*HOLY/*HOLINESS - also see HOLISTIC, WHOLE, COMPLETE, GLORY, PERFECT, GOD
Antonyms: SEPARATE, IDOLTRY, SIN,
Middle English, from Old English hālig; akin to Old English hāl whole — more at whole
1: exalted or worthy of complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness
2: divine <for the Lord our God is holy — Psalms 99:9(Authorized Version)>
3: devoted entirely to the deity or the work of the deity <a holy temple> <holy prophets>
4 a: having a divine quality <holy love> b: venerated as or as if sacred <holy scripture> <a holy relic>
1.
1. Belonging to, derived from, or associated with a divine power; sacred.
2. Regarded with or worthy of worship or veneration; revered: a holy book.
3. Living according to a strict or highly moral religious or spiritual system; saintly: a holy person.
4. Specified or set apart for a religious purpose: a holy place.
5. Solemnly undertaken; sacrosanct: a holy pledge.
6. Regarded as deserving special respect or reverence: The pursuit of peace is our holiest quest.
7. Informal Used as an intensive: raised holy hell over the mischief their children did.
I have a vague recollection of the idea that a big aspect of holiness was being devoted to, and therefore under the ownership/mastership of, God (a la your 2 Tim 2:21)...and then another aspect was differentness from the (human) norm "be holy as I am holy".
"... the delighted intellect delights in the light of the Lord when, free from concepts, it enters into the dawn of spiritual knowledge. By continually denying itself, it advances from the wisdom necessary for the practice of the virtues to an ineffable vision in which it contemplates holy and ineffable things. Then the heart is filled with perceptions of infinite and divine realities and sees the God of gods in its own depths, so far as this is possible. Astounded, the intellect lovingly glorifies God, the Seer and the Seen, and the Saviour of those who contemplate Him in this way." see http://www.chrmysticaloutreach.com/
Holy is the place where the senses are at peace. (Lost Years, p358)
Holy is having the right relationship to God (Dict?)
In ancient religion, the cult of a holy place was associated with a nostalgia for the lost paradise, when human beings lived on intimate terms with the gods. (Beginning, p82)
Just as this bread (of the eucharist) reveals God, so too will the whole of creation someday reveal him. Everything is holy. Everything is full of God. Everything is one and the same life. (Contemplation, p95)
God's holiness is like the sun. God being holy does not mean he is separate from the world, for He is in fact immanent in the world, but that He is separate (not a part of) from sin. "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord, our God ( )." Thank God that He is holy, holy, holy because only that attribute/quality of perfect goodness could be self-existant, and would be kind enough to create us, and even more loving to forgive us and redeem us, and even more awesome yet to adopt us as children and to be "partakers in the divine nature (2 Pet )" as co-creators. God being holy means He is separate only from sin, but not the world. If wonder if: holy spirit = church = femine = open/loving = heaven? (Randy)
"Hallow be thy name" means to MAKE holy is your nature. (Randy)
In the OT the idea of holiness meant to be separated from whatever is base and impure. Applied to God, it signified his complete apartness and distinction from the things he had created. God stands completely above and apart from his creation: yet this is not the whole story, for God's holiness is also active and makes demands upon people. For God is also holy becuase he makes holy. He wishes his creation to share his holiness, and man to share his own divine life! (Guide, p24)