He excelled not only in theology but in other branches of knowledge, such as the humanities, the philosophy of the Illuminati, the teachings of the mystics and of the Shaykhí School.
He would guide the Illuminati by their own philosophical principles, and with the mystics he would prove the Divine Advent in terms of “inspiration” and the “celestial vision.
The Mystics and philosophic press indorse them in the highest terms.
A distinctive mark of this extraordinary man was that he never knew any of those crises of doubt and despair which usually accompany the transition to a definite conviction in the life of mystics and of thinkers.
But they are only known as mystics by those who have the power to recognise; the power given by the conquering of self.
Mystics had been accustomed to gather their followers together into praying circles; and the custom was perpetuated long after their departure.
One of the greatest gifts bestowed by the Mystics of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries on their native land had been an excellent system of school education.
They did not aim to be, like the praying circles of the Mystics or of the Gottesfreunde, ecclesiolae in ecclesia, strictly non-clerical or even anti-clerical.
The inspiration drawn from the earlier Mystics and Gottesfreunde is shown by the books circulated by the Brethren.
This is the theory held to by the majority of mystics and occultists.
As one of the old mystics called prayer 'the flight of the lonely man to the only God,' so we may call the act of faith the meeting of the soul alone with Christ alone.
While, from the mystics of that date, valuable works have been preserved, what has been left us from these mendicant orders?
But after the first glance, her eyes were not for him; with swift apprehension they passed to the six Arch-Mystics who, walking two and two, formed the procession.
I call upon the Arch-Mystics to declare whether or no I bear upon my person that secret Sign!
The congregation swayed forward, prostrating themselves upon the ground, while the Arch-Mystics gathered their wide, black robes about them and assumed attitudes of rapt contemplation.
Without a murmur of doubt or dissension the Mystics had proclaimed him their king.
The papers by which my property was made over to the Mystics some five years ago--together with a doctor's certificate as to my mental soundness at the time--is in the hands of the Council.
The Arch-Mystics themselves are guarding the Threshold.
Only the six Arch-Mystics stirred uneasily, glancing at each other with quiet, uncertain looks.
Among the six Arch-Mystics there is, to my thinking, only one man, and he interests me.
These early Christian Mystics are alluded to in several instances in the New Testament.
The excesses of the French Roman Catholic Mystics and Quietists terminated in chiliastic[242:1] views.
But in order to understand all this one must read the mystics themselves, and not be contented with second-hand reports of them; for every one must himself be comprehended before one judges concerning him.
What, then, is the concept of the ultimately Real which these stricter mystics have evolved and are prepared to defend?
Some mystics will say that the union of man with nature is actually at any moment complete, but has to be brought into the light of conscious experience.
And, up to a point, there are but few natural mysticswho will not concur in their feelings of satisfaction that ignorance and superstition are disappearing in rough proportion as exact knowledge advances.
He waxes vehement in his struggles to subdue his language to his purposes, his vague intuitions, his movements in worlds not fully realised; and in this regard he can at any rate claim the sympathy of mystics of every school.
The characteristic of passivity on which certain mystics would insist is subsidiary--even if it is to be allowed at all.
But such differences are subsidiary, and cannot obscure the fundamental doctrine on which all consistent nature-mystics must be agreed, that man and nature are essentially manifestations of the same Reality.
As noted above, mystics have gone, and still go, to lengths which make the world wonder, in their efforts to enjoy the higher forms of mystic communion with the Real.
Nor would the Christian mystics allow of any intermediaries between the soul and God; they most of them held that the soul must rise above the things of sense, mount into another sphere, and be "alone with the Alone.
It may be worth our while, however, to note that many modern mystics are not monists, and that the supposed inseparable connection between Mysticism and Monism is being thrown overboard.
The answer to this question brings into bold relief a vital difference between orthodox mystics and those here called nature-mystics, and raises the issue on which the very existence of a valid Nature Mysticism must depend.
To this extent they rank as genuine "mystical" modes of experience, and from this point of view have bulked largely in the systems of mystics like Plato and Plotinus.
Suffice it to state what may fairly be regarded as the three fundamental principles, or doctrines, on which mystics of the orthodox schools generally depend.
And how did these ancient mystics best picture to themselves the primeval, or timeless, Something?
One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome.
Women who are utter mystics in their creed are utter cynics in their criticism.
It is strange that in England there is no record of any house which can compare with Gandersheim, Hohenburg or Helfta; no record of any nun to compare with the learned women and great mystics who have been mentioned.
It deserves special attention that some of the writings of these early mystics are in the vernacular and include some of the most beautiful productions in Middle English and in early German.
