Symbolic image of a faceted crystal castle suspended in a vast cosmic blue space, faint warm golden light glowing from its innermost chamber outward through translucent walls, contemplative composition, painterly atmospheric style

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The Interior Castle

Teresa of Avila's map of the soul as seven mansions of a crystal castle

Translator: Benedictines of Stanbrook (rev. Father Benedict Zimmerman) (Zimmerman 1859–1937), 1921.

Licence: Public Domain. The Benedictines of Stanbrook revision of the Interior Castle, edited and revised by Father Benedict Zimmerman, third edition (London: Thomas Baker, 1921). Strict public domain. Lightly modernised by Soul Spirit Self.

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Teresa of Avila's mature masterpiece, written in five months at the age of sixty-two under direct order from her superiors. The Interior Castle maps the soul as a crystal castle of seven mansions, with God dwelling in the innermost room and the contemplative path as the slow journey inward.