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Bernini’s famed sculpture “The Ecstasy of St. Teresa” captures St. Teresa of Avila’s account of being caught up in a trance with God and the forces of Heaven, an orgasmic mystical union of sorts.

Okaaayyy......

That's just...... weird.

So, it’s not as though these women are incapable of experiencing bliss...just on a higher level and yet in full maintenance of their purity.

IOW, marriage and sex make a woman impure. So marriage and sex are sinful and to be avoided to maintain *purity*.

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I meant that these women are able to experience these moments of ecstasy and transcendence outside of marriage yet still being pure. Not through sinful means. Marriage of course is not a sinful mean.

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Or rather: these women are married, just not to an earthly spouse.