Product Description: The Book of Her Foundations is the least read, the least quoted, the least known of St. Teresa's works. Why this is so is probably because people do not think it is a spiritual book. But as you read on, you find that St. Teresa grew in holiness, not in spite of obstacles such as being entangled in lawsuits, mired down in disputes over dowries, tied up in interminable bureaucratic red-tape, and having to deal with unscrupulous businessmen, but because of these difficulties...read more

Presents excerpts from the classic spiritual work by the famed sixteenth-century Spanish mystic that describes the author's mystical vision of a crystal castle with seven chambers, each representing a different stage in a soul's quest for union with God. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: Includes selections from Teresa of Avila's The Interior Castle