Teresa describes how, upon entering the castle through prayer and meditation, the human spirit experiences humility, detachment, suffering, and, ultimately, self-knowledge, as it roams from room to room. In her most important and widely read book, St.
Teresa’s vision was of a luminous crystal castle composed of seven chambers, or “mansions,” each representing a different stage in the development of the soul. Teresa of Avila, one of the most gifted and beloved religious figures in history. Teresa of AvilaĪ masterpiece of spiritual literature, this sixteenth-century work was inspired by a mystical vision that came upon the revered St. While I was beseeching Our Lord today…I began to think of the soul as if it were a castle made of a single diamond or of very clear crystal, in which there are many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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