Teresa of Avila: Interior Castle: Seventh Mansions: Book Three The house was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron was heard in the temple while it was being built.…
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The Flight of the Spirit (Part One)
Sixth Mansions Chapter Five In Chapter Four of the Sixth Mansions we learned about “raptures of the soul”. Teresa says these raptures “carry the soul out of its senses”. She also refers to these raptures as ecstasies or trances. In chapter five Teresa…
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The Enlargement of the Heart: A Story
I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and my companions. (Acts 26) The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. (Isaiah 6) Their…
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Spiritual Sweetness and Spiritual Consolations
To put it briefly, worldly joys (spiritual sweetness) have their source in our own nature and end in God, whereas spiritual consolations have their source in God, but we experience them in a natural way . . . . (Teresa…
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