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Then this soul, yearning with very great desire, and
rising as one intoxicated both by the union which she
had had with God, and by what she had heard and
tasted of the Supreme and Sweet Truth, yearned with
grief over the ignorance of creatures, in that they
did not know their Benefactor, or the affection of
the love of God.
"And nevertheless she had joy from the hope of the
promise that the Truth of God had made to her,
teaching her the way she was to direct her will (and
the other servants of God as well as herself) in
order that He should do mercy to the world. And,
lifting up the eye of her intellect upon the sweet
Truth, to whom she remained united, wishing to know
somewhat of the aforesaid states of the soul of which
God had spoken to her, and seeing that the soul
passes through these states with tears, she wished to
learn from the Truth concerning the different kinds
of tears, and how they came to be, and whence they
proceeded, and the fruit that resulted from weeping.
"Wishing then to know this from the Sweet, Supreme
and First Truth, as to the manner of being and reason
of the aforesaid tears, and inasmuch as the truth
cannot be learnt from any other than from the Truth
Himself, and nothing can be learnt in the Truth but
what is seen by the eye of the intellect, she made
her request of the Truth. For it is necessary for him
who is lifted with desire to learn the Truth with the
light of faith.
Wherefore, knowing that she had not forgotten the
teaching which the Truth, that is, God, had given
her, that in no other way could she learn about the
different states and fruits of tears, she rose out of
herself, exceeding every limit of her nature with the
greatness of her desire. And, with the light of a
lively faith, she opened the eye of her intellect
upon the Eternal Truth, in whom she saw and knew the
Truth, in the matter of her request, for God Himself
manifested it to her, and condescending in His
benignity to her burning desire, fulfilled her
petition.
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