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501 1, 3 | Majesty well knows that I can count only upon His Mercy, and,
502 3, 10 | this sublime favour may be counterfeited by the devil but retains
503 3, 10 | counterfeit these favours. Such counterfeits, however, will be recognizable
504 1, 7 | gives us being, without counting ourselves fortunate in being
505 6, 11 | as he was going about the countryside crying aloud and he told
506 4, 15 | whatever penance it does it counts as very little, for its
507 6, 5 | seems impossible it can be courageous enough to do anything whatsoever.
508 0, 20 | reptiles which infest the courtyard of the castle, but its powers
509 3, 12(144)| Encapotadas: lit., covering their faces with a cloak,
510 2, 10 | themselves from the slough of cowardice, pusillanimity and fear.
511 6, 5 | trifling matters the soul feels cowardly, and is so fearful and devoid
512 4, 5 | with great subtlety and craft, has won back to himself.
513 2, 11 | farther. Terrible are the crafts and wiles which the devil
514 5, 5 | nothing with which to pay, it craves the compassion and mercy
515 2, 9 | how can it be content to crawl along slowly when it is
516 2, 7 | occasions the devil may create fancies of the kind, but
517 9, 8 | that some striking idea creates a picture in the imagination:
518 1, 14 | noticeable extent. Is it credible that she will be able to
519 0, 49 | me. Their only excuse for crediting me with it could be their
520 2, 11(35) | Ratero: creeping, flying low, content with
521 3, 9 | have climbed towards the crest of the mountain. It must
522 5, 3 | the pilot nor any of the crew has any power over it, when
523 1, 13 | consolations would be like telling criminals condemned to death about
524 0, 35 | he wrote to M. María de Cristo, Vicaress of the Carmelite
525 4, 16 | be made an occasion for criticism instead of for glorifying
526 1, 7(43) | Gracián in the margin, crossing out the words "I forget
527 2, 10 | refrain from following the crowd?" "For extremes are not
528 3, 10 | the fine plans which come crowding into our minds when we are
529 2, 8 | tested and there is no better crucible for doing so than this.
530 7, 11 | follow until we come to the Crucifixion. Or we take one episode
531 1, 4 | Would it not be extremely cruel to stand looking at such
532 2, 9(97) | the verb means to squeeze, crush or press hard, or to extract
533 2, 4 | as though he had not a crust of bread left to eat, how
534 6, 11 | going about the countryside crying aloud and he told them that
535 3, 9(238) | Teresa wrote at this point: "Cuando dice aquí: os pide, léase
536 4, 2(163) | interpolates two clauses, con cuanto veis, u que nos está bien,
537 2, 9 | you never to relax your cultivation of it; so long as we are
538 1, 6 | last words of the verse are Cum dilatasti cor meum.83 To
539 1, 8 | the will of God. It is a curious thing: here we are, meeting
540 1, 7 | sake of finishing their customary meditation. ~
541 10, 5(204) | Psalm cxv, 11 [: "I said in my excess: '
542 10, 5(204) | liar,'" Cf. A.V., Psalm cxvi. 11.] ~
543 2, 5(31) | Psalm cxxvi, 2 [AV., cxxvii, 1]. ~
544 2, 5(31) | Psalm cxxvi, 2 [AV., cxxvii, 1]. ~
545 0, 2 | D.V. -- Douai Version of the
546 1, 9 | to use strange jargon or dabble in things of which we have
547 9, 13(203)| Dar higas. Cf. note on this
548 5, 10 | Creator of such greatness, has dared to offend Him and dares
549 3, 15 | like the Publican, without daring to lift up their eyes.244
550 2, 14 | they are to some extent darkened, so that they cannot be
551 4, 7 | wrong; little by little he darkens its understanding, and weakens
552 0, 9(3) | Silverio, II, 490-505] is dated September 4, 1588. The anecdote
553 0, 39 | in 1617, this gentleman's daughter Catalina took the habit
554 1, 5 | is fortified rather than daunted by censure, for experience
