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1 0, 10 | insight into the beauty of a soul in grace. Just at that time
2 0, 11 | grace can dwell in the human soul, the light suddenly vanished.
3 0, 14 | lines of the fortress of the soul are clearly traced and the
4 0, 14 | communion with the questing soul, the soul must be free to
5 0, 14 | with the questing soul, the soul must be free to set down
6 0, 15 | I began to think of the soul as if it were a castle made
7 0, 16 | pass between God and the soul." ~
8 0, 17 | the mystical life -- the soul's progress from the First
9 0, 19 | and dignity of the human soul, made as it is in the image
10 0, 20 | MANSIONS. But all the time the soul is anxious to penetrate
11 0, 21 | weak. Yet, although the soul which reaches the Third
12 0, 22 | its own efforts that the soul is acquiring what it gains.
13 0, 22 | gains. Henceforward the soul's part will become increasingly
14 0, 22 | Water, in the Life. The soul is like a fountain built
15 0, 23 | Teresa explains how far the soul can prepare itself to receive
16 0, 23 | time, the faculties of the soul are "asleep". It is of short
17 0, 23 | but, while it lasts, the soul is completely possessed
18 0, 24 | In the Fifth Mansions the soul is, as it were, betrothed
19 0, 24 | they grow in intimacy the soul receives increasing favours,
20 0, 24 | depression which can afflict the soul in the Sixth Mansions, says
21 0, 25 | MANSIONS. Here at last the soul reaches the Spiritual Marriage.
22 0, 28 | the interior life of the soul; there is no writer who
23 0, 29 | Spirit had wrought in her soul -- still less as a literary
24 1, 1 | I began to think of the soul as if it were a castle made
25 1, 1 | over this, sisters, the soul of the righteous man is
26 1, 1 | compare the great beauty of a soul and its great capacity.
27 1, 1 | form any conception of the soul's great dignity and beauty.21 ~
28 1, 2 | carefully preserving the soul's beauty. All our interest
29 1, 3 | pass between God and the soul. You must think over this
30 1, 5 | for, if this castle is the soul, there can clearly be no
31 1, 5 | prayer which advise the soul to enter within itself:
32 2 | Describe the hideousness of a soul in mortal sin, some part
33 2, 1 | namely, in God -- when the soul falls into a mortal sin.
34 2, 1 | there in the centre of the soul, it is as if He were not
35 2, 1 | participation which the soul has in Him, though it is
36 2, 1 | in a state like this the soul will find profit in nothing,
37 2, 1 | virtue. And, since this soul has separated itself from
38 2, 1 | darkness itself, the poor soul becomes darkness itself
39 2, 2 | Lord wished to show what a soul was like when it committed
40 2, 2 | itself, so the works of a soul in grace are pleasing in
41 2, 2 | spring of life, in which the soul is as a tree planted. It
42 2, 2 | produce good fruit. When the soul, on the other hand, through
43 2, 3 | is in the centre of the soul, that loses its splendour
44 2, 4 | How sad it is to see a soul deprived of it! What a state
45 2, 5 | at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the
46 2, 5 | this tree, which is the soul, is planted, and in that
47 2, 7 | done by the Lord in the soul -- I mean, supernatural
48 2, 8 | above it. In speaking of the soul we must always think of
49 2, 8 | least exaggeration, for the soul's capacity is much greater
50 2, 8 | is very important that no soul which practises prayer,
51 2, 8 | However high a state the soul may have attained, self-knowledge
52 2, 8 | same way, believe me, the soul must sometimes emerge from
53 2, 8 | abundant mercy of God that the soul studies to know itself,
54 2, 12 | this early stage, as the soul is still absorbed in worldly
55 2, 12 | the same power, and such a soul is easily vanquished, although
56 2, 14 | dark and black, as when the soul is in a state of sin, they
57 2, 14 | which have come in with the soul that they prevent it from
58 2, 14 | to be the condition of a soul which, though not in a bad
59 2, 14 | entered the castle, is the soul free from great peril in
60 2, 18 | to forget it; for if the soul goes about looking for trifling
61 1, 3 | is so sweet that the poor soul is consumed with grief at
62 1, 4 | devils now make upon the soul, in all kinds of ways, is
63 1, 4 | ways, is terrible; and the soul suffers more than in the
64 1, 4 | cannon are so loud that the soul cannot help hearing them.
