Interior Castle

by Mirabai Starr (Author), Mirabai Starr (Author), St Teresa of Avila (Author)

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  1988

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  This spiritual autobiography was originally intended as a series of addresses to the nuns of the Order of the Discalced Carmelites, the order which St Teresa founded. The book contains advice and direction on themes ranging from self-knowledge and humility to detachment and suffering. St Teresa compares the human soul to a castle, equipped with many mansions. The key to entering this castle is prayer. Following St Teresa's spiritual pilgrimage, the reader enters the first mansion of humility and then the succeeding manions of practising prayer, meditation, the prayer of quiet, the prayer of union with God, before entering the central mansion where God resides and where the most special spiritual blessings are to be received.

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  2003

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  Overcome one day by a mystical vision of a cyrstal castle with six chambers, each representing a different stage in spiritual development, 16th century Saint Teresa of Avila immediately sat down and wrote The Interior Castle . It guides the spiritual seeker through each stage of development until the soul's final union with the divine. Mirabai Starr's new translation places The Interior Castle in its contemporary context, reasserting its spiritual and literary importance almost 500 years after it was first published and also using language that the non-religous reader can understand.