ceded
her
rejoicing
was
a
purification
for
her,
she
abandons
herself
willingly
to
deaths
and
to
the
coming
and
going
of
her
Beloved,
giving
Him
full
liberty
to
go
and
come
as
He
will.
She
receives
instruction
as
she
is
able
to
bear
it.
Little
by
little
she
loses
her
joy
in
herself,
and
is
thus
pre-pared
for
a
new
condition.
But
before
speaking
of
it,
let
me
say,
that
in
proportion
as
the
soul
advances,
its
joys
become
short,
simple,
and
pure,
and
its
privations
long
and
agonising,
until
it
has
lost
its
own
joy,
to
find
it
no
more
:
and
this
is
the
third
degree^
that
of
deaths
burial^
and
decay.
This
second
degree
ends
in
death,
and
goes
nO
further.
