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1 Unic, 19(59) | ntara (S.S.M, 1, 40-52, II, 106-20). Cf. Constitutions (
2 Unic, 11 | CHAPTER 11 - Continues to treat of
3 Note | only a few of the nearly 1200 footnotes of the original
4 Unic, 1(11) | after the latter's death in 1559, and was still doing so
5 Unic, 16(46) | s day and it was only in 1561 that its great exponent
6 Intr, 0 | before late in the year 1563, in which Mar de San Jer-nimo
7 Intr, 0 | or in the early weeks of 1566]1 we can date the commencement
8 Prol, 0(9) | Salamanca University in 1577.~
9 Pref, 0 | edition was being prepared. In 1585, a second edition, edited
10 Pref, 0 | published at Valencia in 1586. When Fray Luis de Leon
11 Abbr, 0 | Douai Version of the Bible (1609) .~
12 Abbr, 0 | Authorized Version of the Bible (1611).~
13 Abbr, 0 | de Santa Teresa, Madrid, 1615.~
14 Pref, 0 | into English, by Woodhead (1675: reprinted 1901) and Dalton (
15 Unic, 18 | CHAPTER 18 - Continues the same subject
16 Pref, 0 | reprinted 1901) and Dalton (1852), were based, very naturally,
17 Pref, 0 | Valladolid. In the edition of 1883, the work of a Canon of
18 Pref, 0 | Woodhead (1675: reprinted 1901) and Dalton (1852), were
19 Abbr, 0 | Jaime Pons, Barcelona, 1908.~
20 Unic, 16(48) | fundamentales de la m'stica, Madrid, 1913, II, 61-77.)~
21 Abbr, 0 | Santa Teresa, C.D., Durgos, 1915-24, 9 vols.~
22 Abbr, 0 | Zimmerman, O.C.D., London, 1916.~
23 Abbr, 0 | Benedictines of Stanbrook (London, 1919-24, 4 vols.).~
24 Abbr, 0 | Spanish Mystics, London, 1927-30, 2 vols.~
25 Abbr, 0 | Allison Peers, London, 1934-35, 3 vols.~
26 Unic, 21 | CHAPTER 21 - Describes the great importance
27 Unic, 22 | CHAPTER 22 - Explains the meaning of
28 Unic, 19(59) | Constitutions (Vol. III, p. 236, below).~
29 Unic, 38(135)| paragraph in the text of V. (p. 254, above). The differences,
30 Unic, 28 | CHAPTER 28 - Describes the nature of
31 Unic, 32 | CHAPTER 32 - Expounds these words of
32 Unic, 33 | CHAPTER 33 - Treats of our great need
33 Unic, 36 | CHAPTER 36 - Treats of these words
34 Unic, 19(59) | Alc‡ntara (S.S.M, 1, 40-52, II, 106-20). Cf. Constitutions (
35 Intr, 0 | manuscript and only two of them (55 and 56) are in St. Teresa'
36 Intr, 0 | only two of them (55 and 56) are in St. Teresa's own
37 Unic, App | importance of this, etc. (pp. 58-9).~
38 Abbr, 0 | translated by David Lewis, 5th ed., with notes and introductions
39 Unic, 16(48) | stica, Madrid, 1913, II, 61-77.)~
40 Unic, 7 | CHAPTER 7 - Treats of the same subject
41 Intr, 0 | reduction in number from 73 to 42, to the great advantage
42 Unic, 16(48) | above. P. Silverio (III, 75-6), has a more extensive
43 Unic, 16(48) | stica, Madrid, 1913, II, 61-77.)~
44 Unic, 8 | CHAPTER 8 - Treats of the great benefit
45 Unic, 31(113)| Algarab'a. Cf. n. 96 above.~
46 Unic, 28 | such a King would not be abandoned by His courtiers. They stay
47 Unic, 18 | it will look as if we are abandoning our work like cowards. It
48 Unic, 12 | marvellous way in which He abased Himself to give us an example
49 Unic, 22(82) | Honour" (Vuestra Merced: now abbreviated to Vd. and used as the third
50 Abbr | PRINCIPAL ABBREVIATIONS~
51 Unic, 29 | that we should know103 and abide with the Person with Whom
52 Unic, 8 | labour to the best of our abilities day by day, we shall not
53 Prol | other books which are very ably written by those who10 have
54 Unic, 35 | loss of many priests and abolish the sacraments.125 And there
55 Unic, 19 | Heaven, the source of the above-mentioned tears, which are given us,
56 Unic, 19 | power over it. The fire is absolute master, and subject to nothing.
57 Unic, 21 | make use of this pretext to absolve themselves from such practices
58 Unic, 42 | the beginning, until God absorbs the soul and gives it to
59 Unic, 36 | God help us, how absurd it is for religious to connect
60 Unic, 13 | when I say this -- what an absurdity, though, it is for me to
61 Unic, 42 | soul and gives it to drink abundantly of the fountain of living
62 Unic, 12 | they may give rise to great abuses. Remember, I know a great
63 Unic, 18 | and who, in receiving it, accepts no light obligation. So,
64 Intr, 0 | which, had the book been accessible to them, they would have
65 Unic, 29 | can enter it of our own accord: this condition must be
66 Unic, 13 | sister who thinks that she is accounted the least among all consider
67 Unic, 15 | for the thing that we are accused of, we are never wholly
68 Unic, 38 | poverty of spirit disappears. Accustoming ourselves to saying this
69 Unic, 19 | waning or find that our head aches: discretion is most necessary
70 Unic, 29 | to describe methods for achieving this Prayer of Recollection.
