Seventh Mansion — Spiritual Marriage
The innermost chamber where the soul and God are permanently united — not through ecstatic experience but through a quiet, unshakable peace. Teresa distinguishes this from the fifth mansion's transient union: here the butterfly has found its resting place. The visions cease. The soul acts in the world with unprecedented effectiveness precisely because it no longer acts from itself. Hex 11 (Peace/T'ai) is heaven below, earth above — the creative serves the receptive, and everything flows. It is not the end of change but the condition in which change occurs without friction. Both describe a state beyond struggle: not because struggle has been avoided, but because it has been completed. Teresa insists the soul in the seventh mansion does more work, not less. The I-Ching places Peace as hexagram 11, not 64 — harmony is a station in the sequence, not its conclusion.