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  • The third segment, "Purgation," maintains some of the feel of the second, with its jittery rhythms and occasional freeze-frame moments.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ed Howard 2007

  • The third segment, "Purgation," maintains some of the feel of the second, with its jittery rhythms and occasional freeze-frame moments.

    10/25: Portrait of Jason; Brakhage shorts Ed Howard 2007

  • Nothing less will serve you here than that drastic remodelling of character which the mystics call "Purgation," the second stage in the training of the human consciousness for participation in Reality.

    Practical Mysticism 1875-1941 1915

  • Nothing less will serve you here than that drastic remodelling of character which the mystics call "Purgation," the second stage in the training of the human consciousness for participation in Reality.

    Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People Evelyn Underhill 1908

  • Purgation: Conscious for the first time of the Divine reality and the immeasurable distance separating it from finite existence, one attempts to bridge the gap with focused discipline and practice—purifying the mortal self to prepare for the emergence of the spiritual Self.

    Fully Human, Fully Divine: James Fowler and Evelyn Underhill William Harryman 2009

  • Purgation is largely concerned with the fleshy instincts and compulsions found in gross states of everyday waking consciousness

    Fully Human, Fully Divine: James Fowler and Evelyn Underhill William Harryman 2009

  • He must jump through the Hoops of Flame and be subjected to the Ritual Of Contritive Purgation by the all-knowing Hieropundits so that it is assured his conversion is a genuine one.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Good Edwards 2007

  • Purgation is twofold: a process of atonement similar to that found in the Inferno (the wrathful, for example, shrouded in smoky darkness sing and pray, meekly, for mercy; the envious weep through eyes sewn shut), and the receiving of grace through the prayers that the living offer on the sinner's behalf.

    Purgatory, In All Its Nuance 2007

  • Candlestick‘ — ’Handfull of Myrrh and Hyssop to put a Sick Soul to Purgation‘ — ’A Draught of

    Kenilworth 2004

  • The menstruous Purgation is a Flux of Blood issuing monthly from the Uterus.

    Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

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