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Autobiography
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Translator's Preface
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 1: Life, Chap. XIII (p. 140). 
 *: Special Note: The references for the works of St. Teresa (except for Life) used in the footnotes th[...]
 2: Foundations, Chap. XIV (Vol. III, p. 66). 
 3: Life, Chap. XXV (p. 243). 
 4: Way of perfection, Chap. XXXII (Vol. II, p. 138). 
 5: Life, Chap. XXXVI (pp. 344-5). 
 6: Life, Chap. XXXIII (p. 312). 
 7: Way of perfection, Chap. XX (Vol. II, p. 86). 
 8: Vol. III, pp. 229-31. 
 9: Conceptions of the Love of God, Chap. II (Vol. II, p. 375). 
 10: Foundations, Chap. XIV (Vol. III, p. 66). 
 11: Way of perfection, Chap. XXII (Vol. II, p. 94). 
 12: Foundations, Chap. XIX (Vol. III, p. 94). 
 13: Foundations, Chap. XXVIII (Vol. III, p. 164). 
 14: Life, Chap. XXXVIII (p. 361). 
 15: Life, Chap. XIII (p. 147). 
 16: Way of perfection, Chap. XX (Vol. II, p. 88). 
 17: Life, Chap. XIII (p. 145). 
 18: Ibid., Chap. XXXVI (Vol. II, p. 156). 
 19: Life, Chap. XXXVII (p. 360). 
 20: Such references as these are to be found everywhere. See, for example, p. 151, Vol. II, pp. 68, 234[...]
 21: In the Escorial manuscript. See Vol. II, p. 97, n. 6. 
 22: Foundations, Chap. XXV (Vol. III, p. 132 ). 
 23: Way of perfection, Chap. XIX (Vol. II, p. 76). 
 24: Vol. II, p. 68. 
 25: Vol. III, p. 39. 
 26: Vol. II, p. 312. 
 27: Life, Chap. XIII (p. 147). 
 28: Life, Chap. XXXIV (p. 324). 
 29: Life, Chap. VII (p. 98 ). 
 30: Life, Chap. XXX (p. 282 ). 
 31: Foundations, Chap. XV (Vol. III, p. 74). 
 32: Life, Chaps. XIII, XXXVII, XXVI, XXIX (p. 140, 380, 244, 273). 
 33: Relations, III (Vol. I, p. 316). 
 34: See, for a typical example, Life, Chap. XXXVIII (p. 362). 
 35: Life, Chap. VII (p. 98). 
 36: Interior Castle, VI, ix (Vol. II, p. 316). 
 37: Life, Chap. XXXVI (p. 343). 
 38: Way of perfection, Chap. XXXII (Vol. II, p. 135).

Translator's Preface
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 39: [All the footnotes to the text are P. Silverio's except where they are enclosed in square brackets,[...]
 40: Such a subject-index will be found in Vol. III, pp. 445-54 of my edition of the Complete Works. [...]
 41: All footnote references are to this version. Where the numbering of chapters or verses in the Autho[...]
 42: Cf. her reference to the Bible in Life, Chap. XXV (p. 239).

An Outline of the Life of St. Teresa
43: I.e., about six months after Maldonado's visit: cf. final words of FI (Vol. III, p. 4). 
44: Some authorities believe that, between December 11 and 17 of this year, St. Teresa had an interview[...]

General Introduction to the Works of St. Teresa
 45: Jer-nimo Graci‡n: Lucidario del verdadero esp'ritu, Chap. V. She did, however, eventually write the[...]
 46: Life, Chap. X (p. 123). 
 47: [This is the title nearly always given in Spanish to the Interior Castle.] 
 48: Historia del Carmen Descalzo, Bk. V, Chap. XIII. 
 49: Foundations, Chap. VII (Vol. III, p. 36, n. 2). 
 50: Quoted in full by P. Silverio, I, lxix. 
 51: Ribera, Bk. I, Chap. V. 
 52: Life, Chap. II (p. 68). 
 53: [St. John of the Cross, I, liv ff., et passim.] 
 54: B.Nac. MS. 3180 Adiciones E., Nos. 13, 14. 
 55: [Cf. S.S.M., II, 155-6.] 
 56: [S.S M., II, 151-89.] 
 57: [St. John of the Cross, II, 72.] 
 58: ["The Flaming Hart" ("Upon the book and picture of the seraphicall St. Teresa").]

Autobiography
CHAPTER I - Describes how the Lord began to awaken her soul in childhood to a love of virtue and what a help it is in this respect to have good parents.
 59: St. Teresa's father, Don Alonso S‡nchez de Cepeda, was twice married. By his first wife he had thre[...]
 60: At this time well-to-do families in Spain often kept as slaves Moors whose families had remained in[...]
 61: Do-a Beatriz had married at fourteen, having been born in 1495, and died in 1528. 
 62: The reference is almost certainly to Rodrigo, who was four years her senior. He emigrated to Americ[...]
 63: Ribera (Bk. I, Chap. IV) describes the attempt as having actually been made. The children left Avil[...]
 64: Actually, as we have seen, she was thirteen. Do-a Beatriz made her will, shortly before her death, [...]
 65: Tradition has it that the image was one which is now in Avila Cathedral, and that Teresa and Rodrig[...]

