Sixth Mansions — intimate encounter

Trials, vision, and deepening friendship

The Sixth Mansions gather Teresa's accounts of intensified prayer, trial, and intimate spiritual encounter before the final mansion. Their cool inner shell signals depth and vulnerability in the text's narrative, not a claim about visions or suffering in a measurable body layer.

First Mansions — entering the castleSecond Mansions — perseveranceThird Mansions — ordered devotionFourth Mansions — recollectionFifth Mansions — transformationSixth Mansions — intimate encounterSixth Mansions — intimate encounterSeventh Mansions — spiritual marriageUnion — centre of the castle

Point 6 of 8 in Teresa of Ávila — Interior Castle Mystic Body

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Teresa of Ávila, Las Moradas (The Interior Castle) (primary_canonical)

The Sixth Mansions describe intensified prayer, trials, and reported forms of spiritual encounter before the final mansion; the shell is an editorial attention device.

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