555 11, 11 | There are two deadly perils, it seems to me,
556 1, 4 | Mansions; for there it was deaf and dumb, or at least it
557 3, 12 | revelation of His secret dealings with such souls, for His
558 0, 29 | perfection there has been a dearth of persons qualified to
559 1, 7 | deeply do we remain in His debt. What can we do for so generous
560 7, 3 | ingratitude to One to Whom her debts were so great. She thought
561 4, 5 | imagination or from the deceit of the devil. Do you imagine
562 1, 9 | her confessor and has been deceiving him; and, although when
563 1, 7 | each of these favours and decide which is the better of the
564 1, 10 | If she decides to take up the matter with
565 0, 38 | Encarnación, for example, declares that she saw St. Teresa
566 0, 39 | been duly read to him and declaring that they were entirely
567 1, 10 | melancholy, and their health declines, and they even abandon prayer
568 2, 7 | others which are can be deduced from them, though it is
569 3, 7 | and it would have died in defence of their veracity. But,
570 1, 11 | weapons with which it could defend itself were in the hands
571 2, 12 | have little strength for defending themselves. In reality it
572 11, 12 | have need of it, and He defends these souls in every way
573 1, 11 | of difference, and a very definite one, between the soul and
574 1, 1(77) | Cf. St. Teresa's definition of supernatural prayer in
575 4, 2 | slightest move which may deflect it from its resolve. This,
576 6, 6 | oppressive, the thoughts may be deflected from them. For, as such
577 4, 10 | everything is cloying and degrading by comparison with these
578 3, 13 | described in the above-mentioned degrees of prayer, when the soul
579 4, 10 | sufficient reason is there for delaying even a short time instead
580 4, 10 | us in Heaven, without the delays and trials and perils incident
581 2, 2 | conscious of having been most delectably wounded, but cannot say
582 2, 2(129) | Gracián, interlineally, deleting the bracketed sentence which
583 1, 4 | has beside him the most delicious things to eat, but because
584 0, 27 | Mansions -- where, as she delightfully puts it, they can go as
585 2, 13 | here. That soul has now delivered itself into His hands and
586 3, 8 | all over the place, like a demented creature, and can settle
587 6, 5 | which He has been pleased to demonstrate to it in so small a matter.
588 6, 5 | any opportunity occurs of demonstrating the fact, it becomes evident
589 1, 4 | reason why they should be denied entrance to the very last
590 2, 12 | just, and what His Majesty denies you in this way He will
591 4, 16 | yet they seem to me to denote a lack of humility; for
592 1, 4 | Mansions; nor will the Lord deny them this if they desire
593 3, 1 | closing the eyes, nor is it dependent upon anything exterior.
594 1, 9 | is not in her power; it depends on when Our Lord is pleased
595 0, 38 | the Mansions at Toledo," deposed M. María del Nacimiento, "
596 1, 3 | mine? And do not let it depress you to realize that I am
597 0, 24 | wholly from within -- and the depression which can afflict the soul
598 9, 14 | been ordered to adopt this derisive remedy. I do not know who
599 2, 2 | shortcomings, and sometimes they derive more pain from finding that,
600 9, 15 | The soul derives great profit from this favour
601 4, 5 | story is found, without my deriving a special consolation from
602 1, 2 | Order and because we are descendent upon the line of those holy
603 4, 6 | ladder on which angels were descending and ascending. ~
604 1, 16 | be so, and far beyond its deservings. This severe distress comes
605 2, 3(158) | The verb used is deshacerse, "to undo oneself", implying
606 4, 16 | person really desires to be despitefully treated, how can she mind
607 1, 14 | becomes outwardly upset and despondent, to a very noticeable extent.
