mysticism

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

is the love of truth when it leaves the merely intellectual sphere (i.e. philosophy), and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion.

In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks... and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram 'impersonal and unattainable'the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.

is contrasted with the philosophy in that while the Absolute of the metaphysician remains an impersonal and unattainable diagram, the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.

is the idea that the eye through which one sees God is the same eye through which God sees oneself: as such, one's eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me... my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

jewish mysticism

sufism

unio mystica

vision in god

Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius

Arabi, Ibn

Areopagite, Pseudo-Dionysius the

Baal Shem Tov

Boehme, Jacob

Boehme, Jakob

Catherine of Siena

Gurdjieff, George

Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch

Hall, Manly P.

Julian of Norwich

Kempis, Thomas A.

Kook, Abraham Isaac

Llull, Ramon

Meister Eckhart

Rumi

Scholem, Gershom

Suhrawardi

Swedenborg, Emanuel

Tabrizi, Shams

Teresa of Avila

Underhill, Evelyn

von Bingen, Hildegard

Weil, Simone

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Aldous Huxley

egoless consciousness

Ein Sof

emination - imanation

eye of the heart

ineffable

inner experience

inner light

learned ignorance

love of God

miraculous power

nondiscursivity

nondualism

occult powers

Pythagora

Pythagoras

religious phenomenon

Sabbath bride

soul spark

spiritual world

stigmata

Ultimate Ground of Being

William Blake

analytic philosophy

Bertrand Russell

extreme rationalism

god's search for man

Isaac Newton

logical grammarian

prophetic act

prophetic revelation

Wesensschau

Western philosophy

spiritual

Hasidim

Kabbalah

kabbalist

mystical experience

nature mysticism

unitive experience

possession

shamanism

spirit

absconditus

Adam Kadmon

ambition of transcendence

Attar of Nishapur

Brethren of the Free Spirit

Charles Péguy

cloud of unknowing

coincidentia oppositorum

communing with nature

decreation

dervish

Deus absconditus

ecstatic

ego transcendence

emanationism

esoteric

esoteric and esoteric circles

everyday world

gnosticism

godhead

ground of being

Hafez

hasidism

hunger for God

initiate

Jakob Böhme

Malchuth

malkut

metaphysical doctrine

mystic

mystic contemplation

mystic intuition

mystic-sensualist

mystical consciousness

mystical ecstasy

mystical fusion

mystical notion

mystical speech

mystical vision

new age

new religious consciousness

Novalis complex

numerology

oceanic feeling

oneness

perennial philosophy

philosophy of religion

presence of god

problem of life

profane illumination

prophetic inspiration

Ramón Lull

rapture - ecstasy

Rasputin

religious quest

search for God

sefirot

Sefiroth

self-abandonment

self-transcendence

showing

spiritual asthma

spiritual autism

spiritual experience

spiritual life

Swedenborg

theosophy

theurgy

timelessness

tzimtzum

union with god

via negativa

vision of God

vision of the one

W.B. Yeats

Zen art

attunement

depth-theology

ecstatic cults

ecstatic premise

force (star wars)

intellectual intuition

intellectual love of God

knowledge of God

longing for god

metaphysical wonder

negative theology

pantheism

politics of religious experience

quietism

religious experience

sense of the ineffable

wisdom of the East

ecstases

end of time

agnosticism

animism

anthroposophy

astrology

atheism

Buddhism

Christianity

deism

fundamentalism

Hinduism

humanism

irreligion

Islam

Judaism

orthodoxy

pseudoscience

romantic polytheism

Shinto

spiritualism

techno-animism

theism

worldview

contemplation

meditation

nirvana

Sufism

hinduism

mysticism, n.All

mysticism