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Saint Teresa of Jesus
" I began to think of the soul as a castle made of a single diamond [...] in which there are many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions."
In The Interior Castle St. Teresa describes the road by which she was led, well aware that the others may be led in a different way.
In the heavenly Father's house, where are many mansions; not only seven, and many paths lead to them. What gives the work such high value is, that it is the result of a most searching inquiry into the various phases whereby a soul is gradually transformed into the likeness of God Himself. Here St. Teresa is at her best.
She takes nothing for granted, her own personal experiences are admitted only after having been fully investigated and found to be consistent one with the other, and conformable to the teaching of the Church and the words of Holy Scripture.
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