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2002 Unic, 37 | everything I see appears nauseating to me by comparison with
2003 Unic, 27 | not but be aware of His nearness to me.~
2004 Unic, 14 | and copying it with her needle: I can perform my task,
2005 Unic, 32 | it, yet, as it was very needy, we nuns would often leave
2006 Unic, 13 | are not doing right if we neglect such things, for His Majesty
2007 Unic, 30 | anything which may harm his neighbour or offend God. Then again,
2008 Unic, 5 | to foot and never ceased. Nervous pains, as the doctors said,
2009 Pref, 2 | To the word "soul" the neuter pronoun is applied unless
2010 Unic, 2(68) | senses -- good, bad and neutral -- I often render "reputation"
2011 Unic, 32 | they would be endless and never-ceasing. And even these are nothing
2012 Unic, 19 | and that I was inventing newfangled practices, though in many
2013 Unic, 31(248)| is even more unexpected: ni-as, "young girls", "children".]~
2014 Unic, 17 | consume it all by merely nibbling at it,139 and not to fail
2015 Unic, 36 | brought me here just in the nick of time. For here I found
2016 Intr, 0 | Escorial, asked P. Doria (Fray Nicol‡s de Jesœs Mar'a),55 at
2017 Unic, 11 | blessings with it. But so niggardly and so slow are we in giving
2018 Unic, 29(225)| on January 25, 1560 (cf. nn. 209, 221, but also n. 227),
2019 Intr, 0 | and (despite some fine and noble passages) on a lower plane,
2020 Unic, 31 | oratory: I had said one nocturn and was repeating some very
2021 Unic, 37(334)| Spain: so modern a writer as Nœ-ez de Arce (1832-1903) for
2022 Pref, 2 | learning", suffers from "noises" in the head, a bad memory,
2023 Intr, 0 | reveals it to be clearly non-Teresian. Its style is quite unlike
2024 Unic, 4(79) | Avila, is situated on the north side of the city, outside
2025 Intr, 0(54) | MS. 3180 Adiciones E., Nos. 13, 14.~
2026 Unic, 39 | should set no store by these nothingnesses. Blessed are they who serve
2027 Unic, 31 | By means of these nothings, which after all actually
2028 Unic, 23(180)| Such were the notorious Sor Magdalena de la Cruz
2029 Unic, 8 | if that soul perseveres, notwithstanding the sins, temptations and
2030 Unic, 27 | me from the devil. I made novenas and commended myself to
2031 Outl, 0 | Incarnation, Avila, as a novice (cf. n. 79. "It is forty
2032 Unic, 31 | other vanities. I saw other novices who could have taught me
2033 Unic, 5 | tell how, in the year of my novitiate, I suffered long periods
2034 | nowhere
2035 Abbr | de Santa Teresa de Jesœs. Nueva ed. aumentada, con introducci-n,
2036 Unic, 15 | is merely making itself a nuisance. And if the will wishes
2037 Unic, 35(297)| VI of the Rule says: -- "Nullus fratrum sibi aliquid proprium
2038 Unic, 30 | other virtues, is quite numbed and asleep. It is not lost,
2039 Outl, 0 | numerals after LL, to the numbers of the Letters. The numerals
2040 Unic, 36 | to the convent, though he objected to its poverty: he said
2041 Unic, 36(308)| interview he withdrew all his objections and became her staunch supporter.~
2042 Pref, 2 | orderly mind and by his great objectivity. Much of St. Teresa's work,
2043 Unic, 32(261)| A line is obliterated here, presumably by P. B‡-
2044 Abbr | London, 1916.~P. Silverio. -- Obras de Santa Teresa de Jesœs.
2045 Unic, 4 | my evil deeds have thus obscured the great favours which
2046 Unic, 36 | into such affliction and obscurity and darkness as I cannot
2047 Intr, 0 | those made by nature and observable in life. By any and every
2048 Unic, 15 | least, according to my own observation, for I have no other means
2049 Intr, 0 | illuminating. Her disconnected observations, her revealing parentheses,
2050 Unic, 40 | believe that there is no obstacle that could present itself
2051 Unic, 8 | great favours could be so obstinate and ungrateful. I wish I
2052 Unic, 5 | which had been caused by obstructions, and these forced her to
2053 Pref, 4 | consult Spanish friends about occasional difficulties -- chief among
2054 Unic, 33 | saw what scandal it had occasioned. He said other things, too,
2055 Unic, 16 | retain only the power of occupying themselves wholly with God;
2056 Unic, 40 | an abyss of lies and an ocean of vanities and all through
2057 Intr, 0 | volume, of over a thousand octavo pages, was published at
2058 Unic, 31(245)| The Parisian Carmelites (Oeuvres de Sainte Thˇr¸sa, Vol.
2059 Unic, 14 | Thy delight in it, and yet offends Thee again after Thou hast
2060 Outl, 0 | Joseph's, Avila. Rafael Mej'a offers her a house at Duruelo for
2061 Unic, 31 | devotional: we have them in our office-book -- when actually the devil
2062 Unic, 7 | much later. Now that I go oftener to Communion, I have to
2063 Unic, 18 | and will, and that I have oftentimes besought it of Thee, and
2064 Unic, 19 | us such medicine and such ointment for our wounds, which, far
