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PASSIVE RECOLLECTION

An inward recollection of the soul, not by any imaginative consideration of divine things, but by a gentle and affectionate absorption of the mind and heart in God produced by a special grace of the Holy Spirit. The senses are not suspended but remain in the soul's possession so that they can be applied to God.