How To Use Mystic In A Sentence

When he looks at you like that, you feel like you're standing at the verge of a bottomless abyss, a void so deep that it has its own mystical gravitation.
All this mysticism promoted a general mistrust of alchemists.
His maternal grandfather, who fled Russia to avoid conscription by the tsarist army, was a Hebrew scholar, mystic, mathematician, and inventor who made boots and shoes for a living.
In contrast to less specific methods of treatment, the social skill training approaches have the advantage of lending themselves to this sort of concise, nonmystical explanation. Planned Short-Term Treatment
Even traditions with heavy theurgic elements don't need to be ‘mystic’.

Curiously, while sperm whales unquestionably have teeth, recent molecular data and a reanalysis of their anatomy has suggested that they may be highly derived mysticetes.
Quit sitting around with your theological mystical excuses and get busy building the temple that I said would be the place my presence resides. Christianity Today
Madonna is there with 2,000 other students of kabala, the tradition of Jewish mysticism. CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2004
The couple have become devotees of the mystical sect of Judaism - Kabbalah.
The men believe the twins hold mystical powers that make them invincible in their battles against the Myanmar military.
This is a play where priests are elderly and drunk, old ladies mutter curses and blessings, supernatural visions are everywhere and nobody can open their mouth without uttering a mystical insight.
A few months ago a friend sent me an article entitled "The Eucharist in the West" by the Irish Jesuit Michael McGuckian (New Blackfriars, March 2007), which also draws on De Lubac's work which had showed that prior to 1050 the term Body of Christ had referred to the Church and that the Eucharist had been referred to as the Mystical Body, but that that after this the Eucharist became the Body of Christ and the Church came to be referred to as the Mystical Body. Orrologion
And the Master, seated in conclave in the Jeta Grove, assigned her the foremost rank in the mystic powers. Psalms of the Sisters
This inclination was supported by his decision in 1909, to join the Theosophical Society, where the religious mysticism encouraged him to turn inward to spiritual life.
This mass of towering, buckled stone and fluted snow is the most unaccommodating zone on Earth, and the painter, in his own words, is ‘not trying to force an egotistical or mystical image upon it’.
Beyond even the highest point of this interior life, in which the contemplative feels himself to be living “in God,” [26] is that transfigured or deified life, as the Platonic mystics named it, which Ruysbroeck calls overwesen — superessential — the life of the “God-seeing man” (Book III). The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
It had come home in the form of drugs and broken vets, a generation turning to spiritualism and mystic cults.
Sooffee is a term originating in Persia, meaning enthusiasts or mystics, or persons distinguished by extraordinary sanctity. History of the Moors of Spain
Eliade likewise noted that shamans managed to “interiorise” a particular cultural mythology or cosmology before having their mystical experiences. Questions Of Faith
They interviewed people on their way of life, emotions, the history of Nestinari and most of all their souls and their spiritual ritual and mystical powers.
It was at once the most sacrilegious and yet mystic moment many of them had ever experienced.
Othello's account of the origins of the handkerchief, another example of this discoursal antithesis, combines, in a contrastive fugal pattern, domestic detail and the mystical sublime of an empowering love.
Besides catalyzing their mystical and religious inclinations, he also provides assistance of a more practical sort.
Mystical theology is generally divided into three parts, respectively called the purgative, the illuminative, and the unitive life. The Interior Castle or The Mansions
Many from the metaphysical church described a mystical and often immanent deity.
And that was considered to be something mystical and spiritual.
Where their debut looked to the KLF, Surfing the Void's psychonautical vocabulary recalls another oddball early 90s dance act, the Shamen, who infiltrated the top 10 with talk of a "shamanic, anarchistic, archaic revival" in the days when trance acts played clubs with names like Megatripolis and expounded on the mystical importance of the number The Guardian World News
On the surface he was an optimistic extrovert, preaching freedom of conscience and religion; but underneath he was a brooding pessimist, with intransigent, darkly mystical views about the drama of human history and sexuality.
