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n. mystical spiritualism


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Mysticism
Mysticism (from the Greek μυστικός (mystikos) "an initiate" (of the Eleusinian Mysteries, μυστήρια (mysteria) meaning "initiation")) is the pursuit of achieving communion identity with, or conscious awareness of, ultimate reality, the divinespiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight. Traditions may include a belief in the literal existence of dimensional realities beyond empirical perception, or a belief that a true human perception of the world goes beyond logical reasoning or intellectual comprehension. A person delving in these areas may be called a Mystic.
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Mysticism
(n.)
The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith.
  
 
(n.)
The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained.
  
 
(n.)
Obscurity of doctrine.
  

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mysticism
In philosophy, the belief, tendency to believe, or doctrine that there are momentous realities apprehensible only subjectively and nonrationally.


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Mysticism The doctrine that the nature of reality can be known by direct apprehension, by faculties above the senses, by intuition. "Mysticism demands a faculty above reason, by which the subject shall be placed in immediate and complete union with the object of his desire -- a union in which the consciousness of self has disappeared, and in which therefore subject and object are one" (Encyclopedia Britannica, 9th ed. "Mysticism"). It overlaps in meaning such terms as the Neoplatonic ecstasis, and the theosophy of Iamblichus.


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