The Epistle to the Ephesians teaches us: "Therefore be imitators of God", Ephesians 5: 1. The spiritual gifts or charisms are perfections. Even though they are perfections, these perfections can be grouped into degrees of spiritual perfection, as Thomas Aquinas teaches in the Summa Theologica. Thomas Aquinas makes a distinction in gifts of the will: gift of the fear of God, gift of mercy, gift of fortitude, and gifts of the understanding: gift of knowledge, gift of discernment, gift of wisdom, gift of counsel. Conforming the seven gifts of the holy spirit of the sacrament of the confirmation. Remember that in the First Letter to the Corinthians is written: "But earnestly, desire the greater gifts" 1 Corinthians 12:31.
The Beatitudes of the Gospel of Luke and Matthew respond to the spiritual gifts, that is, each beatitude is related to a charism or a degree of spiritual perfection.
Following the idea of the Gospel of Luke, there are different degrees of spiritual perfection:
                                                              a) Imitate God
                                                              b) Likeness to God
                                                              c) Image of God
                                                              d) Emulation of God

a) To imitate is to replicate a behavior, imitate God is to practice the Golden Rule: "Do for others what you would like them to do for you," the Golden Rule is known as the Spiritual Gift of Righteousness is a gift because it is a perfection. The basis of the Golden Rule is the spiritual faculty of empathy, the Golden Rule divides humans in two groups: the first group, those who practice it or to say those who live according to the spirit, and the second group, those who do not practice it, or to say those who live according to the flesh.

b) Likeness to God. The likeness in metaphysics is given in the equality of the species. A specie is given by his essence. Example, the essence of man is reason. Two men are similar because they share the same essence, the reason. The essence of God is wisdom,  be like God is to share his essence with him, that is, to be wise as God is wise.

c) Image of God. Image means perfect likeness. Example: Two people are one the image of the other when they are twins. We are the image of God when we bear fruit the character of God, that is the fruit of the spirit (Galatians 5: 22-23).

d) Emulate God. Emulate, Aristotle tells us is to imitate capturing the spirit, the personality of the imitated.  We emulate the great personalities. Emulate God is the Gift of Council: listen, meditate (with intuition and inspiration), decides.