Carson played many recurring characters, including Carnac the Magnificent, a mystic from the East who could "divine" unknown answers to unseen questions, which were hidden in a sealed envelope which Carnac held to his head. Our Favorite Johnny Carson Moments
For the pagan and the Temple mystic, however, the world is not God's place; instead, God is the place of the world.
While on his quest for the 12 talismans, Jackie discovers that each one has unique mystical powers, which are bestowed upon its holder.
Dennis Lehane's Mystic River was made into a film starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon and Laura Linney.
And her life has been enhanced through her study of 13th century Jewish mysticism called Kabbalah.
You may share a special and mystical relationship with a soul mate.
By which means it is, yet by my courtesy, that scarce any kind of men live more voluptuously or with less trouble; as believing that Christ will be well enough pleased if in their mystical and almost mimical pontificality, ceremonies, titles of holiness and the like, and blessing and cursing, they play the parts of bishops. In Praise of Folly
For some, mysticism implies that subjective knowledge of the true nature of the universe can, in fact, be obtained.
At the turn of the century, he had been excited by his conception of the Mystic Hussars routine.
The conventional image of Paracelsus himself as the ultimate mystic who sought to transmute base metals into gold and to create homunculi must be re-evaluated.
Even more astonishing is his chapel, designed by Einhard on the basis of the mystic octagon.
Finally, a naturalistic worldview is one that has no supernatural or mystical element to it.
Remember, these were humble tradesmen, not high-powered rabbis or mystics.
Through visual art, he tried to express a transcendental mysticism that he felt he could not fully communicate through music.
Melbourne started the game strongly to take a 17-10 lead at quarter-time and despite a second-term fightback from the Mystics, the Vixens outscored their opponents 35-26 in the second half to cruise to a comfortable win. Sportal.com.au - Latest News Headlines
Mathayus plans to journey to Egypt to get a mystical weapon to help him defeat the evil Sargon, but quickly learns that he must get a different magic gewgaw, the sword of Damocles, in order to kill his foe. DVD Review: Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (Blu-ray)
Thus, although Greenberg champions avant-garde abstract artists, his is not the more rational avant-garde aesthetic of, for example, the Soviet Constructivists (e.g. Malevich, Popova, Rodchenko and Rozanova), or that of Mondrian, but a mystical one that suited his denegation of exact knowledge better. Political Affairs Magazine
In The Approach, a mostly white painting with edges of yellow-gold, a mystical luminosity is supported by a gnomic title.
Influenced by both Anglo-Saxon and German philosophical tradition, Wittgenstein strove to find a refuge for 'Mystical Field ' through the method of language analysis in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
Jewish mysticism teaches that non-kosher food blocks the spiritual potential of the soul.
The pivot of this change was the Enlightenment, a time when the rational took ascendance over the mystical.
Freeman, like numerous mystics and contemplatives before him, shows us that our main problem is ourselves.
College undergraduates are not the only people who respond to Christian women mystics in this way.
Rolle was a prolific writer in Latin about his mystical theology.
Even so, Mammalodon was a fairly specialized mysticete that lived about ten million years after the hypothesized time of origin for its group. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
She took in a deep breath and wondered if she looked like a mystical sorceress with all her hair waving wildly about her.
I concluded that what my grandfather had been in Purgatory, though also present on earth in some mystical way, and God allowed him to appeal to his son to pray for his release and purgation from attachment to this dimension.
The mysticism and its occultism are interpreted in every detail of the idol.
That way they might find silly forms of superstition and mysticism less enticing. Times, Sunday Times
He read the visions of the Venerable Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich, an eighteenth-century German stigmatist and mystic.
Based on Lawrence Thornton's novel, Hampton strives for a part human, part mystical response to a brutal regime, bent on repression.
Regular contact with the beneficent mystical forces will surround you with a protective aura.
The old lady is a mystic.