71 Unic, 41 | well and should like to acquaint you with, so that you may
72 Unic, 7 | to us. When you make the acquaintance of any such persons, sisters,
73 Unic, 5 | one confessor should be acquainted with them all. I assure
74 Unic, 16 | to be taken towards the acquisition of the virtues and the very
75 Unic, 1 | no possibility of want. I acted, in short, like the weak
76 Unic, 29 | sees you exhibiting some additional virtue, it is with you that
77 Unic, 31(109)| margin of T. the author adds, in her own hand, that this
78 Unic, 23(90) | characteristically bold adjective of the original.~
79 Pref, 0(4) | but not quite synonymous adjectives referring to the same noun.~
80 Pref, 0 | have acquired a respect and admiration for St. Teresa as a reviser,
81 Intr, 0 | actives: to imagine that God admits to this closest friendship
82 Unic, 22 | careless way that we should adopt in speaking to a peasant
83 Pref, 0 | the close study which the adoption of this procedure has involved,
84 Intr, 0 | up numerous ideas already adumbrated in the Life and treats them
85 Unic, 5 | be pleased to promote the advancement of this to His greater glory.
86 Unic, 30 | Sanctificetur nomen tuum, adveniat regnum tuum."106 Applies
87 Unic, 21 | which there are so many adversaries to fight? Of course, sooner
88 Unic, 42 | anyone tries to do so, or advises you to give up your prayer,
89 Unic, 18 | otherwise. As this does not affect you, however, I will say
90 Unic, 13 | referring to shortcomings affecting penances and fasts, for,
91 Intr, 0 | must have seemed to her too affectionately intimate, and some of her
92 Unic, 6 | friend is rich and able to afford them pastime and pleasure
93 Unic, 33 | and every day,119 see Him affronted? And how many affronts are
94 Unic, 41 | sin committed of malice aforethought; it is as though one were
95 Unic, 28 | When the will calls them afresh they respond more quickly,
96 Unic, 20 | light favour if through your agency He were to arouse some soul
97 Pref, 0 | which in less critical ages than our own enjoyed great
98 Unic, 21 | remark, sisters, I quite agree. Of course it is enough!
99 Unic, 37 | He were to make a kind of agreement on our behalf with His Eternal
100 Unic, 32 | may give it back to Him. Ah, my God! How well Jesus
101 Unic, 18 | all the blows which are aimed at them without striking
102 Pref, 0 | practicable to achieve both these aims at once. This resolution
103 Unic, 6 | thing of straw, as light as air and easily carried away
104 Unic, 22 | so that you may not be alarmed. I know what such fears
105 Unic, 3 | Alas, Lord, who is it that has
106 Unic, 19(59) | Granada and St. Peter of Alc‡ntara (S.S.M, 1, 40-52,
107 Unic, 21 | it is most important -- all-important, indeed -- that they should
108 Unic, 19 | great trials: they will allay our pain and we shall gain
109 Unic, 19 | by which this thirst is allayed. It is therefore a thirst
110 Unic, 9 | not only assert this but allege reasons for it.~
111 Unic, 16(45) | worldly game as chess. The allegory, however, is so expressive
112 Unic, 11 | does nothing whatever to alleviate them.~
113 Unic, 24 | perfection and how closely allied it is to mental prayer.~
114 Unic, 7 | so for the whole of the allotted time, for all considerate
115 Unic, 22 | enduring our foul odour and allowing such a one as myself to
116 Unic, 32 | cannot fail to draw the Almighty to become one with our lowliness
117 Unic, 41 | like it to be, never keep aloof from them if you wish to
118 Unic, 7 | from His own house. Cry aloud to His Majesty and try to
119 Pref, 0 | so, I have not recorded alterations in the order of clauses
120 Unic, 16(47) | described as great." Later she altered it to read as above.~
121 Pref, 0 | is intended, or that the alternative phrase gives some slight
122 Unic, 36 | things so trifling that they amaze me! You know nothing about
123 Unic, 10 | applies to others as well) is amazing. Some of us, however, seem
124 Unic, 32 | that the good Jesus is our Ambassador here, and that His desire
125 Unic, 11(37) | needful" -- the phrase is ambiguous and might mean: "to worry
126 Unic, 34 | this most holy food is not ample sustenance even for the
127 Unic, 32 | When I think of this, it amuses me that there should be
128 Unic, 10 | excuse for this. It is really amusing to see how some people torture
129 Pref, 0 | so-called "Toledo" copy) made by Ana de San Pedro and corrected
130 Unic, 38 | alive." So the devil, in his angelic disguise, suggests to her
131 Unic, 28 | within us. What does an animal do beyond satisfying his
132 Unic, 38 | hell, we have sprained our ankles and cannot continue on that