2065 Unic, 31(245)| Mantes, in 1477, by B. Fran¨oise d'Ambroise. But there seems
2066 Unic, 7 | liberty as is given to the oldest nuns, and even more, and
2067 Intr, 0 | well. The edition has some omissions and variant readings of
2068 Unic, 30 | remember. But I cannot help omitting a great deal, for otherwise
2069 Unic, 35(297)| esse dicat, sed sint vobis omnia communia." Gregory IX, by
2070 Unic, 18 | who at the enemy's first onslaught allows him to enter? Let
2071 Unic, 10 | what I shall say from now onwards; if this should be shown
2072 Unic, 20 | things of the world, and opens them to an understanding
2073 Outl, 0 | Discalced Carmelites becomes operative at Chapter of Alcal‡ de
2074 Unic, 36 | possibly be, and yet our opponents found so much that they
2075 Unic, 8 | save God, and the numerous opportunities that were given it to indulge
2076 Outl, 0 | November 5. Royal Council opposes the policy of Tostado, who
2077 Unic, 36(325)| Teresa de Ahumada, Maria Ordez, Ana Gomez and Maria de
2078 Unic, 3 | and his conversation was ordinarily about God and the vanity
2079 Unic, 31 | in time, in playing the organ -- the whole passage will
2080 Unic, 5 | be found in the imperfect organization of the convent. But I, in
2081 Intr, 0 | great good fortune, the originals of nearly all St. Teresa'
2082 Outl, 0 | 18. Death of the Nuncio Ormaneto.)~July. Goes from Toledo
2083 Unic, 22(174)| the son of the Count of Oropesa. She uses the same word
2084 Unic, 36 | ourselves supporting four poor orphans (for they were taken without
2085 Unic, 20(153)| solitarius yn tecto. The orthography given in the text is here,
2086 Pref, 2 | St. Teresa has continual outbursts of sanctified commonsense,
2087 Unic, 36 | But until he saw what the outcome of all this was going to
2088 Unic, 25 | and other brief emotional outlets are merely frail flowerets
2089 Unic, 28 | many, they condemned me outright. They would ask me certain
2090 Unic, 23 | this very important at the outset of a soul's growth in virtue,
2091 Unic, 18 | to act in any way, either outwardly or inwardly. Previously,
2092 Unic, 11 | cost us, if the gain will outweigh the labour and for how long
2093 Unic, 40 | sometimes to think myself over-attached to them and would want to
2094 Unic, 13 | sins, those who are not over-cautious in this respect are very
2095 Unic, 40 | to me which I could not overcome.~
2096 Unic, 37 | as I say, these are never overlooked as being unimportant. And
2097 Unic, 20 | great a God, but a fear overpowered by152 the deepest love,
2098 Unic, 38(342)| Luis thought this to be an oversight. In another place, however,
2099 Unic, 18 | my own understanding is overwhelmed by this, and when I begin
2100 Unic, 15 | a confusion which quite overwhelms us. The bestowal upon us
2101 Intr, 0 | notably in punctuation -- and, owing to St. Teresa's often compressed
2102 Unic, 14 | the food given them by the owner of the dovecot, without
2103 Unic, 11 | the stock and the right of ownership of it in our own hands.
2104 Unic, 33(270)| as "hardly more than ten paces in length". The diminutive
2105 Unic, 36 | the others and eventually pacified them by suggesting certain
2106 Unic, 28(223)| Cf. La Puente: Vida den Padre Baltasar çlvarez, etc.,
2107 Unic, 22 | as does Saint Anthony of Padua with the Divine Infant.
2108 Unic, 11(109)| the pomps and vanities of pagan Rome.~
2109 Pref, 2 | of it which is not, every page bears the indelible impress
2110 Unic, 22 | Passion, because of its painfulness; but what can prevent us
2111 Unic, 28 | something living and something painted, neither more so nor less.
2112 Unic, 28 | though it was like no earthly painting, however perfect, and I
2113 Unic, 34(280)| Martyr, was in fact near the palace of the Duke of Medinaceli,
2114 Intr, 0 | establish in his newly built palace-monastery at El Escorial, asked P.
2115 Unic, 37 | they are not meant for palaces, for there they cannot do
2116 Intr, 0 | enlisted the aid of a competent palaeographer, a companion worthy of himself,
2117 Unic, 6(89) | erroneously translates "Palm Sunday."]~
2118 Pref, 2 | through the gamut "caress", "pamper", "indulge", "delight", "
2119 Unic, 13 | these trials -- who are pampered, as they say -- and live
2120 Intr, 0 | what is perhaps the finest panegyric in verse upon her in existence.~
2121 Unic, 37 | one case one part of the paper has to be left blank, and
2122 Unic, 35 | from all the vanity and parade of the world, in which,
2123 Unic, 35 | that this house was the paradise of His delight. So it seems
2124 Pref, 2 | disjointed, elliptical, paradoxical and gaily ungrammatical,
2125 Unic, 6 | young, I was so seriously paralysed, and that earthly doctors
2126 Outl, 0 | March 31 (LL 314) has a paralytic stroke. Asks the Archbishop
2127 Pref, 2 | rendering her words without paraphrasing them is added that of deciding
