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1503 Unic, 28 | have within us a palace of priceless worth, built entirely of
1504 Unic, 17 | earth is to fill us with pride. If they are of God, there
1505 Unic, 36 | of myself as I was when I prided myself on my honour without
1506 Unic, 16(48) | III) to P. Seisdedos Sanz (Principios fundamentales de la m'stica,
1507 Intr, 0 | on the most rudimentary principles of the religious life, which
1508 Pref, 0 | Escorial manuscript but printing the Escorial text in full
1509 Pref, 0 | of which P. Silverio also prints in full. This text I have
1510 Unic, 7 | contrary to obedience. Though privately you may think the prioress'
1511 Unic, 27 | favour like this should be prized so little, and that, after
1512 Intr, 0 | autobiography, and, though in all probability none of them had actually
1513 Pref, 0 | the Cross, where textual problems assumed greater importance.
1514 Pref, 0 | to answer, since varying procedures have been adopted for the
1515 Unic, 19 | whole world. And, as water proceeds from the earth, there is
1516 Unic, 11 | the ailment is serious, it proclaims itself; that is quite another
1517 Unic, 25 | supernatural prayer should procure the book after my death;
1518 Unic, 27 | pardon us, as He pardoned the prodigal son, must comfort us in
1519 Unic, 14 | great importance of not professing anyone whose spirit is contrary
1520 Prol, 0(9) | Master Fray Domingo B‡-ez, Professor at Salamanca." B‡-ez was
1521 Unic, 3 | and theologians -- highly proficient in the way of the Lord.
1522 Unic, 28 | recollection is not very profound -- for at this stage it
1523 Intr, 0 | them with equal sublimity, profundity and fervour and in language
1524 Unic, 20 | the short distance she has progressed will give her light and
1525 Unic, 13 | I should like it to be prolonged to ten years. A humble nun
1526 Pref, 0 | their being given undue prominence (and readers of the Authorized
1527 Unic, 32 | understood what we were promising. That may well be true,
1528 Unic, 5 | May the Lord be pleased to promote the advancement of this
1529 Unic, 7 | one of them. It is a good proof and test of our love if
1530 Unic, 42 | may be sure he is a false prophet; and in these days, remember,
1531 Intr, 0 | And here the Saint propounds a difficult question which
1532 Prot | PROTESTATIONS8~In all that I shall say
1533 Intr, 0 | contemplation. The Saint protests against such ideas as these
1534 Unic, 15(44) | Proverbs xxiv, 16.~
1535 Unic, 38 | as indeed, in the great providence of God, often happens. Have
1536 Unic, 2 | but I have noticed that He provides for us immediately. To act
1537 Unic, 5 | here: let the Bishop or Provincial be approached for leave
1538 Unic, 32 | for such a stern method of proving it will give them love enough
1539 Unic, 37 | daughters, to have a wise and prudent Master who foresees our
1540 Intr, 0 | perfect a knowledge of the psychology of the cloister. Her counsels
1541 Unic, 4 | to move. God help me! The puerilities which result from this are
1542 Unic, 7 | that is not sufficient, pull up the roots. If you cannot
1543 Unic, 12 | extremely dangerous as are punctiliousness about honour and sensitiveness
1544 Unic, 30 | on the one hand, to be punished, and, on the other, to be
1545 Unic, 7 | suffice, she must use heavy punishments, for here we have the whole
1546 Unic, 24 | masters, and we are good pupils, it is impossible for us
1547 Unic, 33 | silver; but, if we would purchase Him, no price is sufficient.
1548 Unic, 33 | With what a treasure are we purchasing Thy Son! How to sell Him
1549 Pref, 0 | frequent and often apparently purposeless changes of tense; such substitutions,
1550 Unic, 20 | to strive. If you always pursue this determination to die
1551 Unic, 19 | there is no fear of its quenching this fire, which is the
1552 Unic, 40 | Majesty. For love will make us quicken our steps, while fear will
1553 Prol, 0(10) | The pronoun (quien) in the Spanish is singular,
1554 Unic, 41 | along this road in peace and quietness, and not think at every
1555 Unic, 33 | Paternoster: "Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie."117~
1556 Unic, 19 | Water which comes down as rain from Heaven will quench
1557 Unic, 21 | zealous for the right, God raises up someone to open their
1558 Pref, 0 | as (to take an example at random) "Todo esto que he dicho
1559 Unic, 10 | vanity of all things and the rapidity with which they pass away,
1560 Unic, 3 | though such a great and rapidly spreading evil could be
1561 Unic, 32 | occupy it. This we call rapture. He begins to make such
1562 Intr, 0 | the desire to minimize the ravages being wrought, in France
1563 Unic, 1 | against Him. They would raze His Church to the ground --
