have
1244 Unic, 21 | with all, to look at this farce of a life and see how ill-organized
1245 Unic, 29 | picture can undoubtedly be fashioned with the understanding.
1246 Unic, 33 | gold collar, to which was fastened a most valuable cross. The
1247 Unic, 2 | of them, for I was very fastidious. There was nothing wrong
1248 Unic, 2 | This great and excessive fastidiousness about personal appearance,
1249 Unic, 13 | indulge in a great deal of fasting and in severe penances,
1250 Unic, 11(111)| Lit.: "is growing fat and taking strength." Fatness
1251 Lette, 0 | if it is to be sent to Father-Master Avila, to have it copied,
1252 Unic, 36 | somewhat calmed, the Dominican Father-Presentado324 who was helping us managed
1253 Unic, 11(111)| fat and taking strength." Fatness is often spoken of in Spain
1254 Unic, 20(153)| example of it: Vigilavi ed fatus sun sicud passer solitarius
1255 Unic, 23 | the Lord began to bestow favors upon me and it looked as
1256 Unic, 5 | presented in a light only too favourable. I beg him, for the love
1257 Unic, 39 | their true light looked favourably upon me and suffered me
1258 Unic, 37 | to find out who are his favourites. And you may be sure they
1259 Unic, 34 | knew. She was a most God fearing lady and so good that her
1260 Unic, 31(245)| P. Federico de S. Antonio (Vita della
1261 Unic, 27 | that people's health is feebler nowadays and that times
1262 Unic, 39 | do I find in myself! How feebly do I serve Thee! Sometimes
1263 Unic, 30 | cannot do otherwise than feed on some of God's great favours;
1264 Unic, 30 | to be like a little ass, feeding and sustaining its life
1265 Unic, 35 | regard to this, that "Thou feignest labour in Thy law",304 for
1266 Intr, 0 | thy brim-fill'd Bowles of feirce desire; ~By thy last Morning'
1267 Unic, 20(165)| the soul (alma), which is feminine in Spanish. P. Silverio,
1268 Unic, 37 | kings! Thy kingdom is not fenced in by trifles, but is infinite.
1269 Unic, 15 | as we may try to make the fere burn in order to obtain
1270 Unic, 26(208)| In 1559, Don Fernando de Valdˇs, Grand Inquisitor
1271 Unic, 20(159)| St. Vincent Ferrer: De Via spirituali, Chap.
1272 Unic, 11 | the garden is to be kept fertile, for if it has no water
1273 Unic, 38 | surpassingly great; for most of the festal season I was so bewildered
1274 Unic, 30 | with it, so that the soul, fettered as it is and no longer its
1275 Unic, 7 | from the paralysis and the feverish complaints from which I
1276 Outl, 0(43) | visit: cf. final words of FI (Vol. III, p. 4).~
1277 Unic, 25(205)| The fig, or "fico", is a contemptuous motion
1278 Intr, 0 | a book of adventures and fictions on that subject, which was
1279 Unic, 20(159)| aliquid quod sit contra fidem, et contra Scripturam sacram,
1280 Unic, 36 | in the year 1248, in the fifth year of the pontificate
1281 Unic, 27(219)| Actually he was fifty-nine.]~
1282 Unic, 13(118)| but the expression is a figurative one.]~
1283 Unic, 40 | I saw in front of me the figures of six or seven members
1284 Unic, 31 | for it is a chain which no file can sever; only God can
1285 Unic, 31 | embedded in all kinds of filth.250 The water of Thy grace
1286 Intr, 0 | the full kingdome of that finall kisse ~That seiz'd thy parting
1287 Unic, 31 | book, to prevent me from finishing the prayer. I made the sign
1288 Intr, 0 | all thy dowr of Lights and Fires; ~By all the eagle in thee,
1289 Unic, 34(286)| Domingo B‡-ez, especially the first-named.~
1290 Intr, 0 | which particularly well fitted her for describing them.
1291 Unic, 15 | now feels towards God and fixes its thoughts and desires
1292 Unic, 15 | course) sends forth the flames of that most ardent love
1293 Unic, 31(245)| contemplated going to a convent in Flanders or Brittany. The Parisian
1294 Pref, 3 | entirely destroying the flavour of a past age. The same
1295 Unic, 23 | a soul which is not yet fledged, as they say, is to begin
