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 =====Part Four - Mystic and Prophet=====
+  * //"Broadly speaking I understand [mysticism] to be the innate tendency of the human spirit towards the complete harmony with the transcendental order, whatever be the theological formula under which that order is understood. This tendency, in great mystics, gradually captures the whole field of consciousness, it dominates their life and, in the experience called ‘mystic union,’ attains its end…I believe this process to represent the true line of development of the highest form of human consciousness.// (Underhill, 1911, p. XV)
+  * In the Christian tradition, women as virgins, martyrs and mystics can gain personal autonomy and authority.
+  * Mary is a Virgin in this tradition.
+  * She is also an archetype of Christian discipleship, mysticism and prophecy.
+  * Medieval women mystics developed a distinctive theology of Mary.
+    * Mary is first disciple.
+    * Mary is companion of disciples.
+    * Mary is archetype of the spiritual life.
+  * Mystical writers have often been objects of suspicion and persecution by church authorities
+    * Even Satan can be disguised as an angel of light
+    * Yet there are still angels of light.
+    * Attributing mystical experience to Mary is 'safe.'
+    * Yet it risks confining the experience to Mary.
+  * Three-fold way - Mysticism
+    * Love God with a free heart, letting go of whatever is lesser or gets in the way.
+    * Inward silence, empty and free from images of all things which they ever saw or of which they ever heard.
+    * Loving adherence to God.
+      * The beloved has fallen into the lover in mutual surrender.
+      * The spirit immerses itself, and knows not how, nor where, nor in what it is. Self-annihilation
+      * Spirit beholds a Darkness beyond reason, dead and lost to self, one with God without difference and without distinction. And when it feels itself one with God, then God alone is its peace and its enjoyment and its rest.
+  * Prophecy - One is sent down by God from these heights into the world is full of truth and rich in all virtues. And they seek not their own but the glory of God Who has sent them. They must always spend themselves on those who have need of them; for the living fount of the Holy Spirit, which is their wealth, can never be spent.
 ==== Hildegard of Bingen ====