When our Lord's bride has come further and ascends higher into greater piety, she feels another mode of love in a closer understanding and a higher knowledge. She feels that love has overcome all her opponents within her and has made good her defects. Love has mastered her knowing and allowed her to receive the free disposal over herself without opposition so that she holds her heart in safety, she experiences it in rest and she does what is to be done in freedom.
Beatrice of Nazareth
