Christian mysticism

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, originally known as simply the Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after in the Bible. Originally, others referred to them as Quakers because the founder of the movement, George Fox, told a judge to "quake before the authority of God".

Catharism ( ; from the , "the pure ones") was a Christian quasi-dualist and pseudo-Gnostic movement which thrived in northern Italy and southern France between the 12th and 14th centuries. Denounced as a heretical sect by the Catholic Church, its followers were attacked first by the Albigensian Crusade and later by the Medieval Inquisition, which eradicated them by 1350. Thousands were slaughtered, hanged, or burned at the stake.

Hesychasm () is a contemplative monastic tradition in the Eastern Christian traditions of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches in which stillness (hēsychia) is sought through uninterrupted Jesus prayer. While rooted in early Christian monasticism, it took its definitive form in the 14th century at Mount Athos.

monastery on the Island of Patmos, Greece

The Philokalia (, from philia "love" and kallos "beauty") is "a collection of texts written between the 4th and 15th centuries by spiritual masters" of the mystical hesychast tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church. They were originally written for the guidance and instruction of monks in "the practice of the contemplative life". The collection was compiled in the 18th century by Nicodemus the Hagiorite and Macarius of Corinth based on the codices 472 (12th century), 605 (13th century), 476 (14th century), 628 (14th century) and 629 (15th century) from the library of the monastery of Vatopedi

17th-century ideas heretical to Catholics

development of mystical practices and theory within Christianity

Martinism is a form of Christian mysticism and esoteric Christianity concerned with the fall of the first man, his materialistic state of being deprived of his own divine source, and the process of his eventual (if not inevitable) return, called 'Reintegration'. thumb|150px|right|alt=Seal of Martinism|Seal of Martinism

cave in Greece

longer version of the Gospel of Mark

movement within Nazi Germany which mixed ideas of racial purity and Nazi ideology with elements of Christianity

1976 book by Helen Schucman

in Christian theology, the beatific vision is the ultimate direct self-communication of God to the individual person

Christian theology

metaphor for the church in Christian theology

Christian interpretation of Kabbalah

The '''' (, illuminated), also called the '''', were the practitioners of a mystical form of Christianity in the Crown of Castile during the 15th–16th centuries. Some were only mildly heterodox, but others held views that were clearly heretical, according to the contemporary rulers. Consequently, they were firmly repressed and became some of the early victims of the Spanish Inquisition.

Christian concept of fighting against the work of preternatural evil forces

medieval mystical group of both ecclesiastical and lay persons within the Catholic Church

form of prayer

Rosicrucian esoteric Christian order

Medieval mystical group

275px|thumbnail|right|The burning of the Amalricians in 1210, in the presence of King Philip II of France. In the background is the [[Gibbet of Montfaucon and, anachronistically, the Grosse Tour of the Temple. Illumination from the Grandes Chroniques de France, c. 1255–1260.]]

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book on magic

devotional influence of the Catholic church

religious term

Rosicrucian order

branch of theology that explains mystical practices and states

the first stage of the union of the soul with God

historical lens or theory

painting by El Greco

book about the life of Jesus Christ by Ludolf of Saxony

type of Christian mysticism

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