Oriental mystery cults attempted to answer the need for a salvationist faith with its mysticisms and forms of sacrament; philosophy outside the Church was running to religiosity. CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY
Baird had a sudden thought that this was how he had always imagined Camelot would appear from afar, misty, mystic. TANK OF SERPENTS
Thus far she has used Catholic iconography and explored Buddhism, and is now studying Kabbala, an ancient Jewish mystical tradition.
Saniotis takes us to one of Northern India's most famous Indo-Muslim shrines, a place where religious mendicants, known as faqir, gather to worship through mystical communion with saints.
The cultural life of Kashmir has had the impress of great mystics.
Wondrous sights seen along the way mixed and mingled with mystic truths discussed afloat a rolling ocean in daily yoga classes with Gurudeva and his swamis.
After having put in practice all chivalries, devout and worldly, gone with Peredur in quest of the Holy Grail and fair ladies, and dreamed with St. Brandan of mystical Atlantides, who knows what it would produce in the domain of intellect, if it hardened itself to an entrance into the world, and subjected its rich and profound nature to the conditions of modern thought? The Poetry of the Celtic Races. VI.
A menhir is a sort of northern European variety of the stela, an ancient upright stone or pillar serving as a monument, and accepted by the credulous as being generally mystical.
Scholars of great mystical movements and figures often go out of their way to explain that their subjects merit the term panentheism rather than pantheism, as if the second label is an insult. Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum
On the other hand, Indian sages, philosophers and mystics have held out a shining vision that has inspired the world.
Familiar : A spirit aide to a mage, mystically bonded to his soul through use of Spirit magic.
FREE MASONRY, CO-MASONRY, AND CATHOLICISM At the end of last month's lesson a few words were said about men and women practicing Mystic Masonry, and it might appear to some as if we en - dorse Co-Masonry, but this is emphatically not the case. Max Heindel's Letters to Students by The Rosicrucian Fellowship
He quotes abundantly from Scripture, medieval mystics and gifted contemporary writers.
Although its origins can certainly be traced to a mystical tradition, alchemy differs from mysticism and other occult arts in its combined focus on precision in both chemical and spiritual processes.
In Pisces, collective thinking approaches the most mystical level possible.
Cosmographer, to finde himselfe Cosmopolites, a citizen and member of the whole and onely one mysticall citie vniuersall, and so consequently to meditate of the Cosmopoliticall gouernment thereof, vnder the King almightie, passing on very swiftly toward the most dreadfull and most comfortable terme prefixed. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01
From her he had inherited his mysticism and his occult powers.
“ineffability” or indescribability an essential mark of the mystical. Mysticism
A lot of self-ordained mystics did the same thing in the sixties. EVENING’S EMPIRE
Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge. Nathaniel Branden
Some religions give primacy of value to mystical union, some to works of charity, some to justice, and some to ritual observance.
Surfer was the comically subversive tale of a group of ski bums (the Slackers) visited by a mysterious stranger who skis magically and imparts mystical knowledge.
That way they might find silly forms of superstition and mysticism less enticing. Times, Sunday Times
Nor is he is a Christ figure, despite the eager (by mystics) or outraged (by Marxists) avowals to that effect during the Soviet era.
Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge. Nathaniel Branden
Elsewhere in his oeuvre, Aboriginal dot patterns, Islamic arabesques and Chinese fire motifs lend a mystical, ancient aspect to his art.
The mystic is seeking to transcend his ego and acquire a disciplined compassion - a crucial virtue in all religions.
Let the word dissociate from the literal Biblical meanings and instead focus on its mystical intent - a name for the unnameable.
And it is a youth, standing tiptoe upon the earth, now waiting in unperturbed ease, now searching with unbridled zeal, who is lover and mystic. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Witnessing the mystical wonders of the tallest peak of the world through the windows of our 1900C Beechcraft is a different experience altogether.
Consider the secrecy of this mystical religion.
Mystics frequently speak of enlarging, of loss of body sensations, bubbling up, or becoming airborne.
