St. Teresa is at pains to express how the soul spiritually married to our Lord now lives a new life, a life of complete union with Christ. When our Lord says in His Sermon on the Mount to “be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect,” this is what He wants from us.

Episode 18 focuses on The 7th Mansions, Chapters 3 & 4.

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St. Teresa discusses our Lord’s presence in the very center of our souls, mortal sin, Trinitarian theology, and the distinction between spiritual betrothal and spiritual marriage. At this stage, Teresa says the soul “is far more active than before in all that concerns God’s service” and is even more attentive to avoid offending God in any way.

Episode 17 focuses on The 7th Mansions, Chapters 1 & 2.

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St. Teresa says God reveals Himself to a soul as Truth Itself and encourages us to live in conformity with the truth. Fr. Reid explains how the more a soul receives from God, and consequently comes to know and love Him, the more the soul suffers in seeing itself so distant from Him and unable to enjoy Him completely as it will in Heaven.

Episode 16 focuses on The 6th Mansions, Chapters 10 & 11.

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St. Teresa explains how intellectual visions happen when a soul feels our Lord Jesus Christ beside it in an indubitable way without seeing Him with either the eyes of the body or the eyes of the soul. Fr. Reid also goes into Teresa's explanation of imaginary visions, which seem more beneficial, but which the devil meddles with more.

Episode 15 focuses on The 6th Mansions, Chapters 8 & 9.

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St. Teresa discusses a variation of a rapture she calls “flight of the spirit.”In this phenomenon, the soul is carried away with an alarming speed and an intensity that cannot be resisted. Fr. Reid explains how the soul desires to praise God unceasingly, embraces an intense joy in God, and is compelled to share this praise and joy with others.

Episode 14 focuses on The 6th Mansions, Chapters 5-7.

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While the devil is able to counterfeit some things, he cannot reproduce the sense of peace and delight that come with authentic locutions. St. Teresa says that, in spiritual betrothal, God allows us to have raptures in order to draw us out of our faculties, and she parses out different types of raptures. The different things the Lord does to the raptured soul are remembered forever and are often beyond full articulation because they deal with the grandeur of God!

Episode 13 focuses on The 6th Mansions, Chapters 3 & 4.

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St. Teresa talks about the great sufferings that occur in The 6th Mansion, The Dark Night of The Soul. Fr. Reid enlightens us on St. Teresa's own personal trials, and tells us how God makes the soul desire Him all the more vehemently "by services so delicate that the soul itself cannot discern them," but which are painful.

Episode 12 focuses on The 6th Mansions, Chapters 1 & 2.

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St. Teresa tells us that union with God’s will is really what we should be striving for! The Prayer of Union proceeds from union with God’s will, and the person who is united with God’s will finds peace.

Episode 11 focuses on The 5th Mansions, Chapters 3 & 4.

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St. Teresa compares the soul to the silkworm. The soul begins to live by the help God gives it through the remedies of the Church: Confession, reading good books, hearing sermons, etc. These things help a person mature to the point in which he can spin the cocoon – which is Christ! Fr. Reid also explains what St. Teresa means when she describes a soul in The 5th Mansions as a sleeping soul.

Episode ten focuses on The 5th Mansions, Chapters 1 & 2.

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St. Teresa talks about the mind not being put to rest until called to the Prayer of Recollection by God. Fr. Reid walks us through the four reasons that is and stresses the importance of not forcing things and allowing God to work. St. Teresa also addresses the effects of divine consolations, and she warns those who receive them about how the devil will meddle with them.

Episode nine focuses on The 4th Mansions, Chapter 3.

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