Hitler called Himmler's mystical and pseudoreligious interests " nonsense ".

Hitler privately condemned mystical and pseudoreligious interests as " nonsense ".

Fuller is perhaps best known today for his " Nine Principles of War " which have formed the foundation of much of modern military theory since the 1930s, and which were originally derived from a convergence of Fuller's mystical and military interests.

In 1735, Luzzatto left Italy for Amsterdam, believing that in the more liberal environment there, he would be able to pursue his mystical interests.

Although he was one of the founding members of the Royal Society, a key institution in the development of experimental science, his interests were antiquarian and mystical as well as scientific.

In addition to sharing cultural interests, the circle reflected mystical and political themes.

He was joined in the same year by Rudolf von Sebottendorff ( formerly Rudolf Glauer ), a wealthy adventurer with wide-ranging occult and mystical interests.

He appears to have fulfilled his responsibilities in a dutiful manner, but he took any and all opportunities to develop his more intense mystical and naturesque interests.

The main interests of Hekhalot literature are accounts of mystical ascents into heaven, divine visions, and the summoning and control of angels, usually for the purpose of gaining insight into Torah.

In 1910, through his friendship with Franz Marc, Macke met Kandinsky and for a while shared the non-objective aesthetic and the mystical and symbolic interests of Der Blaue Reiter.

The novel was a bestseller, partly because it tapped successfully into – and, arguably, helped to promote – the 1960s popular interests in psychoanalysis and mystical philosophy.

The story itself has a disjointed and often elliptical feel, as it was originally published in serial form and is intended to convey the mystical associations and interests which the author himself was exploring at the time.

He was joined in the same year by Rudolf von Sebottendorff ( formerly Rudolf Glauer ), a wealthy adventurer with wide-ranging occult and mystical interests.

There are, however, certain esoteric and mystical schools of thought, present in many faiths — Sufis in Islam, Gnostics in Christianity, Advaitan Hindus, Zen Buddhists, as well as several non-specific perspectives developed in new age philosophy — which hold that all humans are in essence divine, or unified with the Divine in a non-trivial way.

Breaking from Fanck's style of setting realistic stories in fairytale mountain settings, Riefenstahl — working with leftist screen writers Béla Balázs and Carl Mayer — filmed Das Blaue Licht as a romantic, wholly mystical tale which she thought of as more fitting to the terrain.

Poems of Sultan Yunu Emre — despite being fairly simple on the surface — evidence his skill in describing quite abstruse mystical concepts in a clear way.

* 1273 – December 6 – Saint Thomas Aquinas quits his writing of Summa Theologica — a work considered within the Roman Catholic Church to be the paramount expression of its theology — leaving it unfinished after having a mystical experience during Mass.

* Dawn Summers — Buffy's younger sister, Dawn, is actually a mystical orb of energy who was turned into human form by her guardians.

* December 6 – Thomas Aquinas quits his writing of Summa Theologica — a master work of Catholic theology — leaving it unfinished after having a mystical experience during Mass.

Vivekananda observed that human could be classified into four categories — those who were in constant activity, or the worker ; those who were driven by their inner urge, or the emotional ; those who tended to analyse the working of their minds, or the mystical ; and those who weighed everything with reason, or the rational.

So he discussed four ways of worships — Karma yoga for the worker, Bhakti yoga for the emotional, Raja yoga for the mystical, and Jnana yoga for the rational.

" And unlike other superheroes of the 1960s — who are the exception among ordinary people in their respective worlds — Herbert's characters grow their powers through " the application of mystical philosophies and techniques.

Nor is nature to be confounded with created substance, or with matter as it exists in space and time ; it is pure non-being, the mere otherness ( alteritas ) of God — his shadow, desire, want, or desiderium sui, as it is called by mystical writers.

Whilst allowing for a mystical interpretation of the Cabala, he wholeheartedly condemned its magical application — particularly to angelology.

Its emergence is linked to humanistic psychology, also known as the " 3rd force " in psychology ( after psychoanalysis and behaviorism, and before the " 4th force " of transpersonal psychology — which emphasizes esoteric, psychic, mystical, and spiritual development ).

Rabbi Yisroel ( Israel ) ben Eliezer ( רבי ישראל בן אליעזר — May 22, 1760 ), often called Baal Shem Tov ( or ) or Besht, was a Jewish mystical rabbi.

A rebbe conducts a tish (: feert tish, literally, " table ")— a ( communal festive ) meal with highly mystical overtones — on Shabbat and other occasions.

Belief in a Germanic spirit — defined as mystical, rural, moral, bearing ancient wisdom, and noble in the face of a tragic destiny — existed long before the rise of the Nazis ; the composer Richard Wagner celebrated such ideas in his work.

