Medieval women mystics believed that their physical mortifications served as purgation for the sinful dead. The analogy with the traditional "threefold way" of Purgation, Illumination, and Union, is not exact. The soul, however, is not always in this state free from desolations and passive purgation. When applied to a wound, it is said to induce purgation. The process of purgation has been already started. It was also used for purgation. The government started communist purgation from Jogjakarta and Solo.