In the prayer of union the soul’s faculties are wholly absorbed in God for a short time, and afterwards it cannot doubt that it was in God and God in it. Teresa illustrated it with the silkworm that dies in its cocoon and emerges as a butterfly, and insisted that the union of wills, shown in love of neighbour, is what matters.
Prayer of union
A brief, infused union in which all the faculties are suspended in God, in Teresa’s fifth dwellings.