Prayer, according to this wholly mystical teaching, loses the character of supplication or intercession, to become the simple silence of a soul absorbed in God.
Was it an airy, invisible, evanescent, mystical nothing, which some would denominate spirit?
Every allegory has therefore two senses, the literal and mystical, the literal sense is like a dream or vision, of which the mystical sense is the true meaning, or interpretation.
The sun was down, but the mystical radiance of the northern twilight illumined the sky.
Water is said to possess sanctity, for "the mystical washing away of sin.
The former we shall see reason to regard as simply an initiatory form, applicable only to Christian converts, and limited therefore to adults; the latter as purely a commemoration: neither therefore having any sacramental or mystical efficacy.
This mystical iron, borne at the head of the army, shall effect the deliverance of the Christians, and shall pierce the hearts of the infidels.
The austerity of his morals, the singularity of his behaviour, with the mystical obscurity of his discourses, at once procured him the confidence and veneration of the Crusaders.
How soon would he drop that mystical look and turn to her with the casual "educated" expression she had come to know so well?
As she knelt with the severed head in her hands, her white robe all crimsoned over with his blood, Catherine had one of those mystical visions which she can only tell in terms of blood and fire.
All the other pictures in this room are in Sano's usual mystical style.
In the refectory of a former convent of Benedictine nuns (now the Palazzo Pratellesi) is a very Peruginesque fresco by Vincenzo Tamagni, representing the mystical marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria; it is dated 1528.
Sienese painting in the fifteenth century is distinguished by its mystical tone and its exceedingly conservative, not to say retrogressive, spirit.
Sano's works, and may be described as a mystical treatment of contemporary history.
Above all, rises the mystical monogram of the Divine Name, bringing us back to Bernardino.
It consists of four mystical treatises on Discretion, Prayer, Divine Providence, and Obedience, in the form of a dialogue between God and a soul "panting with greatest desire for the honour of God and the salvation of souls.
She cried to God to receive the sacrifice of her life in the mystical body of the Church.
The mystical cord of union is attached to his sceptre, and in his other hand he holds an image of the Blessed Virgin, whom the Sienese had chosen for their Sovereign Lady.
This appears to be purely a child's toy and has no mystical signification.
Mystical powers of nourishment are ascribed also to the Grail in the European legends.
They bring him from history and make him at home in the beholder's heart, and there seems a mystical significance in the fact that the volume most abounding in marginalia should be Seneca's Prophecies.
It is in this respect preferable to the fanciful dramatic partnership of trilogies and tetralogies, as well as to the mystical interpretation and arrangement suggested by the Neo-platonists.
The Timaeus does not confine itself to indirect hints, but delivers positive dogmas about the super-sensible world: though they are of a mystical cast, as we know that the oral lectures De Bono were also.
Pherekydes and Akusilaus still continued in their prose the theogony, or the mythical cosmogony, of Hesiod and the other old Poets: while Epimenides and the Orphic poets put forth different theogonies, blended with mystical dogmas.
But so mystical a paradox is not the sort of thing we can expect to appeal to a late-seventeenth-century philosopher.
Gerson already has written opposing Ruysbroek, a mystical writer, whose intention was evidently good and whose expressions are excusable.
Christianity, rejecting such crude symbolism, does so by a mystical creed.
With us conduct is the greatest part; the mystical and ceremonious part has decreased, in certain sects almost disappeared.
It is the home of Brahminism, of the mystical forms of Hinduism, beyond which it has never spread.
All expression, all art, is symbolic and has a mystical aspect, else it would be either complete and all-embracing or devoid of real content.
In the Middle Ages the mystical symbolic conception, characteristic of Plotinus, was developed.
He reads into them throughout a mystical and allegorical meaning, and finds Plato present in Moses; in short, the endeavour of Philo resembled that of the Alexandrians when they recognized philosophic dogmas in Greek mythology.
This school has the further peculiarity of expressing speculation as actual divine Being and life, and, therefore, it makes this appear to be mystical and magical.
He would have poured scorn on the half-mystical conception of a social organism.
With a strange mystical insight, he stepped beyond the range of the Godwinian ethics, when he conceived of his humane missionaries as victims who offer themselves a living sacrifice for the redemption of mankind.
A mystical parallelism links the drama in Heaven with the tragedy on earth; we suffer from the malignity of the World's Ruler, and triumph by the endurance of Man's Saviour.
First, I should like to give you a little 'pezzo' of our friend's mystical experiments, which I am sure you will enjoy.
Not the mystical intuitions of the dreamers, who would fain teach of continued direct inspiration from God, even at the present time, but the revelation which began in Genesis and ended with John on Patmos.
In a night the face of the world had changed for him; its features loomed weirdly blurred and contorted through the mystical grey-gold atmosphere of the land of Romance, wherein he really lived and moved and had his being.
The masquerader ventured a mysticalsmile at the world in general.
Connected with these predictions, we have the most positive prophetic declarations of Holy Writ concerning the overthrow and entire destruction of this same mystical power, which had made war with the Saints.
The middle of the mystical hour had just been reached when the two life-lines met and blended for one single instant, then separated and, obeying the powerful wills of the Priests, became polarized in each other's body.
Stronger grew the mystical power of the spell until the Princess seemed compelled to rush madly on and into the Temple, if the Prince had not held her back in a firm grasp, and at the same time trying to attract her attention by his words.
While to the world Nu-nah was a source ofmystical wonder, to Rathunor she was his stay and comfort.
It is a volume likely to attract wide attention from that class of scholars interested in mystical science and occult forces.
Hours before the solemn Rites were to be performed, every part of the Holy Temple must be permeated with their magical and mystical influence.
He enquired the name of the deceased, and, saluting her accordingly, took hold of her hand, and murmured over her certain mystical words.
That is, a secret; because what follows of the name and title of the great harlot is to be taken in a mystical sense.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mystical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: arcane; cryptic; dark; deep; mysterious; mystical; obscure; occult; recondite; secret