He put on all sorts of mystical events — e. g., the celebration of his marriage as the “ One Without End ” ( the Ein Sof ) with the Torah, preparing a solemn festival to which he invited his friends.

Elfhame or Elfland, is portrayed in a variety of ways in these ballads and stories, most commonly as mystical and benevolent, but also at times as sinister and wicked.

Christian and Jewish mystical thought have also influenced the development of Anthroposophy.

Rav also devoted much attention to mystical and transcendental speculations which the rabbis connect with the Biblical account of creation ( Genesis 1, Ma ' aseh Bereshit ), the vision of the mysterious chariot of God ( Ezekiel 1, Ma ' aseh Merkabah ), and the Divine Name.

Corum also meets two other aspects of the Eternal Champion: Elric and Erekose, with all three seeking the mystical city of Tanelorn for their own purposes.

The spiritual tradition of Dominic's Order is punctuated not only by charity, study and preaching, but also by instances of mystical union.

However, not all such grimoires of this era were based upon Arabic sources ; the 13th century the Sworn Book of Honorius for instance was, like the ancient Testament of Solomon before it, largely based upon the supposed teachings of the Biblical king Solomon, and also included ideas such as prayers and a ritual circle, with the mystical purpose of having visions of God, Hell and Purgatory, and gaining much wisdom and knowledge as a result.

The reversal is also a fallacy ( not to be confused with the inverse gambler's fallacy ) in which a gambler may instead decide that tails are more likely out of some mystical preconception that fate has thus far allowed for consistent results of tails.

The Baal Shem Tov, and Hasidism, also opposed the earlier mystical and ethical ascetic paths of fasting and self-mortification, seeking to serve God by infusing physical activities with new spiritual inspiration.

Over the years Bonewits also had varying degrees of involvement with mystical organizations such as Ordo Templi Orientis, Gardnerian Wicca, and the New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn ( a Wiccan organization not to be confused with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ) as well as others.

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (), and more popularly in the English-speaking world simply as Rumi ( 30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273 ), was a 13th-century after whose death in 1284 Rumi's younger and only surviving son, Sultan Walad ( died 1312 ), favorably known as author of the mystical Maṭnawī Rabābnāma, or the Book of the Rabab was installed as grand master of the order.

Among the prevailing types of theories that attempt to account for the existence of love there are: psychological theories, the vast majority of which consider love to be very healthy behavior ; there are evolutionary theories which hold that love is part of the process of natural selection ; there are spiritual theories which may, for instance consider love to be a gift from God ; there are also theories that consider love to be an unexplainable mystery, very much like a mystical experience.

It can also be seen as the general set of methods used to accomplish the Great Work of mystical attainment.

There are also powerful benevolent mystical entities such as The Vishanti ; or amoral and malevolent entities who are not truly demonic in nature, such as Dormammu and The Octessence, or ones heavily drawing upon the mythology of H. P.

Increased level of right hemisphere activation has also been found in people who have high levels of paranormal beliefs and in people who report mystical experiences.

He is still attempting to instruct his followers on a text but he has also engaged himself in creating a system of mystical theology.

It is also believed to dramatically enhance mystical energies.

Various other problems are also caused by the Seed's absence, including a new antagonist named Severin who works with the rogue slayer Simone Doffler and has the power to drain others of their mystical energy.

She also employed other mystical ascetic works such as the Tractatus de oratione et meditatione of Saint Peter of Alcantara, and perhaps many of those upon which Saint Ignatius of Loyola based his Spiritual Exercises and possibly the Spiritual Exercises themselves.

St. John also wrote four treatises on mystical theology, two treatises concerning the two poems above, which set out to explain the true meaning of the poems verse by verse and even word by word.

Gull takes John Netley, his coachman, sole confidant, and reluctant aide, on a tour of London landmarks ( including Cleopatra's Needle and Nicholas Hawksmoor's churches ), expounding about their hidden mystical significance, which is lost to the modern world themes had also been explored in detail by Moore's near contemporary Peter Ackroyd in his novel Hawksmoor, published five years before From Hell.

Note also that Gnostic Christianity has a strong mystical current, but shies away from practical magic and focuses more on theurgy.

However, one researcher writes that this Cista (" kiste ") contained a golden mystical serpent, egg, a phallus and possibly also seeds sacred to Demeter.

But he also came into contact with the mystical speculations of Meister Eckhart, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin ( 1743 – 1803 ), and above all those of Jakob Boehme, which were more to his liking.

He wrote occult texts on subjects including divination, esotericism, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and ceremonial magic, Kabbalism and alchemy ; he also translated and reissued several important mystical and alchemical works.