65 1, 4 | devils once more show the soul these vipers -- that is,
66 1, 4 | eternal: they remind the soul of the esteem in which it
67 1, 4 | endangered by penances (which the soul always wants to do when
68 1, 5 | bring about in the poor soul, and how distressed it is,
69 1, 5 | other hand, reason tells the soul how mistaken it is in thinking
70 1, 5 | and many other things the soul is reminded by memory. The
71 1, 5 | particular, the will shows the soul how this true Lover never
72 1, 5 | comes forward and makes the soul realize that, for however
73 1, 6 | preserve us from death. The soul will certainly suffer great
74 1, 7 | Thy mercy, allow not this soul to be deluded and led astray
75 1, 8 | rains manna; once there, the soul has all that it desires,
76 1, 11 | beginning; otherwise the soul will keep on losing a little
77 1, 5 | complete possession of the soul more than that is necessary.
78 1, 8 | if God never grants the soul favours, He will give it
79 2, 1 | carefully ordered life, both in soul and in body and then, after
80 2, 4 | kept my tranquillity of soul, than that I should do such
81 2, 12 | greatest pleasure and lead my soul to offer fervent praises
82 2, 12 | by the help of which a soul can progress with less labour
83 1, 3 | harmless -- in fact they do the soul good. I think in this state
84 1, 3 | enter and make war upon the soul, for, if it had no temptations,
85 1, 3 | it is being tempted. The soul, too, would not gain so
86 1, 3 | permanent absorption. When a soul is continuously in a condition
87 1, 3 | the Lord to remain in a soul continuously in this way
88 1, 6 | oppress it somewhat. The soul experiences a great happiness84
89 1, 6 | about these passions of the soul; if I knew more, perhaps
90 1, 7 | greatly prized, provided the soul be humble, and can understand
91 1, 9 | of the faculties of the soul, I found it very hard to
92 1, 9 | see the faculties of the soul, as I thought, occupied
93 1, 10 | all the faculties of the soul after it, thinking we are
94 1, 10 | presence of God. Yet the soul may perhaps be wholly united
95 1, 11 | where the higher part of the soul is said to be; I have held
96 1, 11 | tranquillity and love in my soul are quite unaffected, and
97 1, 12 | if the higher part of the soul is in the upper part of
98 1, 13 | to be making sport of the soul, do not cause us to be despised.
99 1, 13 | life the Lord will free the soul from this, when it has reached
100 1, 15 | times and seasons. The poor soul may not be to blame for
101 2, 3 | satisfaction which it brings to the soul fills the basin, but in
102 2, 5 | must be the centre of the soul, as I have since realized
103 2, 6 | ineffable blessings, so that the soul itself cannot understand
104 2, 6 | heat penetrate the entire soul, and very often, as I have
105 2, 6 | being perceived, and the soul becomes aware of it more
106 2, 8 | for, is I have said, the soul cannot fully understand
107 2, 9 | give it and often when the soul is not thinking of it at
108 3, 1 | their hold on him, while the soul, on the other hand, regains
109 3, 2 | sometimes said that the soul enters within itself and
110 3, 3 | think of Him as within the soul, or the imagination, by
111 3, 4 | the Lord is working in the soul; for, if His Majesty has
112 3, 5 | remains a great deal for the soul to do when it has stilled
113 3, 6 | to hold our breath. The soul must just leave itself in
114 3, 6 | the very effort which the soul makes in order to cease
115 3, 6 | manner, and illumines the soul's knowledge to so much higher
116 3, 7 | As I understand it, the soul whom the Lord has been pleased
117 3, 9 | dilation or enlargement of the soul takes place, as if the water
118 3, 9 | many more wonders in the soul, thus fitting and gradually
119 3, 9 | interior dilation cause the soul to be less constrained in
120 3, 9 | twice God has granted a soul this favour; it must continue
121 3, 10 | offending God. For as yet the soul is not even weaned but is
122 3, 10 | sets much more store by one soul in this state than by a
123 3, 13 | there will be none in the soul, which, when it finds itself
124 3, 13 | little while. Although the soul may become absorbed again,
125 1 | explain how in prayer the soul is united with God. Describes
126 1, 3 | say "dream", because the soul seems to be, as it were,
127 1, 3 | the condition lasts, the soul is without consciousness
128 1, 3 | death, a snatching of the soul from all the activities
129 1, 3 | come closer to God, the soul appears to have withdrawn
130 1, 3(112) | for, although it [the soul] is in Him, according to
131 1, 4 | have just described the soul is doubtful as to what has
132 1, 4 | with the essence of the soul114 that he will not dare
133 1, 4(113) | Of the soul alone", inserts Gracián,
134 1, 4 | gains which come to the soul with God working in it and
135 1, 5 | and satisfaction for the soul or the same peace and joy.
