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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mysticism  \Mys"ti*cism\,  n.  [Cf.  F.  mysticisme.] 
  1.  Obscurity  of  doctrine. 
 
  2.  (Eccl.  Hist.)  The  doctrine  of  the  Mystics,  who  professed  a 
  pure,  sublime,  and  wholly  disinterested  devotion,  and 
  maintained  that  they  had  direct  intercourse  with  the 
  divine  Spirit,  and  aquired  a  knowledge  of  God  and  of 
  spiritual  things  unattainable  by  the  natural  intellect, 
  and  such  as  can  not  be  analyzed  or  explained. 
 
  3.  (Philos.)  The  doctrine  that  the  ultimate  elements  or 
  principles  of  knowledge  or  belief  are  gained  by  an  act  or 
  process  akin  to  feeling  or  faith. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mysticism 
  n  1:  a  religion  based  on  mystical  communion  with  an  ultimate 
  reality  [syn:  {religious  mysticism}] 
  2:  obscure  or  irrational  thought 




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