Teresa of Avila: Session 6

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This is the sixth 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 seventh 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.
0:17.0	Greetings everyone and welcome to our time here together seeking spiritual
0:30.0	guidance from the Christian mystic Saint-Cries of Avala.
0:35.8	We come now in this session to the seventh and final mansion of the soul. In the ways that she bears a witness to the profound mystical communion with God that
0:50.1	is realized in this mansion.
0:53.0	And so I thought it would be helpful for us
0:57.0	as we come to the end here of our reflections on Teresa
1:01.0	to step back to attempt to kind of take in the
1:09.2	spiritual worldview of contemplative Christianity that we saw in Thomas Merton and Janeway and we do St. John of the
1:18.8	the Cross next and all these Christian mystics because it it's in the light of God shining out from this
1:27.4	vision, aluma's the path. They mark out for us along which is this unit of mystical state of price consciousness,
1:35.6	God consciousness, is realized.
1:39.9	And so in this passage I'll only be quoting two passages really by giving preference to this reflection.
1:50.0	Hopefully that will help you to take in this vision. We need to be so important to be a patient with this because it takes a while for the breath or depth or richness of this vision to kind of prayerfully
2:06.3	soak into us.
2:08.1	So it starts becoming our way of seeing through our own eyes what Christ saw and all that he saw, which is this
2:18.0	mystery of incarnate infinity, this mystery of the generosity of God and the path then along which his vision is
2:28.9	consummated. These mystics are marking out for us.
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