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Mystical Union with God

The soul and God joined in love so close it transforms the one who is held

Mystical union with God is the soul's intimate, transforming union with God in love, sometimes called henosis or unio mystica. Writers such as Gregory of Nyssa, Bernard of Clairvaux, and John of the Cross explored its depths. It describes not a loss of the self but a profound communion in which the soul is drawn into and changed by the love of God.

How it traveled

  1. 1 John
    Ephesus · 100
    explains
  2. Internal Consolation
    Zwolle · 1471
    applies
  3. An Invitation to Holy Communion
    Zwolle · 1471
    explains
  4. Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It
    Geneva · 1564
    explains
  5. Seventeen Occasional Sermons
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    explains
  6. Heaven
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    explains
  7. Five Sermons. On Different Occasions
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    explains
  8. Thoughts on the Revival of Religion in New England
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    applies

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