Mysticism synonyms

mĭs'tĭ-sĭz'əm

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metaphysic (related)
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occultism
The belief in and study of hidden supernatural powers, especially with the aim of bringing them under human control.
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pietism
(Christianity, often capitalized) A movement in the Lutheran church in the 17th and 18th centuries, calling for a return to practical and devout Christianity.
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ontologism
(Philosophy) An ideological system which maintains that God and divine ideas are the first object of our intelligence and the intuition of God's existence the first act of our intellect.
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cabalism
Any occult doctrine
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quietism
A form of Christian mysticism enjoining passive contemplation and the beatific annihilation of the will.
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An ancient Greek mystery religion arising in the sixth century bc from a synthesis of pre-Hellenic beliefs with the Thracian cult of Zagreus and soon becoming mingled with the Eleusinian mysteries and the doctrines of Pythagoras.
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divine afflatus
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enthusiasm
Intensity of feeling; excited interest or eagerness.
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spiritualism (related)
The belief that the dead survive as spirits that can communicate with the living, esp. with the help of a third party (medium)
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religious mysticism
a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality
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paganism (related)
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hermeticism (related)
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spirituality (related)
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mythology (related)
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neo-platonism (related)
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gnosticism (related)
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neoplatonism (related)
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sufism (related)
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animism (related)
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buddhism (related)
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esotericism (related)
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metaphysical (related)
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platonism (related)
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scholasticism (related)
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Mysticism Sentence Examples

  • Mysticism did not cease within the Catholic Church at the Reformation.

  • St Bernard's mysticism is of a practical cast, dealing mainly with the means by which man may attain to the knowledge and enjoyment of God.

  • The systematic theosophy of Plotinus and his successors does not belong to the present article, except so far as it is the presupposition of their mysticism; but, inasmuch as the mysticism of the medieval Church is directly derived from Neoplatonism through the speculations of the pseudo-Dionysius, Neoplatonic mysticism fills an important section in any historical review of the subject.

  • These are the permanent outlines of what may be called the philosophy of mysticism in Christian times, and it is remarkable with how little variation they are repeated from age to age.

  • Mysticism first appears in the medieval Church as the protest of practical religion against the predominance of the dialectical spirit.

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