2128 Unic, 34(276)| Cerda, widow of Don Arias Pardo de Saavedra, who died in
2129 Intr, 0 | observations, her revealing parentheses, her transpositions, ellipses
2130 Unic, 16(134)| to P. Pedro Ib‡-ez. The parenthetical sentence [which I have bracketed
2131 Unic, 31(245)| Flanders or Brittany. The Parisian Carmelites (Oeuvres de Sainte
2132 Unic, 4 | shield with which I could parry the blows of my many thoughts,
2133 Unic, 19 | is, would fain help it to partake of it. If the ground is
2134 Unic, 20 | body and soul shall not be parted is like a voice crying out
2135 Intr, 0 | finall kisse ~That seiz'd thy parting Soul, and sealed thee his; ~
2136 Unic, 37 | but is infinite. No third party is required to obtain us
2137 Unic, 6(89) | Pascua florida. Lewis (p. 33) erroneously
2138 Unic, 18(144)| Paso: incident, occurrence --
2139 Intr, 0(53) | the Cross, I, liv ff., et passim.]~
2140 Unic, 27 | the weak if they wear old, patched clothes, or even (to such
2141 Unic, 35 | presence. She showed me the patents which she had brought from
2142 Intr, 0 | Seven Meditations on the Paternoster. It is a pious commentary
2143 Unic, 35 | seems a royal road, not a pathway; a road along which anyone
2144 Unic, 17 | is a slave. We must bear patiently with it as Jacob bore with
2145 Unic, 6 | himself to this glorious patriarch and having devotion to him.
2146 Unic, 20 | during a sermon, on our patronal festival, when some great
2147 Outl, 0 | Spanish Cortes votes her patroness of Spain. The vote not confirmed.~
2148 Pref, 2 | so sedate that one has to pause for quite a long time before
2149 Unic, 13 | and sees how little it is paying of all that it owes Him,
2150 Outl, 0 | September 16) and villages near Pe-aranda. Though ill, goes to Alba
2151 Unic, 38 | experience as a certain peasant -- and this is a thing which
2152 Unic, 13 | themselves which tempt their own peculiar disposition. It is well
2153 Pref, 3 | Teresa's style is more pedestrian and colloquial than that
2154 Unic, 8(100)| Lit.: "the grief (pena) of being . . . ." "Discomfort," "
2155 Unic, 15 | to my delight that I can penetrate the meaning of the Spanish.
2156 Unic, 29 | several times so that it penetrated to my entrails. When he
2157 Unic, 20 | which in a single moment penetrates to the very depths of the
2158 Unic, 38 | day -- it was the vigil of Pentecost -- I went, after Mass, to
2159 Outl, 0 | XXVII of Foundations (See penultimate paragraph of that chapter).~
2160 Pref, 4 | Manchester, and Don Pedro Penzol, of the University of Leeds.
2161 Unic, 20 | open, the subject neither perceives nor pays attention to what
2162 Unic, 19 | though much of it was clearly perceptible. Then suddenly began evil-speaking
2163 Unic, 31 | do wrong and the way it perfects them by speaking ill of
2164 Unic, 30 | myself with the outward performance of good works, and I would
2165 Unic, 29 | knows not what to do. It performs certain penances, but is
2166 Unic, 2 | my hands and hair, using perfumes and all the vanities I could
2167 Unic, 36 | facility for its being kept permanently by those who desire to rejoice
2168 Unic, 27 | loving-kindness of God, Who permittest Thyself to be looked upon
2169 Unic, 31 | desire to be freed from such pernicious companionship.~
2170 Unic, 8 | not be with Thee, but are perplexed, as I was, with a thousand
2171 Unic, 25 | let all created things persecute me, let the devils torment
2172 Intr, 0 | with the most wonderful persistence and tenacity, to the sublimest
2173 Unic, 13 | making much progress. He persuades us that it is pride which
2174 Unic, 30 | as I could not succeed in persuading myself of the contrary,
2175 Unic, 35 | despite my having so often perused the Constitutions. And when
2176 Unic, 21(166)| a cuarto, or 3/100 of a peseta. It had come in late in
2177 Unic, 21 | All my will to serve Thee peters out in words and desires,
2178 Intr, 0 | Lord's Prayer, the seven petitions of which are treated as
2179 Unic, 39 | amazed to find we can act so pettily.~
2180 Unic, 39 | which are determined by the pettiness of our spirits? That we
2181 Unic, 37 | am now talking about the pettinesses of the world. So, as the
2182 Unic, 37(334)| a by no means uncommon phenomenon in Spain: so modern a writer
2183 Unic, 13(113)| Presumably a reference to Philippians iv, 13, unless the author
2184 Unic, 39 | his misery; it is like the phoenix, from the ashes of which,
2185 Unic, 20(153)| spelling of Latin is largely phonetic and always quaint. It will
2186 Pref, 2 | pressing the button lest the photograph should fail to catch the
2187 Intr, 0 | using the autographs, or photostats of them, where previous
2188 Outl, 0 | Chapter-General of the Order, held at Piacenza, adopts harsh measures towards
2189 Pref, 2 | none of which anybody can pick out as definitely correct.~
2190 Unic, 29 | With this he seemed to pierce my heart several times so
