Like the saints, she sets herself the goal of blotting out the sinful earthly body in order to be swept into ecstatic union with the Beloved.

While the ballerina and Baron forge an ecstatic union in her bedroom, overhead, her companion catalogues her mistress's emotional needs.

No ecstatic unions.

Porphyry tells us that on four occasions during the six years of their intercourse Plotinus attained to this ecstatic union with God.

They taunt, but they also teach, giving their pupil a vision of sexual bliss: of the ecstatic union of the soul and eternity.

Then and only then shall we achieve an ecstatic union with God.

Your terror when you knew what was happening to you has to find its opposite so the dreams gave you this ecstatic union.

The beat of qawwali, for mystical Muslim Sufis, promises an ecstatic union with the divine.

Once upon a time, the intellectual and emotional consummation Hampl seeks through art, through seeing the ecstatic union between subject and object would already be hers.