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Mystical Terminology
Definitions of some words used by the mystics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Detachment | Freedom for excellence and freedom from disordered appetites |
| Dryness | Lack of satisfaction in one's prayer and spiritual practices |
| Contemplation | Supernatural prayer that is not understood by the senses, but received by the spirit |
| Hope | Theological virtue which unites the memory with God |
| Intellect | Spiritual power for knowing |
| Memory | Spiritual power to recall and relive what is past |
| Mystical | Adjective meaning secret or hidden |
| Prayer | The raising of the heart and mind to God |
| Purification | Process of eliminating all that is contrary to receiving the fulness of God's life |
| Senses | Bodily faculties that have material things as their objects |
| Spiritual Betrothal | Term for an elevated degree of union that takes place in the illuminative way |
| Stages | Degrees of spiritual growth: purgative, illuminative and unitive ways OR beginner, proficient, perfect |
| Theological Virtues | Spiritual gifts of faith, hope and love that lead to union with God |
| Spiritual touches | Communications from God |
| Transformation | Union with God implying a change in form. |
| Virtue | Habitual power for doing good |
| Will | Spiritual power to desire or to love |
| Transcendental Properties of Being | True, Good, Beautiful, Oneness or Unity and Existence |
| Components of a Moral Act | Intentions, Circumstances and the Act itself |
| Symbol | A word, picture or concept to communicate a deeper reality |
| Mantra | A word or phrase to maintain recollection |
| Faith | Theological virtue which perfects the human intellect |
| Love | Theological virtue which perfects the human will |
| Cenobitic Life | Monastic life centered in community |
| Eremitic Life | Life as a hermit with ties to a superior |
| Four Cardinal Virtues | Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance |
| What must be left behind in order to progress in the spiritual life? | Mortal sin, venial sin, voluntary imperfections |
| Ascetical Acts | What humans can do "modo humano" to advance spiritually |
| Mystical Gifts | What God gives "modo divino" to advance us spiritually |
| Kataphatic Prayer | Prayer utilizing imagination and discursive application of the intellect |
| Apophatic Prayer | Prayer without images or "thinking", yet the will is exercised in love |
| Quietist Prayer | Heretical speculation of passive prayer without application of the will or intellect |
| Proficients | Those who are in the second of the three stages and experience contemplation as a regular part of their prayer life |
| Perfect | Those who have passed through the passive nights and have habitual union with God |
| Appetites | Unreasonable desires |
| Meditation | Intellectual activity utilizing the imagination and directed toward God |
| Prayer of Quiet | Supernatural grace that results in the union of the will with God |
| Rapture | Supernatural gift that suspends both external and interior senses |
| Visions | Spiritual gifts that pertain to what is seen |
| Locutions | Spiritual gifts that pertain to what is heard |
| Prayer of Union | Supernatural gift that unites will, intellect and memory with God and therefore eliminates distractions |
| Consolations | Natural or supernatural prayer experiences that are pleasing to the person who is praying. Opposite of dryness |
| Divine Whistle | Term used by St. Teresa to indicate infused recollection |
| Recollection | Guarding the senses to maintain an interior focus on God within |
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