Region, and sacred Temple of the Soul, that greatest Good takes its complacency, manifests it self, and creates a relish from the creature, in a way above sense and all humane understand∣ing: There also onely the pure Spirit, who is God, (the purity of the Soul being uncapable of sensible things) rules it, and gets the mastership of it, communicating to it its illustrations, and those sentiments which are necessary for the most pure and perfect Union.
130. The Soul coming to it self again from these sweet and divine Embracings, becomes rich in light, and love, and a mighty esteem of the divine Greatness, and the knowledge of its own misery, finding it self all changed divinely, and disposed to embrace, to suffer, and to pra∣ctice perfect Vertue.
131. A simple, pure, infused, and perfect Contemplation, therefore is a known and in∣ward manifestation which God gives of him∣self, of his goodness, of his peace, of his sweet∣ness, whose object is God, pure, unspeakable, abstracted from all particular thoughts, within an inward silence: but it is God delightful, God that draws us, God that sweetly raises us in a spiritual and most pure manner; an admi∣rable gift, which the Divine Majesty bestows to whom he will, as he will, and when he will, and for what time he will, though the state of this life be rather a state of the cross, of patience, of humility, and of suffering, than of enjoy∣ing.
132. Never wilt thou enjoy this Divine Ne∣ctar,