It was in fact a kind of nuptial hymn, which, taking its start from the thought of nature as the universal mother, celebrated the preliminary pairing and mating together of all fresh things, in the hot and genial spring-time -- the immemorial nuptials of the soul of spring itself and the brown earth; and was full of a delighted, mystic sense of what passed between them in that fantastic marriage. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1
a prefiguration and mystical pointing out of the Pythian divineress, who used always, before the uttering of a response from the oracle, to shake a branch of her domestic laurel. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious deduction. Moby Dick; or the Whale
Freudian (cf. "Die Zelle") than in Jungian pan-mystical terms of lower ego versus higher Self, or ignorance versus Wisdom. Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites
As said by him, the administration of the enterprise explains shut down of the work by mystical "overstocking". Хартия'97 :: Новости из Беларуси - Белорусские новости - Республика Беларусь - Минск
The author, then pursuing his comment upon Plato, observes, that "one of these manias may suffice (especially that which belongs to love) to lead back the soul to its first divinity and happiness; but that there is an intimate union with them all; and that the ordinary progress through which the soul ascends is, primarily, through the musical; next, through the telestic or mystic; thirdly, through the prophetic; and lastly, through the enthusiasm of love. Zanoni
This catalyzed the retrieval of these women as theologians-not simply as saints honored for their piety or mystics gazed upon with curiosity.
According to mystical traditions, the living human body is coextended by a duplicate.
It's important for us to be critical in judging the mystical products of our religious traditions.
But he is no mystical obscurantist nor does he privilege spiritual intuition above demonstration; rather he argues for their complementarity since ˜demonstration does not conflict with inner disclosure.™ Mulla Sadra
Like any good doctrine, there is a sprinkling of mysticism and a touchy-feely woo-woo factor that readers can ignore or embrace.
He cast himself as an urban philosopher whose overarching theory, which he called Gothic Futurism, posited that graffiti writers were trying to liberate the mystical power of letters from the strictures of modern alphabetical standardization and had inherited this mission from medieval monks. NYT > Home Page
If we knew of any chemical preparation by which we could change the color of our skins and straighten the kinks in our hair, we might hope to bring about the desired consummation at once, but alas, there is no catholicon for this ill, no mystic concoction in all the pharmacies of earth to work The Negro and the White Man
While Mystic Secrets offers a lot of information about beneficial ceremonies, this article discusses rituals of cursing, called maledictions, and offers a few samples.
No, certainly I mustn't play the mystical seer and pontificate as if I knew all the answers! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Some days I think anything is possible and the world is this mystical wonderful place and we all have a magical part in making life the way it is.
Interestingly, the late Oligocene whale Aetiocetus, from Oregon, has skull and jaw features typical of baleen whales, and is considered to be the earliest mysticete - yet it also bore a full set of teeth.
Laurie Pappajohn, a local harpist, and her group played traditional music of the mystics using medieval Celtic instruments.
Some are new-age mystics convinced that the Christian route to Santiago is just the latest version of a more ancient pathway linking ley line to ley line.
He wore his gown till it was almost too tattered to hold together; and when he stood on the wooden bench by Big Hall steps to take call-over, it was with an air of mystic abandonment to ritual. Goodbye, Mr Chips
Virgil stared deep into the grease spots on the garage floor, as if by reading their patterns and by some mystic mode of divination, petrolmancy perhaps, he would arrive at a price that would not ali-enate the dark young man but would still assure him an exorbitant hourly rate for his labor. Practical Demonkeeping
The revelation of this mystical wholeness occurs through the dialectic: a thesis is manifest and contested by its antithesis, the resolution of which, leads to a new thesis and so on.
But why should the crown possess this mystic attribute of being able to contain and confer sovereignty?
Is the "human element" in art something mystical to be intuited from the work, or is it stirred in like the secret ingredient in the spaghetti sauce? Art and Culture
This someone or something is usually either God or the mystical forces of nature.
The way to mystical freedom is by way of letting go of conventional concerns and achieving union with the Dao.
