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45. Song of Solomon 1:4.

46. Testimonies , 65 (Spanish 6): 9, CW 1:438: “This surrender to the will of God is so powerful that the soul wants neither death nor life, unless for a short time when it longs to die to see God.”

47. Ibid.: “And if through my intercession I could play a part in getting a soul to love and praise God more, even if it be just for a short time, I think that would matter to me more than being in glory.”

48. Song of Sol. 1:3; 1:2.

49. Medit ., Prologue, CW 2:215.

50. John of the Cross, Ascent of Mount Carmel , book 2, chapter 12, 103–4.

51. Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: A Selection , trans. and ed. M. A. Screech (London: Penguin, 2004), book 2:1, 131.

52. James Joyce, Ulysses (London: Penguin, 2000), 933.

53. Critique , “On Father Fray John of the Cross’s Reply,” CW 3:361.

54. Letter 260, to Jerome Gratian, August 1578, CL 2:107.

55. VI D , 9:17, CW 2:4.

56. John of the Cross, Ascent of Mount Carmel , book 1, chapter 3, 21.

57. VII D , 4:9, CW 2:447.

58. Life , 38:17, CW 1:336.

59. Testimonies , 53:3, CW 1:416.

60. Marcel Proust, Jean Santeuil , trans. Gerard Hopkins (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956), 1:409.

61. Marcel Proust, “Time Regained,” in In Search of Lost Time , trans. and with an introduction and notes by Peter Collier, ed. Christopher Prendergast (London: Penguin, 2002), 141.

62. Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercises , 2: “Porque no el mucho saber harta y satisface al ánima, mas el sentir y gustar de las cosas internamente.” See also the final prayer of the person doing the retreat, called “Application of the Senses,” in Victoriano Larrañaga, Sainte Thérèse d’Avila, Saint Ignace de Loyola: Convergences (Paris: Pierre Téqui Éditeur, 1998), 121.

63. John of the Cross, Ascent of Mount Carmel , Book 2, chapters 28:2 and 31:1 (regarding the sensorial conversion of the word/call), 195, 205: “Substantial words are others which also come to the spirit formally…these cause in the substance of the soul that substance and virtue which they signify.…It is as if Our Lord were to say formally to the soul: ‘Be thou good’; it would then substantially be good.…Or as if it feared greatly and He said to it: ‘Fear thou not’; it would at once feel within itself great fortitude and tranquility.”

64. Ignatius Loyola, The Autobiography of Saint Ignatius , ed. J. F. X. O’Conor (New York: Benziger, 1900), 54: original Spanish “ en tres teclas ,” three clavecin keys. See also Larrañaga, Convergences , 56.

65. VI D , 1:1, CW 2:359.

66. John of the Cross, “Without a Place and With a Place,” in The Poems of John of the Cross , trans. and ed. Willis Barnstone (New York: Norton, new edition, 1972), 83.

67. John of the Cross, Ascent of Mount Carmel , Book 1, chapter 13:11, 59.

68. Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704), prelate, author, and preacher, Bishop of Meaux.

69. Extracts from Bossuet’s “Sermon on Death,” trans. Christopher O. Blum, available online: thomasmorecollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Bossuet-Sermon-on-Death.pdf, accessed February 2014; from Bossuet’s Œuvres Oratoires , ed. Abbé J. Lebarq, IV (Paris: Desclée, 1926), 262–81. The quotations from the “Panegyric of St. Teresa” (declaimed before Anne of Austria in Metz, October 15, 1657) are translated by LSF.

70. See also Julia Kristeva, “A pure silence: The perfection of Jeanne Guyon,” in Tales of Love , trans. Leon S. Roudiez (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987), 297–318.

71. G. W. Leibniz: 1646–1716.

72. Baruch Spinoza.

73. VII D , 2:6, CW 2:435.

74. Montaigne, Essays , book 2:1, 131.

75. I D , 2:7, CW 2:290.

76. VII D , 2:10, CW 2:437.

77. I D , 2:8, CW 2:291.

78. IV D , 2:1–4, CW 2:322–24.

79. Dante, The Divine Comedy , trans. Henry W. Longfellow, Paradiso , canto 1, 70–72 (London: Capella, 2006), 289.

80. VII D , 2:11, CW 2:437.

81. VII D , 2:7, CW 2:435.

82. VII D , 1:6, CW 2:430.

83. G. W. Leibniz, letter to Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, 1704 (my translation — LSF): “To me, infinities are not totalities…”; Leibniz and the Two Sophies: The Philosophical Correspondence , ed. and trans. Lloyd Strickland (Toronto: Iter/Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2011), 151: “My fundamental meditations…”; Philosophical Papers and Letters, A Selection , ed. and trans. Leroy E. Loemker, vol. 2, The Principles of Nature and of Grace, Based on Reason (1714; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956), 1035: “Each monad is a living mirror…”; Discourse on Metaphysics , trans. D. Garber and R. Ariew (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1991), 41: “Everything is taken account of…”; Leibnizens Mathematische Schriften , ed.C. I. Gerhardt (Halle 1855–1863), (my translation — LSF): “Imaginary numbers…”

84. Julia Kristeva, “L’engendrement de la formule,” in Semiotike (Paris: Seuil, 1969), 296–300: “L’infini-point obéit aux lois de transition et de continuité: rien n’équivaut à rien, et toute coïncidence cache en fait une distance infiniment petite. L’infini-point ne forme donc pas de structure, il pose des fonctions, des relations qui procèdent par approximation. Jamais comblée, une différence reste entre le nombre marqué ainsi π et l’ensemble des termes susceptibles de l’exprimer. L’unité est disloquée. Le nombre-signe, miroir unifiant, se brise, et la notation s’engage au-delà de lui. La différentielle qui en résulte, et qui équivaut à l’infiniment petit syncatégorique ( in fieri ) des nominalistes du XIV esiècle, n’est pas une unité qui s’ajouterait à d’autres pour faire un tout, mais le glissement même de l’infini dans l’énoncé clos.”

85. Leibniz, letter to Morell, December 10, 1696. Cf. M. Leroy, Discours de métaphysique et correspondance avec Arnaud de G. W. Leibniz , (Paris: Grua/Presses Universitaires de France, 1948), 103. See also Michel Serres, Le Système de Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968).

86. Alain Badiou, “La subversion infinitésimale,” in Cahiers pour l’analyse 9 (1968).

87. Benedict de Spinoza, The Ethics (Project Gutenberg), part V, proposition 35, translated from the Latin by R. H. M. Elwes, projectgutenberg.org/files/3800/3800-h/3800-h.htm, released February 1, 2003, accessed April 3, 2012.

88. Philippe Sollers, “Le temps de Dante,” in La Divine Comédie (Paris: Gallimard, 2002), 13.

89. Way , 28:10, CW 2:144.

90. IV D , 2:4, CW 2:324.

91. Way , 19:2, CW 2:107.

92. Life , 9:7, CW 1:103.

93. VI D , 2:6, CW 2:369.

94. VII D , 3:12, CW 2:442.

95. VII D , 1:9, CW 2:431.

96. IV D , 1:8, 11, CW 2:319–20, 321.

97. IV D , 1:8.

98. IV D , 1:9–13, CW 2:320–21.

99. Dante, The Divine Comedy (Paradiso) , canto 1, 7–9.

100. IV D , 1:10, CW 2:321.

101. Way , 16:1–4, CW 2:94–95. Cf. Obras completas de Santa Teresa de Avila , chap. 24, 557–58.