The Interior Castle: Or the Mansions

What does the life of our soul look like?

In The Interior Castle, St. Theresa imagines the soul as a magnificent castle full of spacious and elaborate rooms. And, as St. Theresa describes, at the heart of this castle stands the seat of the King Himself.

;I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions. If we reflect, sisters, we shall see that the souls of the just ma...