The importance of the memory in the Ascent of Mount Carmel come of its capacity to keep the pleasant or disagreeable experiences, allowing them that they are gone deep and if ramifies in the soul, with serious repercussions in the spiritual life. The memory searchs, in the archive of images and experiences, data that feeds the aggressiveness, covet it, the passion, magnificent and revenge; with the aggravating one of that it does not have duration limits, what it allows it to carry through this continuously its action. The soul, when it retain and it apprehends in preferential way the souvenir of passed a bitterness, finishes if not opening for the divine action that however manifest in it.Therefore, so that it participates directly of the divine communion, as the others spirituals powers, the memory must be emptied. The purification and the empty of the memory not to prescribe the forgetfulness of what it is known or remember, it only shows the necessity of it to be free of particular deliberation in a hope that the purify in order to leave it free to receive the divine communication.
soul; memory; union of love; John of the Cross; God