TY - JOUR AU - Kaczor-Scheitler, Katarzyna PY - 2016/11/17 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Medytacyjny charakter Nabożnych westchnień Mikołaja Mieleszki JF - Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka JA - 10.14746/pspsl VL - IS - 27 SE - Odkrycia DO - 10.14746/pspsl.2016.27.16 UR - https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/6599 SP - 325-349 AB - <p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;">The article points to a relationship between Mikołaj Mieleszko’s </span></span><em><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Italic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Italic; font-size: small;">Nabożne </span></span></em><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Italic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Italic; font-size: small;"><em>westchnienia </em></span></span><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;">and meditations, and shows the meditative character of the </span></span>baroque emblematic works. It also presents the division of the work into three books introduced by Mieleszko, which can be referred to the model <span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;">of a three-stage mystical way to God (</span></span><em><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Italic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Italic; font-size: small;">via purgativa</span></span></em><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;">, </span></span><em><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Italic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Italic; font-size: small;">via illuminativa</span></span></em><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;">, </span></span><em><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Italic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Italic; font-size: small;">via unitiva</span></span></em><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;">), </span></span>used by St. Ignatius of Loyola (but knowing by Pseudo-Dionysius The Areopagite and fully expressed by St. Bonaventure). Moreover, it discusses the participation of human faculties in the emblems: memory, intellect, will, imagination, and feelings, which are so important for the act of meditation. Above all, emphasis is put on the goal of the reflections <span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;">presented by Mieleszko in the </span></span><em><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Italic; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Italic; font-size: small;">subscriptio</span></span></em><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: ArnoPro-Regular; font-size: small;">; they were supposed to touch the </span></span>soul and convince one to a spiritual transformation. They were, therefore, just like meditations, a way of achieving inner growth.</p> ER -