Sentence examples for mystical knowledge from inspiring English sources

Their go-between is a British lord, Sir Edmund Burton Anthony Hopkinss), an aristocrat of manners and morals, disguising his deep and mystical knowledge in elegant bluster.

Maʿrifa, ( Arabic: "interior knowledge") in Islam, the mystical knowledge of God or the "higher realities" that is the ultimate goal of followers of Sufism.

The Upanishads reveal the desire to obtain the mystical knowledge that ensures freedom from "re-death" (punarmrityu), or birth and death in a new existence.

As neuro-syphilis sets in, she says, episodes of pain and depression are rewarded with sessions of "creative euphoria, electrified, joyous energy" and "heightened perception, dazzling new insights, and almost mystical knowledge".

Bush's fantastical lyrics, influenced by children's literature, esoteric mystical knowledge, daydreams and the lore and legends of old Albion, seemed irrelevant, and deficient in street-cred at a time of tower-block social realism and agit-prop.

She is rediscovered on the screen giving birth, a metaphor for the new mystical knowledge, which, Ms. Neshat said, "it is her duty to deliver" to the frantic crowd.

Such has been compared to the early days of Christianity, when the church opposed the gnostics' belief that salvation came not through faith but through a mystical inner knowledge.

The realization of this emptiness was a kind of non-realization, a giving up, or an inexpressible, mystical, prajna-knowledge which contrasts with "ordinary" knowledge.

Jonas shows the force and persistence — both historical and conceptual — of the idea of enlightenment by the ray of divine light, the mystical gnosis theou (knowledge of God, a Gnostic doctrine), the direct beholding of the divine reality.

The most striking similarity between Greek and Indian thought is the resemblance between the system of mystical gnosis (esoteric knowledge) described in the Enneads of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (205 270) and that of the Yoga-sutra attributed to Patanjali, an Indian religious teacher sometimes dated in the 2nd century ce.

Through a gradual process of ascension from material things to spiritual realities and an eventual stripping away of all created beings in "unknowing," the soul arrives at "union with Him who transcends all being and all knowledge" (Mystical Theology, chapter 1).