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 mystic interpretation of themes in poetry which were contrary to Islamic teachings became popular after the Safavid dynasty rise to power and the establishing of Twelver school of Shi ' a Islam as the official religion of Iran.

Hinduism rests on the spiritual bedrock of the Vedas, hence Veda Dharma, and their mystic issue, the Upanishads, as well as the teachings of many great Hindu gurus through the ages.

The core of his synthesis of different schools of Jewish thought was rooted in his deep studies of the teachings of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel ( 1525 – 1609 ) a scholar and mystic known as the Maharal of Prague.

Further membership erosion occurred as Koehl, drawing heavily upon the teachings of Hitlerian mystic Savitri Devi, began to suggest that National Socialism was more akin to a religious movement than a political one.

Behmenism, also Behemenism and similar, is the English-language designation for a 17th Century European Christian movement based on the teachings of German mystic and theosopher Jakob Böhme ( 1575-1624 ).

* 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.

The Centre's self-help teachings and its sale of Kabbalah-themed merchandise has been criticized as a perversion of Judaism's ancient and secretive mystic tradition.

Miller saw Jeshu as a mystic whose nondual consciousness has been spiritually transformed and whose teachings can lead to the transformation of our consciousness and lead us to live non-violently.

Seeking to increase his understanding of the teachings he received in Tibet, he traveled to India, where he met the female mystic yogini Niguma.

Seekers are strongly advised by the master to first research other mystic teachings or yoga systems that may interest the seeker ( not only Radha Soami Satsang Beas teachings ).

Its major purpose is to support and propagate the teachings of Integral Yoga of late Guru and renowned Indian mystic Swami Śrī Aurobindo.

Rabbi Chaim Vital stated that he had received these teachings, like his other mystic theories, from his teacher the Arizal.

Esoteric Christianity refers to the study of the occult or mystic esoteric knowledge related to the inner teachings of Christianity.

He was a great mystic of his time and originated a literary revolution through his literary creation called Vachana Sahitya in Kannada Language which are derived from the Upanishads and Vedanta.

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.

Some, such as the mystic dragonewts, are unique to Glorantha.

Hildegard's reincarnation has been debated since 1924 when Austrian mystic Rudolf Steiner lectured that a nun of her description was the past life of Russian poet Vladimir Soloviev, whose Sophianic visions are often compared to Hildegard.

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.

This was symbolized by the ' mystic placing of the Cross whereby the wounds of the passion of our souls are set forth '.

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

The acts gradually disintegrate-Heidi nearly destroys the set by botching a swing, the Indian mystic incapacitates himself by contorting his head into his rectum, and Sid's tribble-like pets are crushed by a barrel.

Two of the most significant of these are the Yad Ramah by Rabbi Meir Abulafia ( uncle of the mystic Abraham Abulafia ) and Bet Habechirah by Rabbi Menahem haMeiri, commonly referred to as " Meiri ".

They are later revived by a mystic named Eli with the spiritual aid of Callisto, who by that time had become an angel ; Callisto also makes Xena to conceive a daughter after the resurrection, and this child is prophesied to bring about the Twilight of the Olympian gods ; this girl was named Eve.

The Church Father Hippolytus, writing in the early 3rd century, discloses that " the Athenians, while initiating people into the Eleusinian rites, likewise display to those who are being admitted to the highest grade at these mysteries, the mighty, and marvellous, and most perfect secret suitable for one initiated into the highest mystic truths: an ear of corn in silence reaped.

* 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 ).

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.

Already, in that earliest stage of individualization, the child is not only factually one with the mother but beyond that, one with the world, with a Cosmos floating in mystic vapors in which present, past, and future are dissolved.

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.

He also thought that the Indian and Chinese mystic tried to attain " a state of perfect indifference and neutrality " that resulted in a coincidence of opposites in which " pleasure and pain, desire and repulsion, cold and heat [...] are expunged from his awareness ".