133 Unic, 19 | her will was completely annihilated; yet, when I saw her for
134 Unic, 4 | and anything which causes annoyance must be quite exceptional.
135 Unic, 36(130)| included. It figures as an anonymous correction in T.~
136 Abbr, 0 | Teresa de Jesœs, editadas y anotadas por el P. Silverio de Santa
137 Unic, 24 | we are and how the Lord answers our petitions. Do you suppose
138 Unic, 38 | have the courage to kill an ant for God's sake if I were
139 Unic, 2 | giving you alms. Leave these anxieties to Him Who can move everyone,
140 Unic, 14 | without being a trouble to anybody. But I do not see how a
141 Unic, 15 | our deeds, since both the Apostle and our own lack of ability
142 Unic, 2(14) | An apparent reference to St. Mark xiii,
143 Pref, 0 | and spontaneity and its appeal to personal experience make
144 Unic, 3 | Emperor; let Thy Majesty be appeased; look not upon our sins
145 Unic, 4 | This is even more applicable to women than to men and
146 Unic, 15 | furthermore, they can be applied to very little things, and
147 Prol, 0(9) | at Salamanca." B‡-ez was appointed to a Chair at Salamanca
148 Unic, 31 | so that the mind may be apprised of what is happening and
149 Unic, 22(82) | attractiveness than for its artistic appropriateness, is that "Your Honour" (
150 Pref, 0 | would not "meet with the approval of scholars", had justified
151 Pref, 0 | Escorial draft will be only approximate. This is the sole concession
152 Intr, 0 | practical expedience. No less aptly does she speak of the relations
153 Pref, 0 | whether we consider the aptness of its illustrations, the
154 Unic, 22 | however elegant may be their arguments, if these are not accompanied
155 Unic, 23 | through trials, annoyances or aridities. Let me realize that this
156 Unic, 36 | a point, if the occasion arises, of forgiving, not [only]
157 Unic, 22 | accustomed to addressing aristocrats, that I had to go on a matter
158 Unic, 3 | ecclesiastical and not the secular arm which must defend us. And
159 Unic, 20 | through your agency He were to arouse some soul to obtain this
160 Unic, 33 | that, before we could be aroused, we needed His aid, not
161 Unic, 21 | head. The anger which this arouses in the devil is greater
162 Pref, 0 | Quiet, a subject that was arousing some controversy at the
163 Intr, 0 | correctly written and logically arranged than its original, is less
164 Pref, 0 | the belief that "such an arrangement would prove bewildering
165 Unic, 22 | his time and delays his arrival. Who can say that it is
166 Unic, 2 | sustain yourselves by human artifices, or you will die of hunger,
167 Unic, 22(82) | attractiveness than for its artistic appropriateness, is that "
168 Intr, 0 | and truest sense) the most ascetic of her treatises; only a
169 Unic, 29 | books tell us. We must cast aside everything else, they say,
170 Unic, 32 | Thy Father does what Thou askest Him in granting us His Kingdom
171 Unic, 10 | not feel secure and fall asleep, or you will be like a man
172 Intr, 0 | contained valuable counsels to aspirants after religious perfection,
173 Unic, 12 | a real man of prayer and aspires to the enjoyment of Divine
174 Unic, 19 | whole sea of temptations assail it, they will not keep it
175 Unic, 19 | should like. Whenever we are assailed by these strong impulses
176 Unic, 6 | distress which had been assailing them in the past as to whether
177 Unic, 39 | ready for these treacherous assaults,137 my God? We need constantly
178 Intr, 0 | favours. On the contrary, she asserts, they suffer more than actives:
179 Intr, 0 | the Salamanca copy and to assign to the beginning of the
180 Unic, 18 | anxious for service, he assigns duties to them according
181 Unic, 41 | we have formed will be of assistance to us so that we shall not
182 Unic, 4 | indulge in no conversation, association or recreation with any outside
183 Intr, 0 | We are forced, then, to assume an error in the Salamanca
184 Pref, 0 | where textual problems assumed greater importance. Thus,
185 Unic, 11 | all the rest -- that is, assuming you love each other and
186 Pref, 0 | studying them, may rest assured that the only variants not
187 Pref, 0 | I have adopted not only assures the reader that he will
188 Unic, 39 | themselves encourage this astonishment, for if a single soul attains
189 Unic, 4 | ourselves and take care to avoid attaching importance to externals.~
190 Unic, 12 | eventually destroys all these attachments), they will never make great
191 Unic, 17 | thoughts upon God, they are attacked by a thousand foolish ideas
192 Unic, 39 | us into temptations? If attacks are made upon us publicly,
