This journey and the methodology for reaching ‘the interior castle’ has been well mapped earlier by sage Patanjali in his Yoga Sutra. Neither is the exodus as a type for all future interior journeys or St Teresa’s journey to the interior castle unique. To use St Teresa of Avila’s nomenclature: a journey into ‘the interior castle’. That is, the Hebrew Scriptures, erstwhile known as the Old Testament, gesture and fashion typographically the motif of the journey as an interior one. George Edayadiyil, a Carmelite of Mary Immaculate, in his books, Exodus Event: Its Historical Kernel and Israel in the Light of the Exodus Event proves that the exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt to Israel, from slavery to freedom, was, and still is, a model for the journey from the vita apostolica to the vita contemplativa. Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, ocd and Otilio Rodriguez, ocd The Interior Castle: Study Edition Teresa of Avila
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