An exotic Chinese golden pheasant has brought a touch of the mystic east to inner city Manchester. |
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He's a self-styled mystic, widely regarded as a charlatan, exploiting the bereaved for money. |
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The legend goes that Karni Mata, a mystic matriarch from the 14th century, was an incarnation of Durga, the goddess of power and victory. |
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It was at once the most sacrilegious and yet mystic moment many of them had ever experienced. |
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Palmer was bowled over by Blake's mystic zeal, while Blake was flattered to have a young follower. |
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At a young age he renounced the world and undertook a seeking journey to the hills of the mystic Himalayas in search of spiritual life. |
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Indeed, there are Hindu temples which have in the sanctum sanctorum no image at all but a yantra, a symbolic or mystic diagram. |
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She doesn't believe that animals have a mystic ability to identify specific cures for specifically diagnosed diseases. |
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The mystic overtones of a suffering, bearded and often bare-chested man waving wanly to onlookers gazing up at him have also struck chords. |
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In fact, there are many mystic traditions that consider dancing as the roadway to God. |
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He becomes a practising mystic using wise passiveness and transcendental experience as methods of breaking his ego chains. |
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Even more astonishing is his chapel, designed by Einhard on the basis of the mystic octagon. |
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The mystic color of amber has flowed over the late autumn fields in the calm sunshine of an Indian summer. |
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John the Evangelist thus becomes the perfect type of the mystic, and also the perfect mystagogue, teacher of the mystical path. |
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The idea was quickly co-opted by every self respecting mystic and the term has since been inescapable. |
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In many circles of the Qawwal, tribute is paid to the mystic in words that entail transgression in terms of polytheism. |
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The beauty of them hanging and casting a mystic light filtered through pink, vermillion, yellow or cyclamen into the dark night is breath-taking. |
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It contained a number of projective geometry theorems, including Pascal's mystic hexagon. |
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It had come home in the form of drugs and broken vets, a generation turning to spiritualism and mystic cults. |
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Her doe-eyed features and silken voice conjures comparisons to other mystic chanteuses with names like Sarah, Chantal, Diana and Tori. |
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Once a visitor is done with all the mystic tourism Marlborough is close to hand for a bit of shopping or lunch. |
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Every week my jaw dropped lower as she expatiated on the mystic ramifications of this. |
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His hallucinatory illustrations for the mystic had a direct impact on the psychedelic art that bloomed a few years later. |
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Even as the mystic poet is dying, some of his followers and admirers have begun to quarrel over what to do with his mortal remains. |
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The poetry of great minds has grown and been nurtured in the midst of life's mystic tumult and disorder. |
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The book is a postmodern tragic comedy about a sweet Californian dreamer who meets a mollydook mystic in a sleepy village on the North Coast. |
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It is also an astonishingly powerful, elemental and mystic structure. |
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Much of the mystic vampire appeal certainly emanates from the overt sexuality of the core image of a male vampire sucking the blood of a nubile maiden. |
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John of the Cross was a 16 th-century Spanish mystic and Carmelite priest. |
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Through out history drugs have been the herald of the mystic experiences. |
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Wondrous sights seen along the way mixed and mingled with mystic truths discussed afloat a rolling ocean in daily yoga classes with Gurudeva and his swamis. |
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A golden belt girded his waist, and the buckle was a mystic pentagram. |
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The solar image is employed interrogatively to explore the mystic function of art as a filtering membrane or translucent window into another dimension. |
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There is a mystic beauty lurking in its vales and dells, which lifts the soul above the realms of time and space, and makes the beholder sense the presence of the divine. |
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It was the White Witch, sorceress and enchanter, whose command over the mystic forces and arcane arts was rivaled only by Prince Albrecht himself. |
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According to Campbell, every hero encounters a wise mystic who helps him embrace his destiny. |
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Fabulous lunatic Madame Blavatsky was a con artist, a mystic, and the founder of the Theosophist Society. |
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Most famously, the Htoo twins, pre-teen mystic leaders of a Karen group called God's Army, grabbed headlines in 2000 as the most unlikely of guerrilla generals. |
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When he was dying, he told his family to spread half of his ashes on the mystic mountains and the lake in China he had called home for so many years. |
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William Blake, the eighteenth century poet, illustrator, engraver and mystic, worked from home but lived in his imagination. |
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Alexandra blamed herself for her son's illness, and in seeking answers to alleviate her guilt, came under the baleful influence of Siberian monk and mystic Rasputin. |
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His breadth of knowledge, skill and talent are renowned and much has been written about him as a poet, writer, editor, economic thinker, theosophist and mystic. |
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But I am communing with Handel, for example, who experienced the most powerful mystic exaltation as he wrote the Hallelujah Chorus, imagining himself in the presence of God. |
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And finally, he went up a mountain with the maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru to the stars, and came down again a convinced mystic. |
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The conventional image of Paracelsus himself as the ultimate mystic who sought to transmute base metals into gold and to create homunculi must be re-evaluated. |
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At Temple, Coltrane no longer operated as a jazz artist improvising melodies, but more like a mystic on a vision quest. |
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Their religious rituals shroud themselves in mystic diversity. |
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To this portal ascent is made by a mystic, indisputably prologetic, flight of steps. |
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At a hermitage on a mountain near Sinjar, he met a Kurdish mystic who gave him some silver coins. |
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It revealed his vulnerability to ideas, ideology, and mystic hoo-ha. |
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The dashing archaeologist is hired by the elders of a remote Indian tribe to find a mystic stone, stolen by the evil Thugee cult. |
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Many separate but related religious groups of that era shared similar mystic, eschatological, messianic, and ascetic beliefs. |
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Meanwhile, Peter Murphy gets all mystic and esoteric, his impenetrable lyrics outweirding the weird efforts of his previous band. |
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A similar arrangement was made for her son Bernard, named in honor of the great Carthusian mystic and of Bernie Astor, the publicist. |
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The cult of Cybele, which for the first time formally organized as a mystic society in Rome, but the orgiast frenzy clung to it at all times. |
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The mystic objectifies a rich feeling in the pit of the stomach into a cosmology. |
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Emanuel Swedenborg was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, revelator, and mystic. |
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The Sacred Circles show was heavily into myth, especially the current myth of the Red Man as mystic. |
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The numbers 99, 88, and 22 seem to belong to some system of mystic psephology, Or gematria as the Kabbalists afterwards called it. |
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Carmen even tries to get her mystic medicine man Grampy to help straighten her new pal's psyche out. |
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Apophasis is really the negation of rationality as a tool for approaching divinity and is the choice of the contemplative way of the mystic path. |
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The beturbaned mystic was especially mysterious-looking in his starred headwear. |
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Members of this religious group were devout followers of a Dutch mystic named Hendrik Niclaes. |
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The monk and mystic Thomas Merton was noted for his commitment to pacifism during the Vietnam War era. |
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Due to its hunting prowess, the golden eagle is regarded with great mystic reverence in some ancient, tribal cultures. |
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Her topics include the wax tablet, Rousseau's chains of associations, Freud's mystic writing pad, traumatic memories, and war and collective memory. |
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The top is connected with the heart by a mystic Nadi called Amrita Nadi. |
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Yet Minoo is also living a fantastic, sword-and-sorcery adventure in a mystic rendition of ancient Persia, where she and the man she loves battle the evil monsters of Ahriman. |
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