functions in these highest forms of mystical union. Human, rational consciousness and will are not annihilated in this mystical union with the divine. That would be to misrepresent the message of love and recognition in this union that gives it its true meaning as a grace. The grace is not a creation, as if from nothing, but a renovation and an elevation that transforms the one being graced, including its intelligence and will. Nature and reason are not taken away, but reborn to a new life. In support