GLOSSARY OF TERMS

ADAM AND EVE. Eternal admonition as to all protestant souls in the life of grace, M.5, M.18, M.46, M.64, M.67, M.71, AP1. They refused to nourish themselves on the bread that came down from heaven before their fall M.26, M.35, M.38. This is a fact which repeats itself in the life of every soul (see also Protestant souls). They are a token of souls responding contrary to the Blessed Virgin, “let it happen to me as you have said” (Lk 1. 38).

ALL HOLY TRINITY (Panhagia Triada, see also the Trinitarian mystery), M.3, M.45; engraves its own image in the human heart as a true heart of the Church M.47. Taming the soul’s inclinations is a participation in the life of the All Holy Trinity as God has predestined this mystery as His intentional plan for His brothers and sisters in the Church M.48, M.50. The fluctuation between the immanence and transcendence of the Divine presence in the human heart is revealed by the stand and the stem of the lamp stand as antipodes or antithetical  poles of the Christification in the continuous prayer M.63.

ANCIENT CHURCH. A community of saints until Christianity became the official faith of the Roman Empire and nominalism began to plague the Church M.15, M.22, M.28, M.52. The baptism of Christ in the Jordan event was its central issue M.5.  The first step of catechism consisted in a rite of exorcism M.24. The emphasize on the koinonia or communion of the saints was its distinct mark M.28; spiritual growth was an authentic fact in the minds of the fathers M.53, M.57. They had a keen understanding as to the value of the bright garments of purity M.79. The architecture of the ancient Church  reveals the importance on the  Eucharistic liturgy IC4.

ANGELS. The angles are the guardians of the soul on the Sacred Way and reveal the Sanctuary as a Jacob’s Ladder of Love M.8, M.11, M.13, M.16, M.18, M.23, M.25, M.31, M.39, M.42, M.44, M.45, M.46, M.59, M.62, M.65, M.73. The Cross of Christ is the joy of angels M.20. The angels infuse into the soul’s heart the virtues of obedience, poverty and purity in the gateway M.24. The soul can converse with the angels in the Holy in unveiled language M.25. In all the angels the first act of self-reflection was good M.50. The angels praise human works as plenum opus Dei or the “full work of God” M.74 when the soul walks the way of obedience; and thus she gets wings of love as God’s holy angels M.75, M.78, M.79, M.80, M.81, M.83, M.90, IC4, AP1, AP2.

AWARENESS, SPIRITUAL. Spiritual awareness is given the soul by the illumination of the jewels and foundation stones of the Celestial City in order to discern the real presence of her Royal Archetype M.12, M.27, M.36, M.38, M.42. The soul lost the fullness of the baptismal grace because of lack of spiritual awareness M.22, M.28, M.40, M.71, M.72, M.90. Graven or distorted images attract the soul’s spiritual awareness from God within and thus she is completely cut of from all spiritual communion with God M. 26, M.61, M.63. God cures the soul of her impediments and infirmity in her growing awareness and watchfulness which are gracious and infused gifts of the Uncreated Light M.42, M.56, M.57. The enemy of our salvation tries by all means to draw the awareness and attentiveness of the souls to trivial things M.42, M.43, M55, M.67. When the intellect begins to attain to recollection within or discern everything in the courtyard with awareness, its strength grows considerably by learning the letters of the spiritual alphabet M.43. The soul must wait in perseverance and watchfulness in the prayer of union in order to be able to see God’s wonders and deeds M.44. Gradually the soul’s spiritual awareness is fully awakened in the live of grace M.45. Spiritual awareness of being in God’s presence is the final aim of the prayer life and from that awareness all else flows forth and so the soul returns to her origin in the silence of the heart because this is the only movement of the Sacred Heart M.63, M.71. All the prayer life, every ascetical effort and the liturgy is aimed at enkindling the spiritual awareness of the faithful as to discern the authentic presence of Christ in the mystery of the faith IC3, AP1.

BEATITUDES. (The eight, see also Virtues), M.5, M.32, M.62, M.68, M.78, M.82, AP1. Faith will only be a secure path to the fullness of Beatitudes in its second stage as faith of love M.28. The fourth mode of union refers to the complete spiritual purification when the human spirit is enraptured into the Life of Glory in its participation in the Beatitudes M.48, M.59. They are a constitution or Magna Charta of the Kingdom established on earth in the human heart M.76. In her Christification the flowers of the virtues make a garland around the heart of the soul as Christ’s bride and make her a living Gilgal M.76, M.79, M.81. The infused Beatitudes revealed by the illumination of the amethyst are the gate to the Celestial City Jerusalem in our own hearts M.89.

BETROTHAL (SPIRITUAL).  His Majesty chooses the soul as His bride in the beauty of her sanctification M.11, M.56. The Beloved of the bride begins to bring the soul gifts and token of the betrothal in the prayer of union M.57. He marks the soul by His fiery runes with a character: a shining Morning Star as a token of His betrothal M.61.

BLACK ANGELS OF DARKNESS AND THEIR TABERNACLE OF DEATH. In the invisible and spiritual world the evil angels of Satan are on the move with evil incitements as to mislead the soul M. 23, M.32, M.34, M.38, M.74. Souls make their rational dwelling place inaccessible for the fallen angels in their sanctification M. 34. Angles of light and truth go with righteous souls through the toll houses on their the path from earth to heaven M.39, Med. 40.

BLESSED VIRGIN (see also Mother of God, Hodigitria). The Blessed Virgin watches over the steps of the soul on the Sacred Way M.3, M.12, M.13, M.17, M.18, M.21, M.33, M.39, M.40, M.41, M.45, M.48, M.50, M.52, M.56, M.57, M.64, M.65, M.66, M.71, M.72, M.75, M.79, M.80, M.81, M.82, M.86, AP1, AP2. She is the First Living Ark of the New Covenant and just as the ark of the Testimony guided the Hebrews through the desert on their way to the Promised land, she guides all souls on the Sacred Way M.3, M.11, M.18, M.41. Her “let it happen to me” is a pattern for all souls in the life of grace M.13, M.17, M.21, M.35, M.39, M.43, M.50, M.75, M.80, M.89, IC2. She shows us how a human and created being shall respond to the prompting of God M.18, M.75, M.89. Her intercessions are an invaluable help as to cloth us in the bridal garments of her Son M.18, M.24, M.27, M.34, M.36, M.42, M.51, M.57, M.63, M.73, M.78, AP1, She is the headmaster in the School of prayer M.43. She is the Immaculate Conception M.49, M.52, AP1 and helps the soul thus to avoid Satan’s evil incitements. As she is the Blessed Virgin of Perpetual Help the soul is never alone in her desert prayer M.18, M.50, M.81. The Blessed Virgin is the Hodigitria who shows the way in the life of grace M.18, M.21, M.39, M.50, M.64, M.72.