Little is known about his life with any reliability, however, and no writings of his survive, so it is possible that he was simply a mystic whose successors introduced rationalism into Pythagoreanism, that he was simply a rationalist whose successors are responsible for the mysticism in Pythagoreanism, or that he was actually the author of the doctrine ; there is no way to know for certain.

experiences, where in some cases the name seems to derive from trigger, sometimes from the overbelief, sometimes from the known standing and beliefs of the mystic, and sometimes, though rarely, from the nature of the experience. Ecstasies enjoyed by accepted religious mystics are usually called religious experiences no matter what the nature of the ecstasy or the trigger inducing it.

Muslim saints who are venerated include the women Sufi mystic Rabia Basri, and Sufi saints Habib al-Ajami, and Saint Nuri.

" The medieval Flemish mystic John of Ruysbroeck likewise held that true conscience has four aspects that are necessary to render a man just in the active and contemplative life: " a free spirit, attracting itself through love "; " an intellect enlightened by grace ", " a delight yielding propension or inclination " and " an outflowing losing of oneself in the abyss of ... that eternal object which is the highest and chief blessedness ... those lofty amongst men, are absorbed in it, and immersed in a certain boundless thing.

Both the macrocosm ( the universe ) and the microcosm ( man ) are viewed in this system as products of the combination and permutation of these mystic characters, and such a use of the letters by the Jews for the formation of the Holy Name for thaumaturgical purposes is attested by magic papyri that quote an " Angelic Book of Moses ," which was full of allusions to Biblical names.

It typically includes one or more of several features, such as the mystic association of animal and plant species, natural phenomena, or created objects with unilineally related groups ( lineages, clans, tribes, moieties, phratries ) or with local groups and families ; the hereditary transmission of the totems ( patrilineal or matrilineal ); group and personal names that are based either directly or indirectly on the totem ; the use of totemistic emblems and symbols ; taboos and prohibitions that may apply to the species itself or can be limited to parts of animals and plants ( partial taboos instead of partial totems ); and a connection with a large number of animals and natural objects ( multiplex totems ) within which a distinction can be made between principal totems and subsidiary ones ( linked totems ).

Across the center of the slab is a black enamel band upon which three Greek letters appear, which are the initials of three mystic Greek words meaning phronimon ( Phi ), thumos ( Theta ), katharotes ( Kappa ) and meaning " wisdom ," " aspiration ," and " purity.

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.

That Ezekiel endeavors, differently than others of the Bible's authors who describe mystic visions, to report about as many details of the design of what he has perceived as possible nourishes doubts that his account can usefully be interpreted merely on a mystical basis and strengthens tendencies to explain certain passages of the book as descriptions of sightings of a spacecraft.

His mystic work The Way Towards the Blessed Life gave his fullest thoughts on religion.

Contemporary opinions saw Rasputin variously as a saintly mystic, visionary, healer and prophet or, on the contrary, as a debauched religious charlatan.

His experience there, combined with a reported vision of the Virgin Mary on his return, turned him towards the life of a religious mystic and wanderer.

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

The famous poet and mystic, Jalal al-Din Rumi, was born on September 30, 1207 in Balkh.

There is the joke, followed by a moral and usually the little extra which brings the consciousness of the potential mystic a little further on the way to realization.

In the early-to mid-1900s, American mystic, theologian, and founder of the Association for Research and Enlightenment Edgar Cayce was a seminal influence on what later would be termed the New Age movement ; he was known in particular for the practice some refer to as channeling.

" The Orient sought by the mystic, the Orient that cannot be located on our maps, is in the direction of the north, beyond the north.

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 ).

Late in the campaign the Republicans obtained letters written by Henry A. Wallace, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, to controversial Russian mystic Nicholas Roerich, who had invented an eclectic religion based on Tibetan Buddhism.

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.

In 2005, he began working with the USC EA Game Innovation Lab on the art game, The Night Journey, a project based on the universal story of an individual's mystic journey toward enlightenment.

His great-grandfather, a dentist, had been a mystic who had corresponded with author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the subject of Spiritualism, and who was a member of the Lily Dale Society.

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.

Arthur Edward Waite ( October 2, 1857 – May 19, 1942 ) was a scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck.

Nowhere amongst us is the mystic relation of the seed-corn of Demeter, whose poignant grief for her daughter threatens to bring famine on mankind ( Hymn to Cer.

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.

Iasion founded the mystic rites on the island of Samothrace.