Taoism is a mystic quest for the absolute and for immortality.
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, echoing a great many philosophers, poets and mystics throughout history who have espoused the virtues of silen ... Stacey Lawson: Might As Well Face It, You're Addicted To Thought
They show Antin's growing passion for mysticism and the occult.
But why should the crown possess this mystic attribute of being able to contain and confer sovereignty?
The word autopsy comes from the Greek “to see for oneself”; as Vesalius learned to see for himself, he could no longer force Galen’s mystical visions to fit his own. The Emperor of All Maladies
GINGRICH: No. The intellectuals around me would -- if you wanted to use the term intelligentsia -- I mean, there's a self-identified, elite intellectual group in America who see themselves as the guardians of this alternative to traditional American civilization, and these are folks who write what I think is largely gibberish and explain deconstructionism and all sorts of ideas that I, frankly, don't pay much attention to, but that are somehow mystically going to be better than American civilization: multiculturalism, the counterculture, etc. To Renew America
The mage mystically attacks a material object, causing it to decay instantly .
This is why it is that, when others boast of national achievement, the American just points to the flag and bluntly says to all the world, 'Match this if you can, the peerless story of human freedom, of intellectual progress, of great-hearted, broad-minded development told in the mystic wedlock of the Stars and Stripes.' Little-Known Gold From the Gilded Age
S. Bonaventurae decem opuscula ad theologiam mysticam spectantia. Amputee
Yancy Butler essayed the lead role of Sara Pezzini, the New York cop who is drawn to the Witchblade, a mystical bracelet which often manifests itself as a Geiger-inspired metallic glove that can be both shield and sword. 03 « April « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
Plato here expresses four kinds of mania, by which I desire to understand enthusiasm and the inspiration of the gods: Firstly, the musical; secondly, the telestic or mystic; thirdly, the prophetic; and fourthly, that which belongs to love. Zanoni
Patients with temporal lobe seizures sometimes have intense mystical and religious experiences.
The morphology and systematics of (Cetacea: Mysticeti), a toothed mysticete from the Oligocene of Australia TrackBacks ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
As one noted expert on Jewish mysticism explains, even for an enlightened saint, a tzaddik, not every judgment is flawless. Steve Posner: Why Have The Beatles Returned to Maharishi?
Asiatic Sarmatia, is the fictitious appellation of the mystic abode of the gods, the Olympus of Scandinavia; from whence the prophet was supposed to descend, when he announced his new religion to the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
mystical religion
Rolle was a prolific writer in Latin about his mystical theology.
The mystical homosexual power known as gaydar fails, and some delicious complications ensue.
His research is in contemporary continental philosophy, African philosophy, history of Western mysticism, and interdisciplinarity.
This is because he encompasses every aspect of religion and mysticism in his life and teachings.
“Platonic love,” which by philosophers and poets of the Renaissance was understood in a pro - foundly mystical sense, was castigated by the enlight - ened authors of the rococo as the naive enthusiasm of immature adolescents. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
An attempt to escape reality (her home and life are very gloomy now) and retreat into this mystical meditative "place", instead of believing God and His concrete Word will help you to face reality, as an overcomer. The Better Part
Long a hide-out for bandits, rebels and visionaries, the caatinga also earns a reputation as a mystical badlands.
Although a landed gentleman and a locally venerated "pir," or Sufi saint (an inherited mantle), Fahim is a totally secular, moderate, pragmatic social democrat as well as a mystic poet. Pakistan’s New Prime Minister?
Swedenborg joined his mysticism with a keen interest in natural science, especially acoustics.
They shared with their nonmystical fellow believers the public practice of prayer, the study of sacred texts, and the deeds of charity. Commonweal Magazine
Science poses the question, "What are you going to believe: the dreams and fantasies of ancient mystics or your eyes, ears, telescopes, magnetic resonance imaging, hadron colliders, and above all, reason and rigorous questioning of all extraordinary claims? Victor Stenger: The Folly of Faith
The mystical and the managerial are secretly in cahoots.
