During a conference of Moslem saints, he argued with other saints over the perception of Truth as mystic union with the Creator/Manunggaling Kawula Gusti.

By the link of mystic union, by the symbol of the Life, Spirits, I summon you!

But in the course of time, sufi has come to designate all Muslim believers in mystic union.

This last is considered the highest or truest form of mystic union.

Now let him imagine an union takes place between himself (the mystic union of the Ego and Absolute).

The seeker is ordered to devote much time to mystic struggles including to spend a certain period of time in seclusion to attain mystic communion and mystic union.

The starting point is the idea that the body-bound soul's awaited release and return to its source in the other world can be experienced during the present life in mystic union attainable through inward purification.

Thirteenth-century episcopal registers had emphasized the recluse's service to God through a penitential, ascetic life, and the achievement of a mystic union with God was mentioned if at all only in passing.

Paul had a mystic union with the Crucified One, (Gal.

He further states that "the joy that flows from the mystic union is unspeakable and full of glory" (241).