Definition of Misticism
Mysticism, a state of mind and feeling induced by direct communion
with the unseen, and by indulging in which the subject of it estranges
himself more and more from those who live wholly in the outside world, so
that he cannot communicate with them and they cannot understand him.
- Wikipedia
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- the beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics
- a doctrine of direct communication or spiritual intuition of truth from a divine spirit
- a transcendential union of soul or thoughts with a divinity, or divine entity
- obscure thoughts and speculations
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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