BOOK OF LIFE (Is seen in the hand of the high priest on Fig 21), M.22, M.31, M.32, M.34, M.50, M.51, M.59, M.63, M.76, M.80, M.90. By reading the Book of Life the soul receives education as to the the importance of being stripped off the “tunic of skin” (Gn 3. 21) M.31. The soul has to learn the spiritual alphabet as to be able to read it M.33.
 
BRIDE (the soul). The soul realizes gradually that she is the beloved of His Majesty M.19, M.22, M.23. M.24, M.25. M.27, M.34, M.40, M.41, M.51, M.54, M.56; M.60, M.61, M.73, M.75, M.77, M.79; M.83, M.85, M.87, IC2. She becomes gradually a flawless mirror being in the life of grace M.50. It is important for the soul not to look at other and strange lovers as her Beloved is a jealous lover M.55. The Bridegroom beautifies the soul before the spiritual marriage by the adornments of the virtues M.60, M.61, M.64, M.85, M.86, M.87, M.88, M.89. The King of Life touches His becoming bride’s and queen’s heart with His golden scepter of power to share His Kingdom with her M.62, M.66, M.75. He renews within her “a resolute spirit” (Ps 51. 10) M.64. He reveals His kingly power when she looks to Him M.67, M.71. He leads the soul to her “home country” M.73, M.74, M.76, M.79.  In the radiant splendor of the amethyst, this jewel is given the bride and with it she receives the kingdom of life, light and beauty M.78. The bride is raised above the nine orders of the celestial hierarchies and becomes the tenth choir of praise M.79. Finally the bride  enter the bridal chamber – the Holy of holies, in this Golden House of God's glory M.82.

BRIDEGROOM (His Majesty). Reveals Himself gradually in the prayer as the soul’s Beloved M.4, M.19, M.36, M.45, M.46, M.51, M55, M.56, M.57, M.61, M.65, M.66, M.75, M.76, IC4. He gives the soul abundant spiritual gifts as to confirm His betrothal with her by the illumination of the jewels and foundation stones of the Celestial City  M.11, M.18, M.60, M.76. The eternal return of the Bridegroom takes finally place in an eternal seeing and staring in the Light of Glory M.60, M.76. The blessed spouse of the heavenly Bridegroom becomes His abode, a true Gilgal, God's Sanctuary on earth M.77, M.83, M.84.

CHAPLET OF THE SPARKLING JEWELS AP1. God’s holy angels give the soul a visible token of her sanctification by the chaplet M.12, M.42, M.51, M.68. It is a flower bouquet and a present from the celestial hierarchies to their brothers and sisters in the Militant Church on earth AP1.

CHARITABLE KNOWLEDGE.  The charitable knowledge the soul receives in the life of grace is an infused and divine knowledge M.11, M48, M.51, M.53, M.61, M.65, M.76. Through the ages the Church itself has  increased its charitable knowledge of God's predestination under the Spirit's guidance as gradual addition or progress in divine knowledge M.52. It is revealed in its fullness in the illumination of the celestial hierarchy of the Cherubim and Seraphim in the Holy of holies M. 78.

CHRISTIFICATION. The transformation of the soul in the life of grace in her assimilation to her Royal Archetype is the Christification M.12, M.13, M.15, M.16, M.17, M.18, M.19, M.21, M.22, M.29, M.35, M.36, M.45, M.51, M.52, M.53, M.54, M.56, M.57, M.60, M.63, M.64, M.65, M.71, M.75, M.78, M.79, M.82, M.83, M.90, AP1. It is an union in love in the purity of the Royal Archetype M.13, M.22; M.31. It was prefigured in the Old Covenant M.16 and is revealed by the vestments of the high priest M. 21. It takes place in the Holy M.42, M.48 when the soul is literally speaking “hammered” in the night of the spirit as revealed by the  hammered gold of the lamp stand M.57, M.60. This profound purification is revealed by the Morning Star when it begins to shine forth in the soul’s heart M.61. This formation in the life of grace is completed in the southern quarter of the Tetramorph M.62. It is complete transformation of the soul M.63 taking place in four modes or stages M.48, M.73. In her assimilation to her Royal Image of Glory the soul becomes a little christ in the ointment of this mystery M.77.

CHURCH FATHERS. By their teachings they are an invaluable help for the soul on this Sacred Way M.41, M.42, M.50, M.68. It were the ancient fathers who translated the Greek word theamata, or the divine vision face to face, as contemplation IN. Discussed the mystery of the Tetramorph in their writings M.15. By their teaching and dogma they emphasized the value of the ancient tradition of sacred symbols and the iconography IN,  M.52.

COMMUNION. Refers to a daily spiritual communion with the Royal Archetype in the prayer life M.17, M.20, M.21, M.30, M.35, M,48. This daily communion is the source of divine life which God intended to be the spiritual nourishment for the soul’s substance and a way to eternal life M.26. The first protestant souls in human history, Adam and Eve, were plagued because of lack of this virtue M.35. The bronze laver (sacrament of Confession) ensures that the soul's communion with God will never be cut off although the soul stumbles or falls on her walk on the Sacred Way M.36. St. Paul was the first among the apostles who did not see Christ in His earthly life and grew thus in spiritual communion with Him M.53. The communion or kononia is also on of the corner stones of the Church as a Living Body of Christ M.28, M.43, M71, IC2. It was the distinct mark of the ancient Church in the Eucharist mystery as it is still today M.28, M.56, M.59. In God’s divine materialism revealed by the Eucharist the soul “tastes God, eats, devours, assimilates Him, and in turn is eaten and consumed M.60, The communion and adoration with the twenty four elders at the Throne of Grace in heaven is the focal point of Missa Romanum IC3.

CONTEMPLATION. It is God the Holy Spirit who draws us to the Sacred Heart in the contemplation of the mysteries of the Tabernacle. Is  nothing less than being clothed in the vestments of our Lord Jesus Christ, the “High Priest over all the Sanctuary of God” (Heb 10. 22) IN. To be clothed in Christ signifies the perfect love of God seen on the hill of contemplation or enter the Celestial City M.6. The obedience is the mother of contemplation in humility, the humility of a sound judgment, sound judgment of spiritual discrimination and it the source of divine contemplation M.12. The contemplation is thus closely related to the Royal Archetype who was humble in spirit above all our understanding and results in a singular adornment and a heavenly crown revealed by the high priests vestments M.14, M.21, M.37, M.45, M.49, M.50, M.52, M.54, M.67, M.79. Our Father reveals a the mystery of a true contemplation M.22, M.33, M.71. In the contemplation the soul becomes an untarnished mirror of God's wisdom M.59. It reveals the Morning Star in the heart M.61. Pure prayer is a true contemplation M.69.  Pure contemplation and the mystery of the mass identical M.81, IC3.

DESERT. The desert is a place of purification M.5, M.14, M.23, M24, M.33, M.41, M.44, M.49, M.51, M.57, M.64, M.70, M83, M.86, AP1. The Hebrews walked in accordance to the Divine Order of March in the desert under the guidance of the Ark  M.14, M.53, “the place where Satan is enthroned” (Rv 2. 13). This our Lord shed light upon by His temptations in the desert (Mt 4. 1-11) M.14, M.26, M.27, M.42. God’s power transforms the desert gradually into a Garden of Eden M.79, the Golden House of God protected against the wild winds of the desert M.82.

