Some Indo-Europeanists claim that Greek seems to be most closely related to Armenian ( see also Graeco-Armenian ) and the Indo-Iranian languages ( see Graeco-Aryan ) among the living Indo-European languages.

the Budzhak, Starosilsk, and Novotitarovka groups, might represent the Greek-Armenian -" Aryan "(= Indo-Iranian ) ancestors ( Graeco-Aryan, Graeco-Armenian ), and the Catacomb culture that of the " unified " ( to ca.

Used in tandem with the Graeco-Armenian hypothesis, the Armenian language would also be included under the label Aryano-Greco-Armenic, splitting into proto-Greek / Phrygian and " Armeno-Aryan " ( ancestor of Armenian and Indo-Iranian ).

They were then initiated into the secret signs by which members recognized each other, and were presented with a rope and with a knife on which were engraved the mystic letters S. S. G. G., supposed to mean Stein, Strick, Gras, grün ( stone, rope, grass, green ).

Meetings with Remarkable Men is the second volume of the All and Everything trilogy written by the Greek-Armenian mystic G. I. Gurdjieff.

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.

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.

His development was strengthened by the influence of Jessie Penn-Lewis, Robert Govett, D. M. Panton, G. H. Pember, John Nelson Darby, Theodore Austin-Sparks, Andrew Murray, mystic Madame Guyon, and many others, reading as many as 3, 000 books from various authors since first century.

Although ETH, as a unified and named hypothesis, is a comparatively new concept-one which owes a lot to the saucer sightings of the 1940s – 1960s, it can trace its origins back to a number of earlier events such as the now discredited Martian canals and ancient Martian civilization promoted by astronomer Percival Lowell, popular culture including the writings of H. G. Wells and fellow science fiction pioneers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, who likewise wrote of Martian civilizations, and even to the works of figures such as the Swedish philosopher, mystic and scientist Emanuel Swedenborg, who promoted a variety of unconventional views that linked other worlds to the afterlife.

* John G. Bennett ( 1897 – 1974 ), British mathematician, scientist, technologist, industrial research director, mystic and author

Regarding the meaning, the author John G. Bennett, a student and aide of the mystic Georges Gurdjieff writes:

* William G. Gray ( 1913 – 1992 ), English occultist, author and mystic

The Greek-Armenian philosopher and mystic G. I.

Early Chinese anchoritism was theoretically aimed at a mystic pantheist union with the divine, personal salvation being achieved when the mystical recluse united with divine essence.

Thus, the Mahayana metaphysic of mystical union for salvation was distilled down to a bare self-seeking, and for this reason, the mystic in Asia did not long remain in isolated contemplation.

`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

The technological, operative approach, which she calls extraverted, and the mystic, contemplative, psychological one, which she calls introverted are not mutually exclusive, but complementary instead, as meditation requires practice in the real world, and conversely.

In 1893 he played for the French organist Charles-Marie Widor ( at Saint-Sulpice, Paris ), for whom Johann Sebastian Bach's organ-music contained a mystic sense of the eternal.

In certain obscure magical writings of Egyptian origin ἀβραξάς or ἀβρασάξ is found associated with other names which frequently accompany it on gems ; it is also found on the Greek metal tesseræ among other mystic words.

Incantations by mystic names were characteristic of the hybrid Gnosticism planted in Spain and southern Gaul at the end of the fourth century and at the beginning of the fifth, which Jerome connects with Basilides, and which ( according to his Epist., lxxv.

The present state of the evidence therefore suggests that their engravers and the Basilidians received the mystic name from a common source now unknown.

But this extremely ingenious theory would at most explain only the mystic word Abracadabra, whose connection with Abrasax is by no means certain.

As a theologian Alain de Lille shared in the mystic reaction of the second half of the 12th century against the scholastic philosophy.

* 1905 – Mary Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun, mystic, and saint ( d. 1938 )

* 1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.

* 1898 – Maurice Wilson, English soldier, mystic, mountaineer, and aviator ( d. 1934 )

* 1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law.

Aedesius (, died 355 ) was a Neoplatonist philosopher and mystic born of a noble Cappadocian family.

* 2011 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru, mystic, philanthropist, and educator ( b. 1926 )

* 1658 – Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic ( b. 1595 )

Few breatharians have submitted themselves to medical testing ; of those that have, including a hospital's observation of an Indian mystic surviving without food or water for 15 days, none have undergone peer review with results independently reproduced.

To gain the tools they need to defeat the horrors – mystic knowledge and magic – the characters may end up losing some of their sanity, though other means such as pure firepower or simply outsmarting one's opponents also exist.

As Moism lost support by the time of the Han, the main philosophical contenders were Legalism, which Confucian thought somewhat absorbed, the teachings of Lao-tzu, whose focus on more mystic ideas kept it from direct conflict with Confucianism, and the new Buddhist religion, which gained acceptance during the Southern and Northern Dynasties era.

