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St. Teresa of Avila
Interior Castle
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FIRST MANSIONS
CHAPTER II
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BEFORE
passing
on, I
want
you to
consider
what will be the
state
of this
castle
, so
beautiful
and
resplendent
this
Orient
pearl
, this
tree
of
life
,
planted
in the
living
waters
of
life
28
-- namely, in
God
-- when the
soul
falls
into a
mortal
sin
. No
thicker
darkness
exists
, and there is nothing
dark
and
black
which is not much less so than this. You
need
know
only one
thing
about it -- that, although the
Sun
Himself, Who has
given
it all its
splendour
and
beauty
, is still there in the
centre
of the
soul
, it is as if He were not there for any
participation
which the
soul
has in Him, though it is as
capable
of
enjoying
Him as is the
crystal
of
reflecting
the
sun
. While in a
state
like this the
soul
will
find
profit
in nothing, and hence,
being
as it is in
mortal
sin
, none of the
good
works
it
may
do will be of any
avail
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to
win
it
glory
; for they will not have their
origin
in that First
Principle
, which is
God
, through Whom alone our
virtue
is
true
virtue
. And, since this
soul
has
separated
itself from Him, it cannot be
pleasing
in His
eyes
; for, after all, the
intention
of a
person
who
commits
a
mortal
sin
is not to
please
Him but to
give
pleasure
to the
devil
; and, as the
devil
is
darkness
itself, the
poor
soul
becomes
darkness
itself
likewise
.
28
Psalm
i,
3
.
29
Lit
.: "
fruit
", for which
P
.
Gracián
substitutes
"
merit
."
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