1564 Pref, 0 | them amount briefly to a re-editing of the Valladolid manuscript.
1565 Unic, 28 | has a little good wind, reaches the end of his voyage in
1566 Pref, 0 | footnotes some of the variant readings in the codex of Valladolid.
1567 Pref, 0 | justice. Her shrewdness, realism and complete lack of vanity
1568 Unic, 40 | is its reward? As to the reality of this reward there can
1569 Unic, 22(82) | as though a peer of the realm were to say "Just call me '
1570 Intr, 0 | no trials is ridiculous. Recalling the doctrine expounded in
1571 Intr, 0 | sense a copy, or even a recast, of the first draft, but
1572 Unic, 34 | suitable for reading after the reception of the Most Holy Sacrament.~
1573 Unic, 23 | lender is indebted to the recipient for many things of which
1574 Unic, 7 | gain its advantages. The recipients of this friendship, then,
1575 Unic, 24 | vocal prayer faithfully recited with a realization of Who
1576 Unic, 23 | for this Lord of ours will reckon everything we do to our
1577 Unic, 23 | give Him. In drawing up our reckoning, He is not in the least
1578 Unic, 41 | heights of prayer. It is not recognizable, therefore, at first, in
1579 Unic, 5 | there to watch over the recollectedness and good living of the house
1580 Unic, 4 | which the Lord so earnestly recommended to us. One of these is love
1581 Unic, 15 | least something of what I am recommending you with regard to it: but
1582 Intr, 0 | absolutely impossible to reconcile such a date with the early
1583 Unic, 36 | calls honour can never be reconciled. Really, the topsy-turviness
1584 Unic, 16(45) | decided not to leave on record her knowledge of such a
1585 Unic, 9 | cannot take part in their recreations, as it is not lawful for
1586 Unic, 3 | upon our sins but upon our redemption by Thy Most Sacred Son,
1587 Unic, 31 | again upon its way, with redoubled strength for its task.~
1588 Unic, 42 | Personally, I shall find no redress in this life, so I ask the
1589 Unic, 3 | but picked men, it can be reduced only by hunger. In our own
1590 Intr, 0 | of the CHAPTERs and their reduction in number from 73 to 42,
1591 Pref, 0 | St. Teresa thought them redundant, whereas a later reader
1592 Unic, 6 | phrase "dwelling upon it", I refer to having love for such
1593 Unic, 19(63) | The author probably refers to herself: Cf. Life, CHAPTER
1594 Intr, 0 | the Escorial manuscript reflects the Saint's ideas, as we
1595 Intr, 0 | led her to found the first Reformed Carmelite convent -- viz.,
1596 Unic, 21 | path, the Lord gradually regains what He had lost.~
1597 Unic, 4 | towards vanity, he should be regarded with grave suspicion, and,
1598 Unic, 30 | Sanctificetur nomen tuum, adveniat regnum tuum."106 Applies them to
1599 Unic, 26 | never look at but to use regularly whenever you talk to Him,
1600 Unic, 36 | is going the right way to reign in a much more exalted manner,
1601 Unic, 1(11) | been repressed during the reigns of Francis I and Henry II,
1602 Pref, 0 | they weaken rather than reinforce her argument, because they
1603 Unic, 4 | to be genuine it must be reinforced with these things -- prayer
1604 Unic, 38 | gain more honour, we do not reject it; even those who are poor,
1605 Unic, 13 | from severe nausea, who rejects all food, however nice it
1606 Unic, 36 | You see now why the saints rejoiced in insults and persecutions:
1607 Unic, 31 | its enjoyment of it He too rejoices. But it is not His will
1608 Unic, 30 | and glory, a joy in the rejoicings of all, a perpetual peace,
1609 Unic, 3 | pay once more whenever we relapse into sin? Permit it not,
1610 Unic, 34 | the things that could be related about this person I mentioned,
1611 Unic, 6 | except when, as I say, it relates to persons who can lead
1612 Unic, 25 | well as I was able in the relation which I made of it, as I
1613 Unic, 11 | one of the reasons for the relaxation of discipline in religious
1614 Unic, App | seems too important to be relegated to a footnote. It occurs
1615 Unic, 19 | three properties -- three relevant properties which I can remember,
1616 Unic, 38 | I advise you to place no reliance on these virtues: we ought
1617 Unic, 19 | contemplation the Lord Himself relieves us of this care, for He
1618 Unic, 21 | With this last remark, sisters, I quite agree.
1619 Unic, 29 | of unrest. Check them by remembering that your kingdom is not
1620 Unic, 34 | the Lord is always being reminded of it nor would I have you
1621 Unic, 2 | may be useful to you as a reminder.~
1622 Unic, 10(33) | omits, is not very clear. T. remodels thus: "You know there is
1623 Unic, 39 | and all the service she renders, however good it may be,
1624 Unic, 13 | and explains how one must renounce the world's standards of
1625 Unic, 10 | looks well to it that she renounces her self-will, which is