We need to bring together the devotional and mystical and scriptural pieces.
There is a mystic beauty lurking in its vales and dells, which lifts the soul above the realms of time and space, and makes the beholder sense the presence of the divine.
His father was a Sufi Muslim, devoted to a tolerant, mystical tradition of Islam.
Humans could no longer be allowed any such privileged, mystical feature as free will to distinguish them.
Mammalodon to not only other fossil mysticete whales, but to archaeocetes such as Zygorhiza). ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
It has been endowed with a mystic quality.
I don't mean mystics and ascetics, who are often wrongly accused of such world - hatred.
But to believe in the clavicula, in the mystic significance of the junction of two lines, in the stars, is as ridiculous as to believe, like the inhabitants of Cathay, that the oriole changes into a mole, and grains of wheat into crap-like fish. I. The Abbot of St.-Martin’s. Book V
The hexagram - and resultant star - is the one of the most powerful mystic symbols.
The Magnificat is one such example ... also the mystical poetry contained in the Song of Songs, with its idealized imagery of human love, a sustained metaphor for the nuptial love of Christ the Bridegroom for His Bride (the Church or, according to St. Bernard, the individual soul). Archive 2007-03-01
Here I will mention only that in experiences of a mystical, intuitive type, the universal aspect is predominant, that is, the invasion of the consciousness by a wider Reality. C. G. Jung and Psychosynthesis, by Roberto Assagioli
His portrait of this elusive, intensely private genius describes Faraday's links with painters and poets, polymaths and mystics.
An integration of inner and outer duality is possible now to create a unity or mystical union of opposites.
These aspects are: 1. mystical experience consists of pre-rational immediate consciousness or feeling; 2. mystical experience removes the distinction between subject and object; 3. mystical experience is prior to language and is therefore ineffable; and 4. mystical experience dissolves or annihilates the self; 5. mystical experience cannot be sustained, and is therefore transient; 6. mystical experience is nevertheless noetic, that is, it imparts insights about the nature of Reality. About religious experience (William James, Schleiermacher etc)
The ballet dancer is not that mystic creature anymore.
Do you recall the distraught lady in _Ruddigore_, who was always charmed into silence by the mystic word "Basingstoke"? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917
Looks like the "middle ground" is where the quantum mystics hang out and propose unnecessary quantum explanations for well-understood chemical mutation processes based on an extremely vague analogy between photon capture in chlorophyll and base pair mutations in DNA. A Voice from the Middle Ground
Delving into the mystical aspect of Ninjitsu, the Ninja summons a perfect replica of her likeness in order to confuse her enemies.
Mysticism, the introducer said sarcastically, is nothing; but a history of nothing - well, that is science.
Eastern mystical philosophies such as Buddhism promote an attitude of acceptance of suffering and difficulties which are an inevitable part of life.
If it be said that it is manifestly unfair to compare a mystical writer like Emerson with a polemical or historical one, I am not concerned to answer the objection, for let the comparison be made with whom you will, the unparalleled non-sequaciousness of Emerson is as certain as the Obiter Dicta Second Series
In theory, since God is no respecter of persons, the role of mystic / ecstatic should have been open to all.
In the Niche of Lights (1998), Muhammad al-Ghazali (d. 1111) discussed mystical epistemology using Qur™anic light terminology, whereas Suhrawardi, in his Philosophy of Illumination, developed a truly original light ontology. Suhrawardi
By exploring these events in detail, will we raise false hopes that athletics is a special path to mystic insight?
It is mystical and ascetic, with the sisters observing vows of poverty, chastity and silence.
These are people who have a naturalistic worldview, free of supernatural and mystical elements.
Believer in purification through water (as a mystic rite), and not through sacrifice by fire. Psalms of the Sisters
Experience the ancient mystical city of Ho Chi-Minh and its Eastern traditions, Buddha temples, towering pagodas and colorful oriental river markets.
