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Title: Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila, E. Allison Peers ISBN: 0-385-03643-4 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 04 January, 1972 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautiful book on the journey of a soul
Comment: St.Theresa of Avila is one of my favorite authors. She has so much insight to offer us. This book compares the soul to a castle with different rooms, which she calls mansions. Each mansion is a different stage of the soul on it's journey toward God. St. Theresa talks about seven mansions. As the soul passes from one mansion to the next the soul progresses toward God more completely. Theresa explains in each stage what is lacking and what we can to do to reach the next stage. I feel this book offers many valuable insights to help us on our journey toward God.
Rating: 4
Summary: Contains Incredible Spiritual Insight
Comment: The Interior Castle (or The Mansions as it is known in Spain) compares the soul to a castle filled with many rooms. Each room is an aspect or stage of the soul, and one can progress into and out of each room. The more into the center of this castle one goes, the more his soul is conformed to the will and ways of God. It is the most interior chamber of this castle in which God dwells. The book describes the soul's way of making it to this chamber. St. Teresa focuses her work towards the nuns of her convent, and because of her personal relationship with them, the book is written in her typical conversational tone and humility. She only loosely adheres to the analogy of a castle. However, it contains several morsels of enlightened spiritual knowledge and insight. The principles that are expounded by Teresa testify to her intimacy with the Creator. She spends a great deal of time on mortification and prayer. Written in 1577, it still contains spiritual wisdom that can be applied today to both Catholics and Protestants.
Rating: 2
Summary: Caution! A Bowdlerized Interior Castle
Comment: I have no problem with the original Author of this book in the substance of her writing. But the translator, Mirabai Starr, does a great deal of bowdlerization throughout the book. She replaces the word "sin" with words such as "limitation" or "unconciousness", thereby changing the meaning of St. Teresa's prose.
If you want a more faithful translation, I suggest you do not look at this particular book.
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Title: Dark Night of the Soul : A Masterpiece in the Literature of Mysticism by St. John of the Cross by E. Allison Peers, St. John of the Cross ISBN: 0385029306 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 11 January, 1959 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Way of Perfection by TERESA OF AVILA ISBN: 0385065396 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 15 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself (Penguin Classics) by J.M. Cohen, Saint Teresa of Avila, St Teresa of Avila, Teresa of Avila ISBN: 0140440739 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1988 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius by Anthony Mottola ISBN: 0385024363 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 07 January, 1964 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Practice of the Presence of God: With Spiritual Maxims by Brother Lawrence, Brother Lawrence ISBN: 0800785991 Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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