The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

* In The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes, set during Holmes's three-year fake ' death ', Holmes encounters Moriarty during his trip in Tibet, where he learns that Moriarty is actually the Dark One, a former Tibetian mystic possessing great psychic powers who lost his memories in an attack on the Dalai Lama, only for his near-death experience on the Reichenbach Falls to restore his memory, albeit leaving him horribly crippled and disfigured by his injuries.

On the occasion of " Urs " held in memory of the renowned saint and mystic poet Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai ( 1689-1752 ) at Bhitshah, near Hyderabad in Sindh, held every year between 13th and 15th of Safar, devotees sing with fervor and frenzy his love-intoxicated Kafis to the strains of ektara which appears to be a very ancient musical instrument.

The twentieth-century scholar Martin Lings described the significance of the ladder in the Islamic mystic perspective: The ladder of the created Universe is the ladder which appeared in a dream to Jacob, who saw it stretching from Heaven to earth, with Angels going up and down upon it ; and it is also the " straight path ", for indeed the way of religion is none other than the way of creation itself retraced from its end back to its Beginning.

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

Perhaps the word may be included among those mysterious expressions discussed by Adolf von Harnack, “ which belong to no known speech, and by their singular collocation of vowels and consonants give evidence that they belong to some mystic dialect, or take their origin from some supposed divine inspiration .”

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.

The term derives from the Greek ( esôterikos ), a compound of ( esô ): " within ", thus " pertaining to the more inward ", mystic.

It indicates direct spiritual experiential knowledge and intuitive knowledge, mystic rather than that from rational or reasoned thinking.

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.

* In 1917 the body of Rasputin, the Russian mystic, was exhumed from the ground by a mob and burned with gasoline.

However, this experience is different from the theistic mystic who is absorbed into a God, who is quite different from the objective world.

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.

Another Norse tradition involves the myth of Norna-Gest: when the uninvited norns showed up at his birthday celebration — thus increasing the number of guests from ten to thirteen — the norns cursed the infant by magically binding his lifespan to that of a mystic candle they presented to him.

According to Thomas Taylor, " the dramatic shows of the Lesser Mysteries occultly signified the miseries of the soul while in subjection to the body, so those of the Greater obscurely intimated, by mystic and splendid visions, the felicity of the soul both here and hereafter, when purified from the defilements of a material nature and constantly elevated to the realities of intellectual vision.

Journalist Stewart Home, who favored the " Nashists " and considered Debord a " mystic, an idealist, a dogmatist and a liar " wrote that while the 2nd Situationist International sought to challenge the separation of art and politics from everyday life, Debord and the so-called ' specto-situationists ' sought to concentrate solely on theoretical political aims.

* The bacchanalia are wild and mystic festivals of the Roman god Bacchus which are introduced into Rome from lower Italy by way of Etruria ( approximate date ).

But he withheld his mystic knowledge from King David in the hour of peril, and was therefore doomed to die from strangulation ( Tanna debe Eliyahu R.

This recurrent theme is best known from the writings and songs of the legendary mystic of the 16th century, Rabbi Isaac Luria.

According to one account, she is the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite ; By yet another account, Harmonia was from Samothrace and was the daughter of Zeus and Electra, her brother Iasion being the founder of the mystic rites celebrated on the island.

The Mystick Krewe of Comus itself was inspired by a Mobile mystic society, with annual parades in Mobile, Alabama, called the Cowbellion de Rakin Society that dated from 1830.

The cards were drawn by illustrator Pamela Colman Smith from the instructions of academic and mystic A. E. Waite, and published by the Rider Company.

Sir Bedivere resists twice, but on the third time obeys and is rewarded by the sight of an arm " clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful " rising from the water to catch the sword.

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 ").

As celestial mother of every existing form and being, the synthesis of all things, she is associated with space ( akasa ) and with mystic speech ( Vāc ).

In composing poems of mystic content, they imbued every word and image with mystical undertones, thereby causing mysticism and lyricism to essentially converge into a single tradition.

Hari, the great lord of the possessors of mystic power, then showed to the son of Prithâ his supreme divine form, having many mouths and eyes, having ( within it ) many wonderful sights, having many celestial ornaments, having many celestial weapons held erect, wearing celestial flowers and vestments, having an anointment of celestial perfumes, full of every wonder, the infinite deity with faces in all directions.

For example, the golf teams at both schools compete for the " mystic niblick " every spring, a trophy given to the team with the lowest overall scores over their two matches against one another.

Draw the amount of water you expect to drink in the course of the night and then direct your steps towards Helene ’ s grave ; stretched out there, drink of the mystic health-giving water, and when the morning light has finally dawned afresh, you will be cured of your ills.

Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century female mystic and anchoress, a religious person living secluded in a cell within a church.

Vassula Rydén ( born January 18, 1942 ) is a controversial Christian mystic living in Switzerland who professes to receive messages from Jesus Christ and The Virgin Mary.

An Egyptian mystic ( played by Elias Zarou ) who helps the trio when they are dealing directly with Lewis ' ghost, who tries constantly to re-enter the world of the living (" Bottle Of Dreams ", " Doorway To Hell ").

His work with living trees with accelerometers and hands with tactile sensors are based on random-picking software, giving objective transduction of physical phenomena a " mystic " character.

But her renovation work activates the hell-portal, and soon she and a local doctor find themselves having to deal with living dead, a ghost of a blind girl who seeks to get them to leave the house, a mystic tome called the Book of Eibon that supposedly contains the answers to the nightmare at hand, face-eating tarantulas, a young girl whose murdered parents become zombies and is herself possessed by undead spirits — and Schweick, who has returned as a malevolent, indestructible corpse, apparently in control of the supernatural forces.

Dimitri becomes a rich scuba diver ; the Panda King returns to China, starts living two doors down from Jing King, and screens all her future husbands ( as of yet, she is still unmarried ); Murray went to complete his training with the Guru, later becoming a professional race car driver with the van ; Guru, after finishing training Murray, teaches his mystic art to a group of rock stars ( who found him even in New York City ); and Penelope and Bentley have created a new vault to contain the Cooper wealth that is shielded by lasers and built a time machine.

Osho aimed to create a " new man " combining the spirituality of Gautama Buddha with the zest for life embodied by Nikos Kazantzakis ' Zorba the Greek: " He should be as accurate and objective as a scientist ... as sensitive, as full of heart, as a poet ... as rooted deep down in his being as the mystic.

Sufism () is a mystic tradition of Islam based on the pursuit of spiritual truth as it is gradually revealed to the heart and mind of the Sufi ( one who practices Sufism ).

The Qalb is called the heart of the mystic, which is caught between the downward pull of the lower nafs, and the upward pull of the spirit of Allah, and thus it can be blackened by sin.

Stars in the Marvel Universe are actually sentient beings, and the source of all mystic energy.

Its mystic mode of explaining some commandments was applied by its commentators to all religious observances, and produced a strong tendency to substitute mystic Judaism in the place of traditional rabbinic Judaism.

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Furthermore, give me all the mystic powers attained by long austerities and the practice of yoga, for these cannot be lost at any time.

Furthermore, give me all the mystic powers attained by long austerities and the practice of yoga, for these cannot be lost at any time.

he is believed to cure, like all doctors, and to perform miracles of the fakir type, like all magicians [...] But beyond this, he is a psychopomp, and he may also be a priest, mystic, and poet.

However, during the later years of his master's life, he began to perceive that he could not wholly accept all the dogmas or the more mystic ideas of his friend and master.

Luria's kabbalistic circle gradually widened and became a separate congregation, in which his mystic doctrines were supreme, influencing all the religious ceremonies.

In the series finale, after Spider-Man saves all reality from Spider-Carnage, Spider-Man's mystic advisor, Madame Web, promises they would find the real Mary Jane ( as she promised when she took Spider-Man from Earth after the Mary Jane clone died before the Secret War, which was a test to see if Spider-Man could stop Spider-Carnage ).

Joyous or melancholy, solemn or mystic, powerful or ethereal: Franck was all those at Sainte-Clotilde.

It was presided over by the mystic Allama Prabhu and numerous sharanas from all over Karnataka and other parts of India were participants.

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.

# The mystic concept of the Cosmic Christ is not that of a person, but of a Principle, a Universal Presence ... the Universal Image of God present in all creation ... the " pattern that connects.

He was an agnostic, a vegetarian, a mystic, a Tolstoyan, and several other things all at once.

He professed also that " Its Rituals embrace all Masonry, and are based on those of the Craft universal ; they explain its symbols, develope its mystic philosophy, exemplify its morality, examine its legends, tracing them to their primitive source, and dealing fairly and truthfully with the historical features of Symbolical Masonry.

Well-versed in the occult, folklore, primitive magic and various mystic phenomena, he is able to withstand most reality-altering experiences and generally has an open mind towards all things.

The name was derived from an aphorism of Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle: " A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one ".

In accordance with this, Christ also, in the opinion of these followers of Basilides, was in the possession of a mystic name ( Caulacau ) by the power of which he had descended through all the heavens to Earth, and had then again ascended to the Father.

That all changed when, as a teenager, Furman became interested in spirituality and in 1970 became a devout follower of the mystic Sri Chinmoy.