visión, en el recuerdo de aquella experiencia suprema y en la convicción, obtenida de la lectura y la reflexión, de que algo semejante le ha sobrevenido a todos los que han hallado a Dios. Soy consciente de que con razón se la puede calificar de mística. No estoy lo suficientemente familiarizado con la filosofía como para defenderla de ese o de cualquier otro cargo. Siento que al escribir sobre ella la he recubierto de palabras en vez de presentarla con claridad a su pensamiento. Pero, tal como es, la he descrito tan cuidadosamente como ahora me
Aquí hay otro documento, de carácter aún más definitivo, el cual, siendo su autor suizo, lo traduzco del original en francés.
“I was in perfect health: we were on our sixth day of tramping, and in good training. We had come the day before from Sixt to Trient by Buet. I felt neither fatigue, hunger, nor thirst, and my state of mind was equally healthy. I had had at Forlaz good news from home; I was subject to no anxiety, either near or remote, for we had a good guide, and there was not a shadow of uncertainty about the road we should follow. I can best describe the condition in which I was by calling it a state of equilibrium. > > When all at once I experienced a feeling of being raised above myself, I felt the presence of God—I tell of the thing just as I was conscious of it—as if his goodness and his power were penetrating me altogether. The throb of emotion was so violent that I could barely tell the boys to pass on and not wait for me. I then sat down on a stone, unable to stand any longer, and my eyes