Monthly Archives: June 2013

Self-Knowledge (Part I)

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Dave Small — Leave a comment

I do not know if I have explained this clearly: self-knowledge is so important that, even if you were raised right up to the heavens, I should like you never to relax your cultivation of it; so long as we…

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Posted in 1st Mansions - Chapter 2, Spiritual Warfare

More Toys

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Dave Small — 2 Comments

In speaking of the soul we must always think of it as spacious, ample and lofty; and this can be done without the least exaggeration, for the soul’s capacity is much greater than we can realize, and this Sun, Which…

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Posted in 1st Mansions - Chapter 2, Stories and Parables

Mystical Prayer

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Dave Small — Leave a comment

That person to whom I referred just now said that the favor which God had granted her had taught her two things: first, she learned to have the greatest fear of offending Him, for which reason she continually begged Him…

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Posted in 1st Mansions - Chapter 2

Omissions

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Dave Small — 1 Comment

“I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as the things not done by it.” Teresa of Avila: First Mansions-Chapter Two ‘Take the pound from…

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Posted in 1st Mansions - Chapter 2

Can Rachel Wear White?

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Dave Small — 1 Comment

Tree of Life: Part Two I want you to consider what will be the state of this castle, so beautiful and resplendent this Orient pearl, this tree of life, planted in the living waters of life–namely, in God–when the soul falls…

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