[14]. How, when the faculties are suspended, it is to be understood that certain matters are suggested to the soul, to be by it recommended to God; that an angel suggests them, of whom it is said in the Scriptures that he was burning incense and offering up the prayers of the saints. [[12]]

[15]. How there are no sins where there is no knowledge; and thus our Lord did not permit the king to sin with the wife of Abraham, for he thought that she was his sister, not his wife.


[1]. 2 Cor. i. 12: "Gloria nostra hæc est, testimonium conscientiæ nostræ."

[2]. See St. John of the Cross, Mount Carmel, bk. ii. ch. v.

[3]. See Foundations, ch. v. § 10.

[4]. Eccl. ix. 1: "Nescit homo utrum amore an odio dignus sit."

[5]. See St. John of the Cross, Mount Carmel, bk. iii. ch. xxxiv.

[6]. The §§ 6, 7, and 8 are the thirteenth letter of the second volume, ed. Doblado.

[7]. See [Relation iii. § 13].