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 XVII. The Third State of Prayer--The Effects thereof--The Hindrance caused by the Imagination and the Memory 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 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 XX. The Difference between Union and Rapture--What Rapture is--The Blessing it is to the Soul--The Effects of it XXI. Conclusion of the Subject--Pain of the Awakening--Light against Delusions XXII. The Security of Contemplatives lies 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 XXIII. The Saint resumes the History of her Life--Aiming at Perfection--Means whereby it may be gained--Instructions for Confessors XXIV. Progress under Obedience--Her Inability to resist the Graces of God--God multiplies His Graces XXV. Divine Locutions--Delusions on that Subject XXVI. How the Fears of the Saint vanished--How she was assured that her Prayer was the Work of the Holy Spirit XXVII. The Saint prays to be directed in a different way--Intellectual Visions XXVIII. Visions of the Sacred Humanity and of the glorified Bodies--Imaginary Visions--Great Fruits thereof when they come from God XXIX. Of Visions--The Graces our Lord bestowed on the Saint--The Answers our Lord gave her for those who tried her XXX. St. Peter of Alcantara comforts the Saint--Great Temptations and Interior Trials XXXI. Of certain outward Temptations and Appearances of Satan--Of the Sufferings thereby occasioned--Counsels for those who go on unto Perfection XXXII. Our Lord shows St. Teresa the Place which she had by her Sins deserved in Hell--The Torments there--How the Monastery of St. Joseph was founded XXXIII. The Foundation of the Monastery hindered--Our Lord consoles the Saint XXXIV. The Saint leaves her Monastery of the Incarnation for a time, at the command of her superior--Consoles an afflicted Widow XXXV. The Foundation of the House of St. Joseph--Observance of holy Poverty therein--How the Saint left Toledo XXXVI. The Foundation of the Monastery of St. Joseph--Persecution and Temptations--Great interior Trial of the Saint, and her Deliverance XXXVII. The Effects of the divine Graces in the Soul--The inestimable Greatness of one Degree of Glory XXXVIII. Certain heavenly Secrets, Visions, and Revelations--The Effects of them in her Soul XXXIX. Other Graces bestowed on the Saint--The Promises of our Lord to her--Divine Locutions and Visions XL. Visions, Revelations, and Locutions The Relations. Relation.