Autobiography
CHAPTER II - Describes how these virtues were gradually lost and how important it is in childhood to associate with people of virtue.
 66: Don Alonso's brother, Don Francisco, had a house near his own, in the Plazuela de Santo Domingo, wh[...]
 67: This was her half-sister, Do-a Mar'a, her father's only daughter by his first wife. 
 68: [The word honra, which St. Teresa uses in various senses -- good, bad and neutral -- I often render[...]
 69: This was the Augustinian convent of Our Lady of Grace, a foundation some twenty years old situated [...]
 70: [Honra.] 
 71: [St. Teresa's reference to this intimacy is so delicately vague that it is difficult for the transl[...]

Autobiography
CHAPTER III - Describes how good companionship helped to awaken desires in her and the way in which the Lord began to give her light concerning the delusion under which she had been suffering.
 72: St. Matthew xx, 16. 
 73: Do-a Juana Su‡rez, a nun in the Convent of the Incarnation at Avila, where St. Teresa afterwards pr[...]
 74: Do-a Mar'a, living at Castellanos de la Ca-ada. Cf. n. 80. 
 75: Cf. n. 81. 
 76: [Lit.: "did He force me to exercise force upon myself." The play upon words cannot be fully brought[...]
 77: A Spanish translation of these, by Juan de Molina, had been published at Valencia, in 1520.

Autobiography
CHAPTER IV - Describes how the Lord helped her to force herself to take the habit and tells of the numerous infirmities which His Majesty began to send her.
  78: Her younger brother Antonio, who became a Dominican, and later a Hieronymite. Then ill health compe[...]
  79: The Convent of the Incarnation, Avila, is situated on the north side of the city, outside the walls[...]
  80: [This last phrase has puzzled the commentators. I take the meaning to be that St. Teresa went to st[...]
  81: The uncle, Don Pedro, lived at Hortigosa, a village on the road to Castellanos. The Discalced Carme[...]
  82: [St. Teresa must have been mistaken. She cannot possibly have been less than twenty-three and was p[...]

Autobiography
CHAPTER V - Continues to tell of the grievous infirmities which she suffered and of the patience given her by the Lord, and of how He brings good out of evil, as will be seen from an incident which happened to her in the place where she went for treatment.
 83: [Lit.: "a person of the Church", but the context makes the meaning clear.] 
 84: P. Vicente Barr-n, a theologian of repute, who was also her father's confessor. 
 85: [Spanish writers always describe the Society of Jesus as the "Company" and that word is kept throug[...]
 86: The Discalced nuns of St. Joseph's, Avila, have an edition of St. Gregory's Morals, in two volumes,[...]
 87: Job ii, 10. 
 88: According to Ribera (Bk. I, Chap. VII), she was believed to be dead, a grave was dug for her at the[...]

Autobiography
CHAPTER VI - Describes all that she owed to the Lord for granting her resignation in such great trials; and how she took the glorious Saint Joseph for her mediator and advocate; and the great profit that this brought her.
 89: [Pascua florida. Lewis (p. 33) erroneously translates "Palm Sunday."] 
 90: [Envuelto. Lit.: "wrapped up", "swathed".] 
 91: [Honra. Cf. n. 68.] 
 92: In many Spanish convents at this time it was customary to allow any nun who could afford to do so t[...]
 93: Galatians ii, 20.

Autobiography
CHAPTER VII - Describes how she began to lose the favours which the Lord had granted her and how evil her life became. Treats of the harm that comes to convents from laxity in the observance of the rule of enclosure.
 94: [The Saint wrote, no doubt inadvertently, "that did not displease Him".] P. B‡-ez corrected this to[...]
 95: [Honra.] 
 96: [Hardly quite so long, as] it seems certain that Don Alonso died on December 24, 1543. His will is [...]
 97: P. Vicente Barr-n [cf. p. 27, n. 2]. 
 98: [The metaphor, hacerse espaldas, is St. Teresa's.]

Autobiography
CHAPTER VIII - Treats of the great benefit which she derived from not entirely giving up prayer lest she should ruin her soul. Describes the excellence of prayer as a help towards regaining what one has lost. Urges all to practise it. Says what great gain it brings and how great a benefit it is, even for those who may later give it up, to spend some time on a thing which is so good.
99: [An apparent reference to Ezechiel xviii, 21.] 
100: [Lit.: "the grief (pena) of being . . . ." "Discomfort," "embarrassment," "depression" would be mod[...]

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CHAPTER IX - Describes the means by which the Lord began to awaken her soul and to give her light amid such great darkness, and to strengthen the virtues in her so that she should not offend Him.
 101: Tradition has it that this was an Ecce Homo, which is still venerated in the Convent of the Incarna[...]
 102: [The original has an untranslatable play upon words: lit.: "must be (sic) gained or lost a great de[...]
 103: A Spanish translation of the Confessions was made by a Portuguese, P. Sebasti‡n Toscano, and dedica[...]
 104: [Confessions, Bk. VIII, Chap. XII.]

Autobiography
CHAPTER X - Begins to describe the favours which the Lord granted her in prayer. Explains what part we ourselves can play here, and how important it is that we should understand the favours which the Lord is granting us. Asks those to whom she is sending this that the remainder of what she writes may be kept secret, since she has been commanded to describe in great detail the favours granted her by the Lord.
105: These persons, according to a manuscript note by P. Graci‡n to be found in a copy of the first edit[...]

