![]() Also, note that the seven mansions are more of a continuity (a gradual and imperceptible growth) rather than separate rooms. Note that this vision bears remarkable similarities to the final vision in the New Testament: chapter 21 of the book of Revelation (private and public revelation matchup). The closer we approach the centre, the greater the light. In the centre of crystal castle is the Sun, or the King, who gives all the splendour and beauty to the rest of the castle. Teresa’s Interior Castle came after she received a vision from Christ, picturing “the soul as if it were a castle made of a single diamond or of a very clear crystal, in which there are many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions” (1). “Interior Castle is a book on the maturing process we find both in prayer and in the rest of life, for the two cannot be separated” (81). “The saint’s Interior Castle is not only her most mature work it is also the all-time classic on the question of the development of prayer from its incipient beginnings to its mature fullness in the transforming union” ( Fire Within, 73). ![]() Teresa of Avila wrote Interior Castle under “the power of obedience” (xxiii) towards the end of her life, starting the book on June 2, 1577, and finishing it on November 29 of the same year. ![]() John of the Cross, and the Gospel-On Prayer. ![]()
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