193 Unic, 38 | although for various reasons he attends to his own interests, he
194 Unic, 24 | obligation of trying to pray attentively: may God grant that, by
195 Unic, 23(88) | cuidadito: lit., "this little attentiveness" -- another characteristic
196 Unic, 7 | But she cannot take this attitude with her friends: nothing
197 Unic, 22(82) | inserted here rather for its attractiveness than for its artistic appropriateness,
198 Abbr, 0 | Teresa de Jesœs, Nueva ed. aumentada, con introduction, etc.,
199 Unic, 19 | of a hermit, leading the austerest of lives, who was persuaded
200 Pref, 0 | and was considered quite authoritative. The edition published in
201 Unic, 16(48) | cites a number of Spanish authorities, from P. Juan de Jesœs Mar'
202 Unic, 21 | especially books of which the authors were not fully approved,
203 Intr, 0 | their Mother Foundress' autobiography, and, though in all probability
204 Pref, 0 | well-known "Biblioteca de Autores Espa-oles" edition, in which
205 Note | In the electronic version available in Internet only a few of
206 Unic, 12 | as well. If you want to avenge yourself on the devil and
207 Unic, 26 | matter, then, for you to avert the eyes of your soul from
208 Unic, 13 | may not be another hell awaiting such a nun in the world
209 Unic, 12(38) | Lit.: "awakens."~
210 Unic, 7 | did not exist, and very awkward if, when there are so few
211 Unic, 5 | the whole building will go awry. In making their confessions,
212 Unic, 7 | so few of us, we got on badly together. May God forbid
213 Unic, 2 | arms must appear on our banners and at all costs we must
214 Abbr, 0 | por el P. Jaime Pons, Barcelona, 1908.~
215 Unic, 38 | and ourselves into the bargain. Well, we make our vow of
216 Unic, 32 | wretched as mine, and so barren of fruit, I know not, Lord,
217 Unic, 19 | someone who all the time is barring their path -- at the beginning
218 Unic, 27 | more authority than Saint Bartholomew, who was the son of a king!
219 Unic, 19 | influence of the body and of the baseness of our nature, which we
220 Unic, 34 | Him in search of other and baser things, what can He do?
221 Pref, 0 | Valladolid codex, on which he bases his text, showing only the
222 Unic, 27 | deserved to be even the basest clay. You have a good Father,
223 Unic, 28 | Avoid being bashful with God, as some people
224 Pref, 0 | had no hesitation about basing my version on the Valladolid
225 Unic, App | loose upon them a whole battery of scruples which produce
226 Unic, 41 | Him, they will be kept at bay and will do nothing that
227 Unic, 28 | difference between the brute beasts and ourselves, as we have
228 Unic, 16 | There is no queen who can beat this King as well as humility
229 Unic, 23 | not allow ourselves to be beaten, we shall get what we want,
230 Intr, 0 | grant non-contemplatives beatification? On these questions and
231 Unic, 22 | containing within Thyself all beauties. O Very Strength! God help
232 Unic, 10 | be like a man who goes to bed quite peacefully, after
233 Unic, 28 | we shall realize that the bees are coming to the hive and
234 Unic, 13 | harm which may otherwise befall the rest; and anyone who
235 Unic, 30 | Eternal Father in a way befitting it. The good Jesus, therefore,
236 | beforehand
237 Unic, 39 | this temptation comes to beginners it is very serious; for,
238 Unic, 37 | contemplation, from the very beginnings of mental prayer, to Quiet
239 | behind
240 Unic, 17 | road, and perhaps she who believes herself to be going along
241 Unic, 1 | not, like those others, belong to the devil? They have
242 Argo, 0 | and sisters in religion, belonging to the Convents which, with
243 Unic, 13 | she should fear there may belt and possibly neither she
244 Unic, 26 | other! Or look upon Him bending under the weight of the
245 Abbr, 0 | introductions by the Very Rev. Benedict Zimmerman, O.C.D., London,
246 Unic, 13 | we started than they are benefited by many virtues. For the
247 Unic, 20 | that your conversation is benefiting those with whom you speak.
248 Unic, 7 | be put right and you must betake yourselves to earnest prayer.
249 Unic, 2 | house save the porch in Bethlehem where He was born and the
250 Unic, 39 | Beware also, daughters, of certain
251 Pref, 0 | exception is the well-known "Biblioteca de Autores Espa-oles" edition,
252 Unic, 21 | someone to open their eyes and bid them look at the fog with
253 Unic, 27 | He enkindle your will and bind you to Himself with the
254 Unic, 31(109)| and partially cut by the binder, which seem to be: "who
255 Unic, 19 | obeyed Saint Martin; even birds and fishes were obedient
256 Unic, 24 | make themselves the least bit tired, they say they are
