mysticism

• But there is undoubtedly a dislike to accepting anything which cannot be proved by scientific means, and a tendency to describe as "mysticism"--a terrible and damning term to apply to anything, so its employers think!--any explanation which postulates something more in the universe than operations of a physical and chemical character My own opinion is that the state of things which we are considering finds its explanation in history, and I propose to devote a short space to developing this view. —  Science and Morals and Other Essays
• Or if the weather happened to be inclement, Mr. Berners and Mrs. Blondelle would sit in the library together, deep in German mysticism or French sentiment Every evening Rosa sat at the grand piano, singing for him the most impassioned songs from the German and Italian operas; and Lyon hung over her chair turning her music, and enraptured with her beauty Ah! —  Cruel As The Grave
• Labadism, theologically, belonged to the school of Calvin; in its spirit it was in line with the vein of mysticism which is met throughout the history of the Christian Church. —  Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
• He was brought into close contact with the common people, was enabled to study them, but he also became thoroughly imbued with that spirit of mysticism which is peculiar to ignorant and illiterate people. —  A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections
• That a mind so free and noble surrendered itself entirely to the philosophy of Plotinus and to polytheistic mysticism, is a proof that the spirit of the age works almost irresistibly, and that religious mysticism was the highest possession of the time. —  History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)

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