Autobiography
CHAPTER XI - Gives the reason why we do not learn to love God perfectly in a short time. Begins, by means of a comparison, to describe four degrees of prayer, concerning the first of which something is here said. This is most profitable for beginners and for those who are receiving no consolations in prayer.
 106: [Honra. n. 68. This is an example of the use of the word to denote something reprehensible in nuns:[...]
 107: [Lit.: "hardly have they touched us in a point of honour." Cf. the use of "punto de honra" or "pund[...]
 108: "P. Pedro Ib‡-ez", observes P. Graci‡n, in another manuscript note to the copy of the first edition[...]
 109: The reference as to the twenty-second epistle of St. Jerome "Ad Eustochium", which describes how vi[...]
 110: [The metaphors here follow the Spanish exactly.] 
 111: [Lit.: "is growing fat and taking strength." Fatness is often spoken of in Spain as synonymous with[...]

Autobiography
CHAPTER XII - Continues to describe this first state. Tells how far, with the help of God, we can advance by ourselves and describes the harm that ensues when the spirit attempts to aspire to unusual and supernatural experiences before they are bestowed upon it by the Lord.
112: By the Franciscan P. Alonso de Madrid: first published at Seville in 1521 and reprinted many times [...]

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CHAPTER XIII - Continues to describe this first state and gives counsels for dealing with certain temptations which the devil is sometimes wont to prepare. This chapter is very profitable.
 113: [Presumably a reference to Philippians iv, 13, unless the author is attributing Our Lord's words in[...]
 114: "Da quod jubes et jube quod vis" (Confessions, Bk. X, Chap. XXIX). 
 115: St. Matthew xiv, 29. 
 116: According to P. Graci‡n, these persons were Mar'a de San Pablo, Ana de los Angeles and Do-a Mar'a d[...]
 117: [While there are too many similarities between the writings of St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross[...]
 118: [Lit.: "of more than two" -- but the expression is a figurative one.]

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CHAPTER XIV - Begins to describe the second degree of prayer, in which the Lord grants the soul experience of more special consolations. This description is made in order to explain the supernatural character of these consolations. It should be most carefully noted.
 119: [Cf. St. John of the Cross: Spiritual Canticle, Stanza VI.] 
 120: [2 Corinthians xi, 14.] 
 121: I.e., St. Joseph's, Avila. 
 122: [Lit.: "the flowers and carnations." No doubt carnations, with their strong fragrance, were flowers[...]
 123: Proverbs viii, 31. 
 124: [The verb cortar, here translated "cut off", is rendered "prune", "prune away" earlier in this chap[...]

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CHAPTER XV - Continues speaking of the same subject and gives certain counsels as to how the soul must behave in this Prayer of Quiet. Tells how there are many souls who attain to this prayer and few who pass beyond it. The things touched herein are very necessary and profitable.
 125: St. Matthew xvii, 4. 
 126: Without altering the word "humility", P. B‡-ez wrote underneath it, in the original manuscript, "hu[...]
 127: The original has "truth" (verdad), not "will" (voluntad). [P. Silverio, while agreeing that volunta[...]
 128: St. Matthew xvi, 24.

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CHAPTER XVI - Treats of the third degree of prayer and continues to expound very lofty matters, describing what the soul that reaches this state is able to do and the effects produced by these great favours of the Lord. This chapter is well calculated to uplift the spirit in praises to God and to provide great consolation for those who reach this state.
 129: [I have translated literally, but the phrase, a common one in Spanish, is equivalent to "at the poi[...]
 130: St. Luke xv, 9. 
 131: The feast of King David is to be found in the Carmelite calendar revised by the Chapter-General in [...]
 132: The "person", as so often in St. Teresa, was the author herself. [The description of the poem is to[...]
 133: [Lit.: "by seeing" (viendo), which reading P. Silverio adopts; but I think we may assume this to be[...]
 134: The reference is to P. Pedro Ib‡-ez. The parenthetical sentence [which I have bracketed in the text[...]
 135: After this word come three or four others, which have been so effectively scored through that they [...]
 136: Probably the other four were P. Daza, Don Francisco de Salcedo, Do-a Guiomar de Ulloa and P. Ib‡-ez[...]
 137: The reference is to clandestine meetings held at Valladolid by a group of people suspected of heres[...]
 138: P. B‡-ez wrote in the margin of the autograph here: "Legant praedicatores."

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CHAPTER XVII - Continues the same subject, the exposition of this third degree of prayer. Concludes her exposition of the effects produced by it. Describes the hindrances caused in this state by the imagination and the memory.
139: [Tan fuerte . . . que no se le vaya en gostaduras. A difficult phrase, which used to be interpreted[...]

Autobiography
CHAPTER XVIII - Treats of the fourth degree of prayer. Begins to describe in an excellent way the great dignity conferred by the Lord upon the soul in this state. This chapter is meant for the great encouragement of those who practise prayer to the end that they may strive to reach this lofty state, which it is possible to attain on earth, though not through our merits but by the Lord's goodness. Let it be read with attention, for its exposition is most subtle and it contains most noteworthy things.
 140: These four words were crossed out in the manuscript by the author. 
 141: This sentence was also crossed out by the author. 
 142: [Lit.: "Maintains the web." This curious phrase will be familiar to readers of St. John of the Cros[...]
 143: [The Spanish is deshacerse: this verb, often used by St. Teresa, is the contrary of hacer, to do, a[...]
 144: [Paso: incident, occurrence -- here, no doubt, referring to some scene in the Gospels.] 
 145: Probably P. B‡-ez, though P. Graci‡n and Mar'a de San JosŽ say that P. Barr-n is meant.

