A resource on Mysticism

Mysticism

The mystical aspect is very much much present in the work of The Golden Age foundation.

• As we said in the beginning, we are suffering and searching for a meaning in life because we have not had this mystical experience. Our life is boring and we are always having the feeling that something is missing for us to be complete. Constantly we feel emptiness in our hearts and a feeling of alienation and loneliness. We may be with a group of friends or at work and feel that we do not belong to this place or to this group of people. In other moments I may be in a family party and still feel I don''t belong here either, even though we are together there is something that divides us and makes me feel separated from others. I may be in a wonderful and beautiful place; in a mountain with vegetation around me and birds, wild animals and a pure river with crystal water flowing through it; but while I am there observing the landscape and the whole place I feel fine just for a moment, after a while I feel I am just passing by this place, I am a visitor, a pilgrim that always must go on in his way, again getting in touch with this sense of not belonging. There is something that does not let me engage with others and with the rest of the world. I may share certain things with others but there are so many things inside of me that I have never shared and I do not know if I ever will. This feeling of being individuals and of being separated from others is born from the lack of this transcendental and mystical experience. This makes us lose the experience of union and communion with others. So experiencing this union and communion with others is a transcendental and mystical experience. There are so many kinds of mystical and transcendental experiences, in fact they are unlimited and the main characteristic is that they are unique and very different from one person to another.

• Many people are craving for these mystical experiences. The question that we should ask ourselves is, from where comes the desire to have an experience of this kind? Everybody has an access to such mystical experiences that free us from suffering and give us much joy and happiness in our life. We will receive these experiences immediately if the desire is born from the real need for a change in our lives, but if it is a simple wish born from curiosity, it could take a little bit longer.

Introduction and links to related topics

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Mysticism -
1. communication that God makes of his or her spiritual light of the depths of the human heart. (Dhu’n-Nun Misri)
2. absolute (Evelyn Underhill)
3. states characterized by ineffability, that of knowledge (William James)
4. feeling of union with all life.
5. awareness of a dazzling light that fills the mind and heart.
6. experience of being bathed in emotions of joy, awe, wonder.
7 intuitive flashes of awareness and understanding of the universe.
8. merging with the creation, creator, nature.
9. feeling of transcendental love and compassion for all living things.
10. renewed sense of energy and vitality and health.
11. sudden vanishing of suffering and fear of death.
12. enhanced appreciation of art and beauty and less attachment to material things.
13. appearance of ESP and enhanced intellect, gifts and powers.
14. renewed sense of purpose and mission in life.
15. Change in personality and inner radiance. (NAD)

Mysticism - A word originally derived from the Greek and having a wide range of meaning in modern religion and philosophy. A mystic may be said to be someone who has intuitions or intimations of the existence of inner and superior worlds, and who attempts to achieve conscious communion with them and the beings inhabiting these inner and invisible worlds.

From the theosophical or occult point of view, a mystic is one who has inner convictions often based on inner vision and knowledge of the existence of spiritual and ethereal worlds of which our outer physical world is but a manifestation; and who has some inner knowledge that these worlds or planes or spheres, with their hosts of inhabitants, are intimately connected with the origin, destiny, and even present nature of the world which surrounds us.

The average mystic, however, is one who lacks the direct guidance derived from personal teaching received from a master or spiritual superior.

Mystic Cross - Kabbalistic pentacle with four arms with three circular convexities on each end. (NAD)

Mystical Experience - ASCs involving experiences of ecstasy, unity, timelessness, loss of self, divine revelation, etc.

Mystic - (1) One who practices mysticism.
(2) A person who uses mostly passive talents and rites for mostly theurgical purposes.

Mystic Death - Mystic Death An experience at a certain stage of initiation, where the candidate undergoes the experiences of virtual death, differing from actual death in that his body is prevented from dissolution so that he may resume it when the trial has been passed.

Through its symbolic representation in the exoteric Mystery dramas, it has passed into the substance of religious creeds where it has been adapted to those formulas, as in the story or mythos of the death and resurrection of Jesus. The Egyptian Book of the Dead is, among other things, a description of some of the experiences undergone by such a candidate.

Mystic - A person who has mystical experiences.
Used loosely to refer to psychics, mediums or romantics.

Mystic - n. or adj. 1. one who has experienced God directly.
2. believer in intuitive knowledge of God, especially through contemplation ad. mystical. (NAD

Mystica Vannus Iacchi - Mystica Vannus Iacchi. Commonly translated the mystic Fan: but in an ancient terra-cotta in the British Museum the fan is a Basket such as the Ancients’ Mysteries displayed with mystic contents: Inman says with emblematic testes.