[3]. St. John iii. 34: "Non enim ad mensuram dat Deus spiritum."
[5]. See [ch. xl. § 24]; Way of Perfection, ch. vii. § 1; but ch. iv. of the previous editions.
[6]. See [ch. xx. § 14].
[7]. See [ch. xxx. § 19].
[8]. See [ch. xxx. §§ 18], [25].
[Chapter XXXVIII.]
Certain Heavenly Secrets, Visions, and Revelations. The Effects of Them in Her Soul.
[1]. One night I was so unwell that I thought I might be excused making my prayer; so I took my rosary, that I might employ myself in vocal prayer, trying not to be recollected in my understanding, though outwardly I was recollected, being in my oratory. These little precautions are of no use when our Lord will have it otherwise. I remained there but a few moments thus, when I was rapt in spirit with such violence that I could make no resistance whatever. It seemed to me that I was taken up to heaven; and the first persons I saw there were my father and my mother. I saw other things also; but the time was no longer than that in which the Ave Maria might be said, and I was amazed at it, looking on it all as too great a grace for me. But as to the shortness of the time, it might have been longer, only it was all done in a very short space.