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CHAPTER XIX - Continues the sane subject. Begins to describe the effects produced in the soul by this degree of prayer. Exhorts souls earnestly not to turn back, even if after receiving this favour they should fall, and not to give up prayer. Describes the harm that will ensue if they do not follow this counsel. This chapter is to be read very carefully and will be of great comfort to the weak and to sinners.
 146: [Deshacerse. Cf. p. 179, n. 4.] 
 147: [Deshacerse.] 
 148: Psalm cxviii, 137 [A.V., cxix, 137]. The Latin text is: "Justus es, Domine, et rectum judicium tuum[...]
 149: P. Barr-n.

Autobiography
CHAPTER XX - Treats of the difference between union and rapture. Describes the nature of rapture and says something of the blessing that comes to the soul which the Lord, of His goodness, brings to it. Describes the effects which it produces. This chapter is particularly admirable.
 150: The bracketed sentence is found in the margin of the autograph in St. Teresa's hand. 
 151: [P. Silverio says that this happened at St. Joseph's, Avila, "about the year 1565". But, as this bo[...]
 152: [Envuelto. See n. 90.] 
 153: Psalm ci, 8. [A.V., cii, 7]: "I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.[...]
 154: Psalm xli, 4 [A.V., xlii, 3]. 
 155: Galatians vi, 14: ". . . by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world." 
 156: [Malachias iv, 2. A.V.: "Sun of Righteousness."] 
 157: [Quien est‡ de lo alto . . . I give the most obvious translation of this rather unusual phrase (lit[...]
 158: P. B‡-ez altered this phrase to: "It has no desire to seek or possess any will save that of Our Lor[...]
 159: St. Vincent Ferrer: De Via spirituali, Chap. XIV: "Si dicerent tibi aliquid quod sit contra fidem, [...]
 160: Psalm liv, 7 [A.V., lv, 6]. 
 161: [Cf. St. John of the Cross, I, 25: "All the creatures are nothing; and their affections, we may say[...]
 162: [P. Silverio supposes this to refer to Psalm cxlii, 2 (A.V., cxliii, 2): "In thy sight no man livin[...]
 163: [Barro: mud, clay. Often used in Spanish as a symbol of the earthly and material.] 
 164: [Cf. St. John of the Cross, I, 62, sect. 9] 
 165: [This second "it" must refer to the soul (alma), which is feminine in Spanish. P. Silverio, however[...]

Autobiography
CHAPTER XXI - Continues and ends the account of this last degree of prayer. Describes the feelings of the soul in this state on its return to life in the world and the light which the Lord sheds for it on the world's delusions. Contains good doctrine.
 166: Algœn cornado. The cornado was a small copper coin, worth about as much as a cuarto, or 3/100 of a [...]
 167: [Probably a reminiscence of Apocalypse ii, 23: "And I will give to every one of you according to yo[...]
 168: Romans vii, 24: "Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"

Autobiography
CHAPTER XXII - Describes how safe a practice it is for contemplatives not to uplift their spirits to lofty things if they are not so uplifted by the Lord, and how the path leading to the most exalted contemplation must be the Humanity of Christ. Tells of an occasion on which she was herself deceived. This chapter is very profitable.
 169: [Presumably St. John xvi, 7-14 is meant. The Spanish has "at the time of" for "with regard to" and [...]
 170: The passage "But it seems to me . . . all the rest" was inserted by the author in the margin of the[...]
 171: This chapter, which dwells on the suitability of the Humanity of Christ as a subject for meditation[...]
 172: "By 'recently' . . . visions" is a marginal addition in St. Teresa's hand. 
 173: [Lewis (p. 187, n. 5) supposes this to be P. Juan de Pr‡danos: cf. n. 190.] 
 174: She seems to be addressing P. Garc'a de Toledo here and the addition of "Sir" may be due to the fac[...]
 175: St. Luke v, 8. 
 176: [St. Luke xvii, 10.] 
 177: [The exact sense of this clause is doubtful. Dar voces means to cry or shout aloud and the meaning [...]
 178: [Or: "and how well loved is he who loves Him . . . !"] 
 179: [Lit.: "and keep themselves (to themselves)."]

Autobiography
CHAPTER XXIII - Resumes the description of the course of her life and tells how and by what means she began to aim at greater perfection. It is of advantage for persons who are concerned in the direction of souls that practise prayer to know how they must conduct themselves in the early stages. The profit that she herself gained thereby.
 180: Such were the notorious Sor Magdalena de la Cruz of C-rdoba [and Mar'a de la Visitaci-n, the Lisbon[...]
 181: It was in 1554 that the Society of Jesus founded the College of St. Giles (San Gil) at Avila, to wh[...]
 182: [Cosa recia. Lit.: "a stout (tough, hard) thing." As we might say in conversation: "A little too st[...]
 183: [Acabarlo conmigo. A stronger rendering, such as "put an end to it all", would not be out of place.[...]
 184: This was Gaspar Daza, a pious and learned priest who for some time was St. Teresa's confessor and h[...]
 185: Don Francisco de Salcedo, an Avilan gentleman whose wife, Do-a Menc'a del çguila, was a cousin of t[...]
 186: One of these links is mentioned in the preceding note. 
 187: [She refers to the Ascent of Mount Sion, published at Seville, in 1535, by a Franciscan lay-brother[...]
 188: Salcedo and Daza. 
 189: 1 Corinthians x, 13. "And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which y[...]
 190: This was P. Juan de Pr‡danos, who was St. Teresa's confessor for two months and probably the first [...]

