With chapters on the Ancient Fire and Serpent Worshippers, and Explanations of the Mystic Symbols represented in the Monuments and Talismans of the Primeval Philosophers.
The moping mason, from yon tavern led, In mystic words doth to the moon complain That unsound port distracts his aching head, And o'er the waiter waves his clouded cane.
It was away making a little pilgrimage of wonder about the mystic house which was so near them, longing to know, and trying to divine, what was going on there.
He did not know her indeed, but it does not take a long time or much personal knowledge to weave this mystic thread between one young creature and another.
Forgiveness, and not some mystic deliverance by initiation or otherwise from the captivity of flesh and matter, is redemption.
So mystic and awful is that solemn law of the persistent increase of the true ruling tendency of a man's nature, and its certain subjugation of the whole man to itself!
He has gone back to India confirmed in his bare Theism, and in the mystic theology which has been his consolation.
Thereafter it is radiant with the light of design, full of that mystic tracery which proclaims the presence of a living will behind it.
It is not that the phenomena 'give forth at times a little flash, a mystic hint' of a living will within or behind the mechanism, a personality kindred to that of the artificer who observes it.
It is a mystic agency endlessly revealing its existence, everywhere concealing its source.
He cannot analyse into its constituent elements the mystic meaning of the universe which is flashed into his soul in moments of glowing inspiration, as the chemist analyses his earths in a crucible.
Mr. Tupman, with rising indignation and great importance, explained the mystic device.
He was as much a mystic in his creed as this son of Constantine, a believer in miracles and in manifestations in the heavens.
Merlin cast his mantle from him, and stood out in the moonlight wrapped in the mystic symbolism of his robe.
The Greeks never forgot, in all their representations of Dionysos, that he was a mystic and enthusiastic deity.
The mystic scrolls over which I had once pored with such intenseness, were now flung aside; what could they teach me?
Again I pored over the mystic scroll--again I called on the spirits with spell and with sign.
I apprehend that all minds, though long familiarized with the idea of a plurality of persons in the godhead, would be greatly shocked, if that plurality was conceived to be either more or less than the mystic number three.
I reply; however much these fears and hesitations might cling round us, and restrain us from the mystic Deity of Nature, they can have no place in our intercourse with the Father whom Jesus represents.
The mystic recognition that all is indeed divine had accompanied a realisation [149] of the largeness of the field of concrete knowledge, the infinite extent of all there was actually to know.
In a certain mystic sense, which some in every age of the world have understood, he, too, is the creator; himself actually a participator in the creative function.
Yet if it is after all but a prose comment, it betrays no lack of the natural stuff out of which such mystic transferences must be made.
Gaston alone, with all his mystic preoccupations, by the privilege of youth, seemed to belong to both, and link the visionary company about him to the external scene.
And since there are here two births, albeit differing one from the other in mystic import and in point of time, therefore it was appointed that we should feast them together, as the first, so also the second birth.
The 18th century was to him as if it had never been, he dislikes Greek lucidity and the open air, and prefers lean medieval saints, spectral images and mystic loves.
There is an hour when holy dreams Through slumber fairest glide; And in that mystic hour, it seems Thou shouldst be by my side.
The silences within me, That never had been broke, Passed into mystic music; They heard thee, and awoke.
Kind Sleep will bring a thrice-distilled release, Nepenthes, that alone her mystichand Can understand.
It is the pictorial equivalent of Bernard's most ardent sermons on the Assumption of Mary and of the mystic musings of John of Damascus.
Savonarola especially had placed great faith in the miraculous powers of this image and these processions; and during the siege it remained in Florence ceremoniously guarded in the Duomo, a kind of mystic Palladium.
The Archbishop went through a curious and beautiful ceremony of mysticmarriage with the Abbess of the Benedictine convent attached to the church, who apparently personified the diocese of Florence.
And the bonfires of St. John's Eve were said to tell of the days when the cromlechs of Cam Brey were surrounded by a mystic grove, and the officiating priests hurried their human victims through purifying flames to the blood-stained altar.
If a king is a useful public functionary who may be changed, and in whose place you may make another, you cannot regard him with mystic awe and wonder; and if you are bound to worship him, of course you cannot change him.
On the contrary, he was the slave of his own imagination; there was a kind of mystic enchantment in vicinity to the monarch which divested him of his ordinary nature.
The change of the line of sovereigns was at first conclusive, If there was a mystic right in any one, that right was plainly in James II.
They believe that there is ONE man whom by mystic right they should obey; and therefore they do obey him.
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.
They will say she rules by "God's grace"; they believe that they have a mystic obligation to obey her.
Then back to her shadowy kingdom she flow, And called up the bright mystic forms she has there; And filling an urn from a fountain of dew, She bade them all straight to Love's couch-side repair.
Go where he would, the convert's imagination was so pervaded with the mystic tuition that he came to regard his tutor as a being above common humanity.
The most ignorant classes believe that certain persons are possessed of a mystic power called anting-anting, which preserves them from all harm, and that the body of a man so affected is even refractory to bullet or steel.
The Sámar pulajanes are organized like regular troops, with their generals and officers, but they are deluded by a sort of mystic religious teaching under the guidance of a native pope.
Already the intellectual struggle for freedom from mystic enthralment had commenced without injury to faith in things really divine.
It is a mystic deity with ebon features--so different from the lovely Child presented to us on canvas by the great masters!
A second school is at Mystic, known as the Mystic Oral School, this having been started in 1870 at Ledyard, where it remained four years.
In the Upanishads the sacrifice of the horse is infused, as we have indicated, with mystic symbolism.
A Rishi might be a Purohita and a seer, who ensured by the performance of mysticceremonies a monarch's success in battle and afterwards celebrated his achievements in song.
Like Indra, Agni was a heavy consumer of Soma; his intensely human side is not lost in mystic Vedic poetry.
It was she who was Goethe's mystic bride; it was she who made twenty poets of him.