1626 Unic, 42 | I consider myself well repaid for my labour in writing,
1627 Unic, 38 | without having the means of repayment. Our treasure must come
1628 Unic, 3 | feel it is not right to repel spirits which are virtuous
1629 Unic, 38 | perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire
1630 Pref, 0 | because they were trivial or repetitive, because they weaken rather
1631 Unic, 5 | matters, so that they may report to the superior whenever
1632 Unic, 19 | this state the soul is in repose. So intolerable does such
1633 Pref | the Valladolid manuscript represents the Way of perfection as
1634 Unic, 41 | shall now be helping to repress them, because they will
1635 Unic, 1(11) | Protestantism which had been repressed during the reigns of Francis
1636 Pref, 0 | English, by Woodhead (1675: reprinted 1901) and Dalton (1852),
1637 Unic, App | pure addition; we therefore reproduce it separately.~The important
1638 Unic, 16 | checkmate.46 Now you will reprove me for talking about games,
1639 Unic, 4 | done without injuring his reputation.25~
1640 Unic, 10 | even those that the Order requires -- they have tried them
1641 Unic, 28 | enlarges it to the extent requisite for what He has to set within
1642 Unic, 2 | way. Let us to some extent resemble our King, Who had no house
1643 Pref, 0 | Stanbrook] translation resembles a mosaic composed of a large
1644 Unic, 4 | injury done to a friend is resented; a nun desires to have something
1645 Unic, 41 | that your will strongly resents your involving it in such
1646 Unic, 34 | you have promised and to resign yourselves to God's will.
1647 Intr, 0 | degree to enable them to resist the snares of the enemy.
1648 Unic, 12 | vainglory because you have not resisted something else as perfectly
1649 Unic, 12 | moment after the time of our resolving to render our entire service
1650 Intr, 0 | nuns should do so with a resounding clamour.~
1651 Unic, 41 | grace must cause him to be respected, however lowly his station,
1652 Unic, 16 | helps the strong, being no respecter of persons;51 and He will
1653 Unic, 22 | so, that you must behave respectfully to him, and must learn what
1654 Unic, 19 | important matter in many respects: for example, we must shorten
1655 Intr, 0 | virtue. This principle is responsible for the book's construction.
1656 Unic, 17 | should think it the more restful life and all become great
1657 Unic, 40 | to manifest itself, and resting upon the firm foundation
1658 Unic, 3 | today, in taking it from its resting-place when they destroy the churches?
1659 Unic, 32 | soul that not only does He restore its will to it but He gives
1660 Unic, 41 | them, because they will restrain themselves in our presence,
1661 Intr, 0 | inordinate desires can be restrained by a life of humility and
1662 Unic, 31 | does not wish to move, but rests, like one who has almost
1663 Unic, 29 | little trouble, which always results when we try to form a new
1664 Unic, 31 | realizes that it will have to resume its liberty. The mind tries
1665 Unic, 31 | people whom He had as a retinue to take Him up to the Temple,
1666 Unic, 29 | God inwardly and we must retire within ourselves even during
1667 Unic, 3 | the country, hard pressed, retires into a city, which he causes
1668 Abbr, 0 | introductions by the Very Rev. Benedict Zimmerman, O.C.D.,
1669 Unic, 1 | because of certain wonderful revelations by which the Lord showed
1670 Unic, 18 | an unfailing source of revenue and a perpetual inheritance --
1671 Unic, 31 | Kingdom), and it feels such reverence that it dares to ask nothing.
1672 Prot | the learned men who are to revise it to look at it very carefully
1673 Pref, 0 | admiration for St. Teresa as a reviser, to whom, as far as I know,
1674 Intr, 0 | she conceived the idea of rewriting the book in a more formal
1675 Unic, 10 | as one might say, without rhyme or reason; they go on doing
1676 Unic, 19 | stumbling,60 so that he has to ride with great care. Some people
1677 Unic, 19 | still. Although a skilled rider mounted on such a horse
1678 Unic, 3 | this of Thy goodness and righteousness, for Thou art a righteous
1679 Unic, 15 | He will not treat you as rigorously as He treated Himself: it
1680 Unic, 31 | we might describe as its rind.~
1681 Unic, 23 | not give him so much as a ring -- which he wants, not because
1682 Unic, 26 | are happy, look upon your risen Lord, and the very thought
1683 Unic, 28 | toys; so in due course it rises above them, like a person
1684 Unic, 13 | In this house you have risked losing worldly honour and
1685 Unic, 21 | incomparably greater must be the risks they run! And yet they have
1686 Unic, 40 | which worldly vanities have robbed it. God help me! How different
1687 Unic, 14 | thief in the house who was robbing you of your treasure; and
