Raising the Soul in Love: St Ignatius of Loyola and the Tradition of Mystical Theology by Peter Mark Tyler

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OCZYSZCZENIE DUSZ POCZĄTKUJĄCYCH W ŚWIETLE KSIĄŻKI O. RÉGINALDA GARRIGOU-LAGRANGE TRZY OKRESY ŻYCIA WEWNĘTRZNEGO – WSTĘPEM DO ŻYCIA W NIEBIE by Piotr Bortkiewicz

“…Such a purification requires from the soul great love for God and disdain for itself. It is a very demanding way to make, but such an effort is worth being made, as it guarantees the experience of God and His love.…”
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Зоопоэтика И.С. Шмелёва: образы животных в малой прозе писателя [Zoopoètika I.S. Šmelëva: obrazy životnyh v maloj proze pisatelâ]... by Alfija Smirnowa

“…Shmelev’s zoopoetics is based on the philosophy of life and death, freedom and captivity, and the connection between the natural world and the world of childhood, and is actualized in anthropomorphic images of animals manifested in the texts of the writer in many ways (psychologism, spirituality, and the use of the concepts of “soul”, “destiny”, “love” “morality” and “compassion”). Animals in the stories appear as a certain indicator, because the correlation with them and the attitude to them reveal the other characters – both adults and children.…”
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The Topological Connection between Plotinus and the Gospel of John on the Metaphysics of the Absolute Transcendence by De Blassi Fernando G. Martin

“…In Plotinus, the truth takes the form of an operatio because it instills in the soul a love that attracts her towards infinite union. …”
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Marsilio Ficino, Francesco Cavalli en muziek als remedie voor liefdesverdriet by Jacomien Prins

“…Beautiful things such as harmonious music inspire the soul with love. When music is loved properly, the lover distances himself from the sensible world, focuses his attention on his soul, and thus ultimately finds his end in God. …”
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The Impact of Illuminative Relation on Faith Increase by Hasan Sianati, Zahra Delbari

“…This faith is demonstrated in the soul’s love for the higher world. In the light of the illuinative relation to the higher lights, the soul finds itself in need to God, and then reaches the state of annihilation and then the state of immortality after annihilation and then the state of servitude and then the state of the peaceful soul. …”
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Islamic eco-cosmology in Ikhwan al-Safa’s view by Muhammad Abdullah Darras

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A semântica de Eros no tempo patrístico by Ulysses Roberto Lio Tropia

“…That word reflects the soul’s love for God in a mystical perspective and assumes meaningful variations, among which Christ’s love, ‘Agape’ or God’s love for men, and individual love connected with God: ‘Eros’ as virtue and chastity. …”
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The Importance of the Types of Techniques in Nizami’s Khosrow and Shirin and Plato’s Symposium by Marziye Esmailzade, Mohsen Mohammadi Fesharaki

“…Love (Eros) is like a midwife that brings forth the reason (Logos); Thus, the reason is the logos or the rational soul connecting love with the arts because love (Eros) takes the monstrous reason to the actual stage. …”
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