Sentences with phrase «mystical world of»

The artists on view in Outsider Art also share something beyond their often improvisational methods of art - making: Their works are woven together by common threads such as religion, the mystical world of animals, pop culture and icons of American history.

It takes into account the mystical world of play and surreal and imagined events.

In the game, you will chain up great combos and deal massive damage to your enemies as you set out on your adventure to save mystical world of Kaldera!

Launching almost a year after the original Super Monkey Ball, the sequel provided an opportunity to return to the mystical world of Monkeys in balls and provide a bit of backstory into the Monkey Ball series.

As a playable poem, Child of Light takes players on an extraordinary journey through the mystical world of Lemuria by putting them in the shoes of Aurora, a young princess who must win back the sun, the moon and the stars held captive by the mysterious Queen of the Night.

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Some great incites into this somewhat mystical world of self - publishing.

In this free eBook, you'll explore everything you could ever hope to understand about the mystical world of Epic Meaning!

The simplest way into Gravity's Rainbow is via Page One — but it helps to have to a prior appreciation of one of Pynchon's key themes, the clash between high technology and a near - mystical world of secret science, created in private labs that the author likes to invent.

As a playable poem, Child of Light takes players on an extraordinary journey through the mystical world of Lemuria by putting them in the shoes of Aurora, a young princess who must win back the sun, the moon and the stars held captive by the mysterious Queen of the Night.

Are you ready to return to the mystical world of Jim Henson's 1986 film Labyrinth?

Under a haze of red, blue, and violet shadows, the cacophonous force that is Polica bring a mystical world of sound to life.

Although modern academic theology prefers the mystical world of Baudrillard's praxis of location and the semiotics of a post «Saussurean world of self «referencing signifiers, it is clear that the issues raised by the Reformation simply will not go away.

Richard pulls back the curtain on the almost mystical world of the super-wealthy for investors and for anyone getting into the family office business.»

The mystical worlds of artist Inka Essenhigh to open at MOCA — Denise M. Watson The Virginian - Pilot, 03.15.2018

Not exact matches

Imagine what this world would be like if we took all the energy we put into following our respective mystical gods and worked together for the greater good of this planet.

And yet, this does not mean that the gospel is an invitation to mystical introspection or to the salvation of individual souls, climbing out of a lost world into the safety of the church.

22 The early mythico - mystical view advocated a denial of the profane world and a return to a primordial Totality.

What I experience as I stand in face of — and in the very depths of — this world which your flesh has assimilated, this world which has become your flesh, my God, is not the absorption of the monist who yearns to be dissolved into the unity of things, nor the emotion felt by the pagan as he lies prostrate before a tangible divinity, nor yet the passive self - abandonment of the quietist tossed hither and thither at the mercy of mystical impulsions.

The notion has tantalized many, including Tertullian and Irenacus, and though it received little assistance from either Platonism or Aristotelianism because of their denigration of matter and the body (and hence did not enter the mainstream of either Augustinian or Thomistic theology), it surfaced powerfully in Hegel as well as in twentieth - century process theologies.22 The mystical tradition within Christianity has carried the notion implicitly, even though the metaphor of body may not appear: «The world is charged with the grandeur of God» (Gerard Manley Hopkins, 27).

For it is not merely that at that privileged point all the external springs of the world are co-ordinated and harmonized: there is the further, complementary marvel that the man who surrenders himself to the divine milieu feels his own inward powers directed and enlarged by it with a sureness which enables him effortlessly to avoid the all too numerous reefs on which mystical quests have so often foundered.

Altizer's thought at this stage remains in mystical and mythical categories; furthermore, he sees no real difference among the higher religions of the world.

So the basic mystical intuition issues in the discovery of a supra - real unity diffused throughout the immensity of the world.

One of the most important studies is Denis de Rougemont's Love in the Western World, which makes a brilliant attempt to prove that romantic love was born of a Christian heresy, the catharism of the Middle Ages.25 This quasi-secret religion used conventional religious language to mask its own inner intent which was the celebration and mystical idolatry of sexual union.