136 1, 8 | decisive one: here is this soul which God has made, as it
137 1, 8 | wisdom. For as long as such a soul is in this state, it can
138 1, 8 | always short and seems to the soul even shorter than it really
139 1, 8 | in the interior of that soul in such a way that, when
140 1, 8 | This certainty of the soul is very material. ~
141 1, 9 | will say to me: How did the soul see it and understand it
142 1, 9 | certainty which remains in the soul, which can be put there
143 1, 9 | is not union of the whole soul with God but only union
144 1, 9 | favour which God grants the soul. In all these matters we
145 1, 10 | into the centre127 of our soul, and must enter there Himself;
146 1, 10 | come into the centre of the soul without using a door, as
147 1, 10 | Majesty's will that the soul should have fruition of
148 2 | which it produces in the soul. Should be studied with
149 2, 1 | thing further; but when the soul to which God grants these
150 2, 1 | and I shall describe that soul's state. In order the better
151 2, 4 | The silkworm is like the soul which takes life when, through
152 2, 4 | these are the remedies for a soul dead in negligences and
153 2, 4 | plunged into temptation. The soul begins to live and nourishes
154 2, 8 | greatness of God, that a soul should come out like this
155 2, 8 | tell you truly, the very soul does not know itself. For
156 2, 8 | just the same here. The soul cannot think how it can
157 2, 8 | if after God comes to a soul here on earth it strives
158 2, 9 | Lord helps and transforms a soul, so that it seems no longer
159 2, 10 | trials begin afresh for this soul! Who would think such a
160 2, 10 | who gives peace to the soul in order later to wage a
161 2, 11 | despite all it has gained, the soul is not wholly resigned to
162 2, 12 | only a few days -- this soul was thinking of nothing
163 2, 12 | feel this as keenly as the soul does now. God help me! If
164 2, 12 | without any effort on the soul's part, and sometimes against
165 2, 13 | the position here. That soul has now delivered itself
166 2, 13 | this favour save to the soul which He takes for His very
167 2, 13 | without understanding how, the soul shall go thence sealed with
168 2, 13 | His seal. In reality, the soul in that state does no more
169 2, 14 | what our God does to the soul in this state so that it
170 2, 15 | And, I reflected, if a soul which has so very little
171 3 | with the help of God, the soul can attain, and the important
172 3, 1 | in vain, and that if the soul that receives it does not
173 3, 1 | will do so. For, as the soul possesses these aforementioned
174 3, 4 | is this union! Happy the soul that has attained to it,
175 3, 4 | Church of God. For this soul sees clearly that He knows
176 3, 5 | passion which disturbs the soul and lasts for a long time.