2191 Unic, 20 | distress so subtle and yet so piercing that, set as it is in that
2192 Unic, 38 | that on earth we are but pilgrims; it is a great thing to
2193 Unic, 15 | thanks for this benefit and piling up its sins and imperfections
2194 Unic, 32 | tear the flesh with their pincers or of the various other
2195 Unic, 36(325)| the date given by Mar'a Pinel in her manuscript History
2196 Unic, 40 | think of it, it is a most piteous reflection, that so many
2197 Unic, 7 | Many of them are to be pitied: they wish to escape from
2198 Unic, 20 | at its blindness! How it pities those who are still blind,
2199 Unic, 36(306)| This Brief of Pius IV was dated February 7,
2200 Unic, 32 | its own pleasure or to be placid and contented when at every
2201 Unic, 25 | these truths as from the plague. He is a lover of lies and
2202 Unic, 19 | about which the devil kept plaguing me, and I suffered so much
2203 Unic, 39 | better way than I could have planned; how much more readily still
2204 Pref, 3 | which have guided me in the planning of this edition will be
2205 Unic, 1(62) | the banks of the Rio de la Plata. On the incident in the
2206 Unic, 4(80) | begins early on the Castilian plateau), was under the supervision
2207 Pref, 2 | express any emotion from playful exasperation to profound
2208 Unic, 25 | world are like children's playthings -- he sees that he is indeed
2209 Unic, 40(360)| Sp., plazas, squares, public places:
2210 Unic, 2(66) | house near his own, in the Plazuela de Santo Domingo, where
2211 Unic, 34 | devil had organized a great plot against the arrival of the
2212 Unic, 27 | from which the devil can pluck any advantage. They occur
2213 Unic, 30 | affliction into which he plunges it, causing it an aridity
2214 Unic, 19 | have been nothing less than plunging into hell -- nor was it:
2215 Unic, 34(287)| Lord taught him later! The pluperfect and the word "previously" (
2216 Unic, 16(132)| The description of the poem is too vague for it to be
2217 Unic, 16 | a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in
2218 Intr, 0 | her seventeenth-century poets wrote what is perhaps the
2219 Unic, 15 | and of the first water, I pointed out that it is most important
2220 Pref, 2 | different sense, sometimes so pointedly that it produces an obvious
2221 Unic, 20 | like the movement of the pointer on a sundial, which is never
2222 Pref, 3 | but it may be worth while pointing out to the general reader,
2223 Outl, 0 | Royal Council opposes the policy of Tostado, who leaves for
2224 Pref, 2 | or even "Dear me!" The polite form of address Vuestra
2225 Unic, 11(109)| the desert pictures of the pomps and vanities of pagan Rome.~
2226 Unic, 7 | many things which I used to ponder deliberately and with great
2227 Pref, 2 | habla, sino que parece le pone el Se-or all' por ayuda
2228 Abbr | introducci-n, etc., por el P. Jaime Pons. Barcelona, 1908.~S.S.M.-
2229 Unic, 36 | in the fifth year of the pontificate of Pope Innocent IV.~
2230 Intr, 0 | studied in the Schools or pored over tomes of profound learning,
2231 Pref, 2 | temperament:~Digo en algunas, porque he visto, que cuando hay
2232 Unic, 29 | exquisite workmanship, were portrayed the five wounds.228 He told
2233 Unic, 23 | arranged with the sacristan and portress that they should not talk
2234 Unic, 9(103)| Confessions was made by a Portuguese, P. Sebasti‡n Toscano, and
2235 Unic, 40 | true dominion consists in possessing nothing, then he may take
2236 Pref, 1 | which it seemed better to postpone for the present, since it
2237 Unic, 32(262)| religious in virtue of teaching posts held by them, or as a distinction.~
2238 Unic, 31 | for the devil had made me pound the air242 with my body,
2239 Unic, 2(71) | relations qui semblaient pouvoir aboutir une alliance honorable
2240 Unic, 20 | if I were being ground to powder. It is a terrible struggle,
2241 Unic, 16(138)| autograph here: "Legant praedicatores."~
2242 Unic, 20 | and it is for this that it prays to the Lord, giving Him
2243 Unic, 36(311)| Bartholomew's Day, and a sermon is preached, in commemoration of the
2244 Unic, 8 | various and very careful precautions not to offend Him. As all
2245 Intr, 0 | which no doubt was given precedence over the other works on
2246 Intr, 0 | scandalize the literary preceptist. Had she not boldly snapped
2247 Unic, 35 | from observing Christ's precepts with due perfection. If
2248 Unic, 37 | it of the power to pray, precisely so that it may engage in
2249 Unic, 19(148)| illustration of her indifference to precision in her work. Even a hasty
2250 Intr, 0 | intensely mystical than its two predecessors. These three works, taken
2251 Unic, 2(71) | represents St. Teresa as predicting her own marriage.]~
2252 Unic, 33(271)| out I have used "you" in preference to "thou".]~
