The Interior Palaces

Spiritual exercises penned by Father Silas Menard, who ushered in the most prosperous era of the Colegio de Santa Potenciana.

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The exercises are a combination of prayer and meditation distributed across seven weeks, intended to cultivate a greater understanding of the self, of others, of the others within the self.

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Menard describes an ecstatic state termed the ‘Opening of the Soul’, through which all understandings may pass into the mind and out into the world. Extending selfless hospitality to all is key to achieving it, as ‘when we learn to welcome what we cannot deny, we ourselves are welcomed into every heart we touch.’
Effect: Memory: Pattern Mastery: Lesson: Preliminal Meter x1

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