“Already, however, in a rudimentary form appeared contrary tendencies [strictly speaking they were not contrary, but related, tendencies].  Beneath the mystic passion which concealed it sexual desire was sometimes felt.  At sixteen she experienced emotions which she could not master, when thinking of a priest who, she said, loved her.  In spite of all remorse she would have been willing to have relations with him.  Notwithstanding these passing weaknesses, the idea of purity always possessed her.  The nuns, however, were concerned about her exaltation.  She was sent away from the convent, became discouraged, and took a place as a servant, but her fervor continued.  Her confessor inspired her with great affection; she sends him tender letters.  She would be willing to have relations with him, even though she considers the desire a temptation of the devil.  The ground was now prepared for the manifestation of hallucinations.  ’One evening in May’, she writes, ’after being absorbed in thoughts of my confessor, and feeling discouraged, as I thought that Jesus, whom I loved so much, would have nothing to do with me, “Mother,” I cried out, “what must I do to win your son?” My eyes were fixed on the sky, and I remained in a state of mad expectation.  It was absurd.  I to become the mother of the World!  My heart went on repeating:  “Yes, he is coming; Jesus is coming!"’ The psychic erethism, reverberating on the sensorial and sensory centres, led to genital, auditory, and visual hallucinations, which produced the sensation of sexual connection.  ’For the first time I went to bed and was not alone.  As soon as I felt that touch, I heard the words:  “Fear not, it is I.”  I was lost in Him whom I loved.  For many days I was cradled in a world of pleasure; I saw Him everywhere, overwhelming me with His chaste caresses.’  On the following day at mass she seemed to see Calvary before her.  ’Jesus was naked and surrounded by a thousand voluptuous imaginations; His arms were loosened from the cross, and he said to me:  “Come!” I longed to fly to Him with my body, but could not make up my mind to show myself naked.  However, I was carried away by a force I could not control, I threw myself on my Saviour’s neck, and felt that all was over between the world and me.’  From that day, ‘by sheer reasoning,’ she has understood everything.  Previously she thought that the religious life was a renunciation of the joys of marriage and enjoyment generally; now she understands its object.  Jesus Christ desires that she should have relations with a priest; he is himself incarnated in priests; just as St. Joseph was the guardian of the Virgin, so are priests the guardians of nuns.  She has been impregnated by Jesus, and this imaginary pregnancy pre-occupies her in the highest degree.  From this time she masturbated daily.  She cannot even go to communion without experiencing voluptuous sensations.  Her delusions having thus become systematized, nothing shakes her tenacity in