2253 Unic, 33 | did I even know who that prelate would be. But the Lord was
2254 Unic, 8 | practise recollection as a preliminary to prayer. It is a fact
2255 Intr, 0 | publication was thought to be premature.~
2256 Unic, 16 | to return to the world's preoccupations and formalities? I do not
2257 Unic, 36(309)| opportunity to complete the preparations for the new foundation in
2258 Unic, 9 | Majesty was only awaiting some preparedness on my part, His spiritual
2259 Intr, 0 | of Don I-igo de C‡rdenas, President of the Council of Castile.
2260 Pref, 2 | quite a long time before pressing the button lest the photograph
2261 Pref, 2 | which break at the slightest pressure.33 All these -- and there
2262 Unic, 17(139)| by assuming gastadura, a presumedly archaic substantive from
2263 Unic, 40 | lacking in humility and so presumptuous as to have dared to resolve
2264 Unic, 25 | so impious as to want to pretend to have received this favour,
2265 Pref, 2 | She particularly disliked pretentiousness, even in what was good,
2266 Unic, 19 | provided me and with what a pretty humility he inspired me.
2267 Unic, 27 | mean so that they might prevail with His Majesty to this
2268 Unic, 31 | knew. But good example soon prevails: that, at least, is the
2269 Unic, 22(171)| meditation, attacks an idea, very prevalent in St. Teresa's time, that
2270 Unic, 19 | which the devil wins his prey. When a soul finds itself
2271 Unic, 12 | learning, I think, is a priceless help in this exercise, if
2272 Unic, 38 | the obligation laid upon priests to be virtuous than upon
2273 Intr, 0 | Life is an autobiography primarily in the spiritual sense --
2274 Outl, 0 | Receives a letter from the Princess of Éboli about a foundation
2275 Unic, 4 | inwardly, though I liked principally to read good books, and
2276 Unic, 40 | in large and very legible print. "In the times to come,"
2277 Intr, 0 | welcomed by her Order, for the printers' errors in each edition
2278 Unic, 8 | fully realized that I was a prisoner, and yet I could not see
2279 Unic, 22 | those of His chamber and privy council, we must go with
2280 Unic, 34 | unworthy I was of it. I prized the favours which the Lord
2281 Pref, 1 | least urgent part of the problem.~
2282 Unic, 36 | at the beginning of legal proceedings. The city sent representatives
2283 Unic, 25 | There are so many reasoning processes by which we may tell the
2284 Unic, 38 | conceal this or refrain from proclaiming aloud such great marvels.
2285 Unic, 9 | an image which had been procured for a certain festival that
2286 Unic, 33 | without money or means of procuring it, either for the Brief
2287 Unic, 36(312)| The Book of Professions belonging to St. Joseph'
2288 Intr, 0 | in Spain, the Salamancan professor Fray Luis de Le-n. The volume,
2289 Unic, 37 | letters we need a University professorship, and lectures would have
2290 Unic, 30 | to the Lord when it has progressed as far as this, and when
2291 Unic, 23 | hold over me, because I was progressing in the practice of prayer,
2292 Outl, 0 | see the Bishop about the projected foundation in his diocese.
2293 Intr, 0 | briefly, as I promised in the prologue, these other things must
2294 Unic, 36 | seems as if His Majesty had prolonged his life until this business
2295 Unic, 26 | shortly afterwards this promise was in fact completely fulfilled.
2296 Unic, 22 | His Majesty is pleased to promote us to be among those of
2297 Unic, 7 | friendships and affections promoted in religious houses by the
2298 Unic, 21 | profit to them. All this prompts one to risk one's life (
2299 Unic, 19 | trust in itself, since it is prone to fall, nor must it expose
2300 Unic, 18 | he have the strength to pronounce it. For in this condition
2301 Unic, 38 | however wicked the priest who pronounces those words may be, God
2302 Unic, 13 | do not say this without proof and I have had experience
2303 Unic, 16(137)| country. The unorthodox propaganda of the Cazallist group spread
2304 Unic, 40 | In myself I find no great propensity either to joy or to sorrow.
2305 Unic, 18 | larger, seems to lose all its properties very quickly. So it is,
2306 Unic, 34 | glory of the Lord. All the prophecies about this house to which
2307 Unic, 25 | can this happen; words of prophecy, in my opinion, cannot possibly
2308 Unic, 23 | it seems now that he was prophesying what the Lord afterwards
2309 Unic, 19 | beseeches the Queen of Heaven to propitiate Thee. Now it invokes the
2310 Unic, 13 | must be taken in moderate proportions. When a soul finds itself
2311 Unic, 32 | told him all that we were proposing to do and some of the reasons
2312 Unic, 35(297)| Nullus fratrum sibi aliquid proprium esse dicat, sed sint vobis
2313 Pref, 1 | and the Minor Works (in prose and verse) dated from the
2314 Unic, 29 | they said, and God would protect me and take the vision away.
