mysticism

Cats have at least been associated with women and mysticism since ancient Egypt and the goddess Bast, often portrayed as a women’s body with the head of a feline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Over time her work became more personal, leaning in to Afrocentric mysticism and her distinctive voice, which sidesteps gospel projection in favor of intimate and playful phrasing that recalls Billie Holiday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Fortune telling and mysticism are common in Eastern Europe, she explains.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 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

He'd see Rinehart simply as a criminal, my obsession as a fall into pure mysticism .

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

The Prophet also taught the unchanging relation of cause and effect, which brings the whole universe under a reign of law, and overthrows the mysticisms of old.

From Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by John Andreas Widtsoe

From these mysticisms and technicalities of Troubadour and all other poetic guilds Browning decisively detaches his poet.

From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford

Here he soon became disgusted with the mysticisms of the schoolmen.

From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

His brain was becoming too crammed with queries, with strange happenings and with the aggravating mysticisms of the life into which his father's death had thrown him to permit clearness of vision.

From The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper

Her account of the matter was highly satisfactory, and I must have been made of stone, not to credit her and her mysticisms.

From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper