Mystic:

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

(See also: Mystic, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Mysticism:

Religious or spiritual doctrines which argue that the human mind or soul can directly experience the divine. See also mystical experience, transpersonal psychology.

(See also: Mysticism, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

See main article Mysticalism Besides Sedevacantists and Conclavists, there are a great many persons who claim to be Pope, but who do not claim to have been elected by men, but to have been constituted Pope by some supernatural figure from heaven in an apparition which was revealed to themselves. The Frenchman, Michel Colin, who began his claim in 1953-54, and re-asserted it in 1963 during the Vatican II Council, is sometimes asserted to have been a "Mysticalist"; however, he and several others of these claimants have not arisen from within the ...

See also:

WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - About this WikiProject, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Purpose, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Catholic Resistance, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Radical Traditionalist Catholicism, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Vatican II Reforms, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Indedependent Catholic Movements, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Lefebvrism, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Sedevacantism, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Sedeprivationism, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Conclavism, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Mere Sedevacantism, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Mysticalism, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Palmarianism, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Sirianism, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Home-Alone, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Habemuspapamism, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Feeneyism, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Represented by, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Old Catholics, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Guenonism, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Western Orthodoxy, WikiProject:Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance - Continuing Anglicanism

Mystic:

(1) One who practices mysticism.

(2) A person who uses mostly passive talents and rites for mostly theurgical purposes.

(See also: Mystic, Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

MYSTIC - n. or adj. 1. one who has experienced God directly.

2. believer in intuitive knowledge of God, especially through contemplation ad. mystical. (NAD

(See also: MYSTIC, Wiccan Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

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

(See also: MYSTIC CROSS, Wiccan Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

Mystical Experience:

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

(See also: Mystical Experience, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Mysticism:

(1) The doctrine or belief that direct knowledge of the God(s), o spiritual truth, of ultimate reality, or of comparable matters is attainable through immediate intuition, insight or illumination and in a way differing from ordinary sense perception or conscious thought.

(2) The concepts and theories behind the theurgical approach to occultism.

(See also: Mysticism, Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

NO

One of the Forgotten Ones. The name of quiet erasing that removes the utterer with it. Says Kenneth Grant: "I send my power forth, so I may eat more power."

(See also: NO, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

Mysticism The doctrine that the nature of reality can be known by direct apprehension, by faculties above the senses, by intuition.

"Mysticism demands a faculty above reason, by which the subject shall be placed in immediate and complete union with the object of his desire -- a union in which the consciousness of self has disappeared, and in which therefore subject and object are one" (Encyclopedia Britannica, 9th ed. "Mysticism"). It overlaps in meaning such terms as the Neoplatonic ecstasis, and the theosophy of Iamblichus.

(See also: Mysticism, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

AS IF

In Eckankar, chelas are taught that the senses contain all manifestation. Imagination, in the field of Maya, if exercised properly will create an effect by the chela "as if" it has already happened. We have only to recognize that we have already reached "God-consciousness".

(See also: AS IF, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

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.

(See also: Mystic Death, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

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)

(See also: MYSTICISM, Wiccan Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

(See also: Planets:, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

(See also: Signs, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

(See also: Planets, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

(See also: Planets, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

(See also: Signs, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

(See also: Planets:, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )