I also understood...
that the words that the Lord says to His beloved souls—“I will espouse [huwen] you in the Faith”—mean nothing less but that the Lord, in this mystical marriage, comes to endow [begiftigen] the souls with His own virtues.
It seems to me that it happens as to two spouses:
they join their properties together, the belongings of one can no longer be distinguished from those of the other, but both of them become their owners.
However, in our case, the soul is poor.
All the good comes from the Lord, who lets her share in His possessions.
The life of the soul is God—Faith is God, and the soul, by possessing Faith, comes to graft [enten] all the other virtues into herself, in such a way that Faith is like a king in her heart, and the other virtues remain around It, as the subjects that serve Faith.
So, without Faith...
virtues themselves are virtues that have no life.
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