Saul senses in Eliza a natural aptitude for mysticism, blossoming from the way in which the letters seem to appear to her in a vision. |
She insists that the practice of karezza, a special kind of sexual union, was a key to mysticism, magic, and creativity. |
Chinese mysticism was all the rage in those days when Spiritualism was everywhere and seances were popular. |
Swedenborg joined his mysticism with a keen interest in natural science, especially acoustics. |
Because the Acmeists broke with exhausted conventions and vague mysticism, Mandelstam is sometimes mistaken for a chilly realist. |
This is a wonderful and sensitive synthesis of Kabbalah, focusing on the mysticism of the Zohar and its later manifestations. |