In particular their work is based on mystic, morbid and romantic motifs.

The advantages and disadvantages are typically talents and traits that work for or against the character, such as ( on the positive side ) having animal friendship, artistic talent, body awareness, a code of honor, or ( from the negative spectrum ) being socially inept, suffering from a drug addiction, sex addiction, paranoia, mystic curse or similar.

Conversely, Elijah Delmedigo ( c. 1458 – c. 1493 ), in his Bechinat ha-Dat endeavored to show that the Zohar could not be attributed to Shimon bar Yochai, arguing that if it were his work, the Zohar would have been mentioned by the Talmud, as has been the case with other works of the Talmudic period, that had bar Yochai known by divine revelation the hidden meaning of the precepts, his decisions on Jewish law from the Talmudic period would have been adopted by the Talmud, that it would not contain the names of rabbis who lived at a later period than that of Simeon ; and that if the Kabbalah was a revealed doctrine, there would have been no divergence of opinion among the Kabbalists concerning the mystic interpretation of the precepts.

He said he wants to work with Puerto Rican youth, plans to establish the Shanti Ananda foundation, create a mystic center, and donate three of his lavish capes to a museum.

Amadou Bamba was a Muslim mystic and ascetic marabout, a spiritual leader who wrote tracts on meditation, rituals, work, and Qur ' anic study.

For voice and orchestra he composed the above-mentioned Dies natalis, a work profoundly mystic, and the pacifist Farewell to Arms ( 1944 ).

Don asks the " mystic seer " if he is going to get a promotion at work.

In 1675, he came under the influence of the Flemish mystic, Antoinette Bourignon, renounced his work, and decided to devote the remainder of his life to spiritual matters.

In Talmudic times there was a mystic tradition in Judaism, known as Maaseh Bereshith ( the work of creation ) and Maaseh Merkavah ( the work of the chariot ); Maimonides interprets these texts as referring to Aristotelian physics and metaphysics as interpreted in the light of Torah.

Amongst them were Christian mystic Jakob Böhme ( Behmen ); Johann Arndt, whose work, True Christianity, became widely known and appreciated ; Heinrich Müller, who described the font, the pulpit, the confessional and the altar as " the four dumb idols of the Lutheran Church "; theologian Johann Valentin Andrea, court chaplain of the landgrave of Hesse ; Schuppius, who sought to restore to the Bible its place in the pulpit ; and Theophilus Grossgebauer ( d. 1661 ) of Rostock, who from his pulpit and by his writings raised what he called " the alarm cry of a watchman in Sion.

Sannyasins who had " graduated " from months of meditation and therapy could apply to work in the ashram, in an environment that was consciously modelled on the community the Russian mystic Gurdjieff led in France in the 1930s.

This book seems to be a mystic work on the six days of creation, and corresponded in part to the small Midrash Seder Rabbah de-Bereshit.

Another work, The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure published by Little, Brown & Co. was a description of her years as a student of mystic G. I. Gurdjieff.

Visionary artist and mystic Austin Osman Spare, who was briefly a member of Aleister Crowley's A ∴ A ∴ but later broke with them to work independently, is largely the source of chaos magical theory and practice.

Shabbethai Bass, and, after him, Wolf, attributed to Jacob a work entitled Iggeret ha-Ṭe ' amim ( Venice, 1600 ), containing mystic explanations of the accents.

Referring to Lauridsen's sacred music, the musicologist and conductor Nick Strimple said he was " the only American composer in history who can be called a mystic, ( whose ) probing, serene work contains an elusive and indefinable ingredient which leaves the impression that all the questions have been answered ... From 1993 Lauridsen's music rapidly increased in international popularity, and by century's end he had eclipsed Randall Thompson as the most frequently performed American choral composer.

Nondual statements can also be found in the work of the Christian mystic Joel S. Goldsmith who founded The Infinite Way.

Catholic mystic Maria Valtorta in her vision-based work " Poem of the Man God " reports that Jesus Christ visited and preached in Hippos.

This work had already become known to English Catholics in middle 17th century, later ascetic and Benedictine mystic, Augustine Baker ( 1575 – 1641 ), wrote an exposition on its doctrine.

English mystic Evelyn Underhill edited an important version of the work in 1922.

The supposed Sanchuniathon claimed to have based his work on " collections of secret writings of the Ammouneis discovered in the shrines ", sacred lore deciphered from mystic inscriptions on the pillars which stood in the Phoenician temples, lore which exposed the truth — later covered up by invented allegories and myths — that the gods were originally human beings who came to be worshipped after their deaths and that the Phoenicians had taken what were originally names of their kings and applied them to elements of the cosmos ( compare euhemerism ) as well as also worshipping forces of nature and the sun, moon, and stars.