DESERT FATHERS. They are a pattern to follow in the life of grace as they dedicated their life to the continuous prayer M.7, M.16, M.19, M.37, M.38, M.81. They draw our attention also to the importance of the hidden meditation of the heart or the krypte melete M.59. Our Father was their pattern in the prayer life M.71 as is expressed my their their Angelic cross M.68 which is the Lord’s prayer engraved in metal.

DESERT PRAYER M.14, M.16, M.25, M.45, M.69. The northern quarter of the Tetramorph in the courtyard is the place of the desert prayer M.15, M.25, M.30, M.31, M.50.

DISTORTED IMAGES OF HUMAN PRESUMPTUOUSNESS (see also holy images, sacred images). They are red warning lights on the Sacred Way M.1, M.27, M.37, M.55. Graven images are still worshipped by numerous souls in contemporary times M.26. The soul is urged to bring all her erroneous ideas, images and deceptions and place them on the griddle of the altar as a “garbage” M.30.

EVIL THOUGHTS M.11, M.13, M.35, M.40, M.42, M43, M.51. Enkindled by the enemy of our salvation, the fallen guardian cherub, Satan, and his demons M.7. The soul finds shelter under God’s wings against them M.31. The Sacred Heart of Jesus drives all evil thoughts and incitements of evil origin gradually out of the Tabernacle of the Heart M.38, M.81.

EUCHARIST (In the Eucharist the Church appears as a single nature united to Christ as the Head of His Living Body) M.28, M.37. M.49, M.54, M.58, M.59, M.60, M.83, IC2. Revealed in an authentic way by the tools of the Sanctuary M. 11, M.19. The golden table of loaves is the prefiguration of the Eucharist in the Sanctuary of the Tabernacle M.20, M.48. Only souls who strengthen themselves by the heavenly manna, the Eucharist, are able to attain a participation in the Christification in the sevenfold illumination of the lamp stand M.22. Our Lord thought us to ask for the epi ousian or super mundane bread in Our Father or the Eucharist M. 22. n. 2, M.68. The Lord is in His real presence in the Eucharist M.42, M.51. The Eucharist plays a decisive role in the formation of the Royal Image of Glory M.48, M.49, M.51, M.53. The two rows of loaves on the golden table prefigured or were an anti type of the heavenly manna, the sublime mystery of the Eucharist M.51, M.53. It is here where the soul receives education regarding the mystery of the “Laws of the Spirit” (Rm 8. 2) M.51. The Christification becomes an authentic experience in the Eucharist M.56. The earthly Tabernacle is grounded and sustained on earth by the Eucharist M.56. The ascend or analepsis of the soul in grace is an ascend from the tomb through the Eucharist towards the Sacred Heart of Jesus M.60. The mystery of the Eucharist is like approaching a fire of love M.60. In the Eucharist mystery God engraves or marks His seal of betrothal in the heart in the prayer of union by the rising of the Morning Star M.61. Our life is changed into the Eucharist in the prayer of union M.65. The Eucharist is the focal point of the seven sacraments  enkindling super human transformation in human relationship M.68. The golden bowl containing the manna in the ark prefigured the Eucharist, the Son as the super mundane nourishment of the soul M.80. Large group of disciples left Jesus when He proclaimed the mystery of the Eucharist (Jn 6. 60) as numerous nominal Christians and protestant souls still do still today IC1. Its importance revealed in ancient church architecture IC3. IC4.

FALLEN GUARDIAN CHERUB M.7, M.19, M.23, M.42, M.50, M.54, M.66, M.71, M.83, M.86; enkindles freedom more or less akin to anarchism in the human heart M.19.

GIANTS OF THE HEART M.16, M.24, M.25, M.42, M.43, M.46, AP1. These three sturdy giants are forgetfulness, laziness and ignorance M.16. Jesus Himself conquered them in the desert as a pattern for us to follow in the live of grace (see Mt 4. 1-11) M.26. Traditionally called the world, flesh and the devil in theology M.34.

GOD’S DIVINE MATERIALISM M.18, M.58, M.60, M.86. By His divine materialism God shows us how we can clean the Tabernacles of our own hearts by the grace of the sacraments M.18, M.19. By His divine materialism God saves us from the sad experience of souls being more spiritual and less material than God Himself as the devil is a pure spirit M.19.

HEART. In its purity the most sublime and highest spiritual faculty in the human being. Refers not to the organ but the contemplative intellect or nous of the New Testament (Lk 23. 46). In its purity it is the Throne of God M.54.  The Celestial City, shines gradually forth in the purity of the heart M.2, M.4, M.6, M.76, M.79, M.80, M.86. In the spiritual silence of the heart all movement culminates in a standstill as the summit of the life in grace M.11, M.21, M.22, M.47, M.66, M.71, IC1, AP1. The breastplate in the Old Covenant was the image of the heart which incites us to pay attention to the plate of our own hearts, lest they be blackened by sin M.4, M.13, M.20, M.25, M.29, M.64, M.66. The jewels of the Celestial City shall become a garland or a Gilgal (circle) around the Tabernacle of the soul’s heart M.5, M.11, M.12, M.25, M.27, M.36, M.42, M.64, M.77, M78, IC1.  Sacred images are a refuge against evil thoughts attacking the heart M.7, M.8, M.24, M.27, M.31; M.34, M.36, M.42, M.51, M.57, M.63, M.73. God endows the heart with skill to build the Sanctuary M.9, M.13, M.23, M.25, M.27. The soul becomes a true high priest in the Royal Priesthood of the New Covenant when she place her heart as a sweet offering before God M.11, M.16, M.22, M.51, M.65, M.73, M.76, M.78. The three great giants of the heart are hindrance on the way of sanctification  M.16, M.18, M.19, M.24, M.26 M.34, M.43, M.46. The Blessed Virgin is a pattern as regards the purity of the heart M.17, M.18, M.30 M.33, M.37, M.48, M.50, M.65. The eternal birth of the Word takes place in the purity of the heart revealing the Royal Image of Glory M.12, M.16, M.17, M.18, M.43, M.45, M.50, M.57, M.63, M.72, M.74, M.81, AP1. The Royal Image of Glory is hidden in our own hearts M.21, M.22, M.39, M.44, M.45.  Its purification is a must in the life of grace in order to desire and love Jesus M.22, M.23, M.29, M.37, M.38, M.48, M.49, M.56, M.58, M.59, M.60, M.65, M.73, IC2. The prayer is the entry into the Tabernacle of the heart  M.25, M.30. The Spirit teaches the soul to seek refuge in the Tabernacle of the heart  M.26, M.27, M.28. The Spirit teaches the soul to know the spiritual alphabet M.26, M.30, M.31, M.32, M.33, M.39, M.59.  The hidden meditation of the heart is revealed by super mundane circumambulation when the soul goes “round Zion” (Ps 48. 12) M. 7, M.9, M.28, M.46, M.47, M.49, M.77. The soul finds the Ladder of Love in her own heart in her purification M.39, M.42, M.69. God gradually “shines forth in the perfection of beauty from this Zion of the heart” (Ps 50. 2) M.46, M.55, M.57. The soul learns to become a true high priest in the Royal Priesthood of the New Covenant when she places her heart on the golden plate of the altar of incense which fills it with compassion for created beings M.62, M.65, M.67, M.68. The immanence and transcendence of the divine presence in the heart is revealed in the movement of the prayer of the heart M.45, M.60, M.63, M.64, M.66, M.72, M.74, M.76. Jesus renders the human heart into His own in the Tabernacle prayer M.63, M.64, M.65, M.66. The heaven of the soul is the heart where the spirit of adoption cries, “Abba! Father!” (see Rm 8. 16) M.71, M.74. In the night of redemption the heart is filled with heavenly jubilation the jubilation of the heart  M.74, M.79. John’s Revelation is the “Book of the manifestation of the Celestial City” in human hearts M.79. The Golden House of God is a shield or barricade for the heart M.84, M.85, M.86, M.87, M.88, M.89, M.90.