608 3, 9 | that Ninive was not to be destroyed.161 Of course, as the locutions
609 0, 12 | splendour of grace, which sin destroys and changes into such hideousness
610 9, 12 | devil hoped to bring you to destruction. For, as you will suppose
611 3, 9 | but the fountain had a device ensuring that, the more
612 1, 3 | is no need now for it to devise any method of suspending
613 8, 7 | is to please Him and to devote its whole life to His honour
614 3, 12 | of devotion; if we see a devotional image or hear a sermon,
615 2, 5 | not like those of other devotions whose genuineness we doubt
616 3, 6 | which becomes peacefully and devoutly recollected, and ready to
617 3, 9(238) | wrote at this point: "Cuando dice aquí: os pide, léase luego
618 0, 14 | objections, all of them dictated by her humility. "Why do
619 1, 9 | lead us just as our fancy dictates, how can this building possibly
620 6, 9 | water, we tire ourselves by digging for it, and the water we
621 1, 4 | been indulging in a long digression. Whenever I think of myself
622 3, 12 | greatly strengthened and dilated and equipped the soul, or
623 1, 9 | himself with all possible diligence to bring his will into conformity
624 3, 12 | When I see people very diligently trying to discover what
625 0, 14(6) | Dilucidario del verdadero espíritu,
626 4, 12 | and His riches are not diminished by His readiness to give. ~
627 1, 1 | in these combats, and by dint of perseverance have entered
628 1, 4 | previously it saw itself in dire poverty and plunged deep
629 1, 10 | was wandering about in all directions seeking her Beloved.126
630 8, 9 | If your director, though a man of prayer,
631 6, 10 | Our Lord, to which end it directs its whole activity. Oh,
632 9, 10 | senses are thrown into the direst fear and confusion, and
633 5, 9 | has seen, they seem like dirt to it. Thenceforward to
634 0, 37 | of Nuncios which was so disastrous for the Reform, the transference
635 4, 8 | light, we shall at once discern whether we have gained or
636 9, 11 | granted him the gift of discerning spirits. If he has this
637 2, 1 | nose and produce similar disconcerting symptoms. About this I can
638 1, 4 | favour, sisters, nor be disconsolate, even though you have not
639 2, 11 | and contentment. The very discontent caused by the things of
640 2, 11 | they will feel an inward discouragement -- quite unnecessarily,
641 3, 4 | powers, but to be intent upon discovering what the Lord is working
642 4, 18 | the favour itself becomes discredited, so that those to whom the
643 3, 7 | turmoil, to put a stop to all discursive reasoning, yet not to suspend
644 2, 10 | streams of ours will never disengage themselves from the slough
645 1, 1(41) | dress") is a homely one: "dished up" would hardly be too
646 10, 3 | these abominations and dishonourable actions and evil deeds which
647 1, 4 | cares little about being dishonoured itself, provided that it
648 11, 4 | it leaves the limbs quite disjointed, and, for as long as it
649 1, 4 | comparison with the many who dislike us! In any case, to be well
650 11, 4 | notwithstanding such a dislocation of the limbs that for two
651 0, 14 | and falls into that "sweet disorder" which in St. Teresa's other
652 11, 9 | possibly find any means of dispelling the distress until the Lord
653 11, 9 | distress until the Lord Himself dispels it for her. This He does,
654 3, 3 | always better for them to dispense with such things at first,
655 3, 3 | for, if they are of God, dispensing with them will help us all
656 3, 1 | solitude; and, without the display of any human skill there
657 6, 4 | pity on her, my God; and dispose things so that she may be
658 3, 9 | thus fitting and gradually disposing it to retain all that He
659 3, 3 | allowed to become depressed or disquieted, for it really cannot help
660 3, 6 | wills it to do, completely disregarding its own advantage and resigning
661 1, 2 | other spouse; but the Spouse disregards its yearnings for the conclusion
662 6, 11 | expected to keep silence and dissemble: it would find this no light
663 2, 10 | we do ourselves a great disservice. We were saying just now
664 1, 10 | harm we do to ourselves by dissipating our desires, this war which
665 6, 8 | hard my heart may be, it distils as if in an alembic. You
666 3, 13 | clear and the words less distinct, they will be like something
667 3, 3(101) | contraction"; it should be distinguished from recogimiento, a word
668 2, 11 | self-knowledge. We get a distorted idea of our own nature,
669 0, 14 | are clearly traced and the distribution of its several parts is
670 3, 5 | restless, unquiet passion which disturbs the soul and lasts for a
671 0, 26 | mystics, there are various divergences on points of detail. She
672 1, 9 | with this -- only with His Divinity. How, you will ask, can
673 1, 11 | both one. So subtle is the division perceptible between them
674 0, 7 | Saint John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church, translated
675 0, 33 | none of them has any great doctrinal significance. It is a striking
676 0, 30 | scrutiny by himself and a Dominican theologian, P. Yanguas,
677 1, 4 | mind: Beatus vir, qui timet Dominum.64~And now I forget what
678 0, 2 | D.V. -- Douai Version of the Bible (1609). ~
679 1, 11 | rivers came suddenly rushing downward; and a host of little birds
680 3, 8 | however great, never travel downwards, but always upwards, so
681 0, 39 | manuscript as part of her dowry. Thus by a strange concatenation
682 0, 13 | discuss the matter with Dr. Velázquez, who used sometimes
683 1, 3 | ruined their own lives and dragged good people down with them",
684 0, 27 | enter the Interior Castle, drawing a picturesque contrast between
685 4, 3 | The contract is already drawn up and the soul has been
686 1, 2 | times over and constant dread at the possibility of losing
687 10, 3 | against us. It is the most dreadful thing in the world that
688 1, 4 | was no question here of dreaming, whereas as in the Mansion
689 2, 1(72) | Lit.: "drove me silly" -- "me traían
690 1, 3 | seems to be, as it were, drowsy, so that it neither seems
691 6, 9 | them. They will leave this dry ground of ours well watered
692 2, 2 | it and prevents it from drying up and causes it to produce
693 3, 17 | others also) have been very dubious about this way of understanding
694 4, 8 | kind in the house of the Duchess of Alba, where I was commanded
695 0, 39 | chapters in question had been duly read to him and declaring
696 1, 3 | to do this, it becomes so dumbfounded that, even if any consciousness
697 0, 23 | asleep". It is of short duration, but, while it lasts, the
698 0, 4 | Silverio de Santa Teresa, C.D., Durgos, 1915-24, 9 vols. ~
699 4, 9 | never grow to be more than dwarfs. God grant that nothing
700 4, 10 | that in which it is itself dwelling? Is it to send them to sleep?
