Interior Castle, The St Teresa

Interior Castle, The by Teresa de Jesus (Avila), Santa

El Castillo Interior or Las Moradas (trans.:The Interior Castle or The Mansions) was written by Saint Teresa of Ávila in 1577. After being ordered to write her autobiographical La Vida de la Santa Madre Teresa de Jesús (The Life of S. Teresa of Jesus), Teresa was hesitant to begin writing again on her views of the perfection found in internal prayer. In the hands of the Inquisition at that time, her Life was commonly believed to be the weight in the scale of whether to call her experiences heretical or not. Her humility and claims that, “I am not meant for writing; I have neither the health nor the wits for it,” almost prevented Teresa from composing The Interior Castle. However, according to a letter written by Fray Diego, one of Teresa’s former confessors, Teresa was finally convinced to write her book after a she received a vision from God. Diego wrote that God revealed to Teresa,

"...a most beautiful crystal globe, made in the shape of a castle, and containing seven mansions, in the seventh and innermost of which was the King of Glory, in the greatest splendour, illumining and beautifying them all. The nearer one got to the centre, the stronger was the light; outside the palace limits everything was foul, dark and infested with toads, vipers and other venomous creatures."

Total running time: 7:10:21 Read by Ann Boulais

You can listen to the recording for free at http://librivox.org/the-interior-castle-by-st-teresa-of-avila

Chapters:

• 01 Preface, part1
  
• 02 The Preface, part 2
  
• 03 The First Mansion, Chapter 1
  
• 04 The First Mansion, Chapter 2
  
• 05 The Second Mansion, Chapter 1
  
• 06 The Third Mansion, Chapter 1
  
• 07 The Third Mansion, Chapter 2
  
• 08 The Fourth Mansion, Chapter 1
  
• 09 The Fourth Mansion, Chapter 2
  
• 10 The Fourth Mansion, Chapter 3
  
• 11 The Fifth Mansion, Chapter 1
  
• 12 The Fifth Mansion, Chapter 2
  
• 13 The Fifth Mansion, Chapter 3
  
• 14 The Fifth Mansion, Chapter 4
  
• 15 The Sixth Mansion, Chapter 1
  
• 16 The Sixth Mansion, Chapter 2
  
• 17 The Sixth Mansion, Chapter 3
  
• 18 The Sixth Mansion, Chapter 4
  
• 19 The Sixth Mansion, Chapter 5
  
• 20 The Sixth Mansion, Chapter 6
  
• 21 The Sixth Mansion, Chapter 7
  
• 22 The Sixth Mansion, Chapter 8
  
• 23 The Sixth Mansion, Chapter 9
  
• 24 The Sixth Mansion, Chapter 10
  
• 25 The Sixth Mansion, Chapter 11
  
• 26 The Seventh Mansion, Chapter 1
  
• 27 The Seventh Mansion, Chapter 2
  
• 28 The Seventh Mansion, Chapter 3
  
• 29 The Seventh Mansion, Chapter 4
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