Sentence examples for mystical origin from inspiring English sources
1. Avatars This word for our digital incarnations has a marvellously mystical origin, beginning with the Sanskrit term avatara, describing the descent of a god from the heavens into earthly form.
The shadow of the Romantic era is cast over everything in the project, from the artwork, to the vaguely mystical origin story of his tripping acid in the thick expanse of North Germany's Königsforst, to Voigt's fairly fabulous dress sense.
"Enlightenment in the Shadows: Mysticism, Materialism, and the Dream State in Eighteenth-Century France," in Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Origins of Rationality, ed.
In keeping with the sport's mystical origins, Tony showed me the secret of aiming angle shots by visualizing a so-called ghost ball adjacent to my intended object ball.
The mystical origins of Nietzsche's Dionysian community are an open invitation to the unleashing of irrational passion that is perfectly happy to squander the life of any individual standing in its way.
With a focus on this concept's history in France and Germany, Wampole traces its influence in diverse areas such as the search for the mystical origins of words, land worship, and nationalist rhetoric, including the disturbing portrayal of the Jews as an unrooted, and thus unrighteous, people.
2. Discover the magical, mystical origins of the Christmas story.
This spiritual category is an influential and inspiring category because it is mystical in origin.
If you see a history of May Day in the newspapers this year, it is most likely to recount the mystical, medieval origins of a pagan fertility festival.
It is not that the big emotions we feel - love or lust or loyalty - are more mystical than their biological origins but exactly that they are far more material, more over-loaded with precise dates and data, associations and allegiances, experiences and memories, days and times.
Always suspicious of teleological and mystical explanation, Haeckel used the Origin as ammunition both to attack entrenched religious dogma and to build his own unique world view.
