In the illuminative way the soul, purified, grows in the virtues and in prayer, and its understanding of divine things is enlightened. The Christian writers associate it with progress in meditation and the beginnings of contemplation. Evelyn Underhill made illumination one of the five stages of her “mystic way”.
Illumination
The illuminative way: the second stage of the mystical path, in which the mind is enlightened by grace.
Also: illuminative way