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 Interior
Castle
Written by: Teresa of Avila 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. |
