...ectrical or chemical reason for some people to think that they have had a mystical experience? Some work in Canada strongly indicates a psychologica... ...work in Canada strongly indicates a psychological basis for the religious mystical experience. ―Still, with the absence of scientific evidenc... ... experienced it? The holiest adherents to most religions have had similar mystical experiences--the Hindu who has united with the Brahman through ye... ...These saints are close brothers in their beliefs--all near the top of the mystical mountain, but all arriving by different means of travel. ―It ... ...ople can never be certain unless they somehow directly experience God in a mystical experience, and even then, others would argue that it was merely ... ... couldn‘t have foreseen and probably would disapprove. ―One of our poets put it this way: Is there heaven or is there hell? No book nor sage...

...u- tion of sentiments and ideas, has come to be regarded at last as a half-mystic and glorious ceremony with certain fashionable rites and preliminary... ...hat the West Indies awaited my coming. I had to go there. It was a sort of mystic conviction—something in the nature of a call. But it was difficult t... ...tery. The sides of his overcoat bulged out with pocket editions of various poets. When not engaged in reading Virgil, Homer, or Mistral, in parks, res...

... a few bronzes, and some quaintly wrought ornaments of gold, and gems with mystic figures and inscriptions. There, or thereabouts, the line was suppos... ...ad one which I told you at the fountain the other day. He had known mighty poets, he said, in his earlier life; and the most illustrious of them would... ... sky is wont to be set aflame with breadths and depths of color with which poets seek in vain to dye their verses, and which painters never dare to co... ... away. For the rest, let them be piled in gar- rets, just as the tolerable poets are shelved, when their little day is over. Is a painter more sacred ... ... tran- sept, she came to a confessional—the central part was closed, but a mystic room protruded from it, indicating the pres- ence of a priest within... ...the illumination which it needs. Would not this be an admirable idea for a mystic story or parable, or seven-branched allegory, full of poetry, art, p... ...than prose; and when I go home to America, I will suggest it to one of our poets. Or seven poets might write the poem together, each lighting a separa... ...ttle upon their assistance, and profited by it not at all. Remembering the mystic words which Miriam had ad- dressed to him, he was anxious to meet he... ...nder the influence of an extra flask of wine, might have reeled across the mystic limitation of carnival proprieties. The sculptor heard some people n...

...his pupil and helper, with characteristic tren- chancy, brushed aside this mysticism, and interpreted the discovery as ‘a geometrical method of dividi... ...ugh some half-built streets of two-storied houses’; he had Carlyle and the poets, engineering and math- ematics, to study by himself in such spare tim... ...s profound. His pious optimism increased and became touched with something mystic and filial. ‘The grave is not good, the approaches to it are ter- ri...