Fifth Mansions — transformation
Prayer of union and inward transformation
The Fifth Mansions represent Teresa's language of prayerful union and transformation through love. The warmer inner shell is an attention cue for that language, not a scale of mystical attainment or an objectively detectable energetic state.
Point 5 of 8 in Teresa of Ávila — Interior Castle Mystic Body
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Teresa of Ávila, Las Moradas (The Interior Castle) (primary_canonical)
The Fifth Mansions describe prayer of union and the transformation of the soul through divine love; the shell geometry is an editorial visual translation.