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Teresa of Avila and interior castle

Teresa of Avila's metaphor of the soul as a castle with seven interior rooms, each representing a deepening stage of prayer and union with God. Her teaching maps the interior landscape of spiritual maturation, showing that closeness to the divine is not a sudden leap but a gradual awakening through the chambers of the heart.

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