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...ism Introduction 4 What’s in a Word? 6 Mysticism defined 8 What is Reality? 10 Prominent mystics: J/C/I 12 Prominent mystics: H/B 14 Mystic viewpoints 17 Quotations of mystics 19 Our different worlds 21 Quotations of mystics 23 Mysticism is not... 25 Quotation...

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...Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 – c. 1416) is considered to be one of the greatest English mystics. Little is known of her life aside from her writings. Even her name is uncertain, the name Julian coming from the Church of St Julian in Norwich, where she occupied a cell adjoining the church as an anchoress. At the ...

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... If you're a Beatles fan, you know the Fab Four morphed from mop tops to mystics and from rockers to revolutionaries. Through all the experimental ...

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... perfectly natural to him. Later, religious- minded people were to use the mystics' phrase 'the dark night of the soul' to describe those years, but ... ... the statements of the sages and seers for others. Had it not been for the mystics, the sages would have been clean forgotten long ago. The sages don... ...rity. What they say is the authority. This the sages talked about but the mystics just had experiences. They tried to share that through music and a... ...can be shared with somebody else. This is not an experience at all. The mystics are trying to tell you, so they are always in the field of duality,... ...at teachers never use any authority and they do not interpret anyone. The mystics help you to look at things differently, to interpret things differe...

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...of the universe and become part of the cosmic harmony. Isn’t this what the mystics from all religions throughout the ages have done? Following my p... ...of the universe and become part of the cosmic harmony. Isn’t this what the mystics from all religions throughout the ages have done? 102 Followi...

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...One should be especially cautious of those who call themselves "Kabbalists" or mystics, and move as far away as possible from them. These people can c...

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...th written upon this Song, and the jesuit, Luis de la Puenta, and several other mystics who have followed those famous masters of spiritual things? ...

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...nd “practical” Kabbalists, who hunt souls with their cunningness, and the mystics, who use withered wisdom that came from under the hands of unworth...

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... vital requirement without which no religious involvement is possible. The mystics also generally expound this view, a point we will examine in consid... ... separate from attitudes and groups alike, whether cultural or ethnic. The mystics, by and large, epitomize this emphasis. And for others, a history o... ...ed to induce visionary experiences which came to take the form familiar to mystics the world over, although colored by Hindu teaching—visions of the c... ... must not be overlooked. It is to be found in the negative theology of the mystics. One such writing has become a classic; it comes from the hand of a... ...ences feel. However, as we will see in Chapter 4 on mysti- cism, Christian mystics are far less prone to do this than the the- ologians, as illustrate... ... in fact, happening in this yoga? Alexandra 38. Alexandra David-Néel, With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet (1931). (Penguin reprint of 1936), pp. 207-8... ...cedes the feeling. This is very likely the reason for the observation that mystics from all traditions report quite similar experiences, yet when desc... ...thing ineffable and supremely real is a genuine feeling and, as among most mystics everywhere, the attempt to put a name and definition to it is bound... ...ke a bridging of the two reli- gions possible, and this has occurred among mystics, including Muslim mystics, fairly frequently. But, as we will see i...

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...s, and reunion with other entities with whom great affinity is felt. Mystics have described this as the drop absorbing the ocean, as opposed t...

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...Oversoul and ceases to exist. ―I find it sad that there are few mystics or yogis in Indus. Most people give lip service to the gods, while...

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...is inferior to the tools developed over centuries by philosophers, theologians, and mystics. Moreover, scientists often confuse language of repr...

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... ―We find pantheism in Christianity also. There are a number of Christian mystics in the West. Panentheism is more common in Eastern Orthodox Chris... ...only experienced, the mystic melds into a pantheistic God. Quite commonly mystics from the several religions will write similarly about their experie...

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...is inferior to the tools developed over centuries by philosophers, theologians, and mystics. Moreover, scientists often confuse language of repres...

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...is inferior to the tools developed over centuries by philosophers, theologians, and mystics. Moreover, scientists often confuse language of repres...

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...the two previous centuries. As we read the extraordinary writ- ings of the mystics who studied the sciences in their relation to infinity, such as Swe...