257 Pref, 0 | a large number of small bits, skilfully combined", "the
258 Unic, 28 | that, however little the blaze has been fanned with the
259 Unic, 19 | allow a servant of His to be blinded in a matter in which the
260 Unic, 22 | your time to reflect how blindly people in the world spend
261 Unic, 6 | desire for affection is sheer blindness, except when, as I say,
262 Unic, 19 | which we meet on the road blinds us; but in contemplation
263 Unic, 2 | the Lord's sake, and their bliss was increased through their
264 Unic, 31 | suppose the only result of blowing it would be to put it out.
265 Unic, 16 | have only been placing the board, as they say. You have asked
266 Unic, 16 | humility. We must have a holy boldness, for God helps the strong,
267 Unic, 10 | quite peacefully, after bolting all his doors for fear of
268 Unic, 32 | inconveniences and impediments and bonds which it has to endure while
269 Unic, 38(134)| course, to the spoils and booty of war.~
270 Unic, 31(109)| contemplative was St. Francis Borgia, Duke of Gand'a. No doubt,
271 Unic, 22 | without end, and Thine is no borrowed Kingdom, but Thine own,
272 Unic, 38 | by anyone who is at the bottom of a huge pit: it will be
273 Unic, 20 | but if she left it in a box and never took it out it
274 Unic, 22 | language of a humble peasant boy, knowing that he would say
275 Unic, 32 | words of mere politeness but brace yourselves to suffer what
276 Unic, 7 | this plague; cut off the branches as well as you can; and,
277 Unic, 3 | spirits which are virtuous and brave, even though they be the
278 Unic, 10 | nothing as if your heart were breaking, and you come and ask her
279 Unic, 31 | infant still at its mother's breast: such is the mother's care
280 Unic, 26 | not even allowed to take breath: He will look upon you with
281 Unic, 31 | they may even try not to breathe. This is ridiculous: we
282 Unic, 27 | whether clay is better for bricks or for walls. Dear Lord,
283 Unic, 26 | at Him, as He says to the Bride.97 If you want Him98 you
284 Intr, 0 | Such, in briefest outline, is the argument
285 Unic, 28 | these virtues are, the more brilliantly do the stones shine. Imagine
286 Unic, 28 | great difference between the brute beasts and ourselves, as
287 Unic, 4 | where are there people so brutish as not to love one another
288 Unic, 39 | themselves to a thrust from the bull's horns. This comparison,
289 Unic, 39 | just as people who watch a bull-fight from the grand-stand are
290 Pref, 0 | translation. No doubt the striking bullfight metaphor at the end of CHAPTER
291 Unic, 12 | you if you are a beast of burden, and say you ought to be
292 Unic, 7 | caught fire and we were all burned alive. As this is so important
293 Unic, 19 | case, they say, it only burns the more. God help me! What
294 Unic, 28 | them will cause them to burst into flame. When no hindrance
295 Unic, 1 | pleasure, and all of us, by busying ourselves in prayer for
296 Unic, 4 | intimate friendships are seldom calculated22 to make for the love of
297 Unic, 4 | very person who should be calming them and helping them is
298 Unic, 28 | going to seek Him on Mount Calvary, or in the Garden, or at
299 Unic, 31 | giving a little puff to a candle, when he sees it has almost
300 Pref, 0 | edition of 1883, the work of a Canon of Valladolid Cathedral,
301 Intr, 0 | servants of God who have been canonized by the Church necessarily
302 Unic, 26(97) | reminiscence of some phrase from Canticles: perhaps ii, 14, 16, v,
303 Unic, 28 | if they come out it is as captives and slaves and they do none
304 Unic, 31 | It is the will that is in captivity now; and, if while in this
305 Unic, 38 | about wanting nothing, and caring nothing about anything,
306 Pref, 0 | of a Canon of Valladolid Cathedral, Francisco Herrero Bayona,
307 Unic, 7 | would rather our convent caught fire and we were all burned
308 Unic, 25 | they were to work, would be causing her harm rather than profit.
309 Unic, App | are good, great care and caution are necessary. The best
310 Unic, 34 | her poor abode, and she ceased, as far as she could, to
311 Unic, 16(46) | Segura had published his celebrated treatise, in Spanish, entitled "
312 Unic, 3 | the Lord to leave their cells, for they would do more
313 Unic, 31 | He considered His own and centre it upon base things. So
314 Unic, 20(76) | save as those whose life is centred in God: not necessarily,
315 Pref, 0 | public over a period of centuries?"~
316 Unic, 22(81) | visit to Do-a Luisa de la Cerda in 1562.~
317 Unic, 22 | or how can you know what ceremonies have to be used when speaking
318 Unic, 34 | much circumspection and ceremony: by disguising Himself,
