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The Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 15 — Chapter IX · PSYCHO-PHYSICAL AND TEMPERAMENTAL QUESTIONS

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Hyper-aesthesia and sensation of heat: Vita, pp. 142a, 153a. Increase of movement: ibid., and pp. 145b, 143a, 153c, 141a. Loss of speech and sight: pp. 141b, 141c, 159c. Localization of heat: p. 157b. Haemorrhages: 138c, 159c, 160a. Concavities and jaundice: pp. 144a, 153a. Spasms: pp. 143c, 71c, 141c, 142b. Cf. St. Teresa, loc. cit. p. 30: “As to touching me, that was impossible, for I was so bruised that I could not endure it. They used to move me in a sheet, one holding one end, and another the other.” P. 31: “I began to crawl on my hands and feet.” P. 263: “I felt myself on fire: this inward fire and despair.…” P. 17: “The fainting fits began to be more frequent; and my heart was so seriously affected, that those who saw it were alarmed.” P. 27: “It seemed to me as if my heart had been seized by sharp teeth.” P. 235: “I saw, in the Angel’s hand, a long spear of gold, and at the iron’s point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails.… The pain is not bodily, but spiritual.”

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