{"product_id":"picturesongold-com-saint-teresa-of-avila-color-available-in-solid-10k-and14k-yellow-or-white-gold-or-sterling-silver-17-0-millimeters","title":"PicturesOnGold.com Saint Teresa of Avila Color - Available in Solid 10K And14K Yellow or White Gold, or Sterling Silver 17.0 Millimeters","description":"\u003ch3\u003ePicturesOnGold.com Saint Teresa of Avila Color - Available in Solid 10K And14K Yellow or White Gold, or Sterling Silver\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"b\"\u003eCHAIN IS NOT INCLUDEDAvailable in Solid 14K Yellow Gold, White Gold, \u0026amp;\nSterling Silver Saint Teresa of vila was a prominent Spanish mystic, Carmelite\nnun, and writer of the Counter Reformation. She was a reformer of the\nCarmelite Order and is considered to be, along with John of the Cross, a\nfounder of the Discalced Carmelites. In 1970 she was named a Doctor of the\nChurch by Pope Paul VI. The kernel of Teresas mystical thought throughout all\nher writings is the ascent of the soul in four stages (The Autobiography Chs.\n10-22): The first, or \"mental prayer\", is that of devout contemplation or\nconcentration, the withdrawal of the soul from without and specially the\ndevout observance of the passion of Christ and penitence (Autobiography\n11.20). The second is the \"prayer of quiet\", in which at least the human will\nis lost in that of God by virtue of a charismatic, supernatural state given of\nGod, while the other faculties, such as memory, reason, and imagination, are\nnot yet secure from worldly distraction. While a partial distraction is due to\nouter performances such as repetition of prayers and writing down spiritual\nthings, yet the prevailing state is one of quietude (Autobiography 14.1). The\n\"devotion of union\" is not only a supernatural but an essentially ecstatic\nstate. Here there is also an absorption of the reason in God, and only the\nmemory and imagination are left to ramble. This state is characterized by a\nblissful peace, a sweet slumber of at least the higher soul faculties, a\nconscious rapture in the love of God. The fourth is the \"devotion of ecstasy\nor rapture,\" a passive state, in which the consciousness of being in the body\ndisappears (2 Corinthians 12:2-3). Sense activity ceases; memory and\nimagination are also absor\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003ch3\u003eProduct Features\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cul class=\"a\"\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"PicturesOnGold.com","offers":[{"title":"17.0 Millimeters \/ Sterling Silver","offer_id":44383027626164,"sku":"B00DE5DNFC","price":205.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0595\/9906\/1172\/files\/B00DE5DNFC.jpg?v=1789288643","url":"https:\/\/auspowers.com\/products\/picturesongold-com-saint-teresa-of-avila-color-available-in-solid-10k-and14k-yellow-or-white-gold-or-sterling-silver-17-0-millimeters","provider":"AusPower Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}