translate English to French: To everyone Thérèse gives her personal confirmation that the Christian mystery, whose witness and apostle she became by making herself in prayer "the apostle of the apostles", as she boldly calls herself (Ms A, 56r), must be taken literally, with the greatest possible realism, because it has a value for every time and place.
Mais Thérèse s'est nourrie tout particulièrement de la doctrine mystique de saint Jean de la Croix, qui a été son véritable maître spirituel (cf. Ms A, 83 r).