How can one consider a christian of another denomination is not recognized or brought to the fullness of the eternal life if they are not in total union with the Catholic Faith. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
For this reason, spousal love — which seeks total union with the beloved — calls for a union of bodies as well as of hearts and minds. (faith.org.uk)
It is evident that the sexual symbolism so fully used by Blake (and so widely felt to be the fullest symbolism for total presentness in the imagination of our time) carries with it this sense of the dissolving of structure, of the loss of self in total union. (religion-online.org)