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... religious teachers of whom any country and any century might be proud , but of whom , for various reasons , their ... religious genius and less suitability to the needs of the present day . Their value is assuredly very great to the ...
... religious teachers of whom any country and any century might be proud , but of whom , for various reasons , their ... religious genius and less suitability to the needs of the present day . Their value is assuredly very great to the ...
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... religious thinkers , and men of ordinary education as to the precise meaning which the word should bear . There can , indeed , be few words in the language , not obviously ambiguous , which are susceptible of more shades of meaning ; it ...
... religious thinkers , and men of ordinary education as to the precise meaning which the word should bear . There can , indeed , be few words in the language , not obviously ambiguous , which are susceptible of more shades of meaning ; it ...
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... religion were called mystical . Finally , the word was used to describe all religious teaching that was symbolical or occult , such as that of Boehme , Swedenborg , and theosophy in all its branches ancient and modern . Hence , apart ...
... religion were called mystical . Finally , the word was used to describe all religious teaching that was symbolical or occult , such as that of Boehme , Swedenborg , and theosophy in all its branches ancient and modern . Hence , apart ...
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... religious or philosophical or literary , but which is in reality with the individual the work of the spirit of the times upon all the faculties of the mind , has caused the word mystic , hitherto appropriated to religion , to be applied ...
... religious or philosophical or literary , but which is in reality with the individual the work of the spirit of the times upon all the faculties of the mind , has caused the word mystic , hitherto appropriated to religion , to be applied ...
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... religious or philosophical writers such as St Thomas Aquinas , Hooker , and Harnack . Next , by a slight stretch of mean- ing , the word was used to describe those who , like Words- worth or Browning , saw , or claimed to see , a vision ...
... religious or philosophical writers such as St Thomas Aquinas , Hooker , and Harnack . Next , by a slight stretch of mean- ing , the word was used to describe those who , like Words- worth or Browning , saw , or claimed to see , a vision ...
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