HIGH PRIEST. The Archetype for all souls in the Royal Priesthood of the New Covenant), M.3, M.11, M.16, M.17, M.22, M.23, M.29, M.31, M.33, M.52, M.53, M.57, M.60, M.62, M.64, M.65, M.67, M.75, M.79, M.82, M.83, IC2, AP1. Prefiguration of Christ M.4. Proclaims the sacrificial death of the egoistic self and the resurrection in the union of love in the purity of the Royal Image of the Christification M.11, M.25. His vestments with its nine articles reveals the sanctification as an inner transformation of the soul’s powers M.20, M.21, M.64, M.73. Proclaims the Way of the Cross M.44. The soul becomes a true high priest when the Morning Star begins to shine in her heart M.61; only the high priest was allowed entrance behind the curtain into the Holy of holies in the cover of the blood M.73; M.79; the angels are amazed at humans clothed with an incredibly beautiful garment of the high priest M.74; the soul is crucified with Christ in the prayer of union and thus a true high priest in the Royal Priesthood of the New Covenant M.75; as a true high priest the soul becomes the abode of the All Holy Trinity M.80; the high priest offered the atonement in the Holy of holies as to purify the Sanctuary of God's real presence preceding the DAY OF THE TABERNACLE or at the FEAST OF THE TRIUMPH OF THE CROSS  M.86; a true Christian high priest in the Royal Priesthood of the New Covenant must daily ask his Lord to outpour His Holy Blood over the crippled body of the Church on earth M.89.

HOLY IMAGES (see also Sacred symbols, Distorted images), M.3, M.10, M.12, M.14, M.23, M.27, M.42, M.71, IC1, IC3. God’s gallery of art exposed in the Bible and He uses purposefully M.5. They are God’s spiritual provision as to quench the arrows of the evil incitements of the enemy of our salvation M.7, M.51. As they are revealed in the Sanctuary they are a perfect painting of the high priest and our Archetype in the life of grace which is the King's Way ito the fullness of Christ M.25. The sacred images concealed in the Sanctuary of the Tabernacle are  golden chain to follow in the life of grace M.26, M.66. These holy images are instrumental signs in the life of grace M.39.

ILLUMINATION (of the Holy Spirit and the celestial hierarchies in the Sanctuary), M.1, M.21, M.27, M.33, M.36, M.42, M.43, M44, M.45, M.48, M.51, M.53, M.54, M.57. revealed as a Way of purification,  Way of illumination and Way of union by the three sections of the Sanctuary M.10; based on the love of a charitable knowledge M.11, M.12; appears gradually in the illumination of the jewels of the breastplate by God’s infused virtues M.13, M.16, M.25, M.46, M.46, M.56, M.61, M.62, M.65, M.66, M.67, M.75, M.76, M.77, M.89; revealed by the sevenfold illumination of the lamp stand M.22, M.57, M.59, M.60, M.64, M.79; Although the soul is no worse than before in this illumination, either in itself or in its relationship with God, it feels it clearly that it is so bad as to be not only unworthy that God see it but deserving of his abhorrence M.54; by the divine illumination of the celestial hierarchies God raises the soul “to the sublime and unknown methods of interior speech”  in the heart in its silence – the lost mother-tongue of the Royal Image M.80.

IMPEDIMENTS OF THE SOUL. Lack of virtues M.19, M.24, M.25, M.35, M.38, M.39, M.57, M.62, M.79, AP1. Listed in the Old Covenant M.15. Prevent the soul to serve as a true high priest in the Royal Priesthood of the New Covenant M.16. Cured in the prayer of union M.43, M.51, M.60. Were not absent in the primeval Church IC1.

INFLUX OF THE GRACE. The Greek fathers named this inflow of grace apporoia M.11, M.50, M.60. AP1. The influx of the grace is growth of the love of the charity as the soul get gradually fuller participation in the Light of Glory M.45. This influx is so subtle, clear and super mundane that the faculties of the soul would only be a hindrance and thus she must follow the impulses of love and suspensions M.67.

ISRAEL. Anti type of the new and spiritual Israel, the Church, as Judaism did not accept Christ as Savior (Jn 1.11) M.3, M.4, M.5, M.12, M.14, M.15, M.18, M.23, M.53, M.73, M.79, IC3. The twelve jewels or foundation stones were an everlasting reminder of the power of baptism among the Israelites M.5. Israel is the place where God reveals His power M.33, M.34. Refers to the contemplation where “His name is great” (Ps 76. 2) M.37. Foul idols of the House of Israel are loathsome in the eyes of God M.51. The breastplate was instituted to be the “supreme court” of Israel M.64 referring to a clear conscience of a pure heart. The names of the sons of Israel were written on the two emeralds on the shoulder straps of the high priest M.75, an admonition to the practice of intercession. In her sanctification the soul becomes the flower of the warriors of Israel M.77 as a true spiritual soldier.

ISRAELITES. Prefiguration of the members of the new and spiritual Israel M.5, M.12, M.14, M.18, M.30, M.41, M.42, M.52, M.61, M.79; M.86, M.89. Just as the the Israelites walked through the desert in accordance to the Divine Order of March under the guidance of  the ark that went before them, the Church must follow the Blessed Virgin’s pattern as the First living Ark of the New Covenant M.14. God divided the community of the Israelites into 5 separate groups M.16, M.23. Every Israelite had to pay a poll tax, a half a shekel of silver for his life M.39. The two rows of loaves represented the sons of Israel in the same way as the jewels of the Celestial City M.53. Aaron's staff, the almond branch, was an anti type of the Eternal Priesthood of Christ M.57. The circumcision was a rite that freed the Israelites from the bondage of sin as the circumcision of the heart in the prayer of union M.65.

