Third Mansion — Ordered Life and Spiritual Dryness
Teresa's third mansion describes souls who live well-ordered, pious lives — they avoid sin, practice charity, keep their households in order — yet remain spiritually dry. They have achieved moral discipline but not interior freedom. Hex 15 (Modesty) is the mountain hidden beneath the earth: genuine accomplishment that does not announce itself. The hexagram's core teaching — that the modest are given increase precisely because they do not grasp — maps onto Teresa's warning that third-mansion souls must not cling to their own righteousness. Both identify the same trap: the spiritual achiever who mistakes discipline for transformation. The I-Ching balances high and low; Teresa says God tests these souls with small trials to reveal their hidden attachments.