Contemplation – elevation of mind resting on God. Simple intuition of divine truth that produces love.

Conversion – Any turning or changing from a state of sin to repentance,   from a lax to a fervent way of life and from unbelief to faith.

Discern – To perceive with the eyes or intellect; to recognize or comprehend mentally;  to come to know or recognize mentally.

Divine Faith – when the one believed is God.

Holiness – In the Old Testament the Hebrew Kadosch (holy) meant being separated from the secular or profane, or dedication to God’s service, as Israel was said to be holy because it was the people of God. The holiness of God identified his separation from all evil. And among creatures they are holy by their relation to him. Holiness in creatures is either subjective or objective or both. It is subjective essentially by the possession of divine grace and morally by the practice of virtue. Objective holiness in creatures denotes their exclusive consecration to the service of God: priests by their ordination, religious by their vows, sacred places, vessels, and vestments by the blessing they receive and the sacred purpose for which they are reserved.

Heretic – A person professing heresy. Ecclesiastical law distinguishes between a formal heretic, as one who is sinfully culpable, and a material heretic, who is not morally guilty for professing what may be objectively heretical doctrine.

Intuition – (etym. Latin intuitus) – awareness of truth without mental effort.

Magi – Members of the priestly caste of the Mazdean religion.

     * The appearance of an unusual star caused them to leave the East in search of a king of whose birth the star was a sign. Herod asked them to return after finding the Infant.

But the Magi, warned in a dream, went back to the East by another way. They are described as bringing symbolic gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Their names Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar are first mentioned in the sixth century.

Sanctify -  1. make or declare holy; consecrate.

                        2. make legitimate or binding by religious sanction.

                        3. free from sin

Secular – That which belongs to this life, of the world, wordly, not of God

Temporal – Anything that lasts only for a time, whose existence or activity will cease. In this sense, temporal is the opposite of eternal, which lasts forever. Also applied to what is of this world, or secular, as opposed to the heavenly. Or again it may refer to the material, in contrast with the spiritual.