Life of St Teresa of Jesus | Page 2

great Calamity of going back
XX. The Difference between Union and Rapture--What Rapture
is--The Blessing it is to the Soul--The Effects of it
XXI. Conclusion of the Subject--Pain of the Awakening--Light against
Delusions
XXII. The Security of Contemplatives lies in their not ascending to
high Things if our Lord does not raise them--The Sacred Humanity
must be the Road to the highest Contemplation--A Delusion in which
the Saint was once entangled

XXIII. The Saint resumes the History of her Life--Aiming at
Perfection--Means whereby it may be gained--Instructions for
Confessors
XXIV. Progress under Obedience--Her Inability to resist the Graces of
God--God multiplies His Graces
XXV. Divine Locutions--Delusions on that Subject
XXVI. How the Fears of the Saint vanished--How she was assured that
her Prayer was the Work of the Holy Spirit
XXVII. The Saint prays to be directed in a different way--Intellectual
Visions
XXVIII. Visions of the Sacred Humanity and of the glorified
Bodies--Imaginary Visions--Great Fruits thereof when they come from
God
XXIX. Of Visions--The Graces our Lord bestowed on the Saint--The
Answers our Lord gave her for those who tried her
XXX. St. Peter of Alcantara comforts the Saint--Great Temptations and
Interior Trials
XXXI. Of certain outward Temptations and Appearances of Satan--Of
the Sufferings thereby occasioned--Counsels for those who go on unto
Perfection
XXXII. Our Lord shows St. Teresa the Place which she had by her Sins
deserved in Hell--The Torments there--How the Monastery of St.
Joseph was founded
XXXIII. The Foundation of the Monastery hindered--Our Lord
consoles the Saint
XXXIV. The Saint leaves her Monastery of the Incarnation for a time,
at the command of her superior--Consoles an afflicted Widow

XXXV. The Foundation of the House of St. Joseph--Observance of
holy Poverty therein--How the Saint left Toledo
XXXVI. The Foundation of the Monastery of St. Joseph--Persecution
and Temptations--Great interior Trial of the Saint, and her Deliverance
XXXVII. The Effects of the divine Graces in the Soul--The inestimable
Greatness of one Degree of Glory
XXXVIII. Certain heavenly Secrets, Visions, and Revelations--The
Effects of them in her Soul
XXXIX. Other Graces bestowed on the Saint--The Promises of our
Lord to her--Divine Locutions and Visions
XL. Visions, Revelations, and Locutions
The Relations.
Relation.
I. Sent to St. Peter of Alcantara in 1560 from the Monastery of the
Incarnation, Avila
II. To one of her Confessors, from the House of Dona Luisa de la Cerda,
in 1562
III. Of various Graces granted to the Saint from the year 1568 to 1571,
inclusive
IV. Of the Graces the Saint received in Salamanca at the end of Lent,
1571
V. Observations on certain Points of Spirituality
VI. The Vow of Obedience to Father Gratian which the Saint made in
1575
VII. Made for Rodrigo Alvarez, S.J., in the year 1575, according to

Don Vicente de la Fuente; but in 1576, according to the Bollandists and
F. Bouix
VIII. Addressed to F. Rodrigo Alvarez
IX. Of certain spiritual Graces she received in Toledo and Avila in the
years 1576 and 1577
X. Of a Revelation to the Saint at Avila, 1579, and of Directions
concerning the Government of the Order
XI. Written from Palencia in May, 1581, and addressed to Don Alonzo
Velasquez, Bishop of Osma, who had been when Canon of Toledo, one
of the Saint's Confessors

Introduction to the Present Edition.
When the publisher entrusted me with the task of editing this volume,
one sheet was already printed and a considerable portion of the book
was in type. Under his agreement with the owners of the copyright, he
was bound to reproduce the text and notes, etc., originally prepared by
Mr. David Lewis without any change, so that my duty was confined to
reading the proofs and verifying the quotations. This translation of the
Life of St. Teresa is so excellent, that it could hardly be improved.
While faithfully adhering to her wording, the translator has been
successful in rendering the lofty teaching in simple and clear language,
an achievement all the more remarkable as in addition to the difficulty
arising from the transcendental nature of the subject matter, the
involved style, and the total absence of punctuation tend to perplex the
reader. Now and then there might be some difference of opinion as to
how St. Teresa's phrases should be construed, but it is not too much to
say that on the whole Mr. Lewis has been more successful than any
other translator, whether English or foreign. Only in one case have I
found it necessary to make some slight alteration in the text, and I trust
the owners of the copyright will forgive me for doing so. In
Chapter XXV.

, § 4, St. Teresa, speaking of the difference between the Divine and the
imaginary locutions, says that a person commending a matter to God
with great earnestness, may think that he hears whether his