{"product_id":"the-seven-mansions","title":"The Seven Mansions: Saint Teresa of Ávila's Interior Castle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe summit of Catholic mystical writing, arranged as a guided journey through the seven dwelling places.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin:1.6em 0 .7em;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=jKMvyLpY1I3y8YvdQVck98lx1e8h817TYhHCAjipYoV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:16px 32px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:#3D2E1E;color:#F8F4EA;\"\u003eBuy the Paperback\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=fs4gnjwyJeSalrbwQphw7gylZNzmM6NjlJDIZTt3xAU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:16px 32px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:transparent;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eBuy the Hardcover\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:0 0 1.9em;\"\u003eOrders are placed and shipped through IngramSpark. This page is a catalogue listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1577, in obedience to her confessor, Saint Teresa of Ávila set down the vision that became the summit of Catholic mystical writing: the soul is an interior castle of clear crystal, and within it are seven dwelling places, seven mansions, through which the Lord draws the soul ever inward, from the first stirrings of prayer to the spiritual marriage at the centre, where He Himself abides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Seven Mansions\u003c\/em\u003e is not a public-domain reprint. It takes Teresa's complete text and arranges it as a guided devotional journey through the seven dwelling places. Her own sixteenth-century Spanish stands beside a faithful English rendering, so the reader may pray in either tongue, or in both at once. At the threshold of each of the seven mansions is an opening prayer drawn from Teresa's own poems, carrying the reader across from one dwelling place to the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor every soul who has meant to read the Interior Castle and found the old editions forbidding, this is a way in: Teresa's voice, unabridged, set as a retreat you can actually make, from the first mansion of self-knowledge to the seventh, where the King is waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eInside\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeresa's complete Interior Castle, English and the Spanish original, side by side\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn opening prayer at the threshold of each of the seven mansions, from her own poems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe life of the saint and a note on the text and its 1911 Stanbrook translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA gallery of public-domain portraits of Teresa across four centuries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA free companion app with the same guided seven-mansion journey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll doctrinal content follows the constant teaching of the Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaint Teresa of Ávila, edited by Jessica Huber\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook Abbey (1911), edition prepared by the Very Rev. Fr. Benedict Zimmerman, O.C.D.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnglish with the complete Spanish original\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanctified Souls, The Devotional Series\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 276 pages, printed in full color\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003chr style=\"border:0;border-top:1px solid #e4dccd;margin:2.2em 0 1.6em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin:1.6em 0 .7em;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=jKMvyLpY1I3y8YvdQVck98lx1e8h817TYhHCAjipYoV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:16px 32px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:#3D2E1E;color:#F8F4EA;\"\u003eBuy the Paperback\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=fs4gnjwyJeSalrbwQphw7gylZNzmM6NjlJDIZTt3xAU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:16px 32px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:transparent;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eBuy the Hardcover\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:0 0 1.9em;\"\u003eOrders are placed and shipped through IngramSpark. 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