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Transcriber's Note: Corrections suggested in theCorrigenda, p. [viii] of the original text, have been made.Section number added for L 3.9, since both the translator'spreface and the index refer to it. Footnotes gathered at the endsof chapters. Typographical errors in two Scriptural quotationshave been corrected: In L 21 note 10, I have changed "Quæpræparavit Deus iis qui" to "Quæ præparavit Deus hisqui;" and in L 29 note 12, I have changed "As thelonging of the heart" to "As the longing ofthe hart."

The Life
of
St. Teresa of Jesus

Re-imprimatur.
+ Franciscus
Archiepiscopus Westmonast.

Die 27 Sept., 1904.

The Life
of
St. Teresa of Jesus,
of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel.

Written by Herself.

Translated from the Spanish by
David Lewis.

Third Edition Enlarged.

With additional Notes and an Introduction by
Rev. Fr. Benedict Zimmerman, O.C.D.

MCMIV.

Contents.

Chap.

Introduction to the Third Edition, byRev. B. Zimmerman

St. Teresa'sArguments of the Chapters

Preface by David Lewis

Annals of the Saint's Life

Prologue

I. Childhood and early Impressions--TheBlessing of pious Parents--Desire of Martyrdom--Death of the Saint'sMother

II. Early Impressions--Dangerous Books andCompanions--The Saint is placed in a Monastery

III. The Blessing of being with goodpeople--How certain Illusions were removed

IV. Our Lord helps her to become aNun--Her many Infirmities

V. Illness and Patience of the Saint--TheStory of a Priest whom she rescued from a Life of Sin

VI. The great Debt she owed to our Lordfor His Mercy to her--She takes St. Josephfor her Patron

VII. Lukewarmness--The Loss ofGrace--Inconvenience of Laxity in Religious Houses

VIII. The Saint ceases not to pray--Prayerthe way to recover what is lost--All exhorted to pray--The greatAdvantage of Prayer, even to those who may have ceased from it

IX. The means whereby our Lord quickenedher Soul, gave her Light in her Darkness, and made her strongin Goodness

X. The Graces she received inPrayer--What we can do ourselves--The great Importance ofunderstanding what our Lord is doing for us--She desires herConfessors to keep her Writings secret, because of the special Gracesof our Lord to her, which they had commanded her to describe

XI. Why men do not attain quickly to theperfect Love of God--Of Four Degrees of Prayer--Of the FirstDegree--The Doctrine profitable for Beginners, and for those who haveno sensible Sweetness

XII. What we can ourselves do--The Evilof desiring to attain to supernatural States before our Lordcalls us

XIII. Of certain Temptations ofSatan--Instructions relating thereto

XIV. The Second State of Prayer--Itssupernatural Character

XV. Instructions for those who haveattained to the Prayer of Quiet--Many advance so far, but fewgo farther

XVI. The Third State of Prayer--DeepMatters--What the Soul can do that has reached it--Effects of thegreat Graces of our Lord