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A short method of prayer, and Spiritual torrents, tr. by A.W. Marston

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abundant in goodness, does not fail to send them help, though it may be but passing and temporary. As soon, then, as they are taught that they cannot advance because their wound is an internal one, and they are seeking to heal it by external applications ; when they are led to seek in the depths of their own hearts what they have sought in vain out of them-selves ; then they find, with an astonishment which overwhelms them, that they have within them a trea-sure which they have been seeking far off. Then they rejoice in their new liberty; they marvel that prayer is no longer a burden, and that the more they retire within themselves, the more they taste of a certain mysterious something which ravishes them and carries them away, and they would wish ever to love thus, and thus to be buried within themselves. Yet what they experience, delightful as it may appear, does not stop them, if they are to be led into pure ^ faith, but leads them to follow after something more, which they have not yet known. They are now all ardour and love. They seem already to be in Para-dise; for what they possess within themselves is infinitely sweeter than all the joys of earth : these

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