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 1   0, 19|            First Mansions are in a state of grace, but are still
 2   0, 23|        FIFTH MANSIONS. This is the state described elsewhere as the
 3   0, 23|   psychological conditions of this state, in which, for the first
 4   0, 25|           perfect peace; no higher state is conceivable, save that
 5   1, 8 |           and they think about the state of their souls, though not
 6   2, 1 |          consider what will be the state of this castle, so beautiful
 7   2, 1 |     reflecting the sun. While in a state like this the soul will
 8   2, 2 |          for those who are in this state and who, with all their
 9   2, 4 |        soul deprived of it! What a state the poor rooms of the castle
10   2, 8 |         Himself is! However high a state the soul may have attained,
11   2, 12|            find themselves in this state need to take every opportunity
12   2, 12|           it is necessary in every state of life for our help to
13   2, 14|           as when the soul is in a state of sin, they are to some
14   2, 14|         which, though not in a bad state, is so completely absorbed
15   2, 14|        well advised, as far as his state of life permits, to try
16   2, 15|          faults into this wretched state. We here, so far as outward
17   1    |          of exile, however lofty a state we may reach, and of how
18   1, 4 |           is certainly a desirable state and there seems no reason
19   1, 8 |            are in rather a jumbled state, for I cannot explain them
20   2, 1 |        souls who have reached this state -- I think I might even
21   2, 10|               If we act thus, this state is a most excellent one,
22   2, 10|    complete self-renunciation, the state is very arduous and oppressive,
23   2, 13|           of the Lord, are in this state -- and, as I have said,
24   1, 3 |         soul good. I think in this state of prayer it is much better
25   1, 3 |           merit and be living in a state of permanent absorption.
26   1, 6 |       stupid; I could explain this state if only I could understand
27   1, 7 |          My own experience of this state -- I mean of these favours
28   1, 7 |    difference between them. In the state I am now describing, the
29   1, 7 |            our nature and from the state of preparedness we are in;86
30   2, 6 |          of Divine wisdom. In this state the faculties are not, I
31   3, 6 |            that He leads it into a state of absorption, in which,
32   3, 7 |         this should lead it into a state of absorption, well and
33   3, 7 |            to understand what this state is, because that is a gift
34   3, 10|            find themselves in this state: namely, that they exert
35   3, 10|          store by one soul in this state than by a great number of
36   3, 10|         favours. For those in this state attract others, and so they
37   3, 11|        described. Thinking the one state to be the same as the other,
38   3, 12|             One person was in this state for eight hours; she was
39   3, 13|           that although, when this state is something that really
40   1, 2 |          can attain to this higher state and we must on no account
41   1, 3 |        union. Do not think it is a state, like the last, in which
42   1, 4 |           a great blessing is this state in which that accursed one
43   1, 8 |          as such a soul is in this state, it can neither see nor
44   2, 1 |         shall describe that soul's state. In order the better to
45   2, 8 |           this. When it is in this state of prayer, and quite dead
46   2, 10|           that after reaching this state he had enjoyed continual
47   2, 11|           those who attain to this state have no peace: they do have
48   2, 13|          reality, the soul in that state does no more than the wax
49   2, 14|           does to the soul in this state so that it may know itself
50   3, 1 |         what God gives her in this state. It must always be understood
51   3, 8 |          may deserve to reach this state, as it is in our power to
52   4, 1 |            my head is not in a fit state for me to read it through
53   4, 4 |            sin -- for even in this state the soul is not strong enough
54   4, 5 | spirituality who have reached this state, and whom, notwithstanding,
55   1, 1 |          is possible to one in its state, to renounce everything
56   1, 1 |            repeat, is seen in this state of prayer which can be said
57   1, 3 |        soul finding itself in this state might be very much comforted
58   1, 8 |            of God, yet, as it is a state which passes quickly, and
59   1, 10|        person who had been in this state of torment, after it had
60   1, 10|           whenever she was in this state, to report to him; but this
61   3, 10|         their senses are in such a state of slumber that they are
62   4, 4 |         things that happen in this state -- I mean in these two Mansions,
63   4, 5 |           When the soul is in this state of suspension and the Lord
64   4, 6 |         the Lord grants it in this state, how can they bring it any
65   4, 9 |    overcome nature and remain in a state of absorption, as I believe
66   5, 6 |           Lord has brought to this state; and, to my thinking, if
67   5, 6 |            necessary for this last state than for any other. May
68   6, 3 |          God more; a woman in this state will be distressed at being
69   6, 11|            That must have been the state of mind of Saint Francis,
70   7, 4 |       themselves in as miserable a state as before. They have no
71   7, 5 |            to forget the miserable state it was once in, for, distressing
72   7, 9 |         the soul to remain in that state of aridity, hoping for fire
73   7, 14|          given by the Lord in that state, and then think it would
74   7, 16|         and would go about in that state of absorption, expecting
75   8, 3 |          off to her confessor in a state of great perturbation.199 "
76   9, 10|        then sink into that blessed state of peace. It is just as
77  11, 1 |             she is in a much worse state than before; for, although
78  11, 4 |          once saw a person in this state who I really believed was
79  11, 5 |            her reason is in such a state that she is not her own
80  11, 7 |           Him for bringing us to a state in which by His mercy we
81  11, 8 |     affliction. It remains in this state only for a short time (three
82  11, 9 |           when a person is in this state that you have been considering,
83  11, 10|            which it can reach that state again until the Lord wills,
84   1, 2 |            indeed I have been in a state of great confusion and have
85   2, 7 |         and to leave the soul in a state of pure spirituality, so
86   2, 7 |      understands them, for in this state it can actually see their
87   2, 8 |          when the soul reaches the state in which God grants it this
88   2, 8 |            it finds itself in this state, and even if the state has
89   2, 8 |        this state, and even if the state has lasted for years, it
90   2, 9 |        passions are always in this state of peace, though the soul
91   3, 2 |          but lives in so strange a state of forgetfulness that, as
92   3, 5 |        much more peace than in the state described above. They bear
93   3, 11|        Lord teach the soul in this state and do it good that I am
94   3, 12|     observe that, on reaching this state, the soul has no more raptures (
95   4, 10|         God has brought it to this state, nor did it realize how