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...ctres have started, which wise men think to discover in science, and which mystics find in God alone. The hope of possessing at last the ideal being w...

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...f the mortal self. Not to realise that, is the heresy of Quietism, of many mystics. Commonly such people are people of some wealth, able to command se...

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...r parents be- queathed to her that fatal exaltation of soul which misleads mystics and renders them all more or less mad. She subjects herself to fast...

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..., or the yellow-burning marl of a Hell-on-Earth? Our Professor, like other Mystics, whether delirious or inspired, gives an Editor enough to do. Ever ...

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...h temples in their eyes) do not exceed its noble grace and simplicity. The mystics make discoveries at home, that the Gothic architec- ture is Catholi...

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...his particular communion, which continued to fol- low the doctrines of the Mystics notwithstanding the cen- sures of the Church upon Fenelon and Madam...

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...Theology, compounded as it is of the doctrine of the Greek Fathers, of the Mystics and of Ethical Philosophers, consists,—if I may hint a fault in one...

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...Virgin, mother, be thou kind! Goddess, queen of heaven! 477 Goethe CHORUS MYSTICS. Each thing of mortal birth Is but a type What was of feeble worth ...

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... Juan de la Cruz, don’t you?” “I don’t indeed.” “He was one of the Spanish mystics. He’s one of the best poets they’ve ever had. I thought it would be...

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... Religious Experience ness”— Yoga— Buddhistic mysticism— Sufism— Christian mystics— Their sense of revelation— Tonic effects of mystic states— They de... ...ytheism, and ecstatic feelings of union with the Savior in a few Christian mystics. But then why not equally call reli- gion an aberration of the dige... ...fers. Take the trancelike states of insight into truth which all religious mystics report.[8] These are each and all of them special cases of kinds of... ... may be its ministers. Every one who is at all acquainted with the Persian mystics knows how wine may be regarded as an instrument of religion. Indeed... ...al idealism, whether or not of the mind-cure type, taking in the mediaeval mystics, the quietists, the pietists, and quakers by the way, we can trace ... ...tures. Suso, you will remember, was one of the fourteenth cen- tury German mystics; his autobiography, written in the third person, is a classic relig... ...ep should be to gain acquaintance with some typical examples. Professional mystics at the height of their development have often elaborately organized... ...but what the five senses supply; and we have seen and shall see again that mystics may emphatically deny that the senses play any part in the very hig... ...ich their transports yield. In the Christian church there have always been mystics. Although many of them have been viewed with suspicion, some have g...

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...ing of Maturin’s brain, was lost to mankind; and the various Orientalists, Mystics, and Archaeologists who take an interest in these matters were unab...

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... of the mysteries when they said, ‘Many are the wand bearers but few are the mystics.’ (Com pare Matt. xxii.: ‘Many are called but few are chosen.’) ... ...any are called but few are chosen.’) And in the hope that he is one of these mystics, Socrates is now departing. This is his answer to any one who cha... ...y,’ as they say in the mysteries, ‘are the thyrsus bearers, but few are the mystics,’—meaning, as I interpret the words, ‘the true philosophers.’ In ...

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...Nay, but I would fain have stayed longer at the Festival. Ah, so would the mystics fain have the rites prolonged; so perchance would the crowd at t...

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....’ He delights to find vestiges of his own philosophy in the older Ger man mystics. And though he can be scarcely said to have mixed much in the aff...

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...onastery of that name at Paris and died in 1173. “He was at the head of the Mystics in this century and his treatise, entitled the Mystical Ark, wh...

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...ws, or the yellow burning marl of a Hell on Earth? Our Professor, like other Mystics, whether delirious or inspired, gives an Ed itor enough to do. E...

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...night is seen and a turbulent sea, the dark night of the soul of which the mystics write, and the troublous sea of life whereon there is no refuge for...

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...al exterior. The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics! Beyond this universality of the symbolic language, we are apprised...

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...onastery of that name at Paris and died in 1173. “He was at the head of the Mystics in this century and his treatise, entitled the Mystical Ark, wh...