2315 Unic, 23 | carefully considered and women protected from all possible dangers.
2316 Unic, 30 | through the Cross became the Protector of us all. I saw that no
2317 Unic, 14(123)| Proverbs viii, 31.~
2318 Unic, 36 | desired it only with the proviso that if I found that the
2319 Unic, 14 | better if He did. I speak of pruning, for there come times when
2320 Pref, 3(41) | differs from this, as in the Psalms, the variation has been
2321 Unic, 15 | Latin, particularly in the Psalter, have not only been able
2322 Intr, 0 | before her day, from the pseudo-Dionysius to Ruysbroeck, nor any who
2323 Unic, 15 | tranquillity, is like the publican and dares not lift up its
2324 Pref, 2 | temer, se van a la mano y pueden.~(Lit.: I mean in some,
2325 Unic, 34(280)| and is not far from the Puerta del Cimbr-n.~
2326 Pref, 2 | denied to her vigorous and pugnacious phrases the superfluous
2327 Unic, 12 | take a leap and then is pulled back, so that he seems to
2328 Unic, 32(259)| publicly denounced from Avilan pulpits. On one occasion, she says,
2329 Unic, 20 | understand it better, my pulses almost cease to beat, my
2330 Unic, 25 | that it feels able to pulverize the devils in its defence
2331 Unic, 31 | finds that he is becoming punctilious about his reputation, let
2332 Intr, 0 | number of errata, notably in punctuation -- and, owing to St. Teresa'
2333 Unic, 11(107)| of "punto de honra" or "pundonor" in Spanish drama.]~
2334 Unic, 36 | begged him to forgive me, to punish me and not to be annoyed
2335 Unic, 36 | great harm and be heavily punished by God who attempts to mitigate
2336 Unic, 11(107)| honour." Cf. the use of "punto de honra" or "pundonor"
2337 Unic, 32 | completed the negotiations for purchasing the house. It was a small
2338 Intr, 0 | strife and the continual purgation through which such a soul
2339 Unic, 5 | after they had given me purgatives daily for almost a month,
2340 Unic, 20 | this distress the soul was purified, worked upon and refined
2341 Unic, 19 | tears of some efficacy. Purify this turbid stream, if only
2342 Unic, 38 | appears to have a wonderfully purifying effect upon the soul and
2343 Unic, 19 | succeeds in his purpose when he pursues us like this! The deceiver
2344 Unic, 31 | was being, not humble, but pusillanimous. For a soul which God allows
2345 Unic, 4(80) | This last phrase has puzzled the commentators. I take
2346 Unic, 27 | psalm "Laetatus sum in hic quae dicta sunt mihi",220 and
2347 Unic, 20(153)| largely phonetic and always quaint. It will suffice to reproduce
2348 Intr, 0 | it is the purely human quality of her writings which makes
2349 Unic, 6 | the terrible cold fits of quartan ague, from which I still
2350 Intr, 0 | fact, in the year of the quatercentenary of St. Teresa's birth, appeared
2351 Unic, 29 | remember that verse of David: Quemadmodum desiderat cervus ad fontes
2352 Unic, 15 | love for God from being quenched.~
2353 Unic, 25(200)| wilt", "will" and "love" is querer: the play upon words cannot
2354 Intr, 0 | aside every aim but the quest for God and then enabled
2355 Unic, 29(228)| Juana to Do-a Mar'a Enr'quez de Toledo, Duchess of Alba.
2356 Unic, 2(71) | s'agissait de relations qui semblaient pouvoir aboutir
2357 Unic, 13 | praise Thee because Thou quickenest so many to quicken us! We
2358 Unic, 29 | and we should check such quickenings of emotion by endeavouring
2359 Intr, 0 | experiences, and she had a quickness of mind, a readiness of
2360 Unic, 39 | I was reciting the psalm Quicunque vult, I was shown so clearly
2361 Unic, 22 | progress in the same way -- by quieting the understanding and making
2362 Unic, 30 | the opposite effects -- quietness, sweetness and light. Though
2363 Unic, 39 | a whisper. My whole body quivered with fear and I tried to
2364 Intr, 0 | Cervantes' immortal Don Quixote. It is surely amazing that
2365 Unic, 22 | perfect contemplation. They quote the words of the Lord on
2366 Pref, 2 | As for the dates she quotes -- "you must always understand (
2367 Unic, 20(159)| et earum raptus, sicut rabiamenta." St. Teresa could have
2368 Unic, 17 | if He allows us to enjoy Rachel. I say that it is a slave
2369 Unic, 5 | distressed me, for they racked me from head to foot and
2370 Outl, 0 | At St. Joseph's, Avila. Rafael Mej'a offers her a house
2371 Intr, 0 | undisturbed by the foes that rage without, it can have fruition
2372 Unic, 39 | desire that, even if the raindrops had been spears levelled
2373 Unic, 39 | morning it happened to be raining so heavily that I thought
2374 Unic, 19 | Thy hand to it again and raisest it up! How conscious it
2375 Unic, 16 | everything in order to get his ransom and return to his native
2376 Intr, 0 | This rapidly increasing circulation of
2377 Unic, 39 | daggers; and others, very long rapiers. Well, I could not get away
2378 Unic, 20(159)| stultas dementias, et earum raptus, sicut rabiamenta." St.
