In the meantime, he had composed a great part of his most famous poem Spiritual Canticle during this imprisonment ; his harsh sufferings and spiritual endeavours are then reflected in all of his subsequent writings.

Although his complete poems add up to fewer than 2500 verses, two of them — the Spiritual Canticle and The Dark Night of the Soul are widely considered masterpieces of Spanish poetry, both for their formal stylistic point of view and their rich symbolism and imagery.

During his imprisonment he composes his Spiritual Canticle.

* St. John of the Cross ( Juan de Yepes ) ( 1542 – 1591 ): Wrote three related instructional works with The Ascent of Mount Carmel as a systematic approach to mystic prayer, together with The Spiritual Canticle, and The Dark Night of the Soul these provided poetic and literary language for the Christian Mystical practice and experience.

Spiritual life is cultivated, but students do not need to be Christian.

Spiritual life is incorporated in matter, when it is given artistic form.

In several texts, the luminary Eleleth is the last of the luminaries ( Spiritual Lights ) that come forward, and it is the Aeon Sophia, associated with Eleleth, who encounters darkness and becomes involved in the chain of events that leads to the Demiurge's rule of this world, and the salvage effort that ensues.

As holder of one of the " five great sees " ( the others being York, London, Durham and Winchester ), the Archbishop of Canterbury is ex officio one of the Lords Spiritual of the House of Lords.

Deeply involved in the future of the Jews in the former Soviet Union, Steinsaltz serves as the region's Duchovny Ravin ( Spiritual Rabbi ), a historic Russian title which indicates that he is the spiritual mentor of Russian Jewry.

This is expressly denied by Covenant Theologians who claim the existence of a relationship via “ Spiritual Israel .” A dispensationalist would claim that none of the prophecies pertaining to Israel are or will be fulfilled in or by the New Testament Church.

Spiritual deism is the religious and philosophical belief in one indefinable, omnipresent god who is the cause or the substance ( or both ) of the universe.

Spiritual deism is extremely general and is not bound by any ideology other than the belief in one indefinable god whose spiritual presence can be felt in nature.

* Some deists, usually referred to as Spiritual Deists, practice meditation and make frequent use of Affirmative Prayer, a non-supplicative form of prayer which is common in the New Thought movement.

Spiritual practice ( sadhana ) is performed with the faith that knowledge beyond the mind and sense perception will be revealed to the practitioner.

It is referred to within Victoria as the " Spiritual Home of Australian Sport ".

In February 2007, Ptolemaic Productions acquired the rights to The Singularity is Near, The Age of Spiritual Machines and Fantastic Voyage including the rights to Kurzweil's life and ideas for the film Transcendent Man.

Spiritual training is to support what Steiner considered the overall purpose of human evolution, the development of the mutually interdependent qualities of love and freedom.

The body is elected every five years during a convention of the members of the various National or Regional Spiritual Assemblies ( NSAs ) across the world.

The Universal House of Justice is supported by the elected national and local governing bodies of the Bahá ' í Faith, ( the National Spiritual Assemblies and Local Spiritual Assemblies respectively ).

* March 20 – In the German town Memmingen the pamphlet The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed is published, the first human rights related document written in Europe.

Spiritual growth in Tenrikyo is also viewed as a step-by-step process by which you can walk your own path at your own pace.

Spiritual elevation is achieved through the elimination of negative karma and the accumulation of virtue.

In 1865 Robert Roberts published a collection of Scottish psalms and hymns called The Golden Harp ( which was subtitled " Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, compiled for the use of Immersed Believers in ' The Things concerning the Kingdom of God and the Name of Jesus Christ '").

At Indiana University in 1999 he organized such a symposium, and in April 2000, he organized a larger symposium entitled " Spiritual Robots " at Stanford University, in which he moderated a panel consisting of Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, Kevin Kelly, Ralph Merkle, Bill Joy, Frank Drake, John Holland and John Koza.

On 24 May 1952, en route from the Meher Spiritual Center to Meher Mount in Ojai, California, the car in which he was a passenger was struck head-on near Prague, Oklahoma.

