CHAPTER IV.

THE FIRST MOVEMENTS OF THESE SOULS ARE DIVINE — ^THEIR SUFFERINGS ARE NOT BY REFLECTION, BUT BY IMPRES-SION — GREATNESS OF THESE SUFFERINGS, WHICH, HOWEVER, DO NOT VARY THEIR REST OR CONTENT-MENT BECAUSE OF THEIR DEIFICATION, WHICH PRO-GRESSES INFINITELY, BUT GRADUALLY — ^THEIR PEACE DISTURBED NEITHER BY GOOD NOR EVIL, AS GOD IS NEITHER TROUBLED NOR DISTURBED BY THE SIGHT OF man's sin, ALL THINGS CONTRIBUTING TO HIS GLORY.

nPHE soul has now nothing to do but to remain as it is, and to follow without resistance all the movements of its Guide. All its movements are of God, and He guides it infallibly. It is not thus in the inferior conditions, unless it be when the soul begins, to taste of the centre j but then it is not so in-fallible, and they would be deceived who applied this rule to any but the most advanced state.

It is the duty of this soul to follow blindly with reflection all the movings of God. Here all reflec-