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SECTION IX.—Divine Love, the Principle of All Good.  To those
who follow this path, divine love is all-sufficing.  While
despoiling of all things those souls who give themselves
entirely to Him, God gives them something in place of them.
Instead of light, wisdom, life, and strength, He gives them His
love. The divine love in these souls is like a supernatural
instinct. In nature, each thing contains that which is suitable
to its kind. Each flower has its special beauty, each animal its
instinct, and each creature its perfection. Also in the
different states of grace, each has a special grace. This is the
recompense for everyone who accepts with goodwill the state in
which he is placed by Providence. A soul comes under the divine
action from the moment that a habit of goodwill is formed within
it, and this action influences it more or less according to its
degree of abandonment. The whole art of abandonment is simply
that of loving, and the divine a