701 1, 1(17) | than the English "room": dwellingplace, abode, apartment.] ~
702 2, 9 | then, as do those who have dwelt in the Mansions already
703 0, 44 | The earliest of all the editions, Luis
704 4, 5 | was then that he had to earn his living247 I am very
705 9, 23 | cost of his own toil has earned much more merit. I know
706 4, 8 | variety of glassware, and earthenware, and all kinds of things,
707 3, 6 | ourselves and our own profit and ease and pleasure. And how can
708 2, 8(32) | common in the south and east of Spain, with thick layers
709 11, 8 | it was the last day of Eastertide, and all that Easter she
710 2, 8 | before the centre can be eaten. Just so around this central
711 1, 2 | arms even when sleeping or eating, and are always afraid of
712 1, 12(50) | Ecclesiasticus iii, 27. ~
713 6, 6 | will of God, and you can echo the words of Saint Martin183;
714 2, 8(32) | leaves enclosing a succulent edible kernel. ~
715 1, 4 | us than by our failing to edify those to whom God grants
716 0, 20 | advancement -- sermons, edifying conversations, good company
717 0, 4 | de Santa Teresa de Jesús, editadas y anotadas por el P. Silverio
718 3, 1 | awakening of the soul is effected by means of locutions, which
719 4, 14 | will then be all the more effective because you have the greater
720 3, 3 | where He is found more effectively and more profitably than
721 1 | method which has proved very efficacious. ~
722 3, 5 | I cannot believe in the efficacy of human activity in matters
723 3, 12 | person was in this state for eight hours; she was not unconscious,
724 0, 42 | Tomás de Aquino, in the eighteenth century. One of these, used
725 3, 4(103) | presumably to the famous "Eighth Counsel" of the Treatise
726 0, 37 | less than six months which elapsed between the beginning of
727 [Title] | MANSIONS ~In which there are Eleven Chapters. ~
728 2, 11 | great price, and any who can elude the reptiles which are to
729 2, 1 | in this task which I have embarked upon.94 I had quite forgotten
730 4, 17(174)| This is Luis de León's emendation of the sentence in the autograph,
731 4, 17(174)| Gracián, in the Córdoba copy, emends similarly, though not identically.
732 2, 8 | kill themselves: they are eminently reasonable folk! Their love
733 0, 11 | became as black as coal and emitted an insufferable odour, and
734 4, 15 | which He may be pleased to employ it! If such effects as have
735 3, 6 | understanding to cease, He employs it in another manner, and
736 2, 7 | quite certain that, when we empty ourselves of all that is
737 2, 13 | makes us feel that we may emulate their flights and venture
738 2, 12 | Him much more. If it only enables a single person to praise
739 3, 12(144)| Encapotadas: lit., covering their faces
740 0, 38 | always be trusted. Ana de la Encarnación, for example, declares that
741 11, 2 | existence: it instantaneously enchains the faculties in such a
742 2, 8(32) | with thick layers of leaves enclosing a succulent edible kernel. ~
743 3, 3(101) | gentle interior shrinking": encogimiento, the noun used, means "shrinkage", "
744 0, 9 | was mutual delight at the encounter; and Fray Diego not only
745 6, 11 | spoken against,) but will be encouraged to praise Him the more. ~
746 5, 6 | remembers it and it comforts and encourages her. There are several other
747 3, 7 | devil not do in this case by encouraging such misgivings? At the
748 11 | and impetuous that they endanger its life. Treats also of
749 1, 4 | which its health will be endangered by penances (which the soul
750 0, 14 | scientific rule without endangering its own spirit. Since God
751 0, 37 | Incarnation when the nuns endeavoured vainly to elect St. Teresa
752 3, 13 | and, if you use your best endeavours and strive after this in
753 2, 5 | as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its
754 9, 10 | becomes that he could never endow it with so many blessings --
755 3, 9 | and realizes that, if he endures these trials for God's sake,
756 1, 11 | were in the hands of its enemy, and was thus clearly aware
757 2, 11 | more capacity. Whenever it engages in prayer, this is a grief
758 1, 4 | talking about God, continually engaging in prayer, withdrawing yourselves
759 2, 7 | and in which our image is engraved.235 ~
760 2, 12 | absorbed in worldly affairs, engulfed in worldly pleasure and
761 11, 3 | have said, in ways which enhance this feeling of distress.
