Oh, human blindness! How long, how long shall it be before this dust is removed from our eyes? For although, as far as we ourselves are concerned, it seems not to be bad enough to blind us altogether, I can…
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Dust in the Eyes
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Posted in 6th Mansions - Chapter 4
Posted in 6th Mansions - Chapter 4
Seeing the Whole
Intellectual Visions Teresa of Avila: Sixth Mansions: Chapter Four In Teresa’s time, a private apartment of a palace could have “an infinite variety of glassware, and earthenware, and all kinds of things, set out in such a way that you could…
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Posted in 6th Mansions - Chapter 4
Intellectual and Imaginative Visions
Interior Castle: Sixth Mansions: Chapter Four We’re discussing the “raptures of the soul”. Teresa says, these raptures “carry the soul out of its senses”. And even though we’re carried out of our senses, “the soul has never before been so…
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Posted in 6th Mansions - Chapter 4
Posted in 6th Mansions - Chapter 4
Spiritual Progress
Let the conclusion of the whole matter be this. We must strive all the time to advance, and, if we are not advancing, we must cherish serious misgivings, as the devil is undoubtedly anxious to exercise his wiles upon us.…
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Posted in 5th Mansions - Chapter 4, Spiritual Warfare
Posted in 5th Mansions - Chapter 4, Spiritual Warfare
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