Teresa of Avila: Session 3

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This is the third session that focuses on the mystic, Teresa of Avila. In the tenor of the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, James Finley begins with a passage from the fourth mansion of Teresa's The Interior Castle, and reflects on the qualitative essence of the spirit of this text, and finishes with a meditative practice. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about Jim, visit jamesfinley.org  For the transcript to this podcast, you can find it here. The book being used for this season can be found here. Check out our online course on the Interior Castle, details are here. Connect with us: We also produce other podcasts you might enjoy. To learn more about them and our other offerings, visit cac.org This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at cac.org/podcastsupport Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.4	To learn more, visit cac.org.
0:08.4	Greetings, I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.4	Welcome to Turning to the mystics.
0:14.3	Geeing to the mystics.
0:16.3	Greetings everyone and welcome to our time here together
0:27.0	turning to the Christian mystic Saint-Preece of Apollo as she guides us in a journey to our own soul as a way to help us deepen our
0:37.0	experience of in response to God's presence in our lives.
0:42.0	We began with Teresa with the first mansion of the soul and continued on in the next
0:50.5	session into the second mansion and she continues on in the same way in the next session into the second mansion and she continues on in the same way in the third
0:55.2	mansion in which these first three mansions are the phases of cultivating psychological
1:02.3	spiritual maturity.
1:03.7	And now in this session I want to begin the fourth mansion
1:09.5	in which he's attempting to help us to discern or to understand the stirrings of what you call special favors,
1:17.1	or the stirrings of a more unitive, contemplative, or mystical dimensions of experiencing and responding to God's presence.
1:26.9	And she does this by comparing spiritual experiences as they're experienced in the first three mansions.
1:35.0	You might say ego consciousness illumined by faith.
1:39.0	As of same experiences are realized in a qualitatively new way in the first
1:45.4	hearings of the mystical in the fourth mansion. In this first contrast she
1:51.2	compares the soul to a basin filling with water, so the soul is likened to a basin,
1:59.4	and the God's presence flowing into us is likened to water flowing into our soul into the
2:03.8	basin of our soul and compares that to the basin of our soul experience as
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