Mysticism

"Mysticism" is just a term that sets me off these days.

Free to be Home 2006

Mysticism is seldom worth more than very casual attention unless/until its practitioners become law breakers.

Matthew Yglesias » Too Hot for CBS 2010

Mysticism comes from the Greek “mystikos,” which means “seeing with the eyes closed.”

Buzzine » The Cure 2008

So do I. Mysticism is the greatest influence in the world and the mysticism that surrounds monarchy and all the old traditional institutions creates an atmosphere that has a wonderful effect.

Some Impressions of My Stay in England 1935

Now, the author of this book may lay claim to being a humble student of both Chemistry and what may be generalised under the terms Mysticism and Transcendentalism; and he hopes that this perhaps rather unusual combination of studies has enabled him to take a broad-minded view of the theories of the alchemists, and to adopt a sympathetic attitude towards them.

Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

We have now reached the end of the period of the Republic; but before I go on to the age of Augustus, with which I must bring these lectures to an end, I must ask attention to a movement which can best be described by the somewhat vague term Mysticism, but is generally known to historians of philosophy as Neo-pythagoreanism.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Studies in Mysticism and Religion presented to Gershom G. Scholem on his Seventieth Birthday by Pupils, Colleagues and Friends.

Bibliography - Critical Apparatus 2005

In their widest sense, including many remarkable phenomena of Natural religion, and, of course, the most wonderful manifestations recorded in the Old Testament, they form the system called Mysticism and are the proper object of Mystical theology.

The Interior Castle or The Mansions 1921

In fact, St. Bernard represents the reaction from Scholasticism, which took the form of Mysticism, that is, the purely contemplative attitude towards the verities of the Christian creed.

The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 1907

Carlyle's so-called Mysticism is a part of his German poetry; in the sphere of common life and politics he made use of plain prose, and often proved himself as shrewd as any of his northern race.

Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863