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infused into Her other kinds of images, which repre
sented exterior objects in a more exalted manner; where
as those which She acquired by the senses, remained in
the storehouse of the phantasy without being used by the
active understanding, which was instead furnished with
and illustrated by the supernatural species. These her
understanding made use of in its activity, while at the
same time those received and stored in the general
phantasy served Her for the feeling of pain and sensible
Thus in this temple of the most blessed Mary
the
afflictions.
was fulfilled what happened in its figure long before :
stones were shaped and wrought outside the temple,
whereas within, the strokes of the hammer or other
noise were not heard (III Reg. VI 7) likewise the
;
animals were killed and sacrificed upon the altar outside
the precincts of the sanctuary (Ex. 40, 27) and in it
;
were offered only the holocaust of the incense and spices
burned in the sacred fire.
543. Through the workings of this miracle in our
the stones of her virtues for her
great Queen and Lady
adornment were hewn and polished in the lower sensitive
faculties of her soul, \vhile in the forehall of the common
senses were offered up the hardships, sorrows and pains,
which She bore for the faithful in her labors for the
Church. But in the holy of holies of her intellect and her
will were offered up only the perfume of her contempla
tion and vision of the Divinity and the fire of her incom
parable love. For this purpose the species of the senses,
representing objects in a more earthly manner and with
the turmoil natural to them, were not appropriate. There
fore the divine power excluded them altogether and
replaced them with other images of the same objects,
infused, supernatural and purer, capable of nourishing
the abstractive contemplation of the Divinity and more
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