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  2. Josephite marriage - Wikipedia

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    Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi lived in a Josephite marriage after they had a family of four children. Josephite marriage, also known as spiritual marriage, chaste marriage, [1] and continent marriage, is a religiously motivated practice in which a man and a woman marry and live together without engaging in sexual activity.

  3. Jaya-Vijaya - Wikipedia

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    When Vishnu appears before them, and the gatekeepers request Vishnu to lift the curse of the Kumaras, Vishnu says that the curse of the Kumaras cannot be reversed. Instead, he gives Jaya and Vijaya two options. The first option is to take seven births on earth as devotees of Vishnu, while the second is to take three births as his staunch enemies.

  4. Hadraniel - Wikipedia

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    Hadraniel (or Hadrianiel among other variant spellings), whose name means "majesty [or greatness] of God", is an angel in Jewish Angelology assigned as gatekeeper at the second gate in heaven. [1] He is supposed to be more than sixty myriads of parasangs (approximately 2.1 million miles or 3.4 million kilometers) tall and a daunting figure to face.

  5. Spirit spouse - Wikipedia

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    The spirit spouse is a widespread element of shamanism, distributed through all continents and at all cultural levels.Often, these spirit husbands/wives are seen as the primary helping spirits of the shaman, who assist them in their work, and help them gain power in the world of spirit.

  6. Spirituality - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other. [1] [2] [3] [note 1] Traditionally, spirituality is referred to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape of man", [note 2] oriented at "the image of God" [4] [5] as exemplified by the founders and sacred texts of the religions of the world.

  7. Karma - Wikipedia

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    The term karma (Sanskrit: कर्म; Pali: kamma) refers to both the executed 'deed, work, action, act' and the 'object, intent'. [3]Wilhelm Halbfass (2000) explains karma (karman) by contrasting it with the Sanskrit word kriya: [3] whereas kriya is the activity along with the steps and effort in action, karma is (1) the executed action as a consequence of that activity, as well as (2) the ...

  8. Spiritual wifery - Wikipedia

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    Spiritual wifery is a term first used in America by the Immortalists [clarification needed] in and near the Blackstone Valley of Rhode Island and Massachusetts in the 1740s. The term describes the idea that certain people are divinely destined to meet and share their love (at differing points along the carnal-spiritual spectrum, depending on the particular religious movement involved) after ...

  9. Glossary of spirituality terms - Wikipedia

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    Many spiritual practices refer to this peace as an experience of knowing oneself. Integrity: Comprises the personal inner sense of "wholeness" deriving from honesty and consistent uprightness of character. The etymology of the word relates it to the Latin adjective integer (whole, complete).