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A Mystical Christian’s main goal is to understand the nature of a higher
and become open to the light, sound, and inner flowing of the Holy Spirit.
comes within the province of Christian Mysticism is the study of the
and passive purification through which a soul must pass to reach the mystical
Saint John of the Cross, a Christian Mystic who wrote many scripts and
the religion, also wrote “Dark Night of the Soul”1 which describes the
beginner in the religion must take to go through the three stages of
spiritual life: beginner, advanced, and the perfect.
The hagiographa of Mystical Christianity are doctrinal as well as
it not only records the experiences of souls mystically favored, but also
for their guidance, which are based on the authority of the Scriptures, on
of the Fathers of the Church, and on the explanations of theologians, many of
eminent as mystics. The writings actually lay down rules for Mystics to
to reach the highest element on the path to deve
. . .
spouse. loping a perfect spiritual
life, these
rules are meant to preserve the student from error while facilitating their
advancement. During
this period of imprisonment, John wrote much of the poetry that would provide
his
greatest contribution to later generations.
John of the
Cross, since they imply three things which are as night to the soul in so far
as they are
beyond or contrary to its own lights, the privation of pleasure, faith as
substituted for
human knowledge, and as incomprehensible, or darkness, to the unaided soul.
The last two, notably the prayer of simplicity, border on the mystical.
After gaining
employment in a plague hospital, John, at the age of 18, began to study with
the
Jesuits. John is one of the main characters of the religion, and
the state of
grace is pure.
These passive purifications affect the soul when every other object of
contemplation is withdrawn from it, except its own sins, defects, frailties,
which are
revealed to it in all their enormity. John of the Cross, there are three stages on the road to
perfection: purgative for the beginner; illuminative for the advanced; and
unitive for the
perfect. The son of a rich merchant, John was born Juan de Yepes
y
Alvarez in Fontiveros, in Spain in 1542. This is when the soul is so
inflamed with love of
God that it feels as if wounded and languishes with the desire to love God
still more
intensely.
Here again mystical writers treat at length the deceits, snares, and other
arts practised
by the Evil One to lead souls astray in the quest for the mystical union. The religion is full of miracles, prophecies, revelations,
and visions, and
is a beautiful form of Christianity.
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