As just remarked, there are two main forms of ecstatic longing for God

and the other an enravishment taking one beyond oneself. | The first pertains to those who are still in the process of achieving illumination | the second to those perfected in love. | Both, acting on the intellect, transport it beyond the sense-world. | Such longing for the divine is truly a spiritual intoxication, impelling natural thoughts towards higher states and detaching the senses from their involvement with visible things. | #59, On Commandments and Doctrines, p. 222.