1688 Pref, 0 | writer and Foundress. In both roles she is equally the Saint.~
1689 Unic, 19(67) | Presumably a reminiscence of Romans vii, 24 or Philippians i,
1690 Unic, 7 | sufficient, pull up the roots. If you cannot do this,
1691 Unic, 26 | the very thought of how He rose from the sepulchre will
1692 Unic, 16 | better as expressed in my rough style than in other books
1693 Unic, 4 | those who aim only in a rough-and-ready way at pleasing God seldom
1694 Intr, 0 | her teaching on the most rudimentary principles of the religious
1695 Unic, 18 | leads them by a hard and rugged road, so that they sometimes
1696 Unic, 19 | noticing it, we find ourselves ruminating on things in the world that
1697 Intr, 0 | Way of Perfection there runs the author's desire to teach
1698 Unic, 19 | that He prevents them from rushing into things which may do
1699 Unic, 16(46) | that its great exponent Ruy L-pez de Segura had published
1700 Unic, 7 | bring profit to everyone by sacrificing her own profit to that of
1701 Unic, 26 | she must show signs of sadness; if he is merry, even though
1702 Unic, 13 | such rights will not be safeguarded. Do you think you can ever
1703 Unic, 28 | sea; though they have not sailed quite out of sight of land,
1704 Unic, 3 | in the world, and, while sailing on this perilous sea, may
1705 Unic, 16 | it is all done for your sakes; you may understand it better
1706 Unic, 17 | it is not necessary for salvation and God does not ask it
1707 Unic, 19 | which the Lord said to the Samaritan woman that whosoever drinks
1708 Unic, 30 | words in the Paternoster: "Sanctificetur nomen tuum, adveniat regnum
1709 Intr, 0 | San Jer-nimo and Isabel de Santo Domingo took the habit,
1710 Unic, 16(48) | Chap. III) to P. Seisdedos Sanz (Principios fundamentales
1711 Unic, 42 | when there, and how God satiates it and takes away its thirst
1712 Unic, 2 | quickly and enjoy everlasting satiety.~
1713 Unic, 28 | does an animal do beyond satisfying his hunger by seizing whatever
1714 Unic, 3 | a single soul should be saved through my prayer? And how
1715 Unic, 42 | Lord seems to have been saving me labour by teaching both
1716 Unic, 10 | world may dislike their savour, to you they will be sweet.~
1717 Unic, 27 | such power that what Thou sayest in Heaven shall be done
1718 Unic, 39 | human nature is such that we scarcely notice what we see frequently
1719 Intr, 0 | for a more general and scattered public. So she conceived
1720 Unic, 1(13) | there is no suspicion of Schadenfreude here.~
1721 Pref, 0 | much more intelligent and scholarly interest began to be taken
1722 Pref, 0 | meet with the approval of scholars", had justified it by their
1723 Unic, 38 | before I should perhaps have scoffed at that I hardly know myself.
1724 Unic, 36 | gift: there is abundant scope here for Thy mercy. Thy
1725 Unic, 31(109)| Teresa's hand, but partially scored out and partially cut by
1726 Unic, 26 | that they are matters for scorn compared with the trials
1727 Unic, 3 | Father! Surely all these scourgings and insults and grievous
1728 Unic, 10 | can she do? She feels a scruple if she thinks she has been
1729 Unic, 41 | and may sometimes lead to scrupulosity, which is a hindrance to
1730 Intr, 0 | Others come from a mistaken scrupulousness and timidity inspired by
1731 Unic, 1(13) | All‡ se lo hayan. "And serve them
1732 Unic, 8 | honour? Thou seemest to have searched everywhere for means of
1733 Unic, 28 | become your Father and Who is seated upon a throne of supreme
1734 Unic, 16 | Him, He never does so. He seats them at His table, and feeds
1735 Unic, 41 | not let your soul dwell in seclusion, or, instead of acquiring
1736 Unic, 38 | for the matter is one of secondary importance to him and not
1737 Unic, 1 | way in which their unhappy sect was increasing.11 This troubled
1738 Intr, 0 | The next section (Chaps. 16-26) develops
1739 Unic, 19 | will walk restfully and securely, for one always walks restfully
1740 Unic, 8 | so great an honour? Thou seemest to have searched everywhere
1741 Unic, 16(46) | great exponent Ruy L-pez de Segura had published his celebrated
1742 Unic, 16(48) | Mystica, Chap. III) to P. Seisdedos Sanz (Principios fundamentales
1743 Unic, 28 | satisfying his hunger by seizing whatever attracts him when
1744 Unic, 41 | determined we are, the less self-confidence we should have, for confidence
1745 Intr, 0 | continual self-sacrifice and self-conquest. The favours which God grants
1746 Unic, 10 | for, as I was sure to be self-indulgent in any case, He was pleased
1747 Unic, 11 | you have got rid of your self-love, you will so much regret
1748 Unic, 11 | attain this tranquillity and self-mastery.~
1749 Intr, 0 | at the cost of continual self-sacrifice and self-conquest. The favours
1750 Unic, 10 | it that she renounces her self-will, which is the most important
