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 1  Abbr,   0     |              Letters -- Letters of St. Teresa. Unless otherwise
 2  Abbr,   0     |           of P. Silverio. Letters (St.) indicates the translation
 3  Abbr,   0     |               Lewis -- The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, etc.,
 4  Abbr,   0     |                                    St. John of the Cross -- The
 5  Intr,   0     | outstanding Dominican who was also St. Teresa's confessor, Fray
 6  Intr,   0     |         Domingo B‡-ez. The nuns of St. Joseph's knew something
 7  Intr,   0     |            contain, however, about St. Teresa's spiritual life
 8  Intr,   0     |           the book's construction. St. Teresa begins by describing
 9  Intr,   0     |           of humility and poverty, St. Teresa extols the virtues
10  Intr,   0     |           impossible. Humility, to St. Teresa, is nothing more
11  Intr,   0     |      contemplation. It begins with St. Teresa's famous extended
12  Intr,   0     |                                    St. Teresa then examines a
13  Intr,   0     |     commentary on the Paternoster, St. Teresa gives a striking
14  Intr,   0     |                           Finally, St. Teresa writes of the love
15  Intr,   0     |      argument of this book. Of all St. Teresa's writings it is
16  Intr,   0     |    Perfection", but this is not in St. Teresa's hand. It plunges
17  Intr,   0     |            them (55 and 56) are in St. Teresa's own writing. As
18  Intr,   0     |        know that it was written at St. Joseph's, çvila, for the
19  Intr,   0     |            contains corrections in St. Teresa's hand, of a note,
20  Intr,   0     |            lines in the writing of St. Teresa, which make no allusion
21  Intr,   0     |          have been so many nuns at St. Joseph's before late in
22  Intr,   0     |       habit, and it is doubtful if St. Teresa could conceivably
23  Intr,   0(2)  |           to her being Prioress of St. Joseph's when the book
24  Intr,   0     |        writing for her çvila nuns, St. Teresa used language much
25  Intr,   0     |                   It is clear that St. Teresa intended the Valladolid
26  Pref          |           the Way of perfection as St. Teresa wrote it in the
27  Pref,   0     |         San Pedro and corrected by St. Teresa; it contains a considerable
28  Pref,   0     |      version of what many consider St. Teresa's most attractive
29  Pref,   0     |            have had the support of St. Teresa, who in this very
30  Pref,   0     |         the one hand I desired, as St. Teresa must have desired,
31  Pref,   0     |          innumerable phrases which St. Teresa seems to have cut
32  Pref,   0     |         respect and admiration for St. Teresa as a reviser, to
33  Pref,   0     |          often asked myself: Would St. Teresa have included or
34  Pref,   0     |         here than in my edition of St. John of the Cross, where
35  Pref,   0     |            public than the nuns of St. Joseph's. The interpolations
36  Pref,   0     |            been suppressed because St. Teresa thought them redundant,
37  Pref,   0     |            reading everything that St. Teresa wrote and nothing
38  Pref,   0     |            little group of nuns at St. Joseph's and also how she
39  Pref,   0     |       which it derives. In it both St. Teresa herself and others
40  Argo,   0(6)  |                     This title, in St. Teresa's hand, appears
41  Argo,   0(6)  |       followed by the Prologue, in St. Teresa's. The Toledo copy (
42  Argo,   0(7)  |               These lines, also in St. Teresa's hand, follow the
43  Prot,   0(8)  |           from T., was dictated by St. Teresa for the edition
44  Prol,   0(10) |       takes the reference to be to St. Gregory, for it says: "
45  Unic,   1(11) |          time of the foundation of St. Joseph's.~
46  Unic,   2(14) |           An apparent reference to St. Mark xiii, 31.~
47  Unic,   2(16) |                                    St. Teresa liked to have hermitages
48  Unic,   3(17) |       corner." The reference is to St. Joseph's, çvila.~
49  Unic,   8(31) |                 The thirteenth was St. Teresa.~
50  Unic,  13(42) |                              I.e., St. Joseph's, çvila.~
51  Unic,  16(45) |           but, after writing them, St. Teresa tore them out of
52  Unic,  16(46) |           in vogue in the Spain of St. Teresa's day and it was
53  Unic,  16(47) |          the great virtues." In V. St. Teresa originally began
54  Unic,  17(52) |                                    St. Luke xiv, 10.~
55  Unic,  19(59) |                                    St Teresa is probably referring
56  Unic,  19(59) |   treatises of Luis de Granada and St. Peter of Alc‡ntara (S.S.M,
57  Unic,  19(61) |                                    St. John iv, 13.~
58  Unic,  19(68) |    generally taken as referring to St. Teresa herself.~
59  Unic,  19(70) |           appears to be based upon St. John vii, 37.~
60  Unic,  20(71) |       There is a reference here to St. John xiv, 2.~
61  Unic,  20(72) |                                    St. John vii, 37.~
62  Unic,  21(78) |           words is not uncommon in St. Teresa.~
63  Unic,  21(80) |            Spanish. E. uses one of St. Teresa's characteristic
64  Unic,  22(81) |    generally taken as referring to St. Teresa's visit to Do-a
65  Unic,  23(91) |                                    St. Luke xi, 9.~
66  Unic,  31(107)|         allusion is, of course, to St. Luke ii, 25 ("just and
67  Unic,  31(108)|         The "three tabernacles" of St. Matthew xvii, 4.~
68  Unic,  31(109)|        that this contemplative was St. Francis Borgia, Duke of
69  Unic,  31(109)|       other person referred to was St. Teresa herself. The addition
70  Unic,  31(109)|          added some words, also in St. Teresa's hand, but partially
71  Unic,  31(110)|                                    St. Luke xviii, 13. St. Teresa
72  Unic,  31(110)|                St. Luke xviii, 13. St. Teresa apparently forgot
73  Unic,  34(123)|           if by (someone's) hand." St. Teresa is thought here
74  Unic,  35(126)|                                    St. Matthew viii, 25.~
75  Unic,  36(130)|                                    St. Teresa left this sentence
76  Unic,  40(139)|         the famous reminiscence of St. Teresa's childhood, to
77  Unic,  42(142)|                                    St. Luke xxii, 15.~
78  Unic,  42(146)|            do not know what reason St. Teresa had to suppose this,