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Interior Castle
Written by: Teresa
of Avila
Edited by Beverlee
Chadwick
ISBN: 978-088270-464-7
Style: Softcover, tpb
Pages: 344
Price: $15.99
Contains CD of selected
excerpts.
Teresa of Avila wrote several
books during her life that have
become spiritual classics.
Interior Castle (1577) unveils a
profound spiritual vision in
which Teresa saw the soul as "a
castle made of a single diamond
. . . surrounded by six mansions
the soul must traverse on its
journey to the center of the
castle and union with God." One
approached the seventh mansion
in the center, where the King of
Glory dwells, by going through
the other mansions of Humility,
Practice of Prayer, Meditation,
Quiet, Illumination, and Dark
Night. In each of the seven
mansions readers will experience
a deepening desire to know God
more intimately by conforming
their wills to His will.
St. Teresa of Ávila
(1515 - 1582), a major figure of
the Roman Catholic Reformation,
was a prominent writer and a
monastic reformer. She joined
the Carmelite order of nuns as a
young woman and spent long hours
in a form of meditation that she
called the "prayer of quiet" and
the deeper "prayer of union."
She wrote several books that
have become spiritual classics.
Her best-known work is Interior
Castle. She is one of the
thirty-three Doctors of the
Roman Catholic Church, and one
of only three female Doctors,
along with St. Catherine of
Siena and St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
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