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Trying Too Hard

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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Posted in 7th Mansions - Chapter 3

The End of Deception (Intellectual Visions: Part 4)

Teresa of Avila: Interior Castle: Sixth Mansion: Chapter Eight: Intellectual Visions God communicates to us. Sometimes this comes in the form of “appearances and visions”. In this chapter Teresa is talking about a specific kind of vision called an Intellectual Vision.

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Posted in 6th Mansions - Chapter 8

Surrender

That soul has now delivered itself into His hands and His great love has so completely subdued it that it neither knows nor desires anything save that God shall do with it what He wills. Never, I think, will God

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Posted in 5th Mansions - Chapter 2