# Which trait condemned in this passage do you also carry? Where does it show up?

_Theme: **shadow** - card 3/4 - 2026-05-07_

> God’s touches, the wounds of his spear, references to ebriety and to nuptial union have to figure in the phraseology by which it is shadowed forth. Intellect and senses both swoon away in these highest states of ecstasy. “If our understanding comprehends,” says Saint Teresa, “it is in a mode which remains unknown to it, and it can understand nothing of what it comprehends.

-- William James, _The Varieties of Religious Experience_

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