profoundly possessed by Him, so richly adorned with gifts and graces, she is near unto bliss, and that a slender veil only separates her from it. Seeing, too, that the sweet flame of love burning within her, each time it envelopes her, makes her as it were glorious with its foretaste of glory, so much so that whenever it absorbs and surrounds her, it seems to be admitting her to everlasting life, and to rend the veil of her mortality, she addresses herself, in her great desire, to this flame, which