For the Week ending 06/25/10
Directions: Choose the word that matches with the definition and appropriately fits into the blank space in the sentence.
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having spiritual meaning or sense; interpretation of a word or text (Scripture or poetry) that finds beyond the literal, allegorical, and moral senses a fourth and ultimate spiritual or mystical sense
Scripture has been given four meanings: the literal or historical, the allegorical or Christological, the tropological or moral, and the _______, which guides to eternal life. |
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strict self-denial and austerity as measure and means of spiritual discipline
His personal habits were simple and spare to the point of _______. |
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in yoga, any of seven body points that are sources of psychic energy and spiritual power
Each energy center is referred to as _______, a Sanskrit word which means wheel. |
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art or method of attaining happiness; theory that the highest ethical goal is happiness and personal well-being
_______ aims for personal happiness as the chief good and proper aim of action. |
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religious beliefs held to be based on special mystical insight into divine nature
Some consider the only real _______ to be altruism, and not so mysterious at all. |