Interior Castle (Thrift Editions)

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They include a desire to praise God, to do penance and suffer for Him, to have solitude, and for all souls to know God. The mind is purified by sedulous meditation on the last end and on the Life and Passion of Christ, which must ever be the great model of the Christian.

The Interior Castle: Saint Teresa’s Diamond | Carmelite The Interior Castle: Saint Teresa’s Diamond | Carmelite

Benedict Zimmerman for having kindly revised the translation of the 'Interior Castle' and also for the Introduction, Notes, and Index which he has added to the book.

Comprehensive indexes of key themes and figures, castle imagery, and biblical references make this volume an indispensable reference resource. Just as the diamond received its final touches so the soul also in these last two mansions, where the Holy Spirit penetrates more deeply, allows self-knowledge to become fully manifested. It contained the basis for what she felt should be the ideal journey of faith, comparing the contemplative soul to a castle with seven successive interior courts, or chambers, analogous to the seven heavens. This first portion of the way to heaven can be covered by the help of the ordinary means of grace, without any direct and extraordinary intervention of divine power. Paul, particularly where he says "the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come that shall be revealed in us," 17 Laying stress on these words, "shall be revealed in us," she was so overjoyed that I was quite astonished.

The Interior Castle | work by Saint Teresa of Avila | Britannica

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Her humility and claims that, “I am not meant for writing; I have neither the health nor the wits for it,” almost prevented Teresa from composing The Interior Castle. This holy Mother desired to see the beauty of a soul in the state of grace, a thing greatly to be coveted both for the sake of seeing and of possessing it. Teresa was the daughter of a Toledo merchant and his second wife, who died when Teresa was 15, one of ten children.