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THEOSIS: PARTAKERS OF DIVINITY WITH GOD PROF. M. M. NINAN Stages in <strong>Theosis</strong> According to the standard ascetic formulation of this process, there are three stages: first, κάθαρσις, Katharsis or purification; the purgative way, purification, or katharsis; second, θεωρία Theoria or illumination, also called "natural" or "acquired contemplation;"illumination, the illuminative way, the vision of God. third, θέωσις, Union or <strong>Theosis</strong>; also called "infused" or "higher contemplation"; indwelling in God; vision of God; deification; union with God; sainthood, the unitive way, or theosis. κάθαρσις, Katharsis or purification; the Purgation, Purification,Clarification Purification precedes conversion and constitutes a turning away from all that is unclean and unwholesome. This is a purification of mind and body. 139
THEOSIS: PARTAKERS OF DIVINITY WITH GOD PROF. M. M. NINAN Hippocrates associated catharsis with healing, because it's role of a "purification agent" affecting the course of disease (both physical and mental). The spiritual meaning of catharsis is very much the same: discharging everything harmful from one's mind and heart, so that one can become pure. The ritual of purification usually implies that a person had engaged in some prohibited actions or sins. Catharsis helped to return to the previous status - before the violation of generally accepted rules and norms. In various religious practices, the action of purification is fulfilled with the help of water, blood, fire, change of clothes, and sacrifice. The rituals are often considered as part of a person's healing from the devastating effect of guilt. Further, the key mission of mysticism is to understand the return or unification of one's soul with God. The ritual of baptism (purifying person with water) in Christianity has cathartic meaning of revival. Confession has the same underlying assumption, and it is similar to the concept of cathartic treatment introduced by Freud and Breuer, because confession involves the recall, revealing, and release of forbidden thoughts, actions, and repressed emotions. Spiritual and cultural rituals have been known throughout the history to help people process collective stress situations, such as death or separation, or major life changing events like rites of passages, weddings, and such. Traditional societies have ceremonies of mourning, funeral rites, and curing rituals, which most often include cathartic activities, such as crying, weeping, drumming, or ecstatic dance (Szczeklik, 2005). In the Eastern Orthodox ascetic tradition called hesychasm, humility, as a saintly attribute, is called Holy Wisdom or sophia. Humility is the most critical component to humanity's salvation. Following Christ's instruction to "go into your room or closet and shut the door and pray to your father who is in secret" (Matthew 6:6), the hesychast withdraws into solitude in order that he or she may enter into a deeper state of contemplative stillness. By means of this stillness, the mind is calmed, and the ability to see reality is enhanced. The practitioner seeks to attain what the apostle Paul called 'unceasing prayer'. 140
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