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I bet you are in the 'biz' .... as a studio lot custodian. mysticus
Avatar’s Budget is Almost $500 Million?! Can It Make a Profit? | /Film 2009
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He's full of stories starring microorganisms that thrive in boiling sea water, or featuring the extinct Titanis, a 10-foot-tall carnivorous bird that "lop [ed] along on stilt legs like a malevolent ostrich," or Nanaloricus mysticus, a. 01-inch-long creature that "vaguely resembles an ambulatory pineapple."
The Sixth Extinction 2008
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[353] 'Magni doctores scholastici, si non sint spirituales, vel omni rerum spiritualium experientia careant, non solent esse magistri spirituales idonei -- nam theologia scholastica est perfectio intellectus; mystica, perfectio intellectus et voluntatis: unde bonus theologus scholasticus potest esse malus theologus mysticus.
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The fifteen hooks "De mysteriis" or "Opus mysticum", mentioned by Assemani (III, 1, 563), are probably identical with the "Codex mysticus" cited by Facundus (III, 2).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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So it is Das Ewig-Weibliche that draws us heavenward, as the Chorus mysticus tells us, the Eternal Feminine, embodied in the Mater Gloriosa, "Jungfaru, Mutter, Königen, Göttin".
British Blogs 2009
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So it is Das Ewig-Weibliche that draws us heavenward, as the Chorus mysticus tells us, the Eternal Feminine, embodied in the Mater Gloriosa, "Jungfaru, Mutter, Königen, Göttin".
British Blogs 2009
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St. Thomas Aquinas and Dante give what looks like a final and scientific statement about allegory, with the four varieties of meaning that might attend a verse of scripture or a poet's verse-the sensus literalis, that is, the obvious or historical meaning of the words; sensus moralis, their application to human character; sensus allegoricus or mysticus, the prophecy of the Gospels in some passage of the Old Testament; and the sensus anagogicus, which revealed somethg about man's existence in the life to come.
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It was really my intention at first to have the whole "Chorus mysticus" sung invisibly ” which, however, would be possible only at performances given in theaters, by having the curtain lowered.
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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"Magni doctores scholastici, si non sint spirituales, vel omni rerum spiritualium experientia careant, non solent esse magistri spirituales idonei -- nam theologia scholastica est perfectio intellectus; mystica, perfectio intellectus et voluntatis: unde bonus theologus scholasticus potest esse malus theologus mysticus.
The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus of Avila Teresa 1548
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Spinochordodes tellinii); c Loricifera (Nanaloricus mysticus
Pharyngula 2009
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