1751 Unic, 38 | even help some whom this sensible devotion entices to spend
1752 Unic, 12 | punctiliousness about honour and sensitiveness to insult. Do you know one
1753 Pref, 0 | careful comparison of two separate versions of such a work
1754 Unic, App | we therefore reproduce it separately.~The important thing is
1755 Unic, 26 | of how He rose from the sepulchre will gladden you. How bright
1756 Intr, 0 | lives are one continuous series of favours. On the contrary,
1757 Unic, 15 | uplifts the soul more than ten sermons. And we must all try to
1758 Unic, 40 | swarms and varieties of serpents it will meet! How dreadful
1759 Unic, 32 | richer; and the more it serves, the greater becomes its
1760 Unic, 34(121)| Lit.: "in service" -- en servidumbre, a strong word, better rendered,
1761 Unic, 34(121)| better rendered, perhaps, "servitude," and not far removed from "
1762 Unic, 31 | times the mind seems to be settled in its own abode and to
1763 Intr, 0 | much light is shed in the seventeenth and eighteenth CHAPTERs.~
1764 Intr, 0 | The text, divided into seventy-three short CHAPTERs, has no CHAPTER-divisions
1765 Unic, 4 | and lovingly rather than severely. One effective precaution
1766 Unic, 21(80) | a plural sense, with the shade of meaning which might be
1767 Unic, 13 | Each partner, in fact, shares in the honour and dishonour
1768 Unic, 14 | while others speak in a sharp and none too refined a tone,43
1769 Unic, 14(43) | muy cortado -- as though "sharpened" could be used in the sense
1770 Unic, 6 | desire for affection is sheer blindness, except when,
1771 Unic, 28 | brilliantly do the stones shine. Imagine that within the
1772 Unic, 39 | prayer! People get a greater shock when deception overtakes
1773 Unic, 7 | with such faults and not be shocked by them. Others, in their
1774 Unic, 26 | what malicious words, what shocks, what insults! For the people
1775 Unic, 13 | improves. I am not referring to shortcomings affecting penances and fasts,
1776 Unic, 19 | respects: for example, we must shorten our time of prayer, however
1777 Intr, 0 | will be referred to again shortly.~
1778 Unic, 12 | precedence, for he is so shrewd that he is afraid of the
1779 Pref, 0 | has done full justice. Her shrewdness, realism and complete lack
1780 Unic, 9 | relatives, how we should shun them! do not see what pleasure
1781 Unic, 9 | the great blessing that shunning their relatives brings to
1782 Unic, 29 | of the faculties: it is a shutting-up of the faculties within
1783 Unic, 32 | Paternoster: "Fiat voluntas tua sicut in coelo et in terra."115
1784 Unic, 40(139)| The repetition of "ever" (siempre) reminds one of the famous
1785 Argo, 0(7) | is written at the end and signed with my name." Cf. ch. 42,
1786 Unic, 26 | confession of sin and the signing of yourself with the Cross.
1787 Unic, 31 | at it and treat it as the silly thing it is, and remain
1788 Unic, 33 | sold for thirty pieces of silver; but, if we would purchase
1789 Unic, 19 | obedient to Saint Francis; and similarly with many other saints.
1790 Unic, 22 | you will be dismissed as a simpleton and obtain none of the things
1791 Unic, 39 | and are distressed by our sinfulness, and rightly think that
1792 Unic, 41 | especially since we are sinning against so great a Sovereign
1793 Unic, 42 | they no longer enjoy mere sips at them: being already partakers
1794 Unic, 22(82) | were to say "Just call me 'Sir."~
1795 Unic, 3 | ears to the song of the sirens. If we can prevail with
1796 Unic, 39 | She loses confidence and sits with her hands in her lap
1797 Unic, 19 | never still. Although a skilled rider mounted on such a
1798 Unic, 2 | their lives when they were slain for the Lord's sake, and
1799 Unic, 19 | earthly things, and, when God slakes it, satisfies in such a
1800 Unic, 7 | life: she neither eats nor sleeps, is never free from this
1801 Unic, 7 | alert, for the devil never slumbers. And the nearer we are to
1802 Unic, 34 | on this earth, she would smile to herself, for she knew
1803 Unic, 10 | our souls seek in order to soar to their Maker unburdened
1804 Unic, 31 | that the understanding has soared so far aloft that what is
1805 Unic, 41 | holier they are, the more sociable they should be with their
1806 Unic, 3 | occasions of sin and the society of worldly people. This
1807 Unic, 33 | already know, for He was sold for thirty pieces of silver;
1808 Unic, 23 | not retreat. He is like a soldier in battle who is aware that
1809 Unic, 3 | may shut their ears to the song of the sirens. If we can
1810 Unic, 3 | being, after all, men and sons of Adam, refuse to consider
1811 Unic, 1 | conceive this without being sorely distressed! What has become
1812 Unic, 40 | manifest in Our Lord's great sorrows, His trials, the shedding