2379 Intr, 0 | person belonging to that rare and fortunate class knows
2380 Unic, 2 | nobody would ever know, I was rash enough to do many things
2381 Unic, 34 | advise me otherwise than rashly: to go might bring trials
2382 Unic, 32 | neither afraid of them nor rated them at what they are. What
2383 Unic, 30 | seems to be nothing but a raving lunatic -- no body can repress
2384 Unic, 25 | contrary, it recognizes them as ravings of the mind and will take
2385 Intr, 0 | wife of Don I-igo de C‡rdenas, President of the Council
2386 Unic, 31 | weaknesses of times past were re-awakening in me, and then I certainly
2387 Unic, 1(60) | in the country after the Re-conquest.~
2388 Unic, 8(100)| referring to all the varied reactions produced in man by the contact
2389 Intr, 0 | had a quickness of mind, a readiness of expression and a wealth
2390 Intr, 0 | some omissions and variant readings of such length or importance
2391 Unic, 17(139)| accord with St. Teresa's realistic way of looking at things,
2392 Unic, 20 | highest of its towers, and has reared the standard aloft there
2393 Unic, 37 | blowing on the fire and rearranging the wood, yet all its efforts
2394 Unic, 20 | upon me, though His Majesty reassures me as I go on. He told me
2395 Unic, 33 | for previously he had been reassuring and comforting me only by
2396 Intr, 0 | would have led her into rebellion against academic mechanism
2397 Unic, 36 | Provincial gave me a severe rebuke, though its severity was
2398 Unic, 33(263)| communities to imprison their recalcitrant members.~
2399 Unic, 26 | At other times the Lord recalls my past sins to me, especially
2400 Unic, 37 | to God and was unable to recapture it. I could not remember
2401 Unic, 23(182)| Cosa recia. Lit.: "a stout (tough,
2402 Unic, 21 | bestow blessings because the recipients have deserved them by cultivating
2403 Unic, 31 | this I am not ashamed to reckon any services that I may
2404 Unic, 15 | argument but only for a plain recognition of what we are, a presenting
2405 Unic, 37 | God, its source will be recognizable by its effects, when the
2406 Unic, 26 | those who serve Him without recognizing that anything he himself
2407 Unic, 15 | subject. This quiet and recollectedness in the soul makes itself
2408 Unic, 14 | clearly. This state is a recollecting of the faculties within
2409 Unic, 4 | advise others, I would never recommend anyone, when a good inspiration
2410 Unic, 36(311)| Revilla (de los Santos), recommended to the Saint by Gaspar Daza;
2411 Unic, 38(338)| the books which St. Teresa recommends to her nuns in her Constitutions (
2412 Unic, 10 | desire and counts itself well recompensed for all the service it has
2413 Unic, 3 | time there, I was much more reconciled to being a nun -- though
2414 Intr, 0 | in the most obscure and recondite details -- all these will
2415 Pref, 1 | commonplace. At last I began to reconsider the position. The only easily
2416 Unic, 25(202)| reference to the miracle recorded in St. Matthew viii, 23-
2417 Unic, 36(325)| Incarnation. The earliest extant records at St. Joseph's give no
2418 Unic, 33 | met with, which I shall recount later, and in order to bring
2419 Unic, 5 | commanded me to be temperate in recounting my sins, which I have presented
2420 Unic, 10 | refers, whose experience it recounts or who is its author; and
2421 Unic, 18 | although the faculties do not recover to such an extent as not
2422 Unic, 7 | follows standards and allows recreations which belong to the world,
2423 Unic, 19(148)| Justus es, Domine, et rectum judicium tuum." The remainder
2424 Outl, 0 | summer of 1542 (L VI) and recur intermittently (L VII) till
2425 Outl, 0 | diocese. At Valladolid has a recurrence of the Toledo complaint
2426 Unic, 29 | from me as a continually recurring favour,225 by giving me
2427 Unic, 18 | piece of iron can become red-hot; but if the fire be a large
2428 Unic, 14 | when Thou hast so often redeemed it anew and hast snatched
2429 Intr, 0 | King, Spouse, Shepherd, Redeemer, Physician, Judge. The author
2430 Unic, 17 | of their natural form and reduced them to ashes: so great
2431 Unic, 20 | purified, worked upon and refined like gold in the crucible,
2432 Unic, 6 | indulgence in any of the refinements (which are really coarsenesses)
2433 Intr, 0 | for critical work on the Reformers of Carmel. As many of the
2434 Unic, 7 | objects of devotion for it, refraining from evil-speaking and doing
2435 Unic, 31 | seems to me good save its refusal to allow that good people
2436 Outl, 0 | Do-a Leonor de Mascare-as. Refuses to found a convent in Madrid (
2437 Unic, 35 | two sheets long, full of refutations and theology; in this he
2438 Unic, 37 | in anything that I do not regain my freedom when I turn once
2439 Unic, 16 | soul experience when it regains its senses and goes back
