“Chinese mysticism was all the rage in those days when Spiritualism was everywhere and seances were popular.”

“She insists that the practice of karezza, a special kind of sexual union, was a key to mysticism, magic, and creativity.”

“Because the Acmeists broke with exhausted conventions and vague mysticism, Mandelstam is sometimes mistaken for a chilly realist.”

“Philosophers saw him as the living embodiment of the Law, a divine mystic.”

“The believing thinker thus became a seeing mystic. And this transformation did not take place in spite of his work of scholastic thought, but rather thanks to it.”

“He even started a Sufi cult under his name that became also a place for mystics from different faiths too.”

“Muhammad's role as a source of emulation, however, is far from being confined to mystics and visionaries.”

“His portrait of this elusive, intensely private genius describes Faraday's links with painters and poets, polymaths and mystics.”