762 2, 10 | the effect of which was enhanced by physical weakness, and
763 8, 9 | the matter timorously and enjoins you to go and consult others.
764 7, 12 | living sparks which will enkindle the soul more and more in
765 2, 4 | reason it never completely enkindles the soul; for, just as the
766 7, 8 | is often needed for the enkindling of the will. ~
767 2, 5 | speaks of the heart's being enlarged. I do not think that this
768 2, 10 | I seem to be enlarging on this subject and there
769 1, 1 | Heaven, my Lord, that I may enlighten these Thy servants, to some
770 1, 9(123) | Relations, LIV: Vol. I, p. 361.) enlightened her further on this point.
771 3, 5 | described above. They bear no enmity to those who ill-treat them,
772 2, 11 | have said, will then be ennobled, and self-knowledge will
773 4, 13 | enclosure. For when He means to enrapture this soul, it loses its
774 4, 9 | raptures; for when a person is enraptured you can be sure that God
775 11, 3 | indescribable. It is an enrapturing of the senses and faculties,
776 3, 5 | inseparable. The Lord can enrich souls in many ways and bring
777 5, 6 | was so much comforted and enriched by this experience that
778 4, 2 | and in the course of the ensuing turmoil, which as a rule
779 3, 9 | the fountain had a device ensuring that, the more freely the
780 2, 3 | advantage, and that in such an enterprise the poor little worm would
781 4, 12 | them, and they must not entertain Him badly and give Him nothing
782 1, 4 | secret that God will not even entrust our thoughts with it.116
783 0, 39 | was written, St. Teresa entrusted it to the keeping of P.
784 1, 7 | understand, the door of entry into this castle is prayer
785 4, 2 | Quiet kills them. I want to enumerate here some different kinds
786 1 | to endure greater trials. Enumerates some of these and describes
787 0, 27 | we find this conviction enunciated in the nineteenth chapter
788 6, 3 | other people, and greatly envies those who lived, or have
789 6, 3 | obstacle of sex and very envious of those who are free to
790 4, 1 | poisonous things in the environs and mansions of this castle
791 1, 2 | But that is no reason for envying those who do not hear, for
792 7, 11 | Crucifixion. Or we take one episode of the Passion -- Christ'
793 3, 12(241)| respect to these exterior epoch of the suspension of the
794 3, 12 | strengthened and dilated and equipped the soul, or it may be that,
795 3, 11(107)| are added to their English equivalents so as to make the phrase
796 1, 1(21) | Here the Saint erased several words and inserted
797 0, 34 | corrections, together with some erasures and marginal additions,
798 0, 31 | not because there was any erroneous teaching in them, but because
799 2, 8(33) | but if it is (Uh, que si es) in (the room of) self-knowledge!"
