Part one of term paper
was a Carthusian mystical writer. One of his works, De theologia mystica, also known as De triplici via, was written between 1246 and 1297. This book was one of the first to attempt a methodical description of the interior life according to the schema of the "three ways". Those "three ways" consisted of the purgative, illuminative, and un ...

Part two of term paper
... in contemplation - a knowledge of God by unknowing. pronounced himself as a disciple of Psuedo-Dionysius. He held that an affective union with God, in which contemplation culminates, confers a knowledge far more penetrating than what intellect and reason can provide. explains other means of arriving at a truly contemplative prayer. He made much of the usefulness of "anagogic movements" of the soul using short upward movements of mind and heart and fervent aspirations. These movements would ...