There is the promise of Eastern mysticism, with the Chinese characters on the side reading “I devote myself to Amida Buddha”, the chant of the Pure Land school of Buddhism. Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-31
This is why it is that, when others boast of national achievement, the American just points to the flag and bluntly says to all the world, 'Match this if you can, the peerless story of human freedom, of intellectual progress, of great-hearted, broad-minded development told in the mystic wedlock of the Stars and Stripes.' Little-Known Gold From the Gilded Age
Sheâ€ ™ s more hardcore then the Six and can chanel the Specter, which is the only mystical being she ever showed to need proximity to steal his powers in resent DC history. Dueling Review: Secret Six #16 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
Moving back to the morphology of the rorqual lower jaw, a tall, well-developed coronoid process – way larger than that of any other mysticete – projects from each jaw bone and forms the attachment site for a tendinous part of the temporalis muscle, termed the frontomandibular stay. From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
They have, says the reverend author, what one would not expect, many light toyish books (novels and plays, doubtless), others on Rosycrucian subjects, and of an abstruse mystical character; but they have no Bibles or works of devotion. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
The Patagonian forests are complex and mystical with huge cypress trees and pudu-pudu, a deer that's only 20 inches tall. Brave New Traveler
What be is is mystical force incentive people fought so painstakingly?
The ego, so dominant in all Western endeavour, is seen as an obstacle to the ancient mystics, something that has to be steadily eroded. Zen and Learning « Tales from the Reading Room
All sort of mystical creatures called it their home: elves, dwarves, nymphs, and pixies, among others.
They conceive melancholic and heroic music with German lyrics by the mystic and ancient themes.
Then she goes off on one of the quasi-mystical flights of fancy that have led many who have interviewed her to conclude that she's quite barking.
Monk and mystic, monastic theologian and papal counselor, hagiographer and polemicist, a renowned preacher in the cloister and beyond it, Bernard was the single most important impetus for the spread of the Cistercians.
Yet even with the arrival in the city of outsiders such as Donatello, Raphael and Signorelli, Trecento mysticism lingered well into the 16th century in the strange, boneless figures, extravagant gestures and intense colours of Domenico Beccafumi. Archive 2007-10-01
For John, mystical theology is a gift of grace by which a prayerful person stands before and has some kind of experience of the presence of God.
This turn to experience led to a shift from a concern with the divine, as mediated through the teaching of the mystics, to a concern with what the mystics themselves experienced, which McIntosh calls experientialism. Mystical Theology and the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy
(_Surely there was mystic meaning in the name_ HELENA, _meaning which was fulfilled when she fled to Troy. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes
I will never get another chance, and I hear it will even change my life, in some unspecified but profound mystical fashion.
People turn to mysticism at the turn of a millennium
One of the reasons that the sword became a “mystical weapon” is that it could not outreach a halberd/pike/staff … and that, therefore, the royal guard could keep a mere sword-wielder out of reach of the King. When What We Think We Know, Is Actually Wrong at SF Novelists
Midnight Muse offer you enchantments for the senses and the spirit, with our selection of Pre-Raphaelite art prints, mystical jewellery, velvet pouches, books, tarot, notecards, candles, and bath and body luxuries.
Leading a life of calm duty , constant routine, mystic reverie, -- made them a sort of nuns.
The ensuing events leads him into contact with the others of his kind, homunculi built around elements of the human spirit: 1 - the High Priest and Authority, 2 - the Engineer, 3 & 4 - the twin keepers of Lore, 5 - the Tinkerer and Gentle Spirit, 6 - the Mystic, 7 - the Warrior, and 8 - Brute Force. “9″ is a runaway 10. A wonderful movie– see on the big screen « Third Point of Singularity
I had written my final thesis on mysticism and shamanism, complete with illustration and tipped in plates.
If that's not enough for you, then you might take a look at the domains of gynarchy and mysticism of murderous amazons.
Besides these -- often crude and clumsy -- romances they possessed what may be called "theosophic" treatises and revelations of a highly mystical character. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

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