1296 Unic, 25 | hidden from the soul, and flees from it, and the soul becomes
1297 Unic, 30 | thought, other than quite a fleeting one, about God, or about
1298 Unic, 10 | elementary form, and very fleetingly, what I shall now describe.
1299 Unic, 15 | shall not return to the flesh-pots of Egypt. And if, through
1300 Unic, 16 | are not like the Apostles, flinging it all aside and catching
1301 Unic, 4 | spending time in sweeping floors which I had previously spent
1302 Unic, 6(89) | Pascua florida. Lewis (p. 33) erroneously
1303 Unic, 40 | they said, "this Order will flourish; it will have many martyrs."363~
1304 Unic, 25 | outlets are merely frail flowerets blasted at the first breath
1305 Unic, 31 | some holy water there, so I flung some in the direction of
1306 Unic, 38 | wings. It must have been fluttering like this for the space
1307 Intr, 0 | where, undisturbed by the foes that rage without, it can
1308 Unic, 20(159)| life of Blessed Angela de Foligno and the Rule of St. Clare.~
1309 Unic, 24 | foundations, and I grew fonder of penances, which I had
1310 Unic, 29 | Quemadmodum desiderat cervus ad fontes aquarum,229 which I seem
1311 Unic, 13 | eating the same food. These foods are very pleasant and wholesome;
1312 Unic, 15 | the soul should become a fool, as in truth it is in His
1313 Unic, 13(117)| be referred to, I cannot forbear quoting here the latter'
1314 Unic, 4 | master who is directing him forbids him to read and thus find
1315 Pref, 2 | indelible impress of her forceful and vivid personality. In
1316 Unic, 39 | favour, I may persist in forcing myself to beg the Lord for
1317 Unic, 33 | though I was unable to forecast the means and knew neither
1318 Intr, 0 | The foregoing notes bear witness of the
1319 Unic, 14 | and gaining some slight foreknowledge of the joys of glory. This,
1320 Intr, 0 | Castle and experience a foretaste of the Beatific Vision of
1321 Unic, 37 | can sink when God is not forever working within it. In such
1322 Unic, 20 | before your thought can forewarn you of it or you can do
1323 Unic, 19 | once but many times. He forgave Saint Peter once; but me
1324 Unic, 2 | is done in the world by forgetfulness of this and by the belief
1325 Unic, 39 | evens other consideration, forgetting even their meals, and shut
1326 Unic, 19 | Majesty before He ceased forgiving me. Never does He weary
1327 Unic, 16 | world's preoccupations and formalities? I do not think what I say
1328 Unic, 7 | strength, but only love and the formation of a habit; and the Lord
1329 Intr, 0 | it in spirit, and hence forming a natural complement to
1330 Pref, 2 | language necessitates another formula for the conveying of the
1331 Unic, 30 | I find myself unable to formulate a single definite thought,
1332 Unic, 25 | Lord, I lack, but if Thou forsakest me not, I shall never fail
1333 Unic, 11 | resolved to love Thee and by forsaking everything does all in its
1334 Unic, 18 | canst Thou entrust this fortified city and the keys of its
1335 Unic, 12 | attempts, because the devil can foster illusions in them, although
1336 Unic, 36 | found so much that they fought us with a good conscience.
1337 Unic, 38 | often to the union of such foulness and wretchedness with such
1338 Unic, 29(229)| the hart panteth after the fountains of water, so my soul panteth
1339 Intr, 0 | Interior Castle and their four-volume edition of the Letters (
1340 Unic, 36(317)| there and gave this opinion. Fr. Domingo Ba-es. And I sign
1341 Unic, 27 | I am saying is barely a fraction of what there is to say.
1342 Unic, 30 | in fragments, with each fragment seeming to go its own way."
1343 Unic, 25 | emotional outlets are merely frail flowerets blasted at the
1344 Unic, 31(245)| near Mantes, in 1477, by B. Fran¨oise d'Ambroise. But there
1345 Unic, 38(342)| reference to Dominicans and Franciscans and in the next line deletes
1346 Pref, 2 | enlightenment. One often has frankly to guess at her exact meaning,
