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Religious mysticism   /rɪlˈɪdʒəs mˈɪstɪsˌɪzəm/   Listen
Religious mysticism

noun
1.
A religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality.  Synonym: mysticism.






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"Religious mysticism" Quotes from Famous Books



... perhaps not particularly great. Even the re-adaptation of the Catholic system to a scientific doctrine was plainly in his mind thirty years before the final execution of the Positive Polity, though it is difficult to believe that he foresaw the religious mysticism in which the task was to land him. A great analysis was to precede a great synthesis, but it was the synthesis on which Comte's vision was centred from the first. Let us first sketch the nature of the analysis. Society is ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) - Essay 10: Auguste Comte • John Morley

... medieval trend of religious mysticism (there is a religious mysticism and a scientific mysticism) which seemed to regard all human love as a weakness, when not actually sinful as in sex-love, it is evident that sexual love, in its emotional, or psychic aspect, was at the root of the "ecstacies" which are ...
— Sex=The Unknown Quantity - The Spiritual Function of Sex • Ali Nomad

... counter-revolution. It was a period when Russian society passed from mood to mood at an extremely rapid tempo: from energetic aggressiveness, exultation, high hope, and confident trust in the triumph of the people's cause to apathetic inaction, gloom, despair, frivolity, and religious mysticism. This important dramatic epoch in the national life of Russia Andreyev and Gorky wrote down with such force and passion that they became recognized at once as the leading ...
— Savva and The Life of Man • Leonid Andreyev



Words linked to "Religious mysticism" :   quietism, religious belief, mysticism, faith, Sufism, religion



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