it is not clear in reference to itself, but to those it speaks with; for
64. The soul then shares in the indescribable communion of the Trinity, where the Father of spirits imparts his spiritual creativity, and makes it one spirit with Himself. Here it communes with other souls, if they are sufficiently pure to receive its communications in silence, according to their stage and state; here indescribable secrets are revealed, not by a momentary illumination, but in God himself, where they are all hid, the soul not possessing them for itself, nor being ignorant of them. 65. Although I have said that the soul then has something clear, yet it is not clear in reference to itself, but to those it speaks with; for what it says is said naturally and without forethought, but seems extraordinary to the hearers, who, not finding the thing in themselves, though it may be there, consider it clear and wonderful, or perhaps fanatical. Souls that are still dwelling among the gifts have clear and momentary light, but these have only a general light, without defined beams, which is God himself; whence they draw whatever they need, which is clear whenever it is needed by those they speak with, and without any of it remaining with them afterwards.
CHAPTER 3. THE TRANSFORMATION. 66. There are a thousand things that might be said about the inward and celestial life of the soul thus full of life in God, which He dearly cherishes for Himself, and which He covers externally with humiliation, because He is a jealous God. But it would need a book. God is the life and soul of this soul, which thus continually lives in God as a fish in the sea in inexpressible happiness, though loaded with the sufferings which God lays on it for others. 67. It has become so simple, especially when its transformation is far advanced, that it goes its way without a thought for any creature or for itself. It has but one object, to do the will of God. But as it has to do with many people who cannot attain this state, some of them cause it suffering by urging it to have a care for self, to take precautions, and so on, which it cannot do; and others by their lack of obedience to the Will of God. 68. The crosses of such souls are the most severe, and God keeps them under the most abject humiliations and a feeble exterior, though they are his delight. Then Jesus Christ gives Himself in all his states, and the soul is clothed with both his inclinations and sufferings. It understands what man has cost Him, what his