A TREATISE OF PRAYER Of the means which the soul takes to arrive at
pure and generous love; and here begins the Treatise of Prayer.
"When the soul has passed through the doctrine of Christ crucified,
with true love of virtue and hatred of vice, and has arrived at the
house of self-knowledge and entered therein, she remains, with her
door barred, in watching and constant prayer, separated entirely
from the consolations of the world. Why does she thus shut herself
in? She does so from fear, knowing her own imperfections, and also
from the desire, which she has, of arriving at pure and generous
love. And because she sees and knows well that in no other way can
she arrive thereat, she waits, with a lively faith for My arrival,
through increase of grace in her. How is a lively faith to be
recognized? By perseverance in virtue, and by the fact that the
soul never turns back for anything, whatever it be, nor rises from
holy prayer, for any reason except (note well) for obedience or
charity's sake. For no other reason ought she to leave off prayer,
for, during the time ordained for prayer, the Devil is wont to
arrive in the soul, causing much more conflict and trouble than
when the soul is not occupied in prayer. This he does in order that
holy prayer may become tedious to the soul, tempting her often with
these words: 'This prayer avails you nothing, for you need attend
to nothing except your vocal prayers.' He acts thus in order that,
becoming wearied and confused in mind, she may abandon the exercise
of prayer, which is a weapon with which the soul can defend herself
from every adversary, if grasped with the hand of love, by the arm
of free choice in the light of the Holy Faith."
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