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CHAPTER XXIV - Continues the subject already begun. Describes how her soul profited more and more after she began to obey, how little it availed her to resist the favours of God and how His Majesty went on giving them to her in increasing measure.
 191: The Convent of the Incarnation, Avila. 
 192: P. Juan de Pr‡danos. 
 193: [Lit.: "any superfluous thing" -- presumably referring to small comforts or luxuries.] 
 194: St. Francis Borgia [Sp., Borja] had been appointed Commissary of the Society of Jesus in Spain and [...]
 195: Do-a Guiomar (or Jer-nima) de Ulloa. Both her parents, Don Pedro de Ulloa and Do-a Aldonza de Guzm‡[...]
 196: P. Baltasar çlvarez, who was one of the best directors St. Teresa ever had, though at times, as we [...]

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CHAPTER XXV - Discusses the method and manner in which these locutions bestowed by God on the soul are apprehended without being heard and also certain kinds of deception which may occur here and the way to recognize them. This chapter is most profitable for anyone who finds himself at this stage of prayer because the exposition is very good and contains much teaching.
 197: Chap. XIX. The date of this first locution can be fixed only approximately, between 1555 and 1557.<[...]
 198: Chap. VII. 
 199: [This phrase is not in the original, but appears to be understood.] 
 200: [The verb translated "wilt", "will" and "love" is querer: the play upon words cannot be satisfactor[...]
 201: [The verb is faltar, translated "lack" and "fail" in this half-punning sentence, and "fail" below. [...]
 202: [Evidently a reference to the miracle recorded in St. Matthew viii, 23-7, St. Mark iv, 35-40 and St[...]
 203: [An apparent reference to St. Matthew x, 28.] 
 204: [Clearly St. Teresa has here in mind St. John viii, 44.] 
 205: [The fig, or "fico", is a contemptuous motion which we should make by a "snap of the fingers" but w[...]

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CHAPTER XXVI - Continues the same subject. Goes on with the description and explanation of things which befell her and which rid her of her fears and assured her that it was the good spirit that was speaking to her.
 206: [The Spanish idiom is literally: "who will not clap his hands to his head".] 
 207: B. Baltasar çlvarez. 
 208: In 1559, Don Fernando de ValdŽs, Grand Inquisitor of Spain, published an Index of books of which he[...]
 209: [Unless the author is mistaken about this, her first imaginary vision (see n. 221) cannot have take[...]

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CHAPTER XXVII - Treats of another way in which the Lord teaches the soul and in an admirable manner makes His will plain to it without the use of words. Describes a vision and a great favour, not imaginary, granted her by the Lord. This chapter should be carefully noted.
 210: [On various types of vision, see Vol. II, p. 279, n.] 
 211: This Franciscan saint [of whom an account will be found in S.S.M, II, 99-120] had in 1540 initiated[...]
 212: Canticles vi, 2 or vi, 4 is probably meant, but the reminiscence is a vague one and several other p[...]
 213: [Lit.: "accepter" (acetador), but the context suggests a reference to Acts x, 34. (D.V.: "God is no[...]
 214: [St. Luke xxiii, 26, 28.] 
 215: [This sentence is a free translation of one of the most obscure and ungrammatical sentences in St. [...]
 216: St. Peter of Alc‡ntara died on October 18, 1562 [a fact which would be useful in helping to fix the[...]
 217: [Lit.: naked.] 
 218: This was his penitent Mar'a D'az, a well-to-do woman of great saintliness who lived a life of Franc[...]
 219: [Actually he was fifty-nine.] 
 220: Psalm cxxi, 1 [A.V., cxxii, 1]: "I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into th[...]

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CHAPTER XXVIII - Treats of the great favours which the Lord bestowed upon her, and of His first appearance to her. Describes the nature of an imaginary vision. Enumerates the important effects and signs which this produces when it proceeds from God. This chapter is very profitable and should be carefully noted.
 221: [P. Silverio dates this occurrence January 25, 1558, but a reference in Chap. XXVI (see n. 209) sug[...]
 222: [I.e., the intellectual vision. By "this", of course, is meant the imaginary vision.] 
 223: P. Baltasar çlvarez. As this Father was only twenty-five years of age when he became St. Teresa's d[...]
 224: The period was actually of six years, but the author naturally dwells most upon the first three, wh[...]

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CHAPTER XXIX - Continues the subject already begun and describes certain great favours which the Lord showed her and the things which His Majesty said to her to reassure her and give her answers for those who opposed her.
 225: [If the first imaginary vision occurred on January 25, 1560 (cf. nn. 209, 221, but also n. 227), th[...]
 226: Dar higas -- i.e., make the sign of contempt described in n. 205. 
 227: [This phrase would seem to indicate that the first vision was on June 29 (or possibly on June 30: t[...]
 228: This cross was later given by St. Teresa's sister Juana to Do-a Mar'a Enr'quez de Toledo, Duchess o[...]
 229: Psalm xli, 1 [A.V., xlii, 1]: "As the hart panteth after the fountains of water, so my soul panteth[...]
 230: [Lit.: "too low for so high an ill."] 
 231: St. Teresa wrote "Cherubims", but P. B‡-ez added the marginal note: "it seems more like those which[...]
 232: [P. Silverio dates this occurrence "about 1562" but gives no evidence for the date, and I see none.[...]
 233: Chap. XX.