In 1998, Kurzweil published The Age of Spiritual Machines, which focuses heavily on further elucidating his theories regarding the future of technology, which themselves stem from his analysis of long-term trends in biological and technological evolution.

During his time at the archives, Steiner wrote Die Philosophie der Freiheit ( The Philosophy of Freedom or The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity — Steiner's preferred English title ) ( 1894 ), an exploration of epistemology and ethics that suggested a path upon which humans can become spiritually free beings.

In 1907, he wrote an essay on " Education in the Light of Spiritual Science ", in which he described the major phases of child development that were later to form the foundation of his approach to education.

Most recently, the last principle, adopted in 1985 and generally known as the Seventh Principle, " Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part ", and a sixth source ( adopted in 1995 ), " Spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature " were added to explicitly include members with Neopagan, Native American, and pantheist spiritualities.

* Spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.

His writing in The Blue Rider Almanac and the treatise " On the Spiritual In Art " ( which was released around the same time ) were both a defence and promotion of abstract art and an affirmation that all forms of art were equally capable of reaching a level of spirituality.

Writing of the " artist as prophet " in his book, Concerning the Spiritual In Art, Kandinsky created paintings in the years immediately preceding World War I showing a coming cataclysm which would alter individual and social reality.

Most of these are either part of the more traditional Old Believer movement, which arose from a schism within Russian Orthodoxy, or the more radical " Spiritual Christianity " movement.

She also employed other mystical ascetic works such as the Tractatus de oratione et meditatione of Saint Peter of Alcantara, and perhaps many of those upon which Saint Ignatius of Loyola based his Spiritual Exercises and possibly the Spiritual Exercises themselves.

Hapgood audiotaped and transcribed a number of Babbitt's " trance lectures " which purported to come from Jesus, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, and the Hindu god Vishnu, using the material to publish his final three books: Voices of Spirit, Through the Psychic Experience of Elwood Babbitt ( 1975 ), Talks with Christ and His Teachers Through the Psychic Gift of Elwood Babbitt ( 1981 ), and The God Within: a Testament of Vishnu, a Handbook for the Spiritual Renaissance ( 1982 ).

In 2008, Keaggy received the Gold Level Award as the " Best Spiritual / Worship Guitarist ", as voted by readers of Acoustic Guitar Magazine, as well as appearing in the form of vocals and lead guitar on the Richard Cummins CD, Moments, which was nominated for " Best Pop / Contemporary Album of the Year " by the Canadian GMA's, Covenant award.

In 1921, Loy posed for Harry Winebrenner's statue titled " Spiritual ," which remained in front of Venice High School throughout the 20th century and can be seen in the opening scenes of the 1978 film Grease.

The Lords Reading Clerk reads the Commission aloud ; the senior Commissioner then states, " My Lords, in obedience to Her Majesty's Commands, and by virtue of the Commission which has been now read, We do declare and notify to you, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled, that Her Majesty has given Her Royal Assent to the several Acts in the Commission mentioned.

* Spiritual capital, which refers to the power, influence and dispositions created by a person or an organization ’ s spiritual belief, knowledge and practice.

* Prayer for Spiritual Elevation and Protection (' al-Dawr al-A ' lā ), a short prayer which is still widely used in the Muslim world

And finally at the very apotheosis of the literary-alchemical opus in which he delivers his three factors for determining truth, namely authority, reason and experience ; Vulcan here representing the demi-urge or " higher man " who, not unlike the Gnostics, " Man of Light ", uses his craftmanship and skills to aid, enlighten and liberate the Spiritual Man within.

The bronze casting depicts the authors of the Gospels with their symbols: Matthew the angel representing the Gospel of the Church ; Mark, the lion and inspiration for Peter ’ s teachings or catechesis ; Luke, the ox, for his recounting of Christ ’ s infancy ; John, the eagle, for the writer of the Spiritual Gospel, recounting the story of " the Word made flesh.

The endless knot has been described as " an ancient symbol representing the interweaving of the Spiritual path, the flowing of Time and Movement within That Which is Eternal.

These sculptures include several groups of people at prayer representing Spiritual life, Religious Education and Worship.

* there are 182 National Spiritual assemblies representing most of the countries of the planet ( see Worldwide Bahá ' í statistics )