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It is more difficult to say to whom the letter was really addressed. § 6; xxiv. § 4.
12. Certainly, if I had not brought this upon myself by my sins, the torture would have been unendurable.
16. vii., f. See Way of Perfection, ch. So it was and so it happened, that it may be the better known, O my Bridegroom, Who Thou art and what I am.
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The great experience of this religious, her discretion also and her humility, which made her always seek for light and learning in her confessors, enabled her to speak with an accuracy on the subject of prayer that the most learned men, through their want of experience, have not always attained to. How she was commanded to have nothing (further) to do with it, how she abandoned it, also the troubles it brought her and how God consoled her in all this.
Chapter XXXIV.--She shows how at that time it happened that she absented herself from this place and how her Superior commanded her to go away at the request of a very noble lady who was in great affliction.
iii. I am convinced that the priest is in the way of salvation. Of certain Temptations of Satan — Instructions relating thereto 84 XIV. The second State of Prayer — Its supernatural Character 96 XV. Instructions for 'those who have attained to the Prayer of Quiet — Many advance so far, but few go farther 103 XVI. The third State of Prayer — Deep Matters — What the Soul can do that has reached it — Effects of the great Graces of our Lord 113 XVII.
It seems that it was the will of our Lord he should be saved by these means.
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In two months--so strong were the medicines--my life was nearly worn out; and the severity of the pain in the heart, [8] for the cure of which I was there was much more keen: it seemed to me, now and then, as if it had been seized by sharp teeth. I took care to go to confession as soon as I could; and, as I think, did all that was possible on my part to return to a state of grace.
Doblado--calls him a founder of her Order, because of the great services he had rendered her, and told her nuns of Seville that they need not be veiled in his presence, though they must be so in the presence of everybody else, and even the friars of the Reform.
14. For within the last thirteen years she has, I believe, founded a dozen monasteries of Barefooted Carmelite nuns, the austerity and perfection of which are exceeded by none other; of which they who have been visitors of them, as the Dominican Provincial, master in theology, [24] Fra Pedro Fernandez, the master Fra Hernando del Castillo, and many others, speak highly.
See Carmel in England, by Rev. Father B. Zimmerman, p. The fourth State of Prayer — The great Dignity of the Soul raised to it by our Lord — Attainable on Earth, not by our Merit, but by the Goodness of our Lord 124 XIX. The Effects of this fourth State of Prayer — Earnest Exhortations to those who have attained to it not to go back, nor to cease from Prayer, even if they fall — The great Calamity of going back 132 XX.
The Difference between Union and Rapture — What Rapture is — The Blessing it is to the Soul — The Effects of it 142 XXI. Conclusion of the Subject — Pain of the Awakening — Light against Delusions 158 XXII. Jerome of the Mother of God was with her; and heard the Cardinal's reply. Whether he printed all he received, or merely made extracts, may be doubtful, but anyhow that chapter is singularly incomplete.