177 3, 5 | penetrate to the depth of the soul but only reach these senses
178 3, 10 | hope of saving just one soul. If our later actions are
179 4, 2 | but the Lord can make the soul very deeply conscious of
180 4, 3 | already drawn up and the soul has been clearly given to
181 4, 3 | case, is pleased with the soul, so He grants her this mercy,
182 4, 3 | and in a secret way the soul sees Who this Spouse is
183 4, 3 | people say) with Him; and the soul becomes so fired with love
184 4, 4 | for even in this state the soul is not strong enough to
185 4, 4 | Afterwards, when he sees that the soul is completely surrendered
186 4, 4 | for he is afraid of such a soul as that, and he knows by
187 4, 4 | very much the loser and the soul will achieve a corresponding
188 4, 5 | said, if he wins a single soul in this way he will win
189 4, 5 | through the agency of a single soul, the thought of the thousands
190 4, 6 | The first is this: If the soul is so completely at one
191 4, 6 | into such peril that your soul may be lost, when you are
192 4, 7 | reply would be that, if this soul invariably followed the
193 4, 7 | observe the behaviour of the soul which He wishes to set up
194 4, 8 | that when God brings a soul to such a point He lets
195 4, 9 | it is unthinkable that a soul which has arrived so far
196 4, 9 | would be a very bad sign. A soul which has once set out to
197 1 | Lord begins to grant the soul greater favours, it has
198 1, 1 | sixth Mansions, in which the soul has been wounded with love
199 1, 2 | The soul is now completely determined
200 1, 2 | blessings should be won by the soul at some cost to itself.
201 1, 2 | daughters, that, if the soul is to bear its trials, it
202 1, 2 | these trials, which the soul will suffer, both within
203 1, 2 | more to be feared, and the soul will plunge deep into suffering
204 1, 2 | reason for this is that the soul is almost continuously near
205 1, 3 | occurred to me that some soul finding itself in this state
206 1, 4 | already mentioned. For the soul sees quite clearly that
207 1, 4 | God is granting it, the soul thinks that His Majesty
208 1, 4 | The fourth is that, as the soul now prizes the honour and
209 1, 5 | always felt, except when a soul takes no notice of such
210 1, 5 | already mentioned. Once the soul has learned to care little
211 1, 5 | is absolutely true. The soul is fortified rather than
212 1, 5 | bring, and it seems to the soul that its persecutors are
213 1, 6 | I mean -- however many a soul may suffer: I repeat that
214 1, 6 | referring. For they affect the soul both outwardly and inwardly,
215 1, 8 | any imperfection in the soul that is undergoing these
216 1, 8 | carefully. But, when the poor soul, harassed by the same fear,
217 1, 8 | passes quickly, and the soul is ever mindful of its sins,
218 1, 8 | confessor reassures the soul, it becomes calm, though
219 1, 8 | aridity, during which the soul feels as if it has never
220 1, 9 | gives him leave to test her soul, and even to make her think
221 1, 9 | things which assault her soul with an interior oppression
222 1, 10 | that he may torture her soul the more. A certain confessor,
223 1, 11 | of this burden from the soul, so that it seems as if
224 1, 11 | gained the victory, the soul keeps praising Our Lord,
225 1, 12 | understand this, for the soul's experience of enduring
226 1, 12 | buried so deeply that the soul seems not to feel the smallest
227 1, 13 | How sad it is to see a soul thus forsaken, and how little,
228 1, 14 | that, but for enabling the soul to endure it -- is to occupy
229 1, 15 | faculties or to disturb the soul, in the way already described.
230 1, 16 | favours of the Lord and the soul understands them to be so,
231 1, 16 | distress comes just before the soul's entrance into the seventh
232 2 | which Our Lord awakens the soul; there appears to be nothing
233 2, 1 | means so delicate that the soul itself does not understand
234 2, 2 | no sound is heard,157 the soul is very well aware that
235 2, 2 | much more satisfying to a soul than is the delectable absorption,
236 2, 3 | clear that He is with the soul and seems to be giving it
237 2, 3 | seems to be calling the soul in a way which involves
238 2, 4 | effect of this upon the soul that it becomes consumed
239 2, 4 | will fly out and touch the soul, in such a way that it will
240 2, 4 | is very delectable, the soul continues to feel that pain
241 2, 4 | completely enkindles the soul; for, just as the soul is
242 2, 4 | the soul; for, just as the soul is about to become enkindled,
243 2, 4 | spark dies, and leaves the soul yearning once again to suffer
244 2, 6 | never be bestowed upon the soul by the devil: he can give
245 2, 6 | tranquillity and joy in the soul; for all his powers are
246 2, 6 | advantages accrue to the soul, which, as a general rule,
247 2, 7 | when it is not) nor can the soul doubt that it is there;
248 2, 7 | remains -- I mean, if the soul doubts whether or no it
249 2, 7 | from the interior of the soul. I may conceivably be mistaken;
250 2, 8 | methods of awakening the soul. Quite unexpectedly, when
251 2, 8 | the Spouse is there. The soul is moved by a delectable
252 2, 8 | causes pain, nor are the soul's desires to enjoy God in
253 2, 8 | most usually felt by the soul. For several of the reasons
254 3 | do so, God speaks to the soul. Gives instructions as to
255 3, 1 | in which God awakens the soul, and which, although in
256 3, 1 | it. This awakening of the soul is effected by means of
257 3, 1 | innermost depths of the soul; others from its higher
258 3, 1 | so completely outside the soul that they can be heard with
259 3, 3 | tend to increase. Yet the soul should not be allowed to
260 3, 5 | explain myself further. A soul is experiencing all the
261 3, 5 | might strive to do so. Or a soul is distressed because its
262 3, 6 | tranquillity dwells in the soul, which becomes peacefully
263 3, 6 | wilt Thou not leave in the soul that is bound to Thee, as
264 3, 7 | about it, yet within the soul itself there is a certainty
265 3, 7 | overcome. It may seem to the soul that everything is moving
266 3, 7 | the less, as I say, the soul is distressed when it sees
267 3, 7 | these doubts arise, and the soul wonders if the whole thing
268 3, 7 | least he will weaken the soul's faith, for it is most
269 3, 8 | happenings which may persuade the soul that they cannot come true,
270 3, 8 | remain alive, even if the soul wished it to die. And in
271 3, 8 | word is fulfilled, and the soul is so happy and glad that
272 3, 9 | know why it is, but the soul is so anxious for these
273 3, 12 | which the Lord speaks to the soul, which for my own part I
274 3, 12 | down in the depths of the soul does this contact take place,
275 3, 12 | seem to be heard with the soul's own faculty of hearing,
276 3, 12 | the very way in which the soul understands them, together
277 3, 14 | reason is that often the soul has not been thinking of
278 3, 14 | have invented them, and the soul cannot be deceived about
279 3, 15 | in genuine locutions the soul seems to be hearing something,
280 3, 15 | composing bit by bit what the soul wishes to hear. ~
281 3, 17 | described, or to leave in the soul this peace or light, but
282 3, 17 | little or no harm if the soul is humble and does what
283 3, 18 | to it from the Lord, the soul should consider carefully
284 3, 18 | the greater the favour the soul receives, the less by far
285 3, 18 | favours that come to the soul in prayer, it need not be
286 3, 19 | the interior part of the soul in such a way that the soul
287 3, 19 | soul in such a way that the soul becomes fully aware that
288 4 | occasions when God suspends the soul in prayer by means of rapture,
289 4, 2 | raptures, which carry the soul out of its senses; for if,
290 4, 2 | possession of its senses, the soul saw that it was so near
291 4, 3 | of rapture is this. The soul, though not actually engaged
292 4, 3 | compassion at having seen the soul suffering so long through
293 4, 3 | that the sins of such a soul are pardoned, assuming that
294 4, 3 | it and He, and even the soul itself does not understand
295 4, 4 | understand it, is that the soul has never before been so
296 4, 4 | so as well, how can the soul be said to understand this
297 4, 5 | When the soul is in this state of suspension
298 4, 6 | will say to me, "if the soul is not going to remember
299 4, 6 | in the very depths of the soul and they are never forgotten. "
300 4, 6 | you will say next, "if the soul retains no image of them
301 4, 6 | remains so firmly in the soul that even had it not faith
302 4, 6 | believe Him to be God, the soul would adore Him as such
303 4, 7 | revealed secret things to his soul in such a way as to make
304 4, 8 | just like that here. The soul becomes one with God. It
305 4, 8 | And although while the soul is in ecstasy the Lord will
306 4, 9 | own belief is that, if the soul to whom God has given these
307 4, 9 | God is taking her entire soul to Himself, and that, as
308 4, 13 | means to enrapture this soul, it loses its power of breathing,
309 4, 13 | seems no longer to have a soul -- sometimes it even seems
310 4, 13 | give fuller life to the soul. Complete ecstasy, therefore,
311 4, 14 | several days -- that the soul seems incapable of grasping
312 4, 15 | Oh, what confusion the soul feels when it comes to itself
313 4, 15 | as great as this? Such a soul would gladly have a thousand
314 4, 16 | some extent they lessen the soul's absorption in what it
315 4, 16 | are no longer within the soul's own power of control,
316 4, 16 | realize that such a person's soul is now His and that no one
317 4, 16 | Majesty's honour. But her soul they may not attack, for
318 5 | example of how God exalts the soul through flights of the spirit
319 5, 1 | same, is felt within the soul175 in a very different way.