These writings were originally issued in the German of the north, but the only German copy now extant is a south German transcript, which was written for the mystics of Switzerland.
Everything led his soul to God; he fed on the mystics and rose to their height and serenity of thought.
She knows herself secure in her mystics who seem to have left the race an intuitive understanding of the life of the soul.
Not only in her mystics and novelists but in her painters and sculptors, Spain shows this union of the real with the ideal.
Teresa belonged to the race of the true mystics because she was a great saint.
Cradle of exaltedmystics and mother of realistic painters, this land of racy personalities never allows one's interest to flag.
But these wood carvings are the fruit of men who understood the mystics and who worked in a like spirit of intense faith.
And the mystics teach that He still lives in the world, diffused among all the living souls on earth, striving ever to lead them to a recognition of the Real Self--the Spirit Within.
But themystics have always held and taught that His reappearance was in the Astral Body, and not in the discarded physical form.
And all Occultists and Mystics find pleasure and just pride in the fact that the first recognition of the Divine Nature of this human child came from these Magi from the East--from the very Heart of the Mystic Inner Circles!
The Mystics alone have kept alive the Light of the Truth through the Dark Ages of the Christian Church.
The Mystics in the Christian Church throughout the centuries have never accepted any such teachings, although the persecution of the church authorities have prevented their protests being made openly until of late years.
The version of the teachings preserved by the Mystics has a corresponding passage, "And we know the truth of the deathlessness of the soul.
The Mystics point out that Jesus saw clearly the fact that John was Elijah re-incarnated, although John had denied this fact, owing to his lack of memory of his past incarnation.
But it has always been known to the mystics in and out of the church, and its flame has been kept steadily alight by a few devoted souls who were chosen for this sacred task.
And so the gold of these Occult Mysticssaved the founder of Christianity from massacre.
Here is the true Light on the Path, for the guidance of the feet of all Mystics and Occultists!
The mystics of old China reached for the Torch of Light, and they might have attained a true dominion over the planet, had not their fear-inspired kings built a Wall and gelded the Empire once for all.
He believes in the spaciousness and splendour of the American spirit; that the dream of a few mystics will triumph at the last, and that the many will follow the dream of the few.
Dalgairns, “The German Mysticsin the 14th Century.
Of this noble school of mystics the three following were the most distinguished.
The study of the writings of Augustine and the Areopagite (§ 90, 7) led back again to him, and the speculative mystics vigorously opposed the supremacy of Aristotle.
In speculative power and originality the Dominican =Theodorich of Freiburg=, Meister Dietrich, a pupil of Albert the Great, far excelled all the mystics of this century.
The mystics therefore wrote neither commentaries on the Lombard nor gigantic summæ of their own composition, but wrought by word and writing to meet immediate pressing needs.
A noble band of mystics arose during the 14th and 15th centuries influenced by Eckhart’s writings, who carefully avoided pantheistic extremes by giving a thoroughly practical direction to their speculation.
Among the mystics of the Reformation period hostile to the church, Caspar Schwenkfeld, a Silesian nobleman of an old family, of the line of Ossingk, holds a prominent and honourable place as a man of deep and genuine piety.
Mystics are often attacked and drained of their power by the Dark Magicians, and many end up becoming Dark Magicians themselves.
The German mystics have always found a special attraction in St. Teresa's work and this was true not only among the Catholic students in Germany, but also at nearly all times among the Protestants.
The mental state that marks the zenith of the free development of the imagination, is at present met with only in mystics and in some poets.
But this illusion has degrees, and with mystics it attains its maximum.
Mystics are believers in the true sense--they have faith.
Aside from the poets and artists, the mystics would furnish copious examples.
This exaggerated symbolism, which makes the works of mystics so fragile, and which permits the mind to feed only on glimpses, has nevertheless an undeniable source of energy in its enchanting capacity to suggest.
Contemporary mystics have invented adaptations of the world that take us back to the mythology of early times.
There have been mystics who preferred their warm ecstatic visions to the cold formulations and abstractions of theology.
The records of many mediæval and of some modern mystics emphasize this complete yielding to the will of God, and in His will finding peace.
One of the noblest mystics that ever lived was =Gerhard Tersteegen=, died A.
At the head of the orthodoxmystics stands =John Arndt=.
We may ignore such inessential accretions, and confine ourselves to the beliefs which all mystics share.
While such a mood is dominant, the need of logic is not felt, and accordingly the more thoroughgoing mystics do not employ logic, but appeal directly to the immediate deliverance of their insight.
The definite beliefs at which mystics arrive are the result of reflection upon the inarticulate experience gained in the moment of insight.
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