At last this dashing torrent feels that it has gainedthe foot of the mountain and another level spot.It resumes its former calm, and even a deeper one;and after having passed it may be years in thesechanges, it enters the third degree, before speakingof which I will touch upon the condition of thosewho enter it, and the first steps in it. The soulhaving passed some time in the tranquillity of whichwe have spoken, which it imagines it has securedfor ever, and having, as it supposes, acquired allthe virtues in their full extent, believing all itspassions to be dead; when it is expecting to enjoywith the greatest safety a happiness it has no fearof losing, is astonished to find that, instead of mountinghigher, or at least remaining in its present position,it comes to the slope of the mountain. Itbegins, to its amazement, to be sensible of an inclinationfor the things it had given up. It sees[p 144] its deep calm suddenly disturbed; distractionscome in crowds, one upon another; the soul findsonly stones in its path, dryness and aridity. Afeeling of distaste comes into prayer. Its passions,which it thought were dead, but which were onlyasleep, all revive.
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