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US
/ˈmɪstɪˌsɪzəm/
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[ UK /mˈɪstɪsˌɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /mˈɪstɪsˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- obscure or irrational thought
- a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality
How To Use mysticism In A Sentence
- All this mysticism promoted a general mistrust of alchemists.
- Madonna is there with 2,000 other students of kabala, the tradition of Jewish mysticism. CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2004
- 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.
- And her life has been enhanced through her study of 13th century Jewish mysticism called Kabbalah.
- For some, mysticism implies that subjective knowledge of the true nature of the universe can, in fact, be obtained.
- Through visual art, he tried to express a transcendental mysticism that he felt he could not fully communicate through music.
- Jewish mysticism teaches that non-kosher food blocks the spiritual potential of the soul.
- 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
- 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