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Second Annotation.

The second is that the person who gives to another the way and order in which to meditate or contemplate, ought to relate faithfully the events of such Contemplation or Meditation, going over the Points with only a short or summary development.

For, if the person who is making the Contemplation, takes the true groundwork of the narrative, and, discussing and considering for himself, finds something which makes the events a little clearer or brings them a little more home to him —

 whether this comes through his own reasoning, or because his intellect is enlightened by the Divine power —

 he will get more spiritual relish and fruit, than if he who is giving the Exercises had much explained and amplified the meaning of the events

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For it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.