JACOB’S LADDER OF THE SANCTUARY (see also Ladder of Love). M.6, M.11, M.12, M.21, M.42, M.45, M.46, M.65, M.90, AP1; the jewels of the breastplate become gradually the soul’s ladder to heaven M.16, M.39; play important role in the after death experience M.39, M.40.

LADDER OF LOVE (see also Jacob’s ladder). The jewels of the spiritual breastplate are revealed in a living faith as rungs in the soul’s Ladder of Love to God M.5, M.11, M.24, M.30, M.36, M.39, M.42, M.45, M.46, M.51, M.53, M.62, M.63, M.69, AP1. When the soul discerns this Ladder of Love within she discovers the grace of her Royal Image when Jesus Christ draws her to Himself M.21.

LIFE OF CHRIST. Appears as a force or power of formation in the Tabernacle prayer M.3, M.16, M.57, M.84. This power is the Life in Christ M.6, M.19, M.22, M.35, M.47, M.53, M.66, M.71.  It is an intimate union or fusion of the divine life of Christ and the life of the soul M.66. It is a participation of the soul in the eternal Life of Christ M.88.

LIGHT OF GLORY (see also the Uncreated Light, Shekinah Glory). the soul’s face becomes gradually marked by this radiant illumination and attains a face of Easter), M.12, M.38, M.45, M.50, M.54, M.57, M.60; all the validity of the infused prayer consist in increasing the capability of the soul as to receive the Light of Glory within in the sacraments M. 20; the Christification of the soul is nothing but an eternal seeing and staring at that Light, by that Light, and in that Light M.49; the Spirit desires to teach the soul by the revelation of the almond blossoms on the arms of the lamp stand that the splendors of His Uncreated Light of Glory shall be the nourishment of the soul in her illumination M.59.

LEVITE. He was consecrated for the service in the courtyard M.16, M.27, M.30, M.62, M.64. He carried the tools of the Tabernacle in the desert M.14. Prefigures a member of the Church that lives in his sensuous disposition of outer discipline M.16. Refers to a soul who  becomes stagnant on the Sacred Way M.30.

MASS. True contemplation is expressed in the liturgy M.24, M.28, M.72, M.81, IC2, IC3. The hearts of the faithful are lifted to heaven on the wings of love in the mass M.46. In the mass the faithful become a sweet offering for God and our neighborsM.65, M.72. In the mass the faithful enter the eschatological era standing at the Sacrificial Hill of the Cross in the real presence of Christ IC3 and “God comes out in the full flower of His joy and glory, as He is Himself” in the mass IC4.

MEDITATION. The hidden meditation of the heart recommended in this work has nothing to do with logical deduction of the discursive reason.  The Greek word meleton or “meditation” sheds a light on the real nature of such a meditation. The word means to make something his own or to master something by constant repetition, to let it have effects on the soul. Such a meditation was practiced by the prophets of the Old Covenant as we can see in the Psalms, “How blessed is anyone . . . who delights in the law of Yahweh and murmurs his law day and night” (Ps 1. 1-2). This is a meditative prayer (see also Ps 63.6; 77.12 and 143.5). In Latin men used another word in ancient times of such a meditation, the verb ruminare. The word means literally speaking to suck a nourishment to oneself or to chew it. When we meditate in this way it means that we so to say chew the Word of God and suck its nourishment to us as a seed in the ground and digest it. The Greek verb meleton  means also a plan or an architectural drawing. As such the meaning of the word is also interesting in the construction of the Sanctuary in the heart, to meditate it in a contemplation [in the temple] which reveals it as a the Recycling Plant of the Holy Spirit. The fathers in the desert paid great importance to the “discipline” of the interior man or the higher self, a practice which they named the “interior” or “hidden” meditation or kripti meleti. This interior meditation aimed at the purity of the heart. All of these holy fathers agreed that an inner activity existed in every man which was continuously at work and revealed itself in the wishes and desires of the heart. This inner activity or life had been injured seriously by the original sin and thus functioned disorderly and demanded thus healing by divine intervention, that is, it was necessary to free the self from the enslavement of emotion, passions and thoughts. This healing consisted in the inner meditation and spiritual reading. When the soul begins to circulate in its meditation within the curtains of the Sanctuary and scrutinize its message she practices spiritual reading after having learnt the letters of the spiritual alphabet M.28.

MODES OF UNION (four) M.48, M.53. God reveals His intentional plan in the live of grace as an union in four steps or modes which becomes gradually more intensive in the formation of the Royal Image, where the Eucharist plays a decisive role


MORNING STAR. Is Christ’s seal or character engraved in the soul’s essence in the life of grace. Token of the spiritual circumcision of the heart M.61. Fills the soul “with boundless delight” (Mt 2. 10) M.78.

NAZIRITE. Represents a soul who enters only the life of grace in her own terms M. 16, M. 27, M. 43, M.62.

NEW JERUSALEM (Ur-u-salem, city of peace). The Sanctuary of the Tabernacle was a reflection on earth of the Celestial City, the new Jerusalem referring to the Militant Church on earth and the Victorious Church in heaven M.2, M.4, M.9, M.17. M.24, M.28, M.34, M.44, M.53. M.65, M.77, IC1, IC2, IC3, IC4, AP1, AP2. The city is a token of the contemplation M.6. God has posted watchmen on its walls M.8, M.34. Jews became left hand’s people and outcasts, from Jerusalem on account of their unbelief M.20. As the prayer deepens the soul approaches gradually more the core of her being and discerns the Celestial City, the new Jerusalem M.45, M.47. It is “hidden in veils” in the Church as the Mystical Body of “Christo Total” M.47. The Spirit of power leads the soul to the glory of the Son in the Father of glory as to live eternally in the Celestial City, the new Jerusalem in the Father’s glory as revealed by the Holy Spirit in the Son in the illumination of its foundation stones M.49, M.56, M.60, M.62. The final goal of this pilgrimage on earth is to attain the vision of the blessed, the new Jerusalem, the city of the Living God “where the millions of angels have gathered for festival” (Heb 12. 23) M.72, M.74, M.82, M.89.

NIGHT OF THE SENSES. Takes place in the courtyard M.10, M.11, M.16, M.22, M.31, M33, M.35, M.39, M.40. M.42, M.45, M.54. M.60, M.64, IC2. AP1. Is the core of the prayer of inner recollection M.11. Reigns in the northern quarter of the Tetramorph M.15, M23. Is the mean to the knowledge of God and self M.23. Teaches the soul to judge things  in accordance to the light of faith, but not in accordance to her sensuous disposition M.27. The desert fathers named it also the winter of the senses M.42. In it the soul learns gradually to reject the incitements of the natural senses M.43. It is discerned in two opposite ways M.43. Is the Way of the Cross M.44. The soul escapes from the house of her senses in the dark night of the senses M.55. The purification in the night is a must as to M.72.

