Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion

by Robert Alfred Vaughan

[265]. Los Libros de la B. M. Teresa de Jesus, Vida, capp. i. iii. This edition of 1615 contains the Camino de la Perfecion, and the Castillo espiritual, with the Life. The Foundations, at which I have only glanced in the French, are devoted to business, not mysticism.

[266]. Vida, cap. v. p. 26.

[267]. Teresa confesses that during the first year of her seizure her disorder was such as sometimes completely to deprive her of her senses:—Tan grave, que casi me privava el sentido siempre, y algunas vezes del todo quedava sin el.—Pp. 17.

[268]. Vida, cap. xxxvi.

[269]. Vida, p. 83.

[270]. Vida, cap. xxvii. p. 196.

[271]. Vida, cap. xxiv. p. 171.

[272]. Vida, cap. xxvi. p. 186. Siempre que el Señor me mandava alguna cosa en la oracion, si el confessor me dezia otra, me tornava el Señor a dezir que le obedeciesse: despues su Magestad le bolvia para que me lo tornasse a mandar. She speaks in the very same page of bad advice given her by one of her confessors.

[273]. See [Note] on p. [164].

[274]. Vida, p. 85; Camino de Perfecion, capp. 4 and 5.