319 Unic, 42 | that I cannot know with any certainty if I love Thee and if my
320 Prol, 0(9) | B‡-ez was appointed to a Chair at Salamanca University
321 Unic, 18 | are unable to drink of His chalice.~
322 Unic, 23 | if they know anyone to be changeable, and not resolute in doing
323 Unic, 5 | frequently, it should be the chaplain; but, if the nuns think
324 Intr, 0 | seventy-three short CHAPTERs, has no CHAPTER-divisions in the ordinary sense of
325 Intr, 0 | CHAPTER should begin. The CHAPTER-headings form a table of contents
326 Unic, App | with the qualifications and character of the confessor. Many editors
327 Unic, 23(90) | might be nearer to the characteristically bold adjective of the original.~
328 Unic, 41 | nature is such that these characteristics will frighten and oppress
329 Intr, 0 | CHAPTERs 1-3, the author also charges her daughters very earnestly
330 Intr, 0 | Undoubtedly some of the charm of the author's natural
331 Unic, 2 | poverty is truly kept, both chastity and all the other virtues
332 Unic, 4 | In checking these preferences we must
333 Unic, 18 | Go cheerfully about whatever services
334 Unic, 16 | know how to set out the chess-board, and thought that, in order
335 Unic, 40(139)| reminiscence of St. Teresa's childhood, to be found in her Life,
336 Unic, 41 | your involving it in such childish pastimes.~
337 Unic, 13 | whom the Lord has specially chosen for this life is granted
338 Unic, 3 | more harm to be wrought to Christendom, Lord; give light to this
339 Intr, 0 | displays no great interest in chronological exactness) were it not absolutely
340 Intr, 0 | more foundations and her circle of readers widened, this
341 Intr, 0 | Escorial manuscript would have circulated very little and would never
342 Unic, 34 | coming to Him without so much circumspection and ceremony: by disguising
343 Unic, 16(48) | than can be given here and cites a number of Spanish authorities,
344 Pref, 0 | and that anyone who could claim the title of "student" would
345 Intr, 0 | do so with a resounding clamour.~
346 Unic, 2 | will decline, for, as Saint Clare said, the walls of poverty
347 Pref, 0(4) | One special case of this class is the suppression in V.
348 Pref, 0 | With these omissions may be classed a number of minor ones --
349 Intr, 0 | has all the clarity of any classical treatise, with instruction
350 Pref, 0 | alterations in the order of clauses or words; the almost regular
351 Unic, 19 | supernatural, given that it may cleanse the soul and leave it pure
352 Unic, 19 | property of water is that it cleanses things that are not clean
353 Unic, 19 | washing? Do you know what cleansing properties there are in
354 Unic, 19 | to them and gives them a clearer insight into the nature
355 Unic, 21 | has apparently been very clever in bringing about the fall
356 Unic, 36 | rising higher, and we dislike climbing down. O, Lord, Lord, art
357 Unic, 19 | left in it to induce us to cling to it unless it is something
358 Unic, 19 | there is always something clinging to the soul, through the
359 Unic, 14 | fond of what is good, she clings to it manfully, for she
360 Unic, 19 | course is never free from clogging impurities, so that it is
361 Intr, 0 | of the psychology of the cloister. Her counsels are the fruit,
362 Unic, 31 | if it were but a little closer, it would become one with
363 Unic, 38 | can get a habit of good cloth, he will not ask for one
364 Unic, 27 | our nature upon Thee hast clothed Thyself with humanity: Thou
365 Unic, 5 | Our present Bishop, Don çlvaro de Mendoza, under whose
366 Unic, 38 | will not ask for one of coarse material. He likes to have
367 Unic, 32 | Fiat voluntas tua sicut in coelo et in terra."115 Describes
368 Unic, 18 | been describing are current coin, an unfailing source of
369 Pref, 0 | in full. This text I have collated with that of the Valladolid
370 Intr, 0 | that used for the first collected edition of her works by
371 Unic, 28 | recollection because the soul collects together all the faculties
372 Unic, 18 | vocal prayer, reading and colloquies with God, as I shall explain
373 Pref, 0 | are reproduced in parallel columns. P. Silverio de Santa Teresa
374 Unic, 18 | standard-bearer is not a combatant, yet none the less he is
375 Unic, 5 | find a number of people who combine both learning and spirituality,
376 Unic, 22 | I am uttering, then I am combining mental and vocal prayer.
377 Unic, 3 | reasonable observance of the Commandments), they condemn others, and
378 Intr, 0 | of 1566]1 we can date the commencement of the Way of perfection
379 Unic, 4 | Our Lord has so strongly commended it to us and so straitly