NIGHT OF THE SPIRIT OR POWERS OF THE SOUL. Takes place in the Holy M.10, M.16, M.23, M.40, M.45, M.46, M.50, M.54, M.60, M.70, M.86, IC2, AP1. Reigns in the eastern quarter of the Tetramorph M.15. The purgation in the dark night is to descend to hell alive [Ps. 55. 15] M.40. God heals the soul of her impediments in this night M.16, M.43, M.57. Is a direct contact with God Himself M.45. It is the passive formation of the Royal Image  M.51. St. Paul gives a vivid description of the nights in his letters M.53. It begins at the golden table M.54. The soul brings forward continuously growing offering of praise in the night M.57. The sufferings in the night of the spirit are creative sufferings M.57. M.67. The Bridegroom goes out and meets His bride in this night M.61. The soul attains the silence of the heart in this night M.63. M.90. Can be explained in terms of modern neurology M. 67.

NIGHT OF THE REDEMPTION. Takes place in the Holy of Holies M.10, M.45, M.54, M.60. M.75,  M.76, M.85, M.86, IC2, AP1. Reigns in the southern quarter of the Tetramorph M.15. In this night the soul is transformed into a nightingale and recites the new song continuously before the Throne of Glory with the Victorious Church in heaven M.74. In this night the soul learns that it is only possible to heal the scab and running sores of God's living body on earth with the fire of God's love M.75. This night will endure until the soul will walk through the gates of the Celestial City as to dwell there forever in glory at the Throne of Grace M.76; The Morning Star is revealed fully in this night M.78. The eight Beatitudes begin to shine forth in this night M.81. The soul attains the silence of the heart (hesychia) fully in the night of redemption M.90. St. Peter “walked” in this night on the water as the Living Body of the Church IC2.

OUR FATHER. Reveals gradually the vestments of the high priest in the hidden meditation of the heart M. 22, M.23, M.30, M.39, M.51, M.62, IC1, AP1, AP2. The Angelic Cross of the desert fathers is actually Our Father impressed or engraved in metal M.68, Our Father is a pattern for all true contemplative prayer M.69, M.70, M.71.

POWER (dynameos or potentia). God’s super mundane and super charged might. Israel is the place where God reveals His power in His Holy Spirit M.1, M.6, M.9 M.19, M.22, M.33, M.34, M.35, M.38, M41, M.51, M.53, M.54, M.56, M.64, M.77, M.81, M.84, IC1, IC4, AP1. God communicates strength and love from his heart to the soul M.4, M.33, M.35, M.43, M.50, M.74, M.75. Appears as power of protection of the celestial hierarchies and the four archangels closely related to the power hidden in the Holy Name M.14, M.15. M.29, M.42, M.46, M.48, M.82, M.86, M.90. Christ’s royal power of resurrection in the Tetramorph M.15, M.18, M.23, M.32, M.34, M.36, M37, M.50 M.56, M.62, M.83, M.84. The active power of grace appearing in the virtues M.16, M.30, M.64. The power of the Most High covered the Blessed Virgin with its shadow as other souls in the life of grace M.18, M.50; M.60, M.67. The Blessed Virgin reminds us on the fact that we have forgotten the power hidden in the prayer M.21. Is a creative power M.27, M.67. Makes men able to accomplish deeds beyond human power M.28, M.29, M.79, IC1. The four horns on the altar reveal the power of the glory or qeren M.29. Christian prayer is a thoroughfare of the power of God's glory M.34, IC2.  Active in the  sacraments M.42, M.51, M.58, M.60. Appears as power of attraction in the prayer M.60, M.66, M.74. Is a power of praise M.79, M.82. Its  supercharged energy field has been measured scientifically M. 81.

POWERS OF THE SOUL. Are the intellect, desire and wrath or incentive power M.10, M.42, M.43, M.55, M.71, AP1. Attain union when they gather together in our Lords name M.28. Doomed to death from the bad habits and inclination of the ego of selfishness in the prayer of union M.42. Are transformed into holy vessels under the banner of love M.51. Are lifted up in the life of grace in the three great nights of the prayer life: the night of the senses, the night of the spirit and the night of redemption M.60.

PRAYER. Souls who don’t pray are crippled in the live of grace M.24.  Teresa’s of Avila definition of the nine stages of the prayer is the foundation of this work:

(1) Vocal prayer, referring to the entrance into the courtyard, the emerald and the naked feet M.22, M.42, M.71, AP1.  Must be accompanied by reflection M.25, M.75. Must become an infused prayer saturated by the oil of the Holy Spirit M.61. “It is very possible that while you are reciting the Our Father or some other vocal prayer the Lord may raise you to perfect contemplation ” M.71.

(2) Prayer of outer recollection (referring to the altar of burnt offerings, the sardonyx and the breeches), M.11, M.22, M.33, M.35, M.42, M.43, M.47, AP1; the linen breeches (emotional life) emphasize that the soul is obliged to walk the Sacred Way in the light of faith instead of following her emotional inclination M.27.

(3) Prayer of inner recollection, referring to the bronze laver, the sardius and the tunic M.11, M.22, M.38, M.39, M.40, M.41, M.42, M.43, M.47, M.51. The soul learns to nourish herself on the gifts of God in it, just as the priests of Aaron stood empty handed in front of the entrance into the Holy and received their participation of the holy meat M.36. In the recollection the soul begins so to say to adjust herself to a new reality and thus the brain begins to form a new net of nerve contacts or channels appropriate for this new experience M.67.

(4) Prayer of rest, referring to the second entrance into the Holy, the chrysolite and the turban M.11, M.15, M.28, M.42, M.48, M71, AP1. The first stage of the infused prayer M.15. The soul halts in the prayer of rest as the priests did formerly in mid Jordan as to scrutinize the twelve jewels of eternal life as exposed on the curtain of the Second entrance M.41. In the shadow of the almond tree in the prayer of rest the soul becomes “a strong man” (Lk 11. 21) as to proceed further on the Sacred Way M.51.

(5) Prayer of union, referring to the golden table of loaves, the beryl, union with discerning of the real presence in the heart and the robe M.3, M.11, M.15, M.16, M.17, M.22, M.28, M.38, M.41, M.42, M.44, M.51, M.53, M.54, M.55, M56. This stage of the prayer of union confirms that the Eucharist prefigured by the golden table is the locus of the Christification.

(6) Prayer of union, referring to the lamp stand, the topaz, union with suspension in love and the ephod M.22, M.48, M.57, M.58, M.59, M.60, M.61, M.62, AP1. Makes the soul a little christ by its anointment.

(7) Prayer of union, referring to the golden altar of incense, the chrysophrasus,  union with transport and the breastplate M.22, M.65, M.66, M.67, M.71, M.74, AP1. It is in this prayer that the soul becomes a true high priest in the Royal Priesthood of the New Covenant.

(8) Prayer of union, referring to the curtain, the jacinth, union in the flight of the spirit and the two emeralds on the shoulder straps M. 74, M.75.

