Fifth Stage of Spiritual Development: Mystical Unity

This is the final stage of theosis where an individual is in such close unity with God that they are able to discern the will of God at a rate inconceivable by most. Some faithful are able to do so in short bursts of spiritual ecstasy, and most are only capable of God's will after the fact, not before. For most, God's omnipresence is perceived only in silence.

These individuals - these living saints - need not rely on emotional music and gathering to invoke a feeling of spirituality. In total silence, they are able to discern the will of God. It is known that St. John Paul II would habitually be in verbal conversations in Eucharistic chapels, and those around praying with him would feel only moments pass away when in fact they were with him for hours.

The living saints also at times perceive time in a quite different manner. Every event they perceive, every person they come across, they are able to peer through the past, present, and potential futures.

I suppose I can only note what we ought to learn from them as opposed to how they are like for I have no first hand exposures to them. The lesson is to set the goal of spiritual development to where they have been. Their rational faculty of the soul was as aligned as they could be on this corruptible world with that of God's perfect Reason, Logos, the Word. To be one with the Word of God in all respects through belief, perception, adherence, and self-mortification as much as we possibly can is the aim of our lives. Thus concludes my observations and accounts on stages of spiritual development.