Third Mansions — ordered devotion

Moral steadiness and disciplined prayer

The Third Mansions are rendered as a middle envelope for disciplined devotion, virtue, and the limits of self-reliance. The location and scale are diagrammatic, since Teresa's account concerns the soul's relationship to prayer rather than a topographic body map.

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

Point 3 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 Third Mansions discuss ordered devotional life, virtue, and the limits of relying on one's own stability; the shell is a visual aid for this mansion label, not a body layer.

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