unexpectedly
in
the
time
of
his
need.
The
soul
is
surprised
when,
without
having
reflected
on
the
mind
and
disposition
of
Christ,
it
finds
them
naturally
im-planted
within
it.
These
dispositions
of
Christ
are
lowliness,
meekness,
submission,
and
the
other
virtues
which
He
possessed.
The
soul
finds
that
all
these
are
acting
within
it,
but
so
easily,
that
they
seem
to
have
become
natural
to
it.
Its
treasury
is
in
God
alone,
where
it
can
draw
upon
it
ceaselessly
in
every
time
of
need,
without
in
any
degree
diminishing
it.
It
is
then
that
it
really
"puts
on
"
Jesus
Christ
(Rom.
xiii.
14)
;
and
it
is
henceforth
He
who
acts,
speaks,
moves
in
the
soul,
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
being
its
moving
principle.
Now
those
around
it
do
not
inconvenience
it;
the
heart
is
enlarged
to
contain
them.
It
desires
neither
activity
nor
retreat,
but
only
to
be
each
moment
what
God
makes
it
to
be.
As
in
this
condition
the
soul
is
capable
of
infinite
advancement,
I
leave
those
who
are
living
in
it
to
write
of
it,
the
light
not
being
given
me
for
the
higher
degrees,
and
my
soul
not
being
sufficiently
advanced
in
God
to
see
or
to
know
them.
AH
that
I
shall
add
is,
that
it
is
easy
to
see
by
the
length
of
