THE INTERIOR CASTLE OR THE MANSIONS By St. Teresa of Avila The Fifth Mansions Chapter 4:   For the pdf containing the complete text and footnotes click here 1. The spiritual espousals. 2. The prayer of union resembles a betrothal. 3. Before the spiritual nuptials temptations are dangerous. 4. The great good done by souls faithful to these graces. 5. Religious subject to the devil’s deceptions. 6. Satan’s strata-gems. 7. Why they are permitted. 8. Prayer and watchfulness our safeguards....

THE INTERIOR CASTLE OR THE MANSIONS By St. Teresa of Avila The Sixth Mansions Chapter 1:   For the pdf containing the complete text and footnotes click here For other audio chapters of “The Interior Castles” 1. Love kindled by divine favours. 2. Our Lord excites the soul’s longings. 3. Courage needed toreach the last mansions. 4. Trials accompanying divine favours. 5. Outcry raised against souls striving for perfection. 6. St. Teresa’s personal experience of this. 7. Praise...

THE INTERIOR CASTLEOR THE MANSIONS By St. Teresa of Avila The Sixth Mansions Chapter 2:   For the pdf containing the complete text and footnotes click here For other audio chapters of “The Interior Castles” 1. Our Lord excites the love of His spouse. 2. The wound of love. 3. The pain it causes. 4. The call of the Bridegroom. 5. Effect on the soul. 6. A spark of the fire of love. 7. The spark dies out. 8. This grace evidently divine. 9. One such wound repays many trials. 10. First...

THE INTERIOR CASTLEOR THE MANSIONS By St. Teresa of Avila The Sixth Mansions Chapter 3:   For the pdf containing the complete text and footnotes click here For other audio chapters of “The Interior Castles” 1. Locutions. 2. Sometimes caused by melancholia. 3. Caution needed at first. 4. Locutions frequently occur during prayer. 5. Resist those containing false doctrine. 6. First sign of genuine locutions.  7. Effect of the words: ‘Be not troubled.’ 8. ‘It is I, be not afraid.’ 9. ‘Be...

THE INTERIOR CASTLE OR THE MANSIONS By St. Teresa of Avila The Sixth Mansions Chapter 4: For the pdf containing the complete text and footnotes click here 1. Courage required by the soul for the divine espousals. 2. Raptures. 3. Rapture caused by the spark of love. 4. The powers and senses absorbed. 5. Mysteries revealed during ecstasies. 6. These mysteries are unspeakable. 7. Moses and the burning bush. 8. Simile of the museum. 9. St. Teresa’s visit to the Duchess of Alva. 10. Joy of...

THE INTERIOR CASTLE OR THE MANSIONS By St. Teresa of Avila The Sixth Mansions Chapter 5: For the pdf containing the complete text and footnotes click here 1. The flight of the spirit. 2. Self-control completely lost. 3. Symbol of the two cisterns. 4. Obligations following the se favours. 5. Humility produced by them. 6. How our crucified Lord comforted such a soul. 7. A humble soul fears these favours. 8. Mysteries learnt during the flight of the spirit. 9. Imaginary visions sometimes...

THE INTERIOR CASTLE OR THE MANSIONS By St. Teresa of Avila The Sixth Mansions Chapter 6: For the pdf containing the complete text and footnotes click here 1. The soul longs for death. 2. The soul cannot help desiring these favours. 3. St. Teresa bewails her inability to serve God. 3. Fervour resulting from ecstasies. 5. Excessive desires to see God should be restrained. 6. They endanger health. 7. Tears often come from Physical causes. 8. St. Teresa’s own experience. 9. Works, not...

THE INTERIOR CASTLE OR THE MANSIONS By St. Teresa of Avila The Sixth Mansions Chapter 7: For the pdf containing the complete text and footnotes click here 1. Sorrow for sin felt by souls in the Sixth Mansion. 2. How this sorrow is felt. 3. St. Teresa’s grief for her past sins. 4. Such souls, centred in God, forget self-interest. 5. The remembrance of divine benefits increases contrition. 6. Meditation on our Lord’s Humanity. 7. Warning against discontinuing it. 8. Christ and the...

THE INTERIOR CASTLE OR THE MANSIONS By St. Teresa of Avila The Sixth Mansions Chapter 8: For the pdf containing the complete text and footnotes click here 1. Our Lord’s presence accompanying the soul. 2. St. Teresa’s experience of this. 3. Confidence and graces resulting from this vision. 4. Its effects . 5. It Produces humility. 6. And prepares the soul for other graces. 7. Consciousness of the presence of the saints. 8. Obligations resulting from this grace. 9. Signs that this...

1. The jewel in the locket. 2. The simile explained. 3. The apparition explained. 4. Awe produced by this vision. 5. False and genuine visions. 6. Illusive visions. 7. Effects of a genuine vision. 8. Conviction left by a genuine vision. 9. Its effects upon the after conduct. 10. A confessor should be consulted. 11. How to treat visions. 12. Effects of seeing the face of Christ. 13. Reasons why visions are not to be sought. 14. The second reason. 15. Third reason. 16. Fourth reason. 17. Fifth...

1. Reasons for speaking of these supernatural favours. 2. An intellectual vision. 3. God compared to a palace in which His creatures dwell. 4. Forgive as we are forgiven. 5. The vision shows God to be Truth itself. 6. We should imitate God by truthfulness. 7. Why God reveals these truths.

THE INTERIOR CASTLE OR THE MANSIONS By St. Teresa of Avila The Sixth Mansions Chapter 11: For the pdf containing the complete text and footnotes click here 1. Favours increase the soul’s desire for God. 2. The dart of love. 3. Spiritual sufferings produced. 4. Its physical effects. S. Torture of the desire for God. 6. These sufferings are a purgatory. 7. The torments of hell. 8. St. Teresa’s painful desire after God. 9. This suffering irresistible. 10. Effects of the dart of love. 11....