And these words she expoundeth more expressly, and saith thus:

"Such a soul seeth herself, that she is very nought of herself, and
knoweth perfectly that all the goodness, with all the mights of the
soul, is her Maker's. She forsaketh utterly herself and all
creatures, and hideth herself fully in her Maker, our Lord Jesu; in
so much that she sendeth fully and principally all her ghostly and
bodily workings in to Him; in whom she perceiveth that she may find
all goodness, and all perfection of blessedness. And, therefore, she
shall have no will to go out from such inward knowledge of Him for
nothing.[120] And of this unity of love, that is increased every day
in such a soul, she is transformed in a manner in to our Lord, that
she may neither think, nor understand, nor love, nor have no mind
but God, or else in God. For she may not see herself, nor none other
creature, but only in God; nor she may not love herself, nor none
other, but only in God; nor she may have no mind of herself nor of
none other, but only in God, nor she may have no mind but only of
her Maker. And therefore," she said, "we shall have none other
business but only to think how we may please Him, unto whom we have
committed all our governance both in body and soul."

The third doctrine of our Lord is this; in obtaining of virtue and
ghostly strength:

"Daughter, if thou wilt get unto thee virtue and also ghostly
strength,[121] thou must follow Me. Albeit that I might by My godly
virtue have overcome all the power of the fiends by many manner ways
of overcoming, yet, for to give you ensample by My manhood, I would
not overcome him but only by taking of death upon the Cross, that ye
might be taught thereby, if ye will overcome your ghostly enemies,