Until this day, " L ' oiseau bleu " is the symbol of his work, full of mystic and magic.

James's " vastation " initiated a spiritual crisis that lasted two years, and was finally resolved through the thorough exploration of the work of Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 ), the Swedish scientist, religious visionary and teacher, and mystic.

Leade was hugely influenced by the theosophical writings of 16th century German Christian mystic Jakob Böhme, who also speaks of the Sophia in works such as The Way to Christ.

* Teresa of Avila ( 1515 – 1582 ): Two of her works, The Interior Castle and The Way of Perfection were intended as instruction in ( profoundly mystic ) prayer based upon her experiences.

Leade was hugely influenced by the theosophical writings of 16th Century German Christian mystic Jakob Böhme, who also speaks of the Sophia in works such as The Way to Christ.

The Winding Way grants mystic power, but that power ebbs and flows unpredictably, affecting the strength of Margali's magic.

* January 17 – Blessed Osanna of Mantua, Dominican mystic ( d. 1505 )

* July 24 – Blessed Christina von Stommeln, Roman Catholic mystic, ecstatic, and stigmatic ( died 1312 )

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich () ( 8 September 1774 – 9 February 1824 ) was a Roman Catholic Augustinian nun, stigmatic, mystic, visionary and ecstatic.

This village was the birthplace of the most recent saint of the Melkite Church, Blessed Miriam Bawardy, a Discalced Carmelite mystic of the nineteenth century responsible for the Carmel of Saint David's Tower in Bethlehem who was beatified by Pope John-Paul II on November 13, 1983.

Henry Suso ( also called Amandus, a name adopted in his writings, and Heinrich Seuse in German ) was a German mystic, born at Überlingen on Lake Constance on 21 March c. 1300 ; he died at Ulm on 25 January 1366 ; declared Blessed in 1831 by Gregory XVI, who assigned his feast in the Dominican Order to 2 March.

Alexandrina Maria da Costa ( 30 March 1904 – 13 October 1955 ), also known as Blessed Alexandrina of Balasar, was a Portuguese mystic of the Eucharist, who was born and died in Balasar ( a rural parish of Póvoa de Varzim ).

In the Life of Moses, Gregory speaks of three stages of this spiritual growth: initial darkness of ignorance, then spiritual illumination, and finally a darkness of the mind in mystic contemplation of the God who cannot be comprehended.

They base their view on a Vita, or Life of the 12th-century mystic Christina of Markyate, which narrates the events and gives a more central role to Theobald, instead of Henry of Blois, in challenging Stephen's arrest of the three bishops.

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson or An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man is the first volume of the All and Everything trilogy written by the Greek-Armenian mystic G. I. Gurdjieff.

As it is, the mystic streams of Sufism and Bhakti had considerable philosophical and stylistic overlap ; Ghaus in his text Bahr-ul-Hayat ( Ocean of Life ) devotes several chapters to Yoga practices.

As a child, he came into possession of the mystic Ruby of Life which allowed him to control anything he touches ( touching the ground lets him erect a wall, for instance ).

* In modern times eternal recurrence was a major theme in the teachings of the Russian mystic P. D. Ouspensky whose novel Strange Life of Ivan Osokin ( first published St. Petersburg 1915 ) explores the idea that even given the free-will to alter events in one's life, the same events will occur regardless.

However, still feeling guilty about his father's death, Simba refuses to go to Pride Rock until being convinced by the mystic mandrill, Rafiki, into doing so and encountering the ghost of Mufasa who tells Simba that " Simba, you have forgotten me " and that he must take his place in the Circle of Life and true king of the Pride Lands.

# Of Death and Life – Starting prior to 2000 BCE, the concept of an ultimate supreme being takes root with the introduction of the Cult of El, as are some barbaric and mystic practices, like child sacrifice and temple prostitution.

The king of Kor was Nommo, the prime wizard of his time and the guardian of the mystic power called the Flame of Life.

430 AD ) was an Athenian philosopher and mystic whose life is known from an account in Marinus ' Life of Proclus.

The last great mystic Kavasilas, Archbishop of Saloniki, revived the teaching of Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, but in the plan of his principal work, " Life in Christ ", exhibits a complete independence of all other worlds and is without a parallel in Byzantine asceticism.

Seven thousand years ago Doctor Mist, also known as Nommo, was the wizard-king of the mighty African empire of Kor, and he was the guardian and chosen disciple of the mystic Flame of Life.