::: Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: / Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

" This alludes to the Catholic belief in a spiritual state, known as Purgatory, in which those souls who are not condemned to Hell, but are also not completely pure as required for entry into Heaven, go through a final process of purification before their full acceptance into Heaven.

Tirthankaras are not regarded as deities in the pantheistic or polytheistic sense, but rather as pure souls that have awakened the divine spiritual qualities that lie dormant within each of us.

Some characters can seem to " transform " themselves ( or others ) into unliving substances, or even pure energy, by storing their bodies in extradimensional space and replacing them with bodies made from matter or energy from that dimension, while their souls remain on Earth, controlling their new body.

" Our patron, St. Maximilian Kolbe, inspires us with his unique Mariology and apostolic mission, which is to bring all souls to the Sacred Heart of Christ through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Christ's most pure, efficient, and holy instrument of evangelization – especially those most estranged from the Church.

Upon the stone he is directed to engrave crosses on each side with a knife, and then pronounce the following prayer: " Bless, O Lord, this creature of stone ( creaturam istam lapidis ) and grant by the invocation of Thy holy name that all who with a pure mind shall lend aid to the building of this church may obtain soundness of body and the healing of their souls.

The pure see a vision of God, warming their souls as they enter eternal peace.

The church preaches that the soul is what connects us to God and that we most honor and keep our souls pure by following the morals and ethics of the bible.

Having come to the conclusion that her hosts ' corrupted souls are a cause of her failures, she tries to possess a baby with great magical potential and a pure, uncorrupted soul.

He is also unable to deal with pure spirits, such as that of Captain Marvel, Superman, and when he took the love that Wally West ( the Flash ) and Linda Park for each other, he discovered to his dismay that the purity of it began to corrupt him to the extent he begun to feel compassion for the damned souls in his realm.

Likewise, Heaven is not completely pure, as Saint Peter seems to take pleasure in sending souls to limbo instead of through the Pearly Gates, as well as letting souls through that aren't completely pure.

Certain goals and objectives were finally accomplished with ' Tara ', through exploration of our ancestral attributes and channeling divisions of pure magic within our minds and souls ".

Those whose souls are not pure will feel they are being suffocated and may be driven insane.

: May He bless us with pure and noble souls

I, Ealdorman Alfred and Wærburh my wife obtained these books from the heathen army with our pure money, that was with pure gold, and this we did for the love of God and for the benefit of our souls and because we did not wish these holy books to remain longer in heathen possession.

Painga, Varaha, Sunaka, and Sandilya of great ascetic merit: Kukkura, Venujangha, Kalapa and Katha ;-- these virtuous and learned Munis with senses and souls under complete control, and many others as numerous, all well-skilled in the Vedas and Vedangas and conversant with ( rules of ) morality and pure and spotless in behaviour, waited on the illustrious Yudhishthira, and gladdened him by their sacred discourses.

So for us even the hour of liberty rang out grave and muffled, and filled our souls with joy and yet with a painful sense of pudency, so that we would have liked to wash our consciences and our memories clean from the foulness that lay upon them ; and also with anguish, because we felt that this should never happen, that now nothing could ever happen good and pure enough to rub out our past, and that the scars of the outrage would remain within us forever ... Because, and this is the awful privilege of our generation and of my people, no one better than us has ever been able to grasp the incurable nature of the offense, that spreads like a contagion.

Her life was spared by Artemis, who transformed the maiden into a statue of pure crystalline quartz to protect her from the brutal claws.

After this, the senior priest ( or bishop ) pours pure olive oil and a small amount of wine into the shrine lamp, and says the " Prayer of the Oil ", which calls upon God to "... sanctify this Oil, that it may be effectual for those who shall be anointed therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from every passion, every malady of the flesh and of the spirit, and every ill ..." Then follow seven series of epistles, gospels, long prayers, Ektenias ( litanies ) and anointings.

By eating the meat of the amphisbaena, one could attract many lovers of the opposite sex, and slaying one during the full moon could give power to one who is pure of heart and mind.

The term acquired a special significance in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ), who used it to describe the equally rational but contradictory results of applying to the universe of pure thought the categories or criteria of reason that are proper to the universe of sensible perception or experience ( phenomena ).

Coloured Cheddar-style cheese has long been sold, but even as early as 1860, the real reason for this was unclear: Joseph Harding stated " to the cheese consumers of London who prefer an adulterated food to that which is pure I have to announce an improvement in the annatto with which they compel the cheesemakers to colour the cheese ".

In the Roman Age, female widows who did not remarry were considered more pure than those who did.

However, this understanding of original sin is what lies behind the Christian emphasis on the need for spiritual salvation from a spiritual Saviour, who can forgive and set aside sin even though humans are not inherently pure and worthy of such salvation.

On December 6 the Pope issued a statement to further emphasize that the Church continued to support its traditional stance that salvation was available to believers of other faiths: " The gospel teaches us that those who live in accordance with the Beatitudes -- the poor in spirit, the pure of heart, those who bear lovingly the sufferings of life -- will enter God's kingdom.