1813 Unic, 12 | knowing how. But how harsh it sounds to say that we must take
1814 Unic, 21 | troublous times, he has sown his tares, and seems to
1815 Unic, 28 | Himself within so small a space, just as He was pleased
1816 Unic, 23 | vanquished his life will not be spared and that if he escapes death
1817 Unic, 26 | suffered, persecuted by some, spat upon by others, denied by
1818 Intr, 0 | fruit, not of lofty mental speculation, but of mature practical
1819 Unic, 31 | brains by making up long speeches, the will may become active
1820 Unic, 28 | Divine Master comes more speedily to teach it, and to grant
1821 Unic, 13 | sees this being done, and spends all her time in such good
1822 Unic, 21 | better to stick to their spinning", "These subtleties are
1823 Unic, 35 | daughters, you may communicate spiritually, which is extremely profitable,
1824 Unic, 33 | would be impossible, in spite of all this, that some religious
1825 Unic, 38(134)| manuscripts is, of course, to the spoils and booty of war.~
1826 Unic, 35 | Prayer of Recollection, I spoke of the great importance
1827 Pref, 0 | its greater intimacy and spontaneity and its appeal to personal
1828 Intr, 0 | less flexible, fluent and spontaneous. It is hard to say how far
1829 Unic, 38 | infallibly to hell, we have sprained our ankles and cannot continue
1830 Unic, 3 | such a great and rapidly spreading evil could be remedied by
1831 Unic, 19 | I say, the water, which springs from the earth, has no power
1832 Unic, 3 | the great importance of spurning everything beneath their
1833 Unic, 28 | from all outward things and spurns them so completely that,
1834 Pref, 0 | intelligence as a useful staff to carry on the way of perfection.
1835 Unic, 4 | nature, either of which might stain its purity. The other is
1836 Unic, 38 | it as if his life were at stake. He says he must look after
1837 Unic, 18 | are not light ones. The standard-bearer is not a combatant, yet
1838 Unic, 13 | must renounce the world's standards of wisdom in order to attain
1839 Unic, 38(135)| of the two is given as it stands.~
1840 Unic, 41 | importance of habit and of starting to realize what a serious
1841 Abbr, 0 | Teresa. Unless otherwise stated, the numbering of the Letters
1842 Intr, 0 | expressly denies this, and states that contemplation is not
1843 Unic, 28 | so often, but should have stayed with Him and never have
1844 Unic, 35 | driving out the cold, and stays for some time where it is,
1845 Unic, 41 | which will stand us in good stead.~
1846 Unic, 2 | seems to me it would be like stealing what was being given us,
1847 Unic, 32 | enough to ask for such a stern method of proving it will
1848 Unic, 13 | I have described are not sternly checked, what seems nothing
1849 Unic, 16(48) | Principios fundamentales de la m'stica, Madrid, 1913, II, 61-77.)~
1850 Unic, 21 | They would do better to stick to their spinning", "These
1851 Unic, 9 | have said, the thing which sticks to us most closely and is
1852 Unic, 19 | is possible on earth, we stimulate this longing: sometimes
1853 Unic, 31 | this reason they dare not stir. Speaking is a distress
1854 Unic, 19 | arrived, and have only to stoop and drink of the spring,
1855 Unic, 8 | delights in listening to the stories which they tell her about
1856 Intr, 0 | the soul's enemies will storm in vain -- and begs Him,
1857 Unic, 24 | end to go through great storms. And, although they are
1858 Unic, 40 | engulfing dangers of this stormy sea. Wherever this love
1859 Unic, 19 | moment, the great stress and strain caused by her efforts to
1860 Unic, 4 | commended it to us and so straitly enjoined it upon His Apostles --
1861 Unic, 26 | person he soon becomes a stranger to you, and you forget how
1862 Unic, 3 | and yet inwardly to be strangers to the world, and enemies
1863 Unic, 21 | either from a pool or from a stream. How do you suppose they
1864 Unic, 20 | this rich spring flow many streams -- some large, others small,
1865 Unic, 36 | in a soul and it is not strengthened by prayer, you may take
1866 Intr, 0 | of the book (Chaps. 4-15) stresses the importance of a strict
1867 Intr, 0 | if we use the word in its strictest and truest sense) the most
1868 Unic, 2 | necessary on account of the strictness of the enclosure, and also
1869 Unic, 12 | afraid of the blow she would strike him. If a humble soul is
1870 Unic, 19 | world, because they had striven so hard to despise it and
1871 Intr, 0 | figures and images may have struck her as too domestic and
1872 Unic, 3 | they have entered upon this struggle, which, as I say, is not
1873 Pref, 0 | mystics and that not only by students with ready access to the
1874 Pref, 0 | time, no Teresan who has studied the Escorial text can fail
1875 Unic, 21 | from you, and, if you are studious and humble, you need nothing
