Do not think it is a state, like the last, in which we dream; I say “dream”, because the soul seems to be, as it were, drowsy, so that it neither seems asleep nor feels awake. Here we are all…
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Illumination
He leads (the soul) into a state of absorption, in which, without knowing how, it is much better instructed than it could ever be as a result of it’s own efforts . . . .” (Teresa of Avila: Interior Castle: Fourth…
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