Chapter 25 Summary and Analysis

The marriage is still not, Teresa explains, something that can be fully realized in this life, and that is the explanation with which she opens the second chapter on the Seventh Dwelling. The soul is simply left to take on His work as her own, and He takes her work as His. No separation is possible anymore as it was in previous stages of their engagement. Like light coming in through two windows and becoming one light, they are impossible to separate. The truths that appeared to the soul before become ineffable. The soul is cleanly stripped of her worldly attachments and made more perfectly spirit with every passing day.

Even so, Teresa warns her readers again that souls must always be cautious about offending the God they serve. There are always wars going on in the other chambers of the...