2440 Pref, 2 | contrasted with them. The verb regalar may run through the gamut "
2441 Pref, 2 | the singular substantive regalo varies in the same way.
2442 Pref, 2 | are gustos, contentos and regalos, generally translated, respectively, "
2443 Unic, 29 | imagination, and spend time in regarding it, and considering the
2444 Pref, 2 | decisions and then stuck to them regardless of the consequences:~
2445 Unic, 40 | has also caused me deep regrets at the many occasions when,
2446 Unic, 13 | us! We should pray most regularly for those who give us light.
2447 Unic, 34 | for everything has to be regulated, not according to their
2448 Unic, 27 | despised so that we might reign for ever? That is not the
2449 Unic, 9 | that my tears would not be rejected. I did not know what I was
2450 Unic, 18 | in this state the soul's rejoining is beyond comparison greater,
2451 Unic, 11 | stumble, it need not fear a relapse, for its building has been
2452 Pref, 2 | difficulty, but they are relatively few: for all the sublimity
2453 Unic, 25 | whose company I could find relaxation, I was unable to pray or
2454 Unic, 35 | precipice: hardly has a man relaxed his care than he falls over
2455 Unic, 35 | revoked his order and released me from the obligation of
2456 Unic, 36 | version of the affair, she relented a little, and they all sent
2457 Unic, 23 | nothing. So I marked the relevant passages and gave him the
2458 Intr, 0 | the preparation of a more reliable edition than any yet published.
2459 Intr, 0 | where previous editors had relied on copies. The notes to
2460 Unic, 33 | so that I knew I could rely on anything he might say
2461 Unic, 27 | time he appeared to me he remarked on the blessedness of the
2462 Unic, 13(116)| however (p. 98, n. 6), aptly remarks that, as shown in Chap.
2463 Pref, 2 | his or her spirituality. Remedio is more often "help" than "
2464 Unic, 30 | whom God gives them. It reminds me of little springs which
2465 Unic, 31(250)| This is evidently a reminiscent reference to Ch. XXX. The
2466 Unic, 27 | others would be struck with remorse; and we should at least
2467 Pref, 1 | the American Southwest, a remote community of Carmelite nuns
2468 Unic, 33(267)| Avila, led to P. Salazar's removal early in 1562: he had gone
2469 Pref, 2 | have a few notes on the renderings normally adopted for characteristic
2470 Unic, 27 | any labour on its part, renders it capable of receiving
2471 Unic, 15 | that the reason they were renouncing the good things of this
2472 Intr, 0 | to any kind or degree of renown, should have won such a
2473 Unic, 37 | which He had come to make reparation. Although He is my Lord,
2474 Unic, 34 | and I praised the Lord repeatedly when I found that His Majesty
2475 Pref, 2 | time they occur. When she repeats phrases it is generally
2476 Unic, 7 | vainglory attacks him, he will repel it, and, in doing so, gain
2477 Unic, 38 | faculties when he died, and so repentant and humble, that everyone
2478 Unic, 11 | always sure that they have repented of their sins (though clearly
2479 Unic, 17 | ordinary food; yet he is not so replete that, if he sees something
2480 Unic, 11(106)| word to denote something reprehensible in nuns: elsewhere she adjures
2481 Pref, 3 | documents, making them as representative as possible. In order that
2482 Unic, 9 | kept for that purpose. It represented Christ sorely wounded;101
2483 Unic, 30 | raving lunatic -- no body can repress it and I have not myself
2484 Intr, 0 | for it and was content to reprint, in 1778, an edition of
2485 Unic, 15 | perfection, would consider it a reproach and be ashamed if they thought
2486 Unic, 7(96) | December 26 [P. Silverio reproduces documents which disprove
2487 Unic, 29 | would be necessary if such a reproduction was to be in the least like
2488 Intr, 0 | considerable number of facsimile reproductions of these manuscripts have
2489 Unic, 26 | on the one hand and the reproofs on the other, I would feel
2490 Unic, 7 | cannot imagine how such a reptile could have come from the
2491 Unic, 32 | were many wicked-looking reptiles. At the end there was a
2492 Intr, 0 | Provincial of the Reform, republished the Way of perfection, which
2493 Unic, 5(84) | Barr-n, a theologian of repute, who was also her father'
2494 Unic, 3 | his consent, nor did the requests of persons whom I asked
2495 Unic, 31(249)| sentence of the paragraph requires "honour".]~
2496 Unic, 36 | Council and a reply came requiring a report to be made on how
2497 Unic, 31 | when he sees how ill I have requited such exceeding great favours
2498 Pref, 2 | revising her work -- nor even rereading it to see what she has said
2499 Unic, 33(272)| to forgo an endowment. A Rescript dated December 5, 1562,
2500 Unic, 40 | devices, His Majesty has rescued from hell and drawn to Himself.
2501 Unic, 39 | greater perfection. As to rescuing souls from purgatory and