1347 Unic, 33 | consult him with the utmost frankness and freedom. I used to dislike
1348 Unic, 35(297)| the Rule says: -- "Nullus fratrum sibi aliquid proprium esse
1349 Unic, 30 | reasoning power derived from its free-will, and it is unable to reason
1350 Unic, 30 | soul, so incapable is it of freeing itself from their power.
1351 Unic, 25 | turmoil and unrest, the Lord frees it as with His own hand,
1352 Unic, 20 | fear that they might be the frenzies described by Saint Vincent.159
1353 Unic, 40 | and almost in a state of frenzy. This, as I say, sometimes
1354 Pref, 2 | for men "monasteries" or "friaries" and those for women "convents".
1355 Unic, 30(241)| part of the Gospel for the Friday after the third Sunday in
1356 Unic, 38 | to me which gave me a bad fright. I was in a place where
1357 Unic, 9 | received from Him! It really frightens me to remember how little
1358 Unic, 17(139)| reading ("strong enough not to fritter it all away", ". . . not
1359 Unic, 40 | Matins in choir, I saw in front of me the figures of six
1360 Unic, 40 | occasions, is much more fruitful than thinking of Him as
1361 Unic, 15 | soul will contribute to his frustration. For this delight will help
1362 Unic, 17(139)| Tan fuerte . . . que no se le vaya
1363 Unic, 34 | found that His Majesty was fulfilling my desires and had heard
1364 Unic, 40 | understand a truth which is the fulfilment of all truths, yet I cannot
1365 Pref, 2 | points will help us to a fuller understanding of the qualities
1366 Unic, 39 | done, my reason ceases to function and I can do nothing but
1367 Intr, 0 | Interior Castle, though fundamentally mystical, does not hesitate
1368 Unic, 38 | During the whole of the funeral office I saw no more devils;
1369 Unic, 32 | narrow passage, like a furnace, very low, dark and closely
1370 Unic, 33 | should buy the house and furnish it, as if it were to be
1371 Unic, 27 | last comparison, I think, furnishes some sort of explanation
1372 Unic, 18 | rather than help him. It is futile for him to attempt to speak:
1373 Unic, 34 | about it all, and in the future, if you think well, it can
1374 Unic, 31 | their power and the soul gains much more control over them.
1375 Pref, 2 | regalar may run through the gamut "caress", "pamper", "indulge", "
1376 Lette | WRITTEN BY THE SAINT TO FATHER GARCIA DE TOLEDO WHEN SENDING HIM
1377 Unic, 17(139)| archaic substantive from gastar (spend, waste, fail to profit
1378 Unic, 18 | God, from time to time, gathering them once more to Himself.~
1379 Unic, 20 | practical way, the Lord gathers up the soul, just (we might
1380 Unic, 29 | me compassionately, His gaze has such power that my soul
1381 Pref, 2 | person". Where the Spanish gender is ambiguous, "she" is used
1382 Pref, 4 | of his edition, have most generously permitted me to make full
1383 Unic, 25 | devoid of tranquillity and gentleness. Anyone, I think, who has
1384 Unic, 31(245)| della Santa Madre Teresa di Gesœ, Bk. I, Chap. XXII) thinks
1385 Unic, 14 | properly than if I were writing gibberish, as one might say, however
1386 Intr, 0 | everywhere as an incredibly gifted teacher, who has revealed,
1387 Unic, 23(181)| College of St. Giles (San Gil) at Avila, to which foundation
1388 Unic, 4 | them from their memory. He gilds my faults and makes some
1389 Unic, 2(68) | this context -- i.e., of a girl of St. Teresa's age, living
1390 Pref, 2 | indulge", "delight", "gladden" and "cheer"; and the singular
1391 Unic, 36 | evident from the great joy and gladness and the few trials which
1392 Unic, 21 | affording heretics the smallest glimmer of light, I would give up
1393 Unic, 32 | Thou deliver me from that gloomy prison and how I would make
1394 Unic, 37 | with the excellences and glories which I have seen in this
1395 Unic, 30 | things and may the angels glorify Him. Amen.~
1396 Unic, 40 | person of either grieving or glorying over anything he may have
1397 Unic, 37 | they, being God-fearing and God-serving men, were afraid that I
