![]() ![]() ![]() Her coadjutor in the Carmelite Reform writes in the same spirit. She can hardly conceive of a person in full spiritual health whose life is not one of prayer. Teresa prayer is the greatest of all blessings of this life, the channel through which all the favours of God pass to the soul, the beginning of every virtue and the plainly marked highroad which leads to the summit of Mount Carmel. ![]() It is a work which shows every sign of careful planning and great attention to detail, as an ascetic treatise it is noteworthy for its detailed psychological analysis as a contribution to mystical theology, for the skill with which it treats the most complicated and delicate questions concerning the Mystic Way.īoth the great Carmelite reformers pay close attention to the early stages of the mystical life, beyond which many never pass, and both give the primacy to prayer as a means of attaining perfection. The treatise presents a remarkable outline of Christian perfection from the point at which the soul first seeks to rise from the earth and soar upward towards union with God. John of the Cross, this was the first of the Saint’s treatises to be written it was begun at El Calvario, and, after various intervals, due to the author’s preoccupation with the business of government and the direction and care of souls, was completed at Granada. ![]() AS will be seen from the biographical outline which we have given of the life of St. ![]()
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