380 Unic, 6 | it and recompense it by commending those who love them to God.
381 Unic, 41 | being a venial sin and its commission are one and the same thing,
382 Unic, 34 | strengthen her faith, when she communicated, by thinking that it was
383 Unic, 26 | lose their influence when communication ceases.~
384 Unic, 7 | frequent confessions and communions do not mend them, you may
385 Unic, 26 | they are matters for scorn compared with the trials endured
386 Unic, 26 | you with His lovely and compassionate eyes, full of tears, and
387 Unic, 34 | not to lose it. If you are compelled by obedience to do something
388 Unic, 19 | and are the work of such competent people that you would be
389 Unic, 18 | and will never make any complaint save of herself. I would
390 Unic, 11 | as I know -- have serious complaints and sore trials and yet
391 Intr, 0 | composition took and when it was completed.]~
392 Intr, 0 | had elapsed between the completion of the Life and the beginning
393 Intr, 0 | A complication occurs in the existence,
394 Unic, 41 | presence, and this is a compliment which they will pay us without
395 Unic, 42 | with which we are forced to comply for as long as we live,
396 Pref, 0 | careful reading of a version compounded of both by someone else.~
397 Unic, 32 | perception of the truth, which comprehends in one moment what could
398 Intr, 0 | writings it is the most easily comprehensible and it can be read with
399 Intr, 0 | These CHAPTERs, in fact, comprise a commentary on the Paternoster,
400 Unic, 42 | what great consolation is comprised in it, and this is a great
401 Unic, 41 | all serve Him -- they by compulsion and we with our whole heart.
402 Abbr, 0 | Jesœs, Nueva ed. aumentada, con introduction, etc., por
403 Pref, 0 | student, and it is hardly conceivable, I think, that any student
404 Intr, 0 | doubtful if St. Teresa could conceivably have begun the book before
405 Unic, 1 | Redeemer, my heart cannot conceive this without being sorely
406 Intr, 0 | scattered public. So she conceived the idea of rewriting the
407 Unic, 6 | something insubstantial and were conceiving fondness for a shadow, they
408 Unic, 28 | one of the best ways of concentrating the mind and effecting recollection
409 Unic, 26 | Him, or to form numerous conceptions of Him, or to make long
410 Pref, 0 | approximate. This is the sole concession I have made to the ordinary
411 Unic, 35 | practised after Communion. Concludes this subject with an exclamatory
412 Unic, 7 | greatly to the peace and concord which we have among ourselves,
413 Unic, 10 | cloistered here, in the conditions already described, it must
414 Unic, 42 | This tells you how to conduct yourselves on reaching this
415 Unic, 19(69) | Cassian: Conferences, II. v.~
416 Unic, 18 | noble one, and the King confers great honour and favour
417 Unic, 5 | feel uncomfortable about confessing them. God help me! What
418 Unic, 1 | here should do the same, confiding in the great goodness of
419 Unic, 28 | and very many more, should confine Himself within so small
420 Unic, 10 | always a physician at hand to confirm it or some friend or relative
421 Intr, 0 | silence might be taken as confirming it (though she displays
422 Unic, 21 | road or have no heart to confront the trials which they meet,
423 Unic, 36 | absurd it is for religious to connect their honour with things
424 Unic, 10 | excesses -- if only we were as conscientious about everything else! Those
425 Pref, 0 | work has been done most conscientiously, and while nothing has been
426 Unic, 38 | escape. Though we may not consciously have committed any mortal
427 Unic, 22 | clear realization and full consciousness that I am doing so, and
428 Unic, 29 | she is not it is of little consequence. Never give way to these
429 Pref, 0 | reason I have been extremely conservative as to the interpolations
430 Unic, 21(80) | V.: alguna consideraci-n: the use of the singular
431 Unic, 21(80) | see Vol. 1, p. xxi) alguna consideracioncita -- "some (occasional) trifling
432 Unic, 7 | the allotted time, for all considerate treatment of them is a part
433 Unic, 17 | should do it, and in always considering yourselves unworthy to be
434 Unic, 36 | And wherein did Thy honour consist, O Lord, Who hast honoured
435 Unic, 5 | will be glad to advise and console you, even though you are
436 Intr, 0 | description of the Mystic Way. She consoles those who cannot reason
437 Unic, 20 | previously said, as, in consoling those who had not reached
438 Unic, 7 | habit of performing some conspicuously virtuous action through
439 Unic, 4 | which are taken from our Constitution itself. It is essential
