The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of The Order of Our Lady of
Saint Teresa of Avila's exploration of faith and prayer in Christian doctrine and practice.
51 Chapters
Table of Contents
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chapter can: the period of her schooling is at an end, and she is now the great
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Chapter X: and how much we can do for ourselves, and of the importance of
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Chapter XVI: elevated nature; what the soul that has come so far can do, and the
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Chapter XIX: effects on the soul of this degree of prayer. She earnestly exhorts not
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Chapter XXIII: to practise greater perfection. This is profitable for those who have
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Chapter XXVII: without speaking, makes His Will known in an admirable manner. She goes
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Chapter XXX: her a remedy for all her anxieties by calling the holy Friar Fray Pedro
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Chapter XXXIV: absented herself from this place and how her Superior commanded her to
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Chapter XXXVI: foundation of this convent of the glorious St. Joseph was finally
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Chapter XXXVIII: making known to her heavenly secrets by means of visions and
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Chapter XL: shown her. From some of these very good doctrine may be gathered, and
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Chapter I: Childhood and Early Impressions. The Blessing of Pious Parents. Desire
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Chapter II: Early Impressions. Dangerous Books and Companions. The Saint Is Placed
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Chapter III: The Blessing of Being with Good People. How Certain Illusions
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Chapter IV: Our Lord Helps Her to Become a Nun. Her Many Infirmities.
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Chapter V: Illness and Patience of the Saint. The Story of a Priest Whom She
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Chapter VI: The Great Debt She Owed to Our Lord for His Mercy to Her. She Takes
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Chapter VII: Lukewarmness. The Loss of Grace. Inconvenience of Laxity in Religious
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Chapter VIII: The Saint Ceases Not to Pray. Prayer the Way to Recover What Is Lost.
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Chapter IX: The Means Whereby Our Lord Quickened Her Soul, Gave Her Light in Her
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Chapter X: The Graces She Received in Prayer. What We Can Do Ourselves. The Great
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Chapter XI: Why Men Do Not Attain Quickly to the Perfect Love of God. Of Four
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Chapter XII: What We Can Ourselves Do. The Evil of Desiring to Attain to
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Chapter XIII: Of Certain Temptations of Satan. Instructions Relating Thereto.
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Chapter XIV: The Second State of Prayer. Its Supernatural Character.
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Chapter XV: Instructions for Those Who Have Attained to the Prayer of Quiet. Many
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Chapter XVI: The Third State of Prayer. Deep Matters. What the Soul Can Do That Has
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Chapter XVII: The Third State of Prayer. The Effects Thereof. The Hindrance Caused by
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Chapter XVIII: The Fourth State of Prayer. The Great Dignity of the Soul Raised to It
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Chapter XIX: The Effects of This Fourth State of Prayer. Earnest Exhortations to
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Chapter XX: The Difference Between Union and Rapture. What Rapture Is. The Blessing
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Chapter XXI: Conclusion of the Subject. Pain of the Awakening. Light
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Chapter XXII: The Security of Contemplatives Lies in Their Not Ascending to High
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Chapter XXIII: The Saint Resumes the History of Her Life. Aiming at Perfection. Means
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Chapter XXIV: Progress Under Obedience. Her Inability to Resist the Graces of God.
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Chapter XXV: Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject.
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Chapter XXVI: How the Fears of the Saint Vanished. How She Was Assured That Her
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Chapter XXVII: The Saint Prays to Be Directed by a Different Way.
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Chapter XXVIII: Visions of the Sacred Humanity, and of the Glorified Bodies. Imaginary
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Chapter XXIX: Of Visions. The Graces Our Lord Bestowed on the Saint. The Answers Our
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Chapter XXX: St. Peter of Alcantara Comforts the Saint. Great Temptations and
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Chapter XXXI: Of Certain Outward Temptations and Appearances of Satan. Of the
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Chapter XXXII: Our Lord Shows St. Teresa the Place Which She Had by Her Sins Deserved
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Chapter XXXIII: The Foundation of the Monastery Hindered. Our Lord Consoles the Saint.
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Chapter XXXIV: The Saint Leaves Her Monastery of the Incarnation for a Time, at the
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Chapter XXXV: The Foundation of the House of St. Joseph. The Observation of Holy
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Chapter XXXVI: The Foundation of the Monastery of St. Joseph. Persecution and
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Chapter XXXVII: The Effects of the Divine Graces in the Soul. The Inestimable Greatness
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Chapter XXXVIII: Certain Heavenly Secrets, Visions, and Revelations. The Effects of Them
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Chapter XXXIX: Other Graces Bestowed on the Saint. The Promises of Our Lord to Her.
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Chapter XL: Visions, Revelations, and Locutions.