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Final thoughts on Teresa’s fifth mansions

Today we finish the discussion of the fifth mansions in Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle. The soul is passive in the prayer of union, but she must not be passive in her spiritual life if she would maintain her closeness to God. Teresa has been using the analogy of a silkworm to describe the …

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Your soul is a castle

Teresa of Avila wrote Interior Castle in obedience to her superiors in 1577. She had written extensively about prayer and her experience of it in her autobiography (Life) several years before, but that book was now in the hands of the Inquisition. She had no desire to write another book. She was busy with the …

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