27. May it please our Lord that I be not one of these; and may His Majesty give me grace to take that for peace which is really peace, that for honour which is really honour, and that for delight which is really a delight. Let me never mistake one thing for another--and then I snap my fingers at all the devils, for they shall be afraid of me. I do not understand those terrors which make us cry out, Satan, Satan! when we may say, God, God! and make Satan tremble. Do we not know that he cannot stir without the permission of God? What does it mean? I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself. Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much, particularly if they be confessors. I have spent some years of such great anxiety, that even now I am amazed that I was able to bear it. Blessed be our Lord, who has so effectually helped me! 1. Philip. a SS. Trinitate, Theolog. Mystic. par. 2, tr. iii. disc. iv. art. v.: "Tres sunt modi divinæ locutionis; completur enim divina locutio vel verbis successivis, vel verbis formalibus, vel verbis substantialibus. Completur verbis successivis cum anima in semetipsa multum collecta quosdam discursus internos de Deo vel de aliis divina format directione; hujusmodi quippe discursus, quamvis ab ipsa sibi formati, a Deo tamen dirigente procedunt. Completur verbis formalibus cum anima vel in se collecta, vel aliis occupata, percipit quædam verba formaliter ac distincte divinitus expressa, ad quorum formationem anima passive penitus se habet. Completur verbis substantialibus cum anima vel in se collecta, vel etiam distracta, percipit quædam verba viva et efficacia, divinitus ad se directa, quæ virtutem aut substantialem effectum per ipsa significatum fortiter ac infallibiliter causant." See also St. John of the Cross, Ascent of Mount Carmel, b. ii. ch. xxviii. and the following, p. 188. 2. From 1555 to 1557, when the Saint was advised by St. Francis de Borja to make no further resistance (Bouix). 3. See ch. xxvii. § 4. 4. § 4. 5. § 5. 6. The doctrine here laid down is not that of the second water,--chs. xiv. and xv.,--but that of the third, ch. xvi. The Saint herself speaks doubtfully; and as she had but little time for writing, she could not correct nor read again what she had written (De la Fuente). 7. § 6. 8. § 2. 9. Ch. vii. § 12. 10. Ch. xxviii. § 6, ch. xxx. § 10. 11. Ch. vii. § 11. 12. Ch. iv. § 6, ch. v. § 14. 13. It was the church of the Jesuits (Bouix). 14. See Inner Fortress, vi. 3, § 5. 15. St. Matt. viii. 26; "Imperavit ventis et mari, et facta est tranquillitas magna." 16. Ch. xxxi. § 2. 17. St. John of the Cross, Spiritual Canticle, st. 24, p. 128, Eng. trans. 18. St. Matt. x. 26, 28; "Ne ergo timueritis eos, . . . sed potius timete Eum." 19. St. John viii. 44: "Mendax est, et pater ejus." Chapter XXVI.