1398 Unic, 11 | Thee whithersoever Thou goest, even to the death of the
1399 Unic, 36(325)| Ahumada, Maria Ordez, Ana Gomez and Maria de Cepeda to transfer
1400 Outl, 0 | the Observance, P. Alonso Gonz‡lez, at St. Joseph's; in
1401 Unic, 31 | for I myself was always a good-for-nothing) I would collect their mantles
1402 Unic, 34 | but the desires and the good-will with which they are uttered!
1403 Unic, 30 | he bore me the greatest goodwill, opposed me more than anyone
1404 Unic, 35 | which has on one side a deep gorge into which one may fall,
1405 Unic, 2 | this woman. I talked and gossiped with her frequently; she
1406 Unic, 17(139)| que no se le vaya en gostaduras. A difficult phrase, which
1407 Unic, 22 | capable. What is the use of governing oneself if one has surrendered
1408 Intr, 0 | heart. Her books have a gracioso desorden [Herrick's "sweet
1409 Unic, 20 | other times His Majesty is graciously satisfied with our seeing
1410 Unic, 22(169)| in the indicative mood: grammatically, therefore, the sense of
1411 Unic, 32(259)| having a quiet laugh (con gran paz se estaba riendo). [
1412 Unic, 16 | madness -- a favour which Thou grantest me through no merits of
1413 Intr, 0 | finds ready to hand apt and graphic comparisons, intelligible
1414 Unic, 40 | instrumentality -- and yet I grasped these latter things more
1415 Unic, 38 | dull mind was capable of grasping; and the mere possession
1416 Unic, 2 | secretly as to prevent me from gravely damaging my reputation and
1417 Intr, 0 | why her name is not only graven upon the enduring marble
1418 Unic, 5 | might have committed the gravest offenses. As I have said,
1419 Unic, 40 | this love and all other greatnesses upon this greatness. This
1420 Unic, 33 | of exclamation: "Oh, the greed of mankind! So you really
1421 Unic, 18 | anything about it than to talk Greek -- and indeed it is a most
1422 Intr, 0 | theology who have grown grey in the study of it. This
1423 Unic, 8 | of the great trials and griefs which He suffered for me.
1424 Unic, 40 | sensible person of either grieving or glorying over anything
1425 Unic, 15 | a blessing save through gross blindness caused by much
1426 Unic, 2(71) | readers may choose between P. Grˇgoire's "Il s'agissait de relations
1427 Unic, 6 | on earth (for, being His guardian and being called His father,
1428 Unic, 32(259)| of the preacher has been guessed at, but is not known.~
1429 Pref, 2 | make half a dozen different guesses, none of which anybody can
1430 Intr, 0 | or methodically ordered "guides" to the ascetic or the mystical
1431 Pref, 4 | My friend P. Edmund Gurdon, who, when Prior of the
1432 Unic, 30 | springs which I have seen gushing up and which keep on incessantly
1433 Unic, 17(139)| which the modern form is gustadura, and which denotes the action
1434 Lette | SENDING HIM HER "LIFE"369~I. H. S.~
1435 Unic, 1 | for Thy honour, that this habitation wherein Thou hast had continually
1436 Unic, 13 | congregation, if they become habitual, or of wrongs done to the
1437 Unic, 9 | what it was, and the very habitualness of the custom prevented
1438 Unic, 22 | and the soul's growing habituation to the receiving of favours,
1439 Pref, 2 | embebecimiento, "absorption"; and hablas, "locutions" (or, rarely, "
1440 Unic, 39(350)| the two verbs are "do" (hace) and "undo" (deshace).]~
1441 Unic, 18(143)| Teresa, is the contrary of hacer, to do, and can generally
1442 Unic, 7(98) | The metaphor, hacerse espaldas, is St. Teresa'
1443 Unic, 19 | God's sake, it could be hacked to pieces. It is then that
1444 Unic, 28 | Thou didst descend into Hades: well might they have longed
1445 Unic, 25(201)| lack" and "fail" in this half-punning sentence, and "fail" below.
1446 Unic, 38 | assist her with the versicle. Halfway through the lesson I saw
1447 Intr, 0 | bearing the ineffaceable hallmark of genius.~
1448 Unic, 11 | is this! We expect great handfuls of it, as one might say,