(9) Prayer of union, referring to the ark, the amethyst, the spiritual matrimony and the golden rosette or flower in the silence of the heart M.80, M.89, M.90, IC1, IC4, AP1.

PRAYER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. The University of the Blessed Virgin in the prayer life M.18, M.25, M.28, M.29. The Blessed Virgin is the headmaster of the University of Prayer M.18, M.58.

PRIESTS. The priests of Aaron were consecrated for the service in the Holy M.12, M.16, M.26, M.27, M.30, M.33, M.37, M.41, M.42, M.43, M.51, M.53, M.54, M.57, M.61, M.73. Their impediments an admonition to the Royal Priesthood of the New Covenant M.15, M.16; when the priests stood empty handed in front of the entrance into the Holy and received their participation of the holy meat they were obliged to offer wave offering or tenufah – to make a prefiguration of the horizontal line of the cross – and heave offering or terumah – the prefiguration of the vertical line or pillar M.36, M.51;  their white tunic distinguishing mark of those replacing the high priest of the Old Covenant in the pure faith of  “kingdom of priests . . . to sing the praise of God who called them out of the darkness into his wonderful light” (1 Pt 2. 9) M.79.

PROTESTANT SOULS. In the life of grace they are the opposite of the Blessed Virgin’s disposition M.35, M.38, M.60, IC3, AP2. Are truly protestants in their hearts M.48. Have become far more Protestants than Luther ever was M.80. Not only to be found within the camp of Protestantism: numerous protestant souls can be found in the Roman Catholic as well as the Orthodox Church IC2. Protestantism, M.28, M.40, M.72, M.80, IC2.

ROYAL IMAGE OF GLORY. (Archetype of the soul in the life of grace), M.12, M.19, M.21, M.22, M.24, M.27, M.29, M.31, M42, M.48, M.51, M.53, M.57, M.58, M.63, M.65, M.71, M.73, M.78, M.80, M.83. Royal Image of the Christification M.13, M.16. The soul is gradually clothed in the vestments of the Christ as her High Priest in her assimilation to Him M.20, M.39. Revealed as reflection in the bronze laver in pure faith M.22, M.36, M.44. Proclaimed in the gateway of the Tabernacle M.25. Revealed by the illumination of the infused grace in the prayer M.42. Proclaims the Way of the Cross M.44, M.57, M.73. The Eucharist plays a decisive role in its formation in four modes M.48. Its passive formation of the Royal Image begins in the night of the spirit at the golden table M.51. Fully realized when the curtain into the Holy of holies is removed and the soul approaches God in the boldness of her parrisia wearing the garments of the light of grace, the vestments of the high priest M.73, M.74. Is the the imago Dei or Royal Image within (Gn 1. 26) M.81, M.88, M.89. Reveals the heavenly and perpetual priesthood of the Founder of the faith AP1.

ROYAL PRIESTHOOD OF THE NEW COVENANT (revealed in the illumination of the jewels or foundation stones of the new Jerusalem as living stones of God’s glory), M.4. M.8, M.11, M.29, M.37, M.58, M.79, AP1. Grounded on the holy tradition of the one and true apostolic faith M.8. In the illumination of the jewels or sparkling stones of the Celestial City the soul is gradually healed of her twelve impediments M.16, M.39. The soul becomes gradually a true high priest in the Royal priesthood as a theological being in the illumination of the jewels M.22, M25, M.42, M52, M.57, M.61, M.62, M.64, M.67, M.80, M.82, M87. In the illumination of the jacinth the soul becomes a Living ark in the Royal Priesthood M.75, M.79. When the soul has been clothed in the wedding garments as a true high priests in The Royal Priesthood she is clothed in the robe of unity “woven in one piece from neck to hem” (Jn 19. 23) IC2.

SACRED HEART OF JESUS. Tabernacle of God the Most High. The Sanctuary is a blueprint or replica of the only movement in Jesus’ heart: “I will draw all to myself” (Jn 12. 32) IN, M.4, M.9, M.10, M.19, M.21, M.25, M.37, M.46, M.49, M.51, M.56, M.57, M.59, M.61, M.75, M76. Is burning oven and fountain of all mercy M.28, M.63, M.73, M.81, M.83, M.90. In this escalation from praise to praise in the liturgy of the mass the only and true movement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus as the First Mover in creation is expressed M.46, M.65. In her super mundane circumambulation in the inner meditation in her heart the soul is gradually drawn to Jesus M.47, M.58, M.60, M.61, M.63, M.76. The stem of the lamp stand reveals the ascend from the tomb through the Eucharist towards the Sacred Heart of Jesus M.60. In the fullness of the Beatitudes the soul gets participation in the only movement of the Sacred Heart M.76, M.80, AP1. In effective grace our own hearts will gradually attain participation in the purity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in their assimilation to the Immaculate heart of Mary in the mystery of the Tabernacle prayer AP1.

SACRED SYMBOLS (see also Holy Images), M.1, M.15, M.16, M.72. By His purposeful use of sacred symbols God reveals how we are lifted up to and and become one with Him M.61. Are revealed in the Art Gallery of the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures M.1, M.83, IC1.

SACRAMENTS M.14, M.15, M.18, M.28, M.42, M.48, M.59, M.68, M.75, M.78, M.80, IC3. Revealed in an authentic way by the greater tools of the Sanctuary M.19, M.58. Their effects the soul’s spiritual adornment in the life and grace M.20. Infused grace is founded on the capability of receiving the sacraments in a worthy way, but not ficte (feignedly, or falsely) M.20, M21. Reveals how God works through matter in His divine materialism M.19, M.52. Are a character imparted on the soul as an “impress” before the spiritual marriage M.52, M.60. Make the soul able to discern the real presence of God within by her spiritual senses in the purity of the virtues M.65. Are a thoroughfare of  co-operative grace and St. Paul didn't “set aside God's grace as of no value” (Gl 2. 21) M.90.

SPIRITUAL ALPHABET. In his right hand the high priest carries the Book of Life which the soul will study attentively when she has been instructed in the spiritual alphabet in order to read this Book of Life M.21, M.22, M.25, M.27, M.28, M.63. The first 5 letters of the spiritual alphabet reveal God’s intentional plan  in the live of grace M.29. The 5 following letters in this spiritual alphabet refers to the soul's disposition in the live of grace and the soul’s passivity or co-operation in accordance to God's intentional plan M.30. The Spirit instructs her still further in the spiritual alphabet on her way from the altar of burnt offerings to the bronze laver M.30, M.32, M. 33.

