these documents, as well as some others, are of a later date than the first version of the Way of Perfection, but the expression may have been used before it was committed to writing. It will be noticed in various passages of the book, especially the second half of it, that some of the nuns seem to have been somewhat alarmed by that title, thinking perhaps that only those who possessed the supernatural gift of contemplation were called to the life led at St. Joseph’s convent. St. Teresa wished to