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mysticism

[mis-tuh-siz-uhm] / ˈmɪs təˌsɪz əm /


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Her work courses with an assured mysticism that makes her feel so emblematic of L.A. itself.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

Hegel was a metaphysician whose insistence that Geist, or spirit, pervades the historical process and moves it to some grand culmination is difficult to distinguish from New Age mysticism, and hence charlatanism.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

The intense chiaroscuro evokes the mysticism of William Blake.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

But mysticism also holds sway behind the closed door of politics.

From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025

One evening, I told him how unhappy I was not to be able to find in Sighet a master to teach me the Zohar, the Kabbalistic works, the secrets of Jewish mysticism.

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel




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