800 1, 11 | Then, like one who has escaped from a perilous battle and
801 11, 10 | is no way of resisting or escaping it when it comes. The soul
802 0, 42 | the "Biblioteca de Autores Españoles", contains a critical study
803 0, 14(6) | Dilucidario del verdadero espíritu, Chap. V. ~
804 0, 23 | itself to receive what is essentially a gift from God. She also
805 2, 5 | says: Mihi vivere Christus est, mori lucrum.228 This, I
806 4, 2(163) | con cuanto veis, u que nos está bien, which, translated
807 0, 14 | spirit. Since God is free to establish an ineffable communion with
808 2, 9(97) | A very strong word, estrujarse. In its non-reflexive form,
809 4, 10 | treasures, which we shall enjoy eternally. And even these are nothing
810 0, 10 | from experience. On the eve of the festival of the Most
811 0, 9 | their own convent". In the evening, however, St. Teresa had
812 4, 1 | set on desiring to have ever-increasing fruition of its Spouse;
813 3, 8 | nothing but praise His Majesty everlastingly -- much more, however, because
814 2, 2 | in a pool of pitch-black, evil-smelling water, it produces nothing
815 2, 5 | brings endless and eternal evils in its train. It is of this,
816 2, 1 | which have been by no means exacting and they have become so
817 2, 8 | be done without the least exaggeration, for the soul's capacity
818 5 | gives an example of how God exalts the soul through flights
819 1, 7 | will not for the moment examine each of these favours and
820 0, 35 | work of this committee was examined by another critic, who took
821 9, 5 | its presence is of such exceeding majesty that it fills the
822 9, 5 | years, because it so far exceeds all that our imagination
823 3, 10 | he does so for some very exceptional reason, or unless he returns
824 2, 8(33) | impossible to translate her exclamation literally.] ~
825 0, 26 | regard her description as excluding others. Each of the series
826 0, 49 | come from me. Their only excuse for crediting me with it
827 9, 23 | possible, they would have excused themselves from receiving.
828 0, 21 | description of these Mansions of Exemplary Life begins with stern exhortations
829 3, 5 | otherwise. Or it is greatly exercised because of some important
830 3, 10 | state: namely, that they exert the very greatest care to
831 2, 10 | because to do so would only exhaust them further. Our whole
832 3, 13 | strength, if it has become exhausted, comes back again. If their
833 2, 8 | for, believe me, it is an exhausting road -- we shall be very
834 3, 13 | if it consists of a long exhortation, the hearer notices the
835 0, 21 | Exemplary Life begins with stern exhortations on the dangers of trusting
836 3, 2 | though the soul no longer existed, because it is such that
837 3, 5 | down our eyes in humble expectation. When from the secret signs
838 7, 15 | His disciples that it was expedient for them that He should
839 2, 7 | He does, and give various explanations of them, it will be very
840 0, 18(7) | A fuller exposition, in English, will be found
841 7, 14 | longer exist. Any continuous exposure to it would be very bad
842 1, 9(89) | tan tortolito, an expressive phrase: "so like a little
843 3, 9(238) | This paper" is no longer extant, but Luis de León evidently
844 2, 6 | I have said, the effects extend even to the body. Observe --
845 1, 2 | reveal it to us. As far as externals are concerned, we are on
846 2, 9(97) | crush or press hard, or to extract something by so doing. The
847 3, 12(144)| Encapotadas: lit., covering their faces with a cloak, muffled up.
848 0, 40 | the autographs. All these facts point to the conclusion
849 6, 1 | although the soul would fain be free from tears, these
850 0, 19 | within reach them only in a faint and diffused form, all is
851 3, 16 | like waves of the sea, and fair weather returns, and then
852 1, 5 | offended God, and, however faithfully we serve Him, it should
853 1, 3 | say of a person who has fallen into a swoon, it might be
854 10, 6 | simply that we must not tell falsehoods, for as far as that is concerned --
855 7, 9 | itself, it needs someone to fan it into flame. Would it
856 3, 13 | locutions which are created fancifully by the imagination the voice
857 3, 10 | and if they are lost their fate is less remediable. You,
858 1, 2 | upon the line of those holy Fathers of ours from Mount Carmel
859 2, 5 | secrets which we cannot fathom. When I say "amounts to
860 2, 8 | walking along and getting fatigued all the time -- for, believe
861 2, 2 | is as dead. The silkworms feed on the mulberry-leaves until
862 2, 2 | sustenance, on which it feeds, it is as dead. The silkworms
863 4, 13 | perhaps alone, for her fervour was such that she cared
864 6, 10 | everybody and have great festivities because she sees her soul
865 6, 4 | butterfly, bound by so many fetters, which prevent you from
866 0, 35 | Ribera, whose concern for the fidelity with which her writings
867 1 | final Mansions and of the fierce war which the devil wages
868 2, 7 | not surprising, for almost fifteen years have passed since
869 1, 6(218) | species is not corporeal, nor figured in the imagination, the
870 3, 9(238) | though not in the autograph, figures in his edition. It is also
871 2, 16 | he works like a noiseless file, and we must be on the look-out
872 2, 2 | produces nothing but misery and filth. ~
873 3, 10 | take no notice of all the fine plans which come crowding
874 1, 7 | reject it for the sake of finishing their customary meditation. ~
875 0, 28 | there is no writer who has a firmer hold on reality than St.