They felt that this original pure religion had become corrupted by " priests " who had manipulated it for personal gain and for the class interests of the priesthood in general.

The conclusion that pure proteins can be enzymes was definitively proved by Northrop and Stanley, who worked on the digestive enzymes pepsin ( 1930 ), trypsin and chymotrypsin.

" The future alone will judge which was the true Germany in 1933, and who were the true Germans -- those who subscribe to the more or less materialistic-mythical racial prejudices of the day, or those Germans pure in heart and mind, heirs to the great Germans of the past whose tradition they revere and perpetuate.

Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style.

It is also hinted that the Celestial Intervention Agency will evolve into the beings of pure thought known as the Celestis, who observe the war from outside this dimension ( the Last Parliament in which they sit resembles the Panopticon on Gallifrey and the closest anyone gets to describing them is similar to the Time Lords ' robes ).

An early example of people who practiced selective horse breeding were the Bedouin, who had a reputation for careful breeding practices, keeping extensive pedigrees of their Arabian horses and placing great value upon pure bloodlines.

In that case these famous words are said to have been uttered " The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it ".

The Tanakh describes circumstances in which a person who is tahor or ritually pure may become tamei or ritually impure.

Albert Richardson, who knew him personally in the 1850s, wrote that Kit Carson was " a gentleman by instinct, upright, pure, and simple-hearted, beloved alike by Indians, Mexicans, and Americans ".

Babylonian Talmud Berakhos 28a relates that Rabban Gamliel would announce that any student who is not pure enough so that ' his outer self is like his inner self ' may not enter the study hall.

Kerenyi suggests that the name Ariadne ( derived from, hagne, " pure "), was an euphemistical name given by the Greeks to the nameless " Mistress of the labyrinth " who appears in a Mycenean Greek inscription from Knossos in Crete.

Before beginning Ideen Husserl's thought had reached the stage where " each subject is ' presented ' to itself, and to each all others are ' presentiated ' ( Vergegenwartigung ), not as parts of nature but as pure consciousness.

As for his philosophical convictions, we have an interesting, probably authentic fragment of one of his writings ( On sacrifices ) where he expresses his view that God, who is the most beautiful being, cannot be influenced by prayers or sacrifices and has no wish to be worshipped by humans, but can be reached by a spiritual procedure involving nous ( intellect ), because he himself is pure nous and nous is also the greatest faculty of humankind.

And when all this had been done and set in order, as the sun reached its zenith the vision came to life: in the pure blue sky of the eastern horizon a single dark cloud began to form and move irresistibly towards them.

Satan had been very much perturbed when he saw that the prayers of the children reached God, who took more delight in the childish songs from their pure hearts than in the hymns of the Levites in the Temple in Jerusalem ; and it was for this reason that Satan tried to put a stop to Besht ’ s training the children in prayers and taking them to synagogue.

Such judgments must be reached a priori, using pure practical reason.

It is not " pure consciousness ", as it is often understood in western thinking, reached by " cleaning the doors of perception ":

During the Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1911 ) knotting finally broke from its pure folklore status, becoming an acceptable art form in Chinese society and reached the pinnacle of its success.

However, Trotsky doubted that a state of pure bureaucratic collectivism would ever be reached ; he believed that, in the absence of a proletarian revolution to return the Soviet Union to socialism, a comprehensive counter-revolution would return the nation to capitalism instead.

When he reached the Dark Desert, he appeared as pure red " furnace heat " in the shape of his former body.

The Path of Light and Sound involves the initiate traveling the microcosm dharmicly in consciousness ( soul ) with the guidance and protection of the Outer Living Master in the physical world and the Inner Shabd Master in the higher worlds until the regions of pure spirituality are reached and God-Realization is attained.

Each plateau is a different demiplane that demands spiritual evolution be reached, until a pure state of mind is found in the seventh heaven.

In October 2010 production had reached 2, 500 units, making the Th! nk City one of the world's best selling pure electric cars.

In the centipede game, a Pure strategy consists of a set of actions ( one for each choice point in the game, even though some of these choice points may never be reached ) and a Mixed strategy is a probability distribution over the possible pure strategies.

When no solution to the Polish question could be reached with Austria after the Brest-Litovsk treaty, Germany essentially dropped a pure Mitteleuropa plan in favor of a policy of Ostraum, because Poland was still the key to the Ukraine, Russia and Southeast European states that were the goal of German economic domination.

* Under pure thermodynamic reaction control, when the equilibrium has been reached, the product distribution will be a function of the stabilities G °.

It reached its final development in the plates after Millais's Cherry Ripe and Pomona, published it in 1881 and 1882, when the invention of coating copper-plates with a film of steel to make them yield larger editions led to the revival of pure mezzotint on copper, which has since rendered obsolete the steel plate and the mixed style which it fostered.

Although the Jamaat-e-Islami has reached some influence, Ahmed resigned from the party in 1956 when it entered the electoral process and believed that such an involvement led to " degeneration from a pure Islamic revolutionary party to a mere political one ".