320 5, 1 | different way. Sometimes the soul becomes conscious of such
321 5, 1 | Our Lord may do with the soul as He wills. Do you suppose
322 5, 1 | these transports of the soul? We have even read in some
323 5, 1 | transported as well as the soul, without knowing whither
324 5, 1 | sudden motion begins the soul has no certainty that it
325 5, 2 | seems to be to show the soul that, since it has so often
326 5, 3 | this little ship -- our soul -- is lifted up on high.
327 5, 3 | the interior part of the soul to stop where it likes,
328 5, 5 | is another reason why the soul needs great courage, for
329 5, 6 | offer to His Father.178 That soul, as I have understood from
330 5, 6 | things that happen to a soul which the Lord has brought
331 5, 6 | to my thinking, if the soul is humble, more courage
332 5, 7 | of such a kind that the soul really seems to have left
333 5, 7 | even himself be sure if the soul is in the body or no. He
334 5, 7 | seen with the eyes of the soul very much more clearly than
335 5, 8 | sees with the eyes of the soul, in intellectual vision,
336 5, 8 | or with the eyes of the soul, he is shown the things
337 5, 8 | extremely difficult. If the soul is in the body or not while
338 5, 8 | not myself swear that the soul is in the body, nor that
339 5, 8 | the body is bereft of the soul. ~
340 5, 9 | must be possible for the soul and the spirit, which are
341 5, 9 | there begins within the soul a flight (I know no other
342 5, 9 | be due to fancy. When the soul, as far as it can understand,
343 5, 9 | to have been to show the soul something of the country
344 5, 9 | help which it gives the soul is so great that only the
345 5, 10 | produce such results in the soul and leave it with such peace
346 5, 10 | realizing how a thing like the soul, so base by comparison with
347 5, 11 | it is impossible for the soul to forget them until it
348 5, 11 | Spouse Who gives them to the soul has power also to give it
349 5, 12 | Returning now to the soul's need of courage, I ask
350 5, 12 | thing after all? For the soul really feels that it is
351 5, 12 | say that this fear of the soul's is well rewarded; so too
352 6 | which the Lord grants to the soul so that He may use it to
353 6, 1 | such great favours, the soul is so anxious to have complete
354 6, 1 | of this fire causes the soul to take flight; and thus
355 6, 1 | public. Further, although the soul would fain be free from
356 6, 3 | alone, if for no other, the soul would like to flee from
357 6, 3 | doing this it could help one soul to praise God more; a woman
358 6, 4 | that on her account one soul might praise Thee a little
359 6, 5 | most trifling matters the soul feels cowardly, and is so
360 6, 6 | these great desires of the soul to see Our Lord: that they
361 6, 6 | believe he could ever fill the soul with the quietness and peace
362 6, 8 | when the fire within my soul is strong, however hard
363 6, 8 | body, it cannot (if the soul is humble, I mean) hurt
364 6, 8 | humble, I mean) hurt the soul. If it is not humble, it
365 6, 10 | sometimes bestows upon the soul a jubilation and a strange
366 6, 10 | happens. The joy of the soul is so exceedingly great
367 6, 10 | festivities because she sees her soul in a place which she cannot
368 6, 10 | joy in the depths of the soul's being, such peace and
369 6, 11 | is by this great joy, the soul cannot be expected to keep
370 6, 12 | the inmost depths of the soul. I should like you to praise
371 6, 13 | for a whole day, and the soul will then be like one who
372 6, 13 | that this joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself,
373 6, 13 | God. Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should
374 7, 2 | different kinds, for the soul does not now think of the
375 7, 2 | He communicates to it the soul gains a much deeper knowledge
376 7, 2 | were running through the soul and from time to time bringing
377 7, 5 | However favoured by God a soul may be, I should not think
378 7, 7 | with the meaning which my soul always feels to be the true
