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The human soul : its movements, its lights, and the iconography of ...

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SEVENTH LIGHTPsychecstasis« Physical man, moral man, intellectualman is really <strong>and</strong> truly containedin <strong>the</strong> least particle <strong>of</strong> this vital quintessence,which not onl}^ is attached toall <strong>the</strong> objects touched by an individual,but also to all those v^hich have beenin his sphere <strong>of</strong> action " (Delaage).When <strong>the</strong> vs^ill is expressed in prayer,<strong>the</strong> spirit, <strong>the</strong> subtile psyche occupies <strong>the</strong>whole <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> area <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> small luminousprojection, whilst <strong>the</strong> glimmering <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>animistic circumference is reduced to asimple flange. In prayer, <strong>the</strong> spiritualmovement in us predominates, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>form <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>soul</strong> is attenuated in proportionas <strong>the</strong> spirit rises, at <strong>the</strong> point <strong>of</strong>leaving <strong>its</strong> fluidic body.Man <strong>the</strong>n, by his spiritual light,projects<strong>the</strong> pearls <strong>of</strong> his prayer towards <strong>the</strong>infinite God. <strong>The</strong> divine spirit <strong>of</strong> man-63-

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