1876 Unic, 19 | always be the risk of his stumbling,60 so that he has to ride
1877 Intr, 0 | improvement; and this not only in stylistic matters, for one of the
1878 Unic, 12 | until we have succeeded in subduing the body to the spirit.~
1879 Unic, 37 | such obscure and sublime subjects in greater detail so that
1880 Intr, 0 | protestation of faith and submission to the Holy Roman Church
1881 Unic, 10 | and, when there is any substance in what you say, there is
1882 Unic, App | confessor. Many editors substitute it in their text for the
1883 Pref, 0 | purposeless changes of tense; such substitutions, in the Valladolid redaction,
1884 Unic, 26 | Him, or to make long and subtle meditations with your understanding.
1885 Unic, 21 | their spinning", "These subtleties are of no use to them", "
1886 Unic, 12 | small things, until we have succeeded in subduing the body to
1887 Unic, 8 | is to say, if I have any success, it must be because] I explain
1888 Unic, 38 | He will sooner or later succour us in our needs. But, if
1889 Unic, 19 | raptures if God had not quickly succoured her. She had such a thirst,
1890 Unic, 7 | love!" "My darling!"29 and suchlike things, one or another of
1891 Unic, 38 | great deal of harm; they suck our life-blood and put an
1892 Unic, 32 | are so generous all of a sudden, and then we become so mean,
1893 Unic, 41 | quite another to do it so suddenly that the knowledge of its
1894 Unic, 38 | keeps three. Yet, when he is sued in the courts in connection
1895 Unic, 30 | This would have sufficed, O Eternal Wisdom, as between
1896 Unic, 24 | will suffice. Whether it suffices or no I will not now discuss.93
1897 Unic, 3 | He not already more than sufficiently paid for the sin of Adam?
1898 Unic, 6 | nothing, but they see any suggestion or inclination which shows
1899 Pref, 0 | argument or its greater suitability for general reading. At
1900 Pref, 0 | elsewhere, because they summarize needlessly3 or because they
1901 Unic, 2 | better than by the most sumptuous edifices. Have a care to
1902 Unic, 42 | desire I have desired to sup with you"142 -- and that
1903 Unic, 19 | that He gives can there be superfluity. For, if His gift is abundant,
1904 Unic, 38 | unlikely that he will think it superfluous. He always likes to have
1905 Unic, 38 | about them, because he never supposes he will lose everything
1906 Unic, 36 | And supposing, my Lord, that there are
1907 Pref, 0(4) | case of this class is the suppression in V. of one out of two
1908 Pref, 0 | or even obscure.4 A few suppressions seem to have been due to
1909 Unic, 39 | publicly, we shall easily surmount them, with Thy help. But
1910 Unic, 41 | endure. I do not know why it surprises us to hear people say: "
1911 Unic, 16 | taken except by one who surrenders wholly to Him.~
1912 Unic, 9(32) | De sus tierras. The phrase will
1913 Pref, 0 | 1911, Father Zimmerman, suspecting that the procedure then
1914 Unic, 31 | since He Who created them suspends them: He keeps them occupied
1915 Unic, 31 | Who, to judge from the swaddling-clothes in which He was wrapped
1916 Unic, 31 | latter state it does not even swallow its nourishment: the Lord
1917 Unic, 40 | goes down to hell! What swarms and varieties of serpents
1918 Unic, 31 | its mouth and enjoy its sweetness. The Lord desires it to
1919 Unic, 31 | It is, as it were, in a swoon, both inwardly and outwardly,
1920 Intr, 0 | Then the author crosses swords once more with those who
1921 Unic, 33 | duty to keep what he has sworn and promised, and that not
1922 Intr, 0 | advantage of the book's symmetry and unity.~
1923 Unic, 38 | shall at once recognize the symptoms. Here is someone who has
1924 Intr, 0 | Teresa gives a striking synthetic description of the excellences
1925 Pref, 0 | The system I have adopted not only
1926 Unic, 21 | be no need for any other systems of prayer or for any other
1927 Unic, 31(108)| Moradas. The "three tabernacles" of St. Matthew xvii, 4.~
1928 Unic, 42(146)| but the Spanish of E. ("tambiŽn os dar‡ el otro") is quite
1929 Unic, 19 | fire, except when there is tar in the fire, in which case,
1930 Unic, 21 | troublous times, he has sown his tares, and seems to be leading
1931 Unic, 17 | for the Lord sometimes tarries long, and gives us as great
1932 Unic, 31 | because, if we begin to tax our brains by making up
1933 Unic, 3 | And if these teachers are not inwardly fortified
1934 Unic, 30 | him and not be considered tedious? He would also think what
1935 Unic, 34 | without Him. Let it suffice to temper your great joy that He should
1936 Unic, 13 | of nuns who are of such a temperament that they like to be esteemed
1937 Unic, 19 | however hot we are, water tempers the heat, and it will even