876 1, 6 | it is possible for these first-named to have happened. ~
877 8, 7 | occupation with God and its fixing of the thought on Him would
878 1, 9(89) | stupid, like an inexperienced fledgling.] ~
879 4, 5 | how, when Saint Peter was fleeing from prison, Our Lord appeared
880 0, 15 | same time more natural and flexible, than the Way of perfection.
881 2, 14 | one were to enter a place flooded by sunlight with his eyes
882 1, 8 | first rooms on the lowest floor, but so many reptiles get
883 1, 14 | and we must grind our own flour: neither the will nor the
884 3, 9 | the more freely the water flowed, the larger became the basin.
885 2, 3 | be made, for the water is flowing all the time. The difference
886 0, 22 | source and the water of life flows into it, not through an
887 4, 8 | that would simply be folly. But most of all we must
888 1, 8 | forward in aridity. We are fonder of spiritual sweetness than
889 1, 3 | pardon this wretched and foolhardy woman. But His Majesty well
890 3, 11 | But I call it abobamiento, foolishness;107 for they are doing nothing
891 2, 10 | not the same thing -- God forbid! It is only a comparison --
892 5, 3 | sources of the waters and forbids the sea to move beyond its
893 2, 10 | enters this Mansion and forces the soul to leave it; and,
894 2, 1(72) | a typically homely and forcible expression. Cf. n. 91, below.] ~
895 2, 6 | soul experiences them very forcibly. One can only say that this
896 3, 7 | said. Let it try, without forcing itself or causing any turmoil,
897 3, 2 | in so strange a state of forgetfulness that, as I say, she seems
898 7, 5 | reflect that Our Lord has forgiven and forgotten our sins;
899 0, 12 | morning remarked to me: 'How I forgot myself last night! I cannot
900 3, 1(159) | three kinds: successive, formal and substantial. ~
901 | formerly
902 1, 13 | it is to see a soul thus forsaken, and how little, as I have
903 7, 14 | although sometimes we may be forsaking our own pleasures and consolations
904 7, 2 | when it remembers that it forsook so great a Majesty for things
905 1, 5 | absolutely true. The soul is fortified rather than daunted by censure,
906 1, 11 | Lord, for it is He Who has fought and enabled it to conquer.
907 0, 10 | palace limits everything was foul, dark and infested with
908 2, 9 | purity we shall see our foulness; by meditating upon His
909 0, 36 | kind with which the Mother Foundress was continually being assailed,
910 1, 1 | understood of the subject, about fourteen years ago.78 Although I
911 1, 1 | said now, for it is only a fraction of the things that still
912 2, 6 | where it dwells, but the fragrant smoke and the heat penetrate
913 0, 32 | well enough to be quite frank with them, and as her command
914 3, 11 | must have been due to some freak of the imagination. The
915 2, 8 | own nature, and it will be freer from the reptiles which
916 1, 6(118) | expression corresponding to the French un je ne sais quoi.] ~
917 6, 6 | least, occurs with great frequency. ~
918 2, 8 | the streams of water is fresher and gives more fruit,236
919 3, 12(144)| Metaphorically, the word can mean "frowning", "sullen". Here a less
920 0, 9 | little party of nuns, half frozen but still cheerful, reached
921 4, 2 | rests -- though it is always fruitful in doing good to itself
922 4, 5 | betrothal should not be frustrated through their fault? Oh,
923 4, 4(149) | No fué más de una vista. [Cf. n.
924 0, 14 | which it treats -- in the furnishing of the Mansions, as we might
925 4, 4 | this and the last might be fused in one: there is no closed
926 4, 19 | and around, with lovely gardens and fountains255 and things
927 1, 2 | men with enemies at their gates, who cannot lay aside their
928 2, 14 | of fact it would like to gaze at the castle and enjoy
929 1, 7(43) | Judges vii, 5. "With Gedeon in the Judges," adds P.
930 2, 10 | with just measure, and even generously, for He always gives us
931 0, 15 | that of so many works of genius, is extremely simple. After
932 5, 2 | this great and powerful Giant of ours can bear away the
933 6, 1 | complete fruition of their Giver that its life becomes sheer,
934 8, 3 | greatly strengthened and gladdened by such good companionship.