TETRAMORPH. Prefiguration of the four Evangelists and their teaching streaming like four rivers from Paradise over whole the world enkindling the spiritual fruits of the Spirit of Life in human hearts, M. 7. M.15, M.16, M.18, M.19, M.21, M.22, M.23, M.24, M.25, M.26, M.28, M.29, M.30, M.33, M.34, M.35, M.37, M.39, M.41, M.42, M.46, M.47, M.51, M.53, M.54, M.57, M.59, M.61, M.68, M.71, M.73, M.74, M.79,  M.82-M.90, IC2, IC3. Place of spiritual growth M.15, M.16, M.17, M.53, M.57, M.60, M.62, M.75, M.78. Where the Hebrew tribes walked in the order of their age under the guidance of the ark of the covenant M.16. In order to emphasize the spiritual growth God divided the community of the Israelites into 5 separate groups M.16, M.17. The Blessed Virgin’s Tetramorph is a pattern for the Church to follow M.18. Makes the soul able to ascend to God as an eagle M.30. Even “fool will not stray along” in it (Is 35. 9) M.34. From the northern quarter the soul walks into the blessings of the east as to fill the flock of the right hand people in its southern quarter as a winged man M.65. Abba Isaac's Tetramorph refers to  growth of fervent love M.69. the Tetramorph of the ancient Icelandic fathers refers to the four spiritual fasts M.70. Teresa’s of Avila Tetramorph reveals the watering of the garden of the heart M.71. In the night of redemption the bride becomes a living Tetramorph M.75, M.77, M.82, M.85 – its center M. 49. The live of grace streams from its centerM.29. Where the Sacred Heart draws us to God the Father M.61. From its center the four streams of grace flow as a life giving river M.68. Represents our human condition  M.90, its mystery M.15, M.17, M.46, M.78, M.82, M.90, AP1. Several of the church fathers discussed its mystery in their writings M.15. Where the Spirit teaches the soul the secrets of divine love M.48. Reveals the efficacious power of Christ's “wisdom, saving justice, holiness and redemption” (1 Cor 1. 30) M.83, AP1. Is a pattern in the prayer life M.72. In its inscrutability we end where we began M.78. Reveals the four cardinal virtues M.85. Its capital headings reveals a earth which has become the footstool of God's glory (Ps 72. 19) M.89. Its sublime mystery shines also in an authentic way forth in the new private chapel of Pope John Paul II in the Vatican dedicated to “Redemptoris Mater” IC1, – its love M.33, M.48. In it we approach the abysmal depths of Christ's love M.90; – its protection M.31, M.41, M.48, M.84. A pentagram of the Holy name of Jesus M.82; its quarters M.17, M.23, M.36, M.41, M.50, M.61, M.62, M.63. the sevenfold protection of its Holy Name M.26, M.82; its northern quarter a place of purification M.27; intercession and praise predominant in its the southern quarter M.62, IC1;  its power M.29, M.48, M.84. Reveals the power of the name of Jesus M.32. In its fourth quarter God manifests His Kingdom of power M.62. Reveals the efficacious power of Christ's “wisdom, saving justice, holiness and redemption” (1 Cor 1. 30) M.83

TRINITARIAN MYSTERY (see also All Holy Trinity) M.33, M.48, M.49, M.51, M.59, M.73. In it each individual soul becomes a replica of the Church in its wholeness: a reflection of the beauty of the Celestial City M.47. Abyss of love and the “supreme summit of the inward life” M.49. Sheds light upon the growth in the Tetramorph in four stages M.60. Revealed as Life of Christ in organic union M.66. A true high priest in the Royal Priesthood of the New Covenant is not an illusionist but a man of works in eternal rest in the fathom of the Trinitarian mystery M.79. The jewels of the Celestial City are  a golden chain down to the abysmal depth of the Trinitarian mystery M.81.

VIRTUES. Revealed by the almond blossoms on the lamp stand, the jewels of the breastplate, the garland of flowers (Gilgal) around the bride’s heart and the gold in the Sanctuary M.4, M.9, M.13. M.16, M.17. M.21, M.29, M.30, M.37, M.39, M.45, M.49, M.50, M.55, M.57, M.59, M.60, M.65, M.71, M.72, M.76, M.77, M.83, AP1. In the virtue of His obedience our Redeemer became “house of God and gate to heaven” for us to follow as a pattern M.12, M.81. Obedience, spiritual poverty and purity are the three fundamental virtues of the spiritual life reflected in the three first foundational jewels of the Celestial City M.12, M.13, M.17, M.24, M.29, M.64, M.71, M.77. The prayer is the leader of the choir of the virtues M.24, M.64. The virtue of the remembrance of God M.26, M.27, M.28, M.29. The virtue of humility revealed by the sockets of the pillars M.31. The virtue of the remembrance of death M.36, M.39, M.40. In the contemplation God is seen in the power of the virtues M.37, M.69, M.79. The Holy spirit infuses the virtue of sobriety into the soul’s heart M.41, M.42, M.57, M.64. The virtues are like  tower or walls of the Golden House of God M.41, M.61, M.85. Infused virtues of the Holy Spirit are a adornment before the spiritual marriage and flowers in the soul’s heart M.43, M.48, M.49, M.51, M.53, M.54, M.57, M.59, M.60, M.64, M.65. M.72. M.73, M.76. The virtue of spiritual discrimination makes the soul able to discern the heavenly manna as proper nourishment M.51, M.53. The enemy sows darnel among the wheat or flowers of the virtues M.55. The lamp stand reveals the moral and infused virtues in an authentic manner M.59, M.60. In the Eucharist His Majesty gives the soul rich gifts of the virtues M.60. The virtue of the silence of the cross (hesychia) M.63, M.64. The intellectual virtues M.64. The treasure of the virtues exposed by the crown on the Icon of Mother of Perpetual Help M.81. The Golden House of God is as barricade of the virtues M.83, M.84, M.85, M.90. The Cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance), M.19, M.58, M.76, M.77, M.83, M.84, M.85. The divine or theological virtues (faith, hope and charity), M.19, M.35, M.58, M.60, M.63, M.65.

UNCREATED LIGHT (see also Light of Glory: Shekhina Glory) M.11, M.19, M.42, M.51, M.54, M.61. M.62, M.67, AP1, AP2. In the Uncreated Light the soul is able to discern the Time of Christ M.23. The saints in heaven have nourished themselves on the glory of the Uncreated Light M.45. The inclinations of the will are completely healed of the wounds of the original sins in the radiance of the Uncreated Light M.53. God’s Uncreated Light of Glory shall be the nourishment of the soul in her illumination M.59, M.64. God meets the soul in the Glory of its light M.78. This Uncreated Light is the love of the charity and immeasurable and in its effect as infinite as God Himself M.78. This Uncreated Light of Glory shines above the mercy seat in the purity of a human heart, as the almond blossoms thrive and grow in the illumination of the lamp stand M.79, M.80. Reveals the pristine purity of a soul after having been restored in the baptismal grace M.87.

ZION (token of God’s Kingdom on earth, the Church Militant), M.2, M.12, M.17, M.37. the soul is urged to contemplate its mystery, the city of our feast M.6, M.25, M.34, M.46, M.47. The precious corner stone, Christ, is found in Zion M.1, M.72. It is the last letter in the spiritual alphabet M.33. God shows Himself forth in Zion M.45, M.46, M.62. The soul becomes becomes a “secret friend of God” in Zion M.60. A place of divine knowledge M.64.