[11] H. Bergson, Essai sur les Données Immédiates de la Conscience, ed. 1898. H. Jones, The Philosophy of Lotze, 1895. J. Ward, Naturalism and Agnosticism, 2 vols., 1899. M. Blondel, l’Action, 1893. J. Volkelt, Kant’s Erkenntnisstheorie, 1879; Erfahrung und Denken, 1886. H. Münsterberg, Psychology and Life, 1899. D. Mercier Critériologie Générale, ed. 1900.
[12] Vita, pp. 96c; 117b; 127a; 97c, 133b (dated November 11, 1509, in MSS.); 146b; 148a.
[13] From my authenticated copies of the original wills in the Archivio di Stato, Genoa.
[14] Vita, pp. 113b, 149c; 143b, 152c; 138b, 155a. Note the parallels in St. Teresa’s Life, written by herself, tr. D. Lewis, ed. 1888. P. 234: “When these (spiritual) impetuosities are not very violent, the soul seeks relief through certain penances; the painfulness of which, and even the shedding of blood, are no more felt than if the body were dead.” P. 30: “I was unable to move either arm or foot, or hand or head, unless others moved me. I could move, however, I think, one finger of my right hand.” P. 31: “I was paralytic, though getting better, for about three years.”
[15] Hyper-aesthesia and sensation of heat: Vita, pp. 142a, 153a. Increase of movement: ibid., and pp. 145b, 143a, 153c, 141a. Loss of speech and sight: pp. 141b, 141c, 159c. Localization of heat: p. 157b. Haemorrhages: 138c, 159c, 160a. Concavities and jaundice: pp. 144a, 153a. Spasms: pp. 143c, 71c, 141c, 142b. Cf. St. Teresa, loc. cit. p. 30: “As to touching me, that was impossible, for I was so bruised that I could not endure it. They used to move me in a sheet, one holding one end, and another the other.” P. 31: “I began to crawl on my hands and feet.” P. 263: “I felt myself on fire: this inward fire and despair.…” P. 17: “The fainting fits began to be more frequent; and my heart was so seriously affected, that those who saw it were alarmed.” P. 27: “It seemed to me as if my heart had been seized by sharp teeth.” P. 235: “I saw, in the Angel’s hand, a long spear of gold, and at the iron’s point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails.… The pain is not bodily, but spiritual.”
[16] Swallow: Vita, pp. 149c, 150a; 159b; 159c; 150a. Odours and colours: 153c, 154b. Cf. St. Teresa, loc. cit. p. 27: “I could eat nothing whatever, only drink. I had a great loathing for food.” P. 43: “I have been suffering for twenty years from sickness every morning.” P. 30: “There was a choking in my throat … I could not swallow even a drop of water.” P. 263: “A sense of oppression, of stifling.”
[17] Exclamations: Vita, pp. 144a, 148b, 155a. Laughter: ibid. 145c, 148b, 149b, 157c. Sudden changes of condition: 135b, 138c, 159b. Cf. St. Teresa, loc. cit. pp. 28, 29: “That very night,” Feast of the Assumption, 1537, “my sickness became so acute that, for about four days, I remained insensible. For a day and a half the grave was open, waiting for my body. But it pleased Our Lord I should come to myself. I wished to go to confession at once. Though my sufferings were unendurable, and my perceptions dull, yet my confession was, I believe, complete. I communicated with many tears.”
[18] Vita, pp. 71c; 145c; 147b; 159c, 159a; 127a. Cf. St. Teresa, loc. cit. p. 23: “I was in my sister’s house, for the purpose of undergoing medical treatment—they took the utmost care of my comfort.” P. 27: “In two months, so strong were the medicines, my life was nearly worn out.” “The physicians gave me up: they said I was consumptive.”
[19] Self-knowledge as to “quietudes”: Vita, pp. 153b, 157a. Marabotto’s attitude: 139b; 141c, 143c, 149a. Relations with Boerio: 147c, 147b. Cf. St. Teresa, loc. cit. p. 86: “My health has been much better since I have ceased to look after my ease and comforts.”
[20] Remark to Vernazza: Vita, pp. 98c, 99a. Persistence of intelligence: 141c; 159b, c; 143a; 143c; 145b. Cf. St. Teresa, loc. cit. p. 408: “She” (Teresa herself) “never saw anything with her bodily eyes, nor heard anything with her bodily ears.” P. 189: “The words of the divine locutions are very distinctly formed; but by the bodily ear they are not heard.” P. 191: “In ecstasy, the memory can hardly do anything at all, and the imagination is, as it were, suspended.” P. 142: “You see and feel yourself carried away, you know not whither.” P. 187: “I fell into a trance; I was carried out of myself. It was most plain.”