379 7, 8 | once He is found, and the soul grows accustomed to seeking
380 7, 8 | so, especially before the soul has reached these last Mansions,
381 7, 9 | explain it further. The soul is desirous of employing
382 7, 9 | be a good thing for the soul to remain in that state
383 7, 9 | will perform them for this soul when He sees fit to do so,
384 7, 10 | where in a wonderful way the soul never ceases to walk with
385 7, 12 | nor is it possible that a soul which has received so much
386 7, 12 | which will enkindle the soul more and more in its love
387 7, 12 | by the understanding: the soul will understand them in
388 7, 12 | This, I think, is why the soul cannot reason properly about
389 7, 13 | great mistake. If while the soul is meditating the Lord should
390 7, 13 | procedure is no hindrance to the soul but a great help to it in
391 7, 16 | subject to another, until my soul, I think, got like a bird
392 8 | communicates Himself to the soul through intellectual vision.198
393 8, 1 | and see that the farther a soul progresses the closer becomes
394 8, 2 | may happen that, while the soul is not in the least expecting
395 8, 2 | body or with those of the soul. This (I do not know why)
396 8, 3 | good: were it his work, the soul would not have such peace
397 8, 4 | nothing happened in her soul of which I was ignorant
398 8, 4 | for the Presence Which the soul has at its side makes it
399 8, 4 | much more commonly, as the soul experiences a vivid and
400 8, 5 | are best seen in what the soul gains from it. It thanks
401 8, 5 | pleased to withdraw it, the soul is left in great loneliness;
402 8, 6 | Presence cannot be seen, the soul knows that it is that of
403 8, 6 | is a question which the soul cannot answer, nor can it
404 8, 6 | no words are spoken, the soul is able to feel that the
405 8, 7 | such visions cause in the soul may be observed by any one
406 8, 7 | possibly last so long or do the soul such a great deal of good,
407 8, 7 | fact, even if he would. The soul would soon become clouded
408 8, 7 | have all this power over a soul whose one aim is to please
409 8, 8 | continue to be, that, if the soul walks in the manner described
410 8, 8 | have little effect on your soul, either for good or for
411 8, 9 | life, she may think your soul is safe, she will be bound
412 8, 9 | misgivings that they prevent the soul from being content with
413 9 | communicates Himself to the soul through imaginary visions
414 9, 3 | greater consolations upon this soul, He grants it, in whatever
415 9, 4 | sometimes even speaks to the soul and shows it things both
416 9, 4 | realize that, although the soul sees this for a certain
417 9, 4 | cambric. Almost invariably the soul on which God bestows this
418 9, 5 | majesty that it fills the soul with a great terror. It
419 9, 5 | without being told, the soul knows Who it is, for He
420 9, 7 | which God grants to the soul, and we shall find it of
421 9, 7 | for this reason that the soul remains in suspension; the
422 9, 8 | When the soul is able to remain for a
423 9, 10 | is quite different. The soul is very far from expecting
424 9, 10 | everything grows calm, and the soul, completely instructed in
425 9, 10 | this fear, God allows the soul to begin to hesitate as
426 9, 10 | the devil can disturb the soul, but he cannot shake the
427 9, 10 | over the interior of the soul he wields less power. He
428 9, 11 | this for themselves, and a soul to whom God has granted
429 9, 11 | humility they leave in the soul and to what extent it is
430 9, 11 | for the account which the soul gives will at once show
431 9, 14 | have thought herself a lost soul unless she had done so.
432 9, 15 | The soul derives great profit from
433 9, 16 | before the Lord grants a soul these favours He always
434 9, 22 | many trials; and thus the soul does not think about receiving
435 9, 24 | kinds. If it were able, the soul would invent methods by
436 10 | which God grants to the soul in a different way from
437 10, 1 | communicates Himself to the soul by means of these apparitions.
