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John of the Cross
Term | Definition |
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Substantial Locution | Hearing a word from God that effects what it says, thus requiring no discernment |
Heliotropium | A treatise on the spiritual life encouraging us to keep our minds and hearts turned towards God |
Transformation | Process of being changed into God´s likeness but not into His nature |
Acts of Virtue | Become easier with practice and thus more meritorious |
Intentions of a Moral Act | Component of a human act that can easily be raised from the natural realm to the supernatural realm |
Components of a Human Act | Circumstances, Intentions, Act Itself |
Heresy that we can perfect ourselves without surrendering to God | Pelagianism |
God diffuses Himself | Wherever there is room |
Solitude | Disposition towards having some time alone |
God is encountered as oppressive | When He consumes and destroys its bad habits during what is often called the dark night |
Will | Power to love |
Intellect | Power to know |
Will moves the intellect | True |
Intellect moves the will | True |
Intellect Will Memory | Powers of the soul in the anthropology of St. John of the Cross |
Peace is the result | of the proper ordering of the appetites |
Those who are perfect | are not scandalized |
Hermits on Mount Carmel | were probably Crusaders who were free to stay in the Holy Land |
Opposite of consolations | Dryness |
Thoughts words and deeds that are habitally well ordered | Virtues |
Defects and Excesses | Manner of erring in virtue |
Enemies of the Soul | World Flesh Devil |