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CHAPTER XXX - Takes up the course of her life again and tells how the Lord granted her great relief from her trials by bringing her a visit from the holy man Fray Peter of Alc
 234: [Hoja de lata. Lit.: "tinplate."] 
 235: [The only one of these "little books" still extant is the Treatise of Prayer and Meditation: S.S.M.[...]
 236: Do-a Guiomar de Ulloa. 
 237: [This word, temerosa, might also be translated "timorous", "timid" but St. Teresa's use of "and", r[...]
 238: [The Franciscan term for a group of religious houses not large enough to form a province.] 
 239: [The sudden and characteristic change of person is reproduced exactly from the original.] 
 240: P. Baltasar çlvarez, according to Graci‡n. 
 241: St. John iv, 15 "Sir, give me this water." These words, which form part of the Gospel for the Frida[...]

Autobiography
CHAPTER XXXI - Treats of certain outward temptations and representations made to her by the devil and of tortures which he caused her. Discusses likewise several matters which are extremely useful for people to know if they are walking on the road to perfection.
 242: [Lit.: "had made me give great blows."] 
 243: This would be either P. B‡-ez or P. Garc'a de Toledo, who were the Saint's confessors from about 15[...]
 244: [The brackets here are mine. The sentence is an excellent example (and there are many others in the[...]
 245: P. Federico de S. Antonio (Vita della Santa Madre Teresa di Gesœ, Bk. I, Chap. XXII) thinks the Sai[...]
 246: This reference is probably to a stay which St. Teresa made with her younger sister, Juana, and her [...]
 247: [Honra; and so throughout this and the following paragraphs. Cf. n. 68.] 
 248: ["Girls'," may seem an unduly colloquial word, but the Spanish is even more unexpected: ni-as, "you[...]
 249: [Cf. n. 247. "Reputation" would be a better word here, but the wordplay in the last sentence of the[...]
 250: [This is evidently a reminiscent reference to Ch. XXX. The application of the figure, however, it w[...]

Autobiography
CHAPTER XXXII - Tells how the Lord was pleased to carry her in spirit to a place in hell which she had merited for her sins. Describes a part of what was shown her there. Begins to tell of the way and means whereby the convent of Saint Joseph was founded in the place where it now is.
 251: [See Ch. V.] 
 252: The Convent of the Incarnation, Avila. 
 253: A Bull published by Pope Eugenius IV on February 15, 1432. 
 254: Mar'a de Ocampo, daughter of Don Diego de Cepeda and Do-a Beatriz de la Cruz y Ocampo, who were St.[...]
 255: Another account of this conversation [cit. P. Silverio, I, 268, n.] says that it arose out of a dis[...]
 256: [I translate "He" in deference to P. Silverio's capitalization of the pronoun, but a likelier readi[...]
 257: P. Baltasar çlvarez. 
 258: This was not, as is often said, P. Angel de Salazar, but P. Gregorio Fern‡ndez, who was Provincial [...]
 259: The Saint's niece Teresita related [cf. P. Silverio, I, 270, n.] that the proposed reform was even [...]
 260: P. Pedro Ib‡-ez, one of the Saint's chief supporters in the early days of her Reform, of which, how[...]
 261: A line is obliterated here, presumably by P. B‡-ez. 
 262: Master Gaspar Daza. [The title of "Master" was conferred by the Orders upon certain religious in vi[...]

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CHAPTER XXXIII - Proceeds with the same subject -- the foundation of the convent of the glorious Saint Joseph. Tells how she was commanded not to continue it, how for a time she gave it up, how she suffered various trials and how in all of them she was comforted by the Lord.
 263: The prison-cell of the Incarnation still exists. It was quite common in those days for religious co[...]
 264: P. Baltasar çlvarez. 
 265: P. Pedro Ib‡-ez. 
 266: At Trianos, in the province of Le-n. Actually he died there, at about the time when St. Teresa was [...]
 267: The Rector who left Avila was P. Dionisio V‡zquez, confessor of St. Francis Borgia and famous in th[...]
 268: Do-a Juana who lived at Alba. Cf. n. 246. 
 269: The benefactor was St. Teresa's brother Lorenzo, who had emigrated to America, settled in what to-d[...]
 270: The house, which St. Teresa bought through the agency of her brother-in-law Don Juan de Ovalle, was[...]
 271: [The second personal pronouns in this quotation are in the singular, but the phraseology is markedl[...]
 272: The original Brief (February 7, 1562), addressed to Do-a Aldonza de Guzm‡n and her daughter Do-a Gu[...]
 273: This rapture is believed to have come to the Saint in 1561, in the chapel known as that of the Sant[...]
 274: The Bishop, when the foundation was made, was Don çlvaro de Mendoza (n. 267, above), who had taken [...]

