with a special focus on St. John of the Cross.
             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 developing a perfect spiritual
             rules are meant to preserve the student from error while facilitating their
             These "rules" must therefore take note of the erroneous systems of prayer,
             Quietism 3 or Semiquietism, and of the self-illusion or deception of souls4
             the powers of darkness for those of light or the prompting of their own
             Prayer is a Primary part of the religious studies of the Mystic
             are four ordinary forms of prayer: vocal, mental, affective, and the prayer
             The last two, notably the prayer of simplicity, border on the mystical.
             called active or acquired contemplation to distinguish it from passive or
             contemplation, in which mystical union really consists.
             On the path to better one's spiritual life, he or she must study many
             which may lead to contemplation. They comprise: purity of conscience, or
             even to the slightest sin; purity of h...