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The Spiritual Canticle (Spanish: Cántico Espiritual) is one of the poetic works of the Spanish mystical poet Saint John of the Cross.. Saint John of the Cross, a Carmelite friar and priest during the Counter-Reformation, was arrested and jailed by the Calced Carmelites in 1577 at the Carmelite Monastery of Toledo because of his close association with Saint Teresa of Ávila in the Discalced ...
The spirit usually enters the body of the medium that is present at the table. At this time, those individuals seated around the table have the ability to ask questions to spirits who have entered the world through the mediums. [9] Furthermore, the spirit(s) is seen as a source of possible solutions to problems that are plaguing people.
A quire of paper is a measure of paper quantity. The usual meaning is 25 sheets of the same size and quality: 1 ⁄ 20 of a ream of 500 sheets. Quires of 25 sheets are often used for machine-made paper, while quires of 24 sheets are often used for handmade or specialised paper of 480-sheet reams.
Francisco de Osuna, O.F.M. (1492 or 1497 – c. 1540), was a Spanish Franciscan friar and author of some of the most influential works on spirituality in Spain in the 16th century. [1] His book The Third Spiritual Alphabet influenced Saint Teresa of Jesus. [2]
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.
Vision of Thomas Aquinas in the Vatican Museum. Evelyn Underhill distinguishes and categorizes three types of visions: [3]. Intellectual Visions – The Catholic dictionary defines these as supernatural knowledge in which the mind receives an extraordinary grasp of some revealed truth without the aid of sensible impressions, and mystics describe them as intuitions that leave a deep impression.
Ream may refer to: Paper ream, unit of 500 sheets of paper; Ream (surname) Reamer, tool used to widen a hole; Ream, West Virginia; Ream, the name of Rama in the Khmer version of the Ramayana, the Reamker; Ream National Park, a national park in Cambodia; Ream Naval Base, Sihanoukville, Cambodia
Swedenborg's 12-volume Arcana Coelestia provides verse-by-verse details of the inner meaning of Genesis and part of Exodus; the work Apocalypse Revealed [8] does the same for the Book of Revelation. The Arcana Coelestia , for example, explains how the creation and development of the human mind corresponds to the seven days of creation in Genesis.