1938 Unic, 35 | Church, to endure so great a tempest. Save us, my Lord, for we
1939 Unic, 40 | delivered into the hands of the tempter, hands so cruel and so hostile
1940 Unic, App | then grow tired and stop tempting you. But if you notice that
1941 Unic, 19 | can do him by living, he tempts us to be indiscreet in our
1942 Unic, 22 | what they get from their tenants and vassals: if these fail
1943 Unic, 10 | everything else! Those who tend to the opposite extreme
1944 Unic, 13 | that is so infectious a tendency that, if you leave it alone,
1945 Unic, 7 | rather that the nuns showed a tender and affectionate love and
1946 Unic, 41 | it; see that all you say tends to edification; flee from
1947 Intr, 0 | most sublime and elusive tenets of mystical theology.~
1948 Pref, 0 | apparently purposeless changes of tense; such substitutions, in
1949 Unic, 38 | words: "Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo."133
1950 Unic, 22 | and had never used such a term before; so when I arrived
1951 Unic, 36 | mollified and remain on good terms with a person who has done
1952 Unic, 7(28) | Ternura. Lit.: ''tenderness."~
1953 Unic, 32 | tua sicut in coelo et in terra."115 Describes how much
1954 Unic, 24 | great many people who seem terrified at the very name of contemplation
1955 Unic, 38 | serve God, and, when I am tested, I find that I really can
1956 Unic, 16 | say, He does because He is testing them to see if that favour
1957 Unic, 16 | souls whom God our Lord tests in this way, and few who
1958 Pref, 0 | John of the Cross, where textual problems assumed greater
1959 Unic, 31 | can only receive it with thanksgiving. And we can best give thanks,
1960 | thence
1961 Unic, 16(48) | P. Juan de Jesœs Mar'a (Theologia Mystica, Chap. III) to P.
1962 | thereby
1963 Unic, 19 | here below. How the soul thirsts to experience this thirst!
1964 Unic, 19 | like people who are very thirsty and see water a long way
1965 Unic, 8(31) | The thirteenth was St. Teresa.~
1966 Unic, 33 | know, for He was sold for thirty pieces of silver; but, if
1967 Pref, 0 | one entire CHAPTER -- the thirty-first, which deals with the Prayer
1968 Unic, 28 | that only women may be so thoughtless as to suppose that. If we
1969 Unic, 19(66) | Lit.: "to cut the thread."~
1970 Unic, 26 | must have suffered! What threats, what malicious words, what
1971 Unic, 28 | and Who is seated upon a throne of supreme price -- namely,
1972 | throughout
1973 Unic, 39 | who expose themselves to a thrust from the bull's horns. This
1974 Unic, 16 | Orders. We refuse to be thwarted over the very smallest matter
1975 Unic, 24 | practise recollection or tie down their minds to mental
1976 Unic, 9(32) | De sus tierras. The phrase will also bear
1977 Unic, 32 | back and holding on to it tightly.~
1978 Unic, 23 | it; for people are often timid when they have not learned
1979 Intr, 0 | mistaken scrupulousness and timidity inspired by a sense of the
1980 Unic, 22 | search for the right road tires him, wastes his time and
1981 Pref, 0 | Stanbrook, described on its title-page as "including all the variants"
1982 Unic, 3(20) | is thus translated in the titles of the seven main divisions
1983 Unic, 8(30) | Lit.: de darnos todas a ƒl todo: "giving ourselves
1984 Unic, 3 | the Most Holy Sacrament today, in taking it from its resting-place
1985 Unic, 3 | at the cost of so much toil, have fortified themselves
1986 Unic, App | are always striving and toiling to help our souls? Actually,
1987 Unic, 23 | as a sign of love and a token that she will be his until
1988 Unic, 4 | himself, he will be very tolerant with it in [the consciences
1989 Unic, 15 | that Thou shouldst have to tolerate anything displeasing in
1990 Unic, 14 | great many nuns it may be tolerated, but it cannot be suffered
1991 Unic, 36 | reconciled. Really, the topsy-turviness of the world is terrible.
1992 Unic, 16(45) | writing them, St. Teresa tore them out of the manuscript,
1993 Unic, 42 | charity this is a great torment, what must it have been
1994 Unic, App | yet another, only to be tormented by the same temptation every
1995 Unic, 1 | endure more than sufficient torments?~
1996 Unic, 32 | described. Unless we make a total surrender of our will to
1997 Unic, 28 | worldly things are nothing but toys; so in due course it rises
1998 Unic, 21 | successful enough at his own trade to cause to fall: in doing
1999 Pref, 0 | the two texts, but is that traditionally employed in the printed
2000 Unic, 42 | myself. When I find myself trammelled by weakness, lukewarmness,
2001 Unic, 37 | for they say they have trampled the world beneath their
2002 Unic, 25 | work is His alone and far transcends human nature.~
2003 Intr, 0 | only exceptional and of a transitory kind and they are intended
2004 Pref | TRANSLATOR'S NOTE~In the text of each