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Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious., Importing or implying mysticism; involving some secret meaning; allegorical; emblematical; as, a mystic dance; mystic Babylon.
Osbaldo Fadel
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∙ 12y agoThe term 'mysticism' has two different uses: 1: a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality; 2: obscure or irrational thought
Actually, neither, although the first definition comes closer to the truth. Mysticism is not a religion, any more than prayer or worship or priesthood is. All of these are or can be a part of a religion. Mysticism is the study of and attempt to understand the intimate or immediate communion with an ultimate reality. This activity can be and usually is integrated into the beliefs of a pre-existing religion. Thus Judaism existed long before Kabbala and Islam before Sufism. Although founders and early leaders in particular religions, such as Muhammad, St. Paul and the Buddha, were mystics or had mystical experiences, that did not mean that all followers of the religion were expected to have them.
The definition of "obscure or irrational thought" is probably based on a confusion between "mystical" and "mystifying". These are quite distinct concepts.
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