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CHAPTER XXXIV - Describes how about this time she had to leave the place, for a reason which is given, and how her superior ordered her to go and comfort a great lady who was in sore distress. Begins the description of what happened to her there, of how the Lord granted her the great favour of being the means whereby His Majesty aroused a great person to serve Him in real earnest and of how later she obtained help and protection from Him. This chapter should be carefully noted.
 275: Toledo. 
 276: This lady was Do-a Luisa de la Cerda, widow of Don Arias Pardo de Saavedra, who died in 1561, and d[...]
 277: A Jesuit house had been founded at Toledo in 1558 by St. Francis Borgia. Its first Superior, P. Ped[...]
 278: Some of these favours are described in the Relations (cf. pp. 315-16). 
 279: Ribera, Yepes and St. Teresa's early biographers in general suppose this religious to have been P. [...]
 280: This monastery, dedicated to St. Peter Martyr, was in fact near the palace of the Duke of Medinacel[...]
 281: P. Pedro Ib‡-ez. 
 282: P. Gaspar de Salazar. 
 283: Luis de Leon substituted "trust" (confiar) for the "be certain" (estar cierta) of the original manu[...]
 284: Probably St. Peter of Alc‡ntara (d. October 18, 1562) and P. Ib‡-ez (d. February 2, 1565). [If P. I[...]
 285: A. Gaspar de Salazar. 
 286: PP. Pedro Ib‡-ez and Domingo B‡-ez, especially the first-named. 
 287: [P. Silverio reads "he", as though St. Teresa could have learned things from the Dominican which th[...]
 288: I.e., from Avila. 
 289: According to Graci‡n, this was P. Garc'a de Toledo. 
 290: Don Mart'n de Guzm‡n y Barrientos, husband of the Saint's half-sister Mar'a (ch. IV). 
 291: Thus St. Teresa in the autograph; but P. Banez emended the phrase so that it read: "without having [...]
 292: Cf. n. 74. 
 293: Do-a Guiomar de Ulloa.

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CHAPTER XXXV - Continues the some subject -- the foundation of this house of our glorious father Saint Joseph. Tells how the Lord brought it about that holy poverty should be observed there and why she left that lady, and describes several other things that happened to her.
 294: From January 1562 until the beginning of July of the same year. 
 295: [A beata is a somewhat vague term denoting a woman who either lives in a religious community withou[...]
 296: Her name was Mar'a de Jesus. Born at Granada in 1522, she had been left a widow when very young and[...]
 297: Chap. VI of the Rule says: -- "Nullus fratrum sibi aliquid proprium esse dicat, sed sint vobis omni[...]
 298: P. Ib‡-ez, then at Trianos. (Cf. n. 266.) 
 299: Do-a Guiomar de Ulloa. 
 300: This title, here given to P. Ib‡-ez, is an academic one, equivalent in the Order of St. Dominic to [...]
 301: P. Angel de Salazar. He ordered St. Teresa to return from Toledo to Avila to be present at the elec[...]
 302: P. Pedro Domenech, Rector of the Toledo house of the Society of Jesus. 
 303: [An apparent reference to 2 Corinthians xii, 9.] 
 304: Psalm xciii, 20 [A.V., xciv, 20]. 
 305: St. Matthew vii, 14.

Autobiography
CHAPTER XXXVI - Continues the subject already begun and describes the completion of the foundation of this convent of the glorious Saint Joseph, and the great opposition and numerous persecutions which the nuns had to endure after taking the habit, and the great trials and temptations which she suffered, and how the Lord delivered her from everything victoriously, to His glory and praise.
 306: This Brief of Pius IV was dated February 7, 1562. It would have been the beginning of July when it [...]
 307: Probably not Don Francisco de Salcedo, as is generally supposed, but Don Juan Bl‡zquez, father of t[...]
 308: It certainly was not. When St. Peter of Alc‡ntara reached Avila, the Bishop was away. Fray Peter we[...]
 309: Don Juan de Ovalle. He had come to Toledo, while St. Teresa was there, to inform her of the progres[...]
 310: Do-a Guiomar was away at Toro. 
 311: These were: Antonia de Henao (del Esp'ritu Santo), a penitent of St. Peter of Alc‡ntara; Mar'a de l[...]
 312: The Book of Professions belonging to St. Joseph's, nevertheless, shows that, on entering the conven[...]
 313: [A characteristic play upon words: cf. Translator's Preface.] 
 314: Graci‡n, in his notes, says that this was Do-a Isabel de Avila; but this Prioress was succeeded, on[...]
 315: P. çngel de Salazar. 
 316: [P. Silverio (I, 311, n. 1) gives a long independent account of the "commotion" mainly from Juli‡n [...]
 317: P. B‡-ez, who wrote here, in the margin of the autograph: "This was at the end of August in the yea[...]
 318: Gonzalo de Aranda. 
 319: Gaspar Daza (see n. 184). 
 320: [This vision, then, occurred after October 18, 1562, the date of St. Peter's death.] 
 321: Marchese, St. Peter of Alc‡ntara's biographer, confirms this statement. Daza had been to Arenas to [...]
 322: Mir (Santa Teresa de Jesœs, Madrid, 1912, I, 559) suggests that this was P. Baltasar çlvarez, but g[...]
 323: [This phrase, ya que estaba en buenos tŽrminos, presents some difficulty. Lewis translates, more or[...]
 324: P. Ib‡-ez. 
 325: Despite his good will, the Provincial found certain obstacles in the way of his granting this permi[...]
 326: At one time every Discalced Carmelite convent had a picture representing this vision. 
 327: Mar'a de Jesus. Cf. n. 295. Having more fervour than discretion, this lady went to such lengths in [...]
 328: P. Garc'a de Toledo. 
 329: Later St. Teresa increased this number, as well as admitting lay sisters, of whom there were none a[...]

Autobiography
CHAPTER XXXVII - Describes the effects produced upon her after the Lord had granted her any favour. Adds much sound teaching. Says how we must strive in order to attain one degree more of glory and esteem it highly and how for no trial must we renounce blessings which are everlasting.
 330: PP. Pedro Ib‡-ez and Garc'a de Toledo. 
 331: ["More to be desired than the highest of them, which are so incomparably greater than the lowest" i[...]
 332: ["Lords" is se-ores, and "power", se-or'o: there is thus a play upon words, almost as though we wer[...]
 333: I.e., to St. Joseph's. 
 334: [Unless St. Teresa were mistaken about her own age -- a by no means uncommon phenomenon in Spain: s[...]

Autobiography
CHAPTER XXXVIII - Describes certain great favours which the Lord bestowed upon her, both in showing her certain heavenly secrets and in granting her other great visions and revelations which His Majesty was pleased that she should experience. Speaks of the effects which these produced upon her and of the great profit which they brought to her soul.
 335: Do-a Luisa de la Cerda. 
 336: [Cf. Translator's Preface.] 
 337: Anxious to make the life of the Reform as similar as possible to that of the primitive Carmelites, [...]
 338: The Life of Christ, written in Latin by Ludolph of Saxony, a Carthusian, was translated into Spanis[...]
 339: According to Graci‡n's notes, both this and the preceding paragraph refer to P. Ib‡-ez. 
 340: P. B‡-ez adds in a marginal note: "This Father died Prior of Trianos." The note confirms Graci‡n's [...]
 341: Graci‡n and Mar'a de San JosŽ assert that P. çlvarez is meant, but more probably the reference is t[...]
 342: Luis de Le-n, in the editio princeps, altered this phrase to read: "Concerning those of a certain O[...]
 343: This could not be P. Salazar, who was still alive when the book was completed. It may be P. Gregori[...]
 344: This must refer to the Incarnation, for, when these lines were written, all the nuns of St. Joseph'[...]
 345: This was Alonso de Henao, who had come from the Jesuit College at Alcal‡ and died on April 11, 1557[...]
 346: "Fray Mat'a," says Graci‡n's note. His full name was Diego (de San) Mat'as; for some time he was co[...]
 347: P. Ib‡-ez.

Autobiography
CHAPTER XXXIX - Continues the same subject and tells of the great favours which the Lord has shown her. Describes His promises to her on behalf of persons for whom she might pray to Him. Tells of some outstanding respects in which His Majesty has granted her this favour.
 348: "Her cousin, Pedro Mex'a", according to Graci‡n. 
 349: PP. B‡-ez and Garc'a de Toledo. 
 350: [An untranslatable play upon words: the two verbs are "do" (hace) and "undo" (deshace).] 
 351: Do-a Luisa de la Cerda. 
 352: St. Teresa may be thinking of Francisco de Cepeda's daughter, who professed on October 21, 1564, as[...]
 353: This Brief was dated July 17, 1565. [If it took as long as its predecessor (n. 306) to reach Avila,[...]
 354: St. Matthew xx, 10. 
 355: Apocalypse iv, 6-8. 
 356: The College of St. Giles, Avila.

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CHAPTER XL - Continues the same subject and tells of the great favours which the Lord has granted her. From some of these may be obtained most excellent teaching, and, next to obedience, her principal motive in writing has been, as she has said, to convey this instruction and to describe such favours as are for the profit of souls. With this chapter the narrative of her life which she has written comes to an end. May it be to the glory of the Lord. Amen.
 357: Cf. St. Matthew v, 18. 
 358: [In this and the next paragraph I follow P. Silverio in the use of capitals or lower-case letters f[...]
 359: [The numerous repetitions in this and the preceding sentences will be noted. Cf. Translator's Prefa[...]
 360: [Sp., plazas, squares, public places: i.e., in intercourse with men.] 
 361: The quotation is taken from Chap. XXXI of the apocryphal Soliloquies, often published in Latin unde[...]
 362: Ribera (Bk. IV, Chap. V) thinks that the Society of Jesus is meant; but Graci‡n, in his notes, has [...]
 363: This, too, according to Graci‡n's annotation, refers to the Order of St. Dominic. Ribera agrees her[...]
 364: This, says Graci‡n, was the Inquisitor Soto, who later became Bishop of Salamanca. 
 365: [Or "in which I am not sorry I am alive, nor do I seem to want to die." But the context, I think, f[...]
 366: St. Joseph's, Avila. 
 367: P. Garc'a de Toledo. [On the form "Sir", see n. 174.] 
 368: Two of these would be PP. B‡-ez and Garc'a de Toledo. The identity of the third cannot be given for[...]

LETTER WRITTEN BY THE SAINT TO FATHER GARCIA DE TOLEDO WHEN SENDING HIM HER "LIFE"
369: This letter is found in the autograph, at the end of the last chapter. It was probably written to P[...]
370: P. B‡-ez appends the following note: "This date is to be understood as referring to the first draft[...]

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