The life of St. Teresa of Jesus of the order of Our Lady of Carmel.
Subtitle: Written By Herself.
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1898
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: Prologue 1; title: I. Childhood and early Impressions  — The Blessing of pious Parents  — Desire of Martyrdom  — Death of the Saint's Mother 2; title: II. Early Impressions  — Dangerous Books and Companions  — The Saint is placed in a Monastery 6; title: III. The Blessing of being with good People — How certain Illusions wore removed 12; title: IV. Our Lord helps her to become a Nun  — Her many Infirmities 15; title: V. Illness and Patience of the Saint  — The Story of a Priest whom she rescued from a Life of Sin 22; title: VI. The great Debt she owed to our Lord for His Mercy to her  — She takes S. Joseph for her Patron   30; title: VII. Lukewarmness  — The Loss of Grace — Inconvenience of Laxity in Religious Houses 37; title: VIII. The Saint ceases not to pray  — Prayer the way to recover what is lost — All exhorted to pray  — The great Advantage of Prayer, even to those who may have ceased from it 51; title: IX. The Means whereby our Lord quickened her Soul, gave her Light in her Darkness, and made her strong in Goodness 58; title: X. The Graces she received in Prayer  — What we can do ourselves — The great Importance of understanding what our Lord is doing for us  — She desires her Confessors to keep her Writings secret, because of the special Graces of our Lord to her, which they had commanded her to describe 63; title: XI. Why Men do not attain quickly to the perfect Love of God  — Of four Degrees of Prayer  — Of the first Degree  — The Doctrine profitable for Beginners, and for those who have no sensible Sweetness 70; title: XII. What we can ourselves do  — The Evil of desiring to attain to supernatural States before our Lord calls us  80; title: XIII. Of certain Temptations of Satan  — Instructions relating thereto 84; title: XIV. The second State of Prayer  — Its supernatural Character 96; title: XV. Instructions for 'those who have attained to the Prayer of Quiet  — Many advance so far, but few go farther 103; title: XVI. The third State of Prayer  — Deep Matters  — What the Soul can do that has reached it  — Effects of the great Graces of our Lord 113; title: XVII. The third State of Prayer  — The Effects thereof  — The Hindrance caused by the Imagination and the Memory 119; title: XVIII. The fourth State of Prayer  — The great Dignity of the Soul raised to it by our Lord  — Attainable on Earth, not by our Merit, but by the Goodness of our Lord 124; title: XIX. The Effects of this fourth State of Prayer  — Earnest Exhortations to those who have attained to it not to go back, nor to cease from Prayer, even if they fall — The great Calamity of going back   132; title: XX. The Difference between Union and Rapture  — What Rapture is  — The Blessing it is to the Soul  — The Effects of it 142; title: XXI. Conclusion of the Subject  — Pain of the Awakening  — Light against Delusions 158; title: XXII. The Security of Contemplatives lios in their not ascending to high Things if our Lord does not raise them  — The Sacred Humanity must be the Road to the highest Contemplation  — A Delusion in which the Saint was once entangled 164; title: XXIII. The Saint resumes the History of her Life  — Aiming at Perfection  — Means whereby it may be gained  — Instructions for Confessors 176; title: XXIV. Progress under Obedience  — Her Inability to resist the Graces of God  — God multiplies His Graces  186; title: XXV. Divine Locutions  — Delusions on that Subject   191; title: XXVI. How the Fears of the Saint vanished  — How she was assured that her Prayer was the Work of the Holy Spirit 203; title: XXVII. The Saint prays to be directed by a different Way  — Intellectual Visions    208; title: XXVIII. Visions of the Sacred Humanity and of the glorified Bodies  — Imaginary Visions  — Great Fruits thereof when they come from God 219; title: XXIX. Of Visions  — The Graces our Lord bestowed on the Saint — The Answers our Lord gave her for those who tried her 230; title: XXX. S. Peter of Alcantara comforts the Saint  — Great Temptations and Interior Trials 239; title: XXXI. Of certain outward Temptations and Appearances of Satan — Of the Sufferings thereby occasioned  — Counsels for those who go on unto Perfection    252; title: XXXII. Our Lord shows S. Teresa the Place which she had by her Sins deserved in Hell  — The Torments there  — How the Monastery of S. Joseph was founded 265; title: XXXIII. The Foundation of the Monastery hindered  — Our Lord consoles the Saint 274; title: XXXIV. The Saint leaves her Monastery of the Incarnation for a time, at the Command of her Superior  — Consoles an afflicted Widow 284; title: XXXV. The Foundation of the House of S. Joseph  — Observance of holy Poverty therein  — How the Saint left Toledo 295; title: XXXVI. The Foundation of the Monastery of S. Joseph  — Persecution and Temptations  — Great interior Trial of the Saint, and her Deliverance 304; title: XXXVII. The Effects of the divine Graces in the Soul  — The inestimable Greatness of one Degree of Glory  320; title: XXXVIII. Certain heavenly Secrets, Visions, and Revelations  — The Effects of them in her Soul   327; title: XXXIX. Other Graces bestowed on the Saint  — The Promises of our Lord to her  — Divine Locutions and Visions 342; title: XL. Visions, Revelations, and Locutions   356; title: THE RELATIONS.; title: I. Sent to S. Peter of Alcantara in 1560 from the Monastery of the Incarnation, Avila   373; title: II. To one of her Confessors, from the House of Dona Luisa de la Cerda, in 1562 386; title: III. Of various Graces granted to the Saint from the year 1568 to 1571 inclusive     392; title: IV. Of the Graces the Saint received in Salamanca at the end of Lent 1571 400; title: V. Observations on certain Points of Spirituality   403; title: VI. The Vow of Obedience to Father Gratian which the Saint made in 1575 409; title: VII. Made for Rodrigo Alvarez, S.J., in the year 1575, according to Don Vicente de la Fuente ; but in 1576, according to the Bollandists and F. Bouix  412; title: VIII. Addressed to F. Rodrigo Alvarez    421; title: IX. Of certain spiritual Graces she received in Toledo and Avila in the years 1576 and 1577 430; title: X. Of a Revelation to the Saint at Avila, 1579, and of certain Directions concerning the Government of the Order  439; title: XI. Written from Palenciain May 1581, and addressed to Don Alonzo Velasquez, Bishop of Osma, who had been, when Canon of Toledo, one of the Saint's Confessors 440