" Jesus, the only immaculate, was born of a virgin mother, and Christian Science explains that mystic saying of the Master as to his dual personality, or the spiritual and material Christ Jesus, called in Scripture the Son of God and the Son of man — explains it as referring to his eternal spiritual selfhood and his temporal manhood.

* Elder Cyril Pavlov ( b. 1919 ), Russian Orthodox Christian monk, mystic and wonder-worker

# The term chakra also is used to denote yantras or mystic diagrams, variously known as,, etc.

The faith was preached by Hamza ibn ' Alī ibn Ahmad, a Persian Ismaili mystic and scholar.

He claims the controversial " I am the Truth " of the Persian mystic Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj and uses the Ṣūfī terminology of wine.

* At the court of Ardashir I, Mani, a young mystic of Ctesiphon, proclaims himself a prophet and preaches his doctrine, Manichaeism, throughout the Persian Empire.

In one of his most poetic passages, Rank suggests that this transcendent feeling implies not only a " spiritual unity " between artist and enjoyer, I and Thou, but also " with a Cosmos floating in mystic vapors in which present, past, and future are dissolved " ( Rank, 1932 / 1989, p. 113 )-- an identity with " the ALL " that once was but is no more.

Other notable figures associated with the city are Ferdinand I of Aragon, cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, the mystic John of the Cross, the theologian Gabriel Vázquez, the poet Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita, and Manuel Azaña Díaz, writer and politician, who was President of the Second Spanish Republic between 1933 and 1936.

Phanes (, from, phainō, " I bring to light "), or Protogonos (, " First-born "), was the mystic primeval deity of procreation and the generation of new life, who was introduced into Greek mythology by the Orphic tradition ; other names for this Classical Greek Orphic concept included Ericapaeus ( " power ") and Metis (" thought ").

" Regarding his role as a public figure, Corgan has said, " My compulsion is to be a visionary mystic, and music has been of course my most successful form of communication, but I ’ ve also communicated through video, poetry, and just being a public pain in the rear.

( Time, 23 March 1987, " Farewell Dark Prince ") However, he has been quoted saying that ; " I really resent being depicted as some sort of dark mystic or some demonic power .... All I can do is sit down and talk to someone ...." ( The New York Times, 4 December 1977, Jackson Aide Stirs Criticism in Arms Debate, Richard L. Madden )

In what is considered the most compelling entry in this book, ` Attar relates the story of the execution of Hallaj, the mystic who had uttered the words " I am the Truth " in a state of ecstatic contemplation.

The 1980 Doctor Who episode " Shada " makes a sidelong reference to this region – the Fourth Doctor ( played by Tom Baker ) claims that walking through the Time Vortex " is a little trick I learned from a space-time mystic in the Quantocks ".

Meanwhile Marguerite de Navarre, the sister of Francis I, herself a poet, novelist and religious mystic, gathered around her and protected a circle of vernacular poets and writers, including Clément Marot, Pierre de Ronsard and François Rabelais.

Harvey Spencer Lewis F. R. C., S .< sup >·</ sup >. I .< sup >·</ sup >., 33 ° 66 ° 95 °, Ph. D. ( November 25, 1883 – August 2, 1939 ), a noted Rosicrucian author, occultist, and mystic, was the founder in USA and the first Imperator of Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis ( AMORC ), from 1915 until 1939.

Nawab Khwaja Abid Siddiqi ( Khulich Khan I ) s / o Shaikh Mir Ismail Siddiqi ( Alam Shaikh Siddiqi ) Alam ul-Ulema, son of Ayub Younus Salim Siddiqi, son of Abdul Rehman Shaikh Azizan Siddiqi, fourteenth in direct decent from Sheikh Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi, of Suhraward in Kurdistan, a celebrated Sufi mystic, or dervish, maternal ( first ), a lady of the family of Mir Hamadan ( a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed ) ( SW ), a distinguished Sayyid of Samarkand.

Recovered, and fell-walking in the Lake District, " on Easter morning on Kidsty Pike, between Hawes Water and Hayes Water, a blinding spring sun on snowy ridge beyond ridge, from Fairfield to Blucathra, brought a moment of such ecstatic intoxication that, were I a mystic, I should have called it a mystical experience.

It was written by the Klatchian mystic Achmed the Mad, who apparently preferred to be called Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches, ( a parody of H. P. Lovecraft's mad Arab Abdul Alhazred ) after drinking too much Klatchian coffee.

" It did not take a mystic to comprehend these facts, as the late Hickman Price, Jr., who bought Willow Run for the Kaiser-Frazer partners, once said: " I believed we would have a period of three or four years — I remember putting 1950 as the terminal date in which we can sell everything we can make.

Don't be content with being a faqih ( religious scholar ), say I want more-more than being a Sufi ( a mystic ), more than being a mystic-more than each thing that comes before you.

Here he became acquainted with Elisabeth, abbess of Hereford, the granddaughter of James I of England and a noted mystic, with the Theologia Germanica, and with the writings of Antoinette Bourignon, which last supplied exactly what he wanted.

It was originally believed to have been created by a mystic curse, but it is later revealed that the creature is actually a S. H. I. E. L. D.