Thank you for pointing of Guido II, Derek.
I do not know how much practical help these models really are either : ) I certainly did not use them before. I guess I am just a little disappointed in myself that I did not discover them earlier. I feel like pointing them out to an assumed somebody out there who feels like there is only one particular tradition that figured out how to "get enlightened".
That this particular tradition figured it all out and other mystics from other traditions were just crazies without insight deluding themselves with an old full-bearded semi-white man sitting on a cloud : ))
3 heavens of Jacopone da Todi (an Italian Franciscan friar in the 13th century)
First, when the mind has achieved self conquest, the "starry haeven" of multiplicity is revealed to it.
Next, it achieves the "crystalline heaven" of lucid contemplation, where the soul is conformed to the rhythm of the divine
life, and by it's loving intuition apprehends God under veils.
Last, in ecstasy it may be lifted to that ineffeble state which is called "hidden heaven" where it enjoys a "vision of imageless reality" and enters into "possesion of all that is God".
A discussion on similarities of "a vision of imageless reality" and cessations, anybody? : )
