No word in our language — not even "Socialism"— has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." … The history of the word begins in close connexion … - William Ralph Inge

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No word in our language — not even "Socialism"— has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." … The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut…

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About William Ralph Inge

William Ralph Inge (6 June 1860 – 26 February 1954), popularly referred to simply as Dean Inge, was an English author, Anglican prelate, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral.

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Alternative Names: Very Rev. William Ralph Inge • William Inge • Ralph Inge • W. R. Inge • Dean Inge
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Mysticism may be defined as the attempt to realise the presence of the living God in the soul and in nature, or, more generally, as the attempt to realise, in thought and feeling, the immanence of the temporal in the eternal, and of the eternal in the temporal.
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