935 2, 10 | fear. We shall always be glancing around and saying: "Are
936 4, 8 | have an infinite variety of glassware, and earthenware, and all
937 1, 6(218) | senses and have a fleeting glimpse of the Divine Essence, as
938 0, 21 | is given only occasional glimpses into the Mansions beyond. ~
939 0, 48 | be for ever blessed and glorified. Amen. ~
940 4, 8 | things might lead one to glorify the Lord. It occurs to me
941 4, 16 | criticism instead of for glorifying the Lord. This distress
942 0, 40 | none of the corrections and glosses made by P. Gracián -- again,
943 1 | if we are to attain our goal, not to miss our way at
944 7, 6 | with matters concerning the Godhead and to flee from corporeal
945 4, 5(248) | he said: 'Lord, whither goest Thou?' 'I am going to Rome
946 4, 13 | everything else. Think how we gossip about people far less notorious
947 3, 7(142) | Jonas iv, 6-7 [The "gourd" of A.V.] ~
948 0, 21 | self-surrender. Its love is still governed by reason, and so its progress
949 3, 19 | greater than itself, is governing that Castle and renders
950 1, 4 | speech and dress and in the government of their household if they
951 2, 4 | faculties, which are their governors and butlers and stewards --
952 1, 4 | as though He were being gracious to a third person, and forgetting
953 2, 9 | worm -- that is, by its gradual weaving of the cocoon. It
954 4, 14 | soul seems incapable of grasping anything that does not awaken
955 1, 5 | and we trample upon their graves, and often, as we pass them,
956 8, 4 | know she sometimes felt the gravest misgivings, and at other
957 3, 5 | for a long time. They are griefs which pass quickly; for,
958 7, 2 | seem to it to have been so gross that it cannot stop grieving,
959 1, 5 | kind had to do with the grosser part of the body, and the
960 1, 10 | can lead them on from one group of Mansions to another and
961 4, 15 | day. We must not begin by growing weary; but during the whole
962 1, 8 | glory of His Son and the growth of the Catholic Church.
963 4, 6 | that even this does not guarantee our safety. ~
964 4, 7 | no enclosure so strictly guarded that he cannot enter it,
965 1, 5 | the place occupied by the guards; they are not interested
966 1, 9(123) | asked him for theological guidance about it just before she
967 3 | such a case: we must not be guided by our own opinions. Sets
968 10, 3 | we could not possibly be guilty of such foolish presumption!
969 1, 1(41) | The word (guisar: "season", "dress") is a
970 2, 15 | lest he deceive us in the guise of an angel of light. For
971 5, 9 | quickly as a bullet leaves a gun when the trigger is pulled,
972 2, 1 | violent enough to make blood gush from the nose and produce
973 1, 3(62) | original is: Recia obediencia ha sido! Lit.: "Rigorous obedience (
974 1, 3 | businesses and pleasures and hagglings, when we are falling into
975 4, 13 | and wiping them with her hair.252 And do you think it
976 3, 13 | like something heard in a half-dream. ~
977 1, 11 | are not worthy to be the handmaidens of so great a Lord, since
978 3, 8 | despite all the unfortunate happenings which may persuade the soul
979 1, 11 | full of sunshine and far happier than it was before. Then,
980 1, 10 | where these beasts cannot harass or hurt them, for He will
981 1, 8 | But, when the poor soul, harassed by the same fear, goes to
982 6, 8 | emotional; on the contrary, my hardness of heart sometimes worries
983 1, 3 | they do, they prove quite harmless -- in fact they do the soul
984 4, 18 | effects of these last do not harmonize with the reception of this
985 3, 13 | fulfilled. Here to this wounded hart are given waters in abundance.
986 | hast
987 2, 7 | then, my daughters! Let us hasten to perform this task and
988 1, 7 | until I had a splitting headache; and the same thing happened
989 2, 7 | even though He tarry, to heal us. ~
990 3, 3 | Both with infirm and with healthy souls there is invariably
991 10, 3 | and let us render Him the heartiest thanks and be ashamed of
992 4, 14 | ambitious desires into our hearts, so that, instead of setting
993 4, 8 | wish it to reach any great height: in fact, it is for your
994 1, 12 | realize that it is utterly helpless and that we are but miserable
995 0, 22 | acquiring what it gains. Henceforward the soul's part will become
996 6, 11 | told them that he was the herald of the great King. Other
997 9, 5 | accompanied by their suites, or heralds proclaim them. ~
998 | hereafter
999 2, 11 | souls are lost, both of heretics and of Moors; although its
1000 2, 5 | somewhere that our life is hid in Christ, or in God (for