About The Word Mysticism
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Mysticism
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What's The Definition Of Mysticism?
[n] obscure or irrational thought
[n] a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality Synonyms | Synonyms for Mysticism: religious mysticism Related Terms | Find terms related to Mysticism: afflatus | anagoge | anagogics | anthroposophy | apocalypse | cabala | cabalism | direct communication | divine inspiration | divine revelation | epiphany | esotericism | esoterics | esoterism | esotery | hocus-pocus | inspiration | mumbo jumbo | mystery | mystical experience | mystification | occultism | prophecy | revelation | symbolics | symbolism | theophania | theophany | theopneustia | theopneusty | yoga | yogeeism | yogism See Also | cerebration | faith | intellection | mentation | quietism | religion | religious belief | thinking | thought Mysticism In Webster's Dictionary \Mys"ti*cism\, n. [Cf. F. mysticisme.]
1. Obscurity of doctrine.
2. (Eccl. Hist.) 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.
3. (Philos.) The doctrine that the ultimate elements or
principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or
process akin to feeling or faith.
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