
Descartes's Soul | Prof. Jorge Secada
The Thomistic Institute
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The Inner Castle: A Manual for Metaphysical Meditation
The meditation of the first philosophy is, as all of this suggests, a manual for metaphysical meditation. And we have seen that he takes the reader to a contemplation of God. If you look at the Inner Castle as meditations on the soul and God, you find, well, it seems to be doing the same thing Descartes is doing except that she is doing it from a religious standpoint while Descartes thinks that it can be done purely naturally or intellectually without recourse to grace.
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