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• W347372096 abstract "In the Interior Castle, Teresa of Avila compares the soul to an exquisite diamond with facets.(1) She likens this diamond also to a having rooms or as Jesus tells that in heaven there are many (John 14:2).(2) Drawing on this image, Teresa teaches that in the soul likewise there are many mansions, wide-ranging and countless in number. These she divides into seven main areas, referring to some as outer and others as mansions.(3) She thus describes a complicated inner structure that is the soul.(4)In her work Teresa presents in detail the journey from the outside of this castle to its center. A careful analysis of Teresa's image of the leads to a crucial question. If the soul is the whole castle, what is it that travels from the first to the seventh mansions? The answer seems to be the will.(5) Speaking of a journey inward, Teresa describes a gradual transformation of the human will so that it comes to match the divine will. Human and divine wills remain distinct but the human will learns to surrender to the divine will and to reflect it perfectly. For this transformation to occur, the will must undergo multiple experiences, traveling through mansions until it arrives at the center of the castle. It has to learn much about itself, discerning its desires and attachments. It must come to see what knowledge it has acquired and what it is eager to understand. It has also to become aware of its range of emotions and feelings. It has to recognize its powers of memory and imagination.The image of the is an amazingly fruitful one. Explicitly Teresa speaks of a journey inward. Implicitly, however, one can see a different condition and journey that precedes what she describes. This condition and journey relate to where a will may be at the time Teresa addresses it and invites it to travel within. It relates also to how the will may have come to be where it is because who one is at any moment is determined by the focus of their will.This paper will explore this rich image of the in relation to the starting condition of the soul. It is not the purpose to present in detail a description of Teresa's inward journey.(6) Rather, it is to show how her image aids in understanding how such an inner journey becomes possible. This image of the castle, it may be argued, helps to discern what the human will is like and upon what it is focusing at the beginning of spiritual growth.Looking at this image of the castle, its key position is the center. It is here, as Teresa says, at the center of the soul, that His Majesty dwells.(7) As the will journeys to the center, it strives to encounter this divine resident and to become identified with the divine will. God is ever present at the center of the soul but the condition of the whole soul and the focus of the will can blind one to this divine presence. Parts of the journey to the discovery of this presence involve much darkness as the will becomes detached from all that it desires, cares for, and knows. John of the Cross describes these parts of the journey as nights through which the will must pass.(8) Once the will has traveled through this darkness, however, it becomes truly enlightened. The true light of God appears to be darkness because of human frailty and the weakness of intellectual and emotional faculties.(9)What can be discerned in Teresa's image of the with its is a picture of where the will may be at any particular moment and how it came to be there. In the first way of considering this image of the castle, the gaze is directed at the center. Before any spiritual journey begins, it may be said confidently, the center of the being is occupied not by God but by self. Human wills largely reflect this self. From early childhood the person is very much the center of his or her own world. Time and growth teach one slowly to look outward to others. Gradually too one learns to direct the attention and affections to a higher being seen as source, sustainer, redeemer, and ultimate destiny. …" @default.
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• W347372096 title "The Castle of Teresa of Avila: The Inward and Outward Journey" @default.
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