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The Interior Castle, or The Mansions

St. Teresa of Ávila

St. Teresa's masterpiece (1577): the soul as a crystal castle of seven mansions, travelled by prayer from self-knowledge to the spiritual marriage. Spanish critical text of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa with his notes; English translation by the Benedictines of Stanbrook, revised by Benedict Zimmerman.

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Source: Spanish critical text from the autograph, with Silverio's notes kept as footnotes. OCR of two independent scans merged word by word, then proofread against both. · https://archive.org/details/obrasdestateresa04tere · English translation with Zimmerman's notes and paragraph summaries; Zimmerman's introduction and the index are not included.