438 10, 1 | Some of them come when the soul is afflicted; others, when
439 10, 1 | he is delighted to see a soul distressed and uneasy, because
440 10, 2 | it may happen that the soul will be at prayer, and in
441 10, 2 | although I say that the soul "sees" Him, it really sees
442 10, 2 | which is revealed to the soul how all things are seen
443 10, 2 | remains engraven upon the soul. It causes us the greatest
444 10, 8 | Our Lord grants the soul favours like these because
445 10, 8 | for the devil or for the soul's own imagination, and when
446 10, 8 | and when it knows this the soul experiences a great and
447 11 | enjoy God which He gives the soul and which are so great and
448 11, 1 | the Spouse has granted the soul been sufficient to satisfy
449 11, 1 | and that He can raise a soul to the highest point here
450 11, 2 | The soul, then, has these yearnings
451 11, 2 | it causes pain. While the soul is in this condition, and
452 11, 2 | or some remark which the soul hears about death's long
453 11, 2 | can be felt, but in the soul's most intimate depths.
454 11, 3 | alert to discover why this soul feels absent from God, and
455 11, 3 | body, but deep within the soul. It was in this way that
456 11, 3 | much more sensitive the soul is than the body, and it
457 11, 4 | as feeble as though the soul were about to render itself
458 11, 4 | heat of the body fails, the soul burns so fiercely within
459 11, 4 | In the present case, the soul feels nothing at all, and
460 11, 6 | deal, especially if the soul can be purified by suffering
461 11, 6 | nothing by comparison), the soul feels this affliction to
462 11, 6 | relieve it; none the less the soul suffers it very gladly,
463 11, 7 | are not resigned, as this soul is, nor have they this contentment
464 11, 7 | torment suffered by the soul is much more acute than
465 11, 7 | a grievous thing is the soul's suffering and how different
466 11, 8 | discussing when we left this soul in such affliction. It remains
467 11, 9 | than she can bear, that her soul seems to be on the very
468 11, 10 | wonderful effects and the soul at once loses its fear of
469 11, 10 | Having gained so much, the soul would be glad to suffer
470 11, 10 | escaping it when it comes. The soul has far more contempt for
471 11, 11 | it really seems as if the soul is swooning, and as if the
472 1 | some difference between the soul and the spirit although
473 1, 1 | strive not to despise a soul in which the Lord takes
474 1, 1 | Each of us possesses a soul, but we do not prize our
475 1, 1 | which God reveals to every soul that He brings into this
476 1, 3 | pleased to have pity upon this soul, which suffers and has suffered
477 1, 3 | an abiding-place in the soul, just as He has one in Heaven,
478 1, 3 | should not think of the soul as of something dark. It
479 1, 3 | we think that within our soul there is some kind of darkness.
480 1, 3 | kind of darkness. Of the soul that is not in grace, I
481 1, 3 | the first Mansion, this soul is not capable212 of receiving
482 1, 5 | be so, since within each soul there is a mansion for God.
483 1, 5 | is pleased to grant the soul the aforementioned favour
484 1, 5 | Prayer of Union, although the soul does not feel called to
485 1, 5 | great delight of which the soul is then conscious is the
486 1, 6 | scales from the eyes of the soul,216 so that it may see and
487 1, 6 | which is given to it, the soul realizes that most certainly
488 1, 6 | what we hold by faith the soul may be said here to grasp219
489 1, 6 | either of the body or of the soul,220 for it is no imaginary
490 1, 6 | communicate Themselves to the soul and speak to the soul and
491 1, 6 | the soul and speak to the soul and explain to it those
492 1, 6 | will come to dwell with the soul which loves Him and keeps
493 1, 7 | they are! Each day this soul wonders more, for she feels
494 1, 8 | companionship. Unless her soul fails God, He will never
495 1, 8 | it. For this belief the soul has good reason, though
496 1, 9 | occasions when God grants the soul this consolation; if it
497 1, 9 | would be impossible for the soul to think of anything else,
498 1, 9 | may not be so clear, the soul is always aware that it
499 1, 9 | companionship. We might compare the soul to a person who is with
500 1, 9 | mercy which He grants the soul in never going away from