440 Unic, 41 | state, we need not feel constrained or depressed, for the Lord
441 Intr, 0 | responsible for the book's construction. St. Teresa begins by describing
442 Unic, 34 | accidents of bread have been consumed by our natural heat, the
443 Intr, 0 | have been aware that it contained valuable counsels to aspirants
444 Unic, 22 | ocean of wonders, O Beauty85 containing within Thyself all beauties.
445 Unic, 30 | and that she could not contemplate but could only say vocal
446 Unic, 27 | you, sisters, from such contentions, even if they be carried
447 Prol, 0(10) | have plural force and the context would favour this. A manuscript
448 Unic, 1(13) | them right!" would, in most contexts, be a more exact rendering
449 Unic, 36 | ourselves forgive others. Thus, continuing the prayer which He is teaching
450 Unic, 31 | the will must be almost continuously united with Him Who alone
451 Unic, 20 | CHAPTER I seem to have been contradicting what I had previously said,
452 Unic, 33 | occasion for scandal by acting contrarily to them, even though he
453 Unic, 16(50) | Lit.: "low", contrasting with "high" at the end of
454 Pref, 0 | that they make a definite contribution to the sense or give explicitness
455 Pref, 0 | subject that was arousing some controversy at the time when the edition
456 Unic, 36(129)| changes into the quite conventional honrado Maestro -- "honoured
457 Unic, 14 | business matters and worldly conventions but have great skill in
458 Unic, 22 | furthermore, unless you are quite conversant with it, you must get all
459 Unic, 21(80) | of meaning which might be conveyed by "some occasional thoughts,"
460 Unic, 33 | amount of reasoning will convince him. If one tells a religious
461 Unic, 17 | there must be someone to cook the meals and count yourselves
462 Unic, 19 | One of them is that of cooling things; however hot we are,
463 Intr, 0 | note, in the writing of the copyist, which says: This book was
464 Unic, 36(130)| figures as an anonymous correction in T.~
465 Intr, 0 | draft, though often more correctly written and logically arranged
466 Unic, 14(43) | upon words: corto y no muy cortado -- as though "sharpened"
467 Unic, 14(43) | untranslatable play upon words: corto y no muy cortado -- as though "
468 Intr, 0 | majestic palaces and humble cottages will fall and she has no
469 Unic, 1 | virtues would more than counteract my defects, and I should
470 Unic, 38 | the favours which they can counterfeit to us come from God. This,
471 Unic, 34 | illnesses which could not be counterfeited. As the wondrous effects
472 Unic, 9(32) | interpretation: "from their own countries."~
473 Unic, 35 | favour, which on so many counts He has merited? Do Thou,
474 Unic, 18 | contemplatives who are not courageous and resolute in suffering;
475 Unic, 26 | theirs was the kind of courtesy you might meet in hell,
476 Unic, 28 | not be abandoned by His courtiers. They stay with Him and
477 Unic, 38 | when he is sued in the courts in connection with a part
478 Unic, 35 | remained a long way from it and covered our hands, we should get
479 Unic, 4 | initiates them so as to create factions within religious
480 Unic, 19 | it be and exhausting, it creates the very satisfaction by
481 Unic, 22 | suffer this, Prince of all Creation? For Thou, my God, art a
482 Unic, 23 | everything we do to our credit and accept everything we
483 Unic, 16 | and deafen you with its cries, what matter so long as
484 Unic, 28 | Court occupy it? When such a crowd is there it would be a great
485 Unic, 20(74) | Cuenta de perdones: a bead larger
486 Unic, 23(88) | Este cuidadito: lit., "this little attentiveness" --
487 Unic, 7 | temptations are then much more cunning because there are no others
488 Unic, 19 | nature, but so accustomed to curbing her own will that, from
489 Unic, 31 | to die because I cannot cure this wandering of the mind.
490 Unic, 34 | often occurs, I believe; and cures are recorded from quite
491 Unic, 28 | defeat it is, as it were, cutting off its own head. But if
492 Prot, 0(8) | published at ƒvora in 1583 by D. Teutonio de Braganza.~
493 Abbr, 0 | D.V. -- Douai Version of the
494 Unic, 33 | Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie."117~
495 Pref, 0 | 1675: reprinted 1901) and Dalton (1852), were based, very
496 Unic, 34 | unfortunate souls who will bring damnation upon themselves and will
497 Unic, 42(146)| Spanish of E. ("tambiŽn os dar‡ el otro") is quite definite.~
498 Unic, 31 | feels such reverence that it dares to ask nothing. It is, as
499 Unic, 25 | and who we are that are daring to address so great a Lord.
500 Unic, 7 | My life!" "My love!" "My darling!"29 and suchlike things,