1449 Unic, 21 | pleasure, that this Thy handmaiden may in some way serve Thee.
1450 Unic, 19 | so many of Thy faithful handmaidens, as I have said, should
1451 Lette, 0 | someone might recognize the handwriting.~
1452 Unic, 11 | freedom of spirit, they hang back through weakness and
1453 Unic, 33(270)| was taken in 1634, and now hangs beside the great bell which
1454 Unic, 36 | who were there. It was the happiest of days for me when we went
1455 Unic, 19 | respect, as I say, I never harboured a doubt. While I was wondering
1456 Unic, 8 | amendment will be very much harder. So let him not be tempted
1457 Unic, 12 | never allows anyone to be harmed who strives to approach
1458 Unic, 33 | would understand and be in harmony with mine, although, as
1459 Unic, 31 | concern is a thing which harms the soul whenever it occurs;
1460 Unic, 16 | David, when he played on the harp and sang in praise of God.
1461 Unic, 28 | the Lord allowed me to be harshly judged, often undeservedly,
1462 Unic, 19(148)| precision in her work. Even a hasty revision would have revealed
1463 Pref, 2 | porque he visto, que cuando hay a quien temer, se van a
1464 Lette, 0(369)| Garc'a de Toledo. (The heading is not, of course, in the
1465 Intr, 0 | day of the week, under the headings: Father, King, Spouse, Shepherd,
1466 Unic, 30 | calm wind: one makes great headway, but without knowing how,
1467 Unic, 19 | wounds, which, far from healing them superficially, eradicate
1468 Unic, 31 | which it bears is not at all healthy and will not last for long.
1469 Unic, 15 | great logs of wood being heaped up indiscriminately so that
1470 Unic, 1 | had at home. We would make heaps of small stones, but they
1471 Unic, 7 | profit both himself and his hearers, and will be all the wiser
1472 Unic, 13 | death. Some, who are tender hearted, get exhausted if they keep
1473 Unic, 13 | incompetent and unprofitable! Most heartily do I praise Thee because
1474 Unic, 15 | of words, though with a hearty desire that He may hear
1475 Intr, 0 | sealed thee his; ~By all the heavn's thou hast in him ~(Fair
1476 Unic, 28 | longed for a thousand deeper hells in order to flee from such
1477 Unic, 29 | wounds.228 He told me that henceforward it would always look to
1478 | herein
1479 Unic, 16(137)| group of people suspected of heresy, under the leadership of
1480 Unic, 26(208)| and this included not only heretical works, but also a great
1481 Unic, 32(255)| out of a discussion on the hermit-saints. Some of the nuns suggested
1482 Unic, 39 | I went to a very lonely hermitage, of which this convent has
1483 Unic, 1 | sake, we decided to become hermits, and we used to build hermitages,
1484 Intr, 0 | have a gracioso desorden [Herrick's "sweet disorder"] which
1485 Unic, 24(196)| XXVIII, he was somewhat hesitating and timid in his treatment
1486 Unic, 2(71) | decided upon after some hesitation. Dissenting readers may
1487 Unic, 27 | the psalm "Laetatus sum in hic quae dicta sunt mihi",220
1488 Unic, 4 | of greater worth, and yet hiding my evil deeds and my sins
1489 Unic, 4(78) | a Dominican, and later a Hieronymite. Then ill health compelled
1490 Unic, 27 | commended myself to Saint Hilarion and to Saint Michael the
1491 Unic, 39 | seemed to me a mere ant hill.~
1492 Unic, 1 | brothers and sisters never hindered me from serving God in any
1493 Unic, 33 | they did not dare to risk hindering me.~
1494 Intr, 0(48) | Historia del Carmen Descalzo, Bk.
1495 Intr, 0 | three volumes of Memorias historiales, in the National Library
1496 Unic, 36(311)| in commemoration of the historic occasion.~
1497 Unic, 20 | is that of a soul brought hither by the Lord, which can look
1498 Intr, 0 | appendices contain numerous hitherto unpublished documents, many
1499 Unic, 15 | for if no bees entered the hive and they all went about
1500 Unic, 30(234)| Hoja de lata. Lit.: "tinplate."]~
1501 Unic, 32 | place which looked like a hole in the wall, and those very