At a moment of crisis faith must have an inevitable temptation to return to an earlier or even a primordial form of the Word, but such a path is fundamentally a repetition of the universal mystical quest, and can by no means be judged to be a positive witness to the Word that becomes incarnate in the world.

In his book The Mystic Heart, Brother Wayne develops a genuine and comprehensive spirituality that draws on the mystical core of the world's great religions.

Objectivity could perhaps lead Roman Catholic theologians to see that formal institutionalism is alien to the New Testament while voluntaristic Protestants might see that the mystical body of Christ has «space» in the world and is where Jesus Christ is to be found.

Early man, unaware of such mystical things as provability and objectivity, figured that somebody just like him, but a little smarter, must be responsible for how and why the world worked like it did.

And the most influential books of the New Testament, on which Christianity is actually based, are the writings of Paul, who never met Jesus face to face, never heard him speak, but thanks to a mystical experience on the road to Damascus, suddenly became the world's greatest expert on Christ.

Arab philosophy after al - Kindi26 [al - Farabi, 27 Ibn Sina28 and Ibn Rushd 29] gradually adopted a synthetic worldview incorporating Platonic idea of the existence of the intelligible world existing separate from the sensible world for three reasons: i) To make space for the possibility of preserving the transcendence of the Divine: ii) To create a notional space for the prophetic - mystical epistemology; iii) To make the philosophers» rational knowledge of the entire reality possible.

He urges,»... we shall have to consider the cultures of non-Western peoples in their own right, and try to understand them with the same intellectual passion that we devote to understanding the Homeric world, the prophets of Israel, or the mystical philosophy of Meister Eckhardt.

As Sir Julian Huxley wrote of The Mass on the World, it is a «truly poetical essay... at one and the same time mystical and realistic, religious and philosophical».

Now the dualistic sin of the Christian church, its original heresy, is that of resurrecting Jesus into the heavens with God in glory and the designation of the church as Christ's mystical body on earth.15 In actuality this doctrinal pronouncement represents a reversal of God's kenotic movement into humanity in Christ's flesh and in his death, for contrary to the spirit of kenotic incarnation, the church has become ever more sacredly apart from the profane, and the resurrected Savior ever more transcendent of the world.

It seems the world is made up of: — persons who enter a mystical state and experience oneness and tranquility — persons who have adverse reactions as their minds dissociate resulting in their experiencing psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena

May I emphasize the fact that the elements and functions coming from the superconscious, such as aesthetic, ethical, religious experiences, intuition, inspiration, states of mystical conscious - ness, are factual, are real in the pragmatic sense... producing changes both in the inner and the outer world.

Ninian Smart has shown that although Western religious traditions have been predominantly numinous and Eastern traditions predominantly mystical, all the major world religions have in fact included both types of experience.18 Early Israel gave priority to the numinous; biblical literature portrays the overwhelming sense of encounter, the prophetic experience of the holy as personal, the acknowledgment of the gulf between the worshipper and the object of worship.

Walls attributes to this document the teaching that «the Mystical Body of Christ, which although the same entity as the visible Church in which it subsists is nonetheless to be distinguished from theChurch «constituted and organised as a society in the present world»».

On the contrary, it has been precisely those forms of religion believed in one way or another to be antithetical to a secular world, and so vulnerable to «the acids of modernity,» that have sprouted up everywhere and have grown at an astounding rate; namely, fundamentalist religion of every variety; ecstatic, charismatic religion; esoteric, cultic religion; mystical, otherworldly religion; religious sectarianism that «opts out» of society, its customs and its responsibilities — not to mention every possible variety of the occult.

Many people think not; and to account for this slackening impulse in the highest and most complete of human mystical beliefs they argue that the evangelical flowering is ill - adapted to the critical and materialist climate of the modern world.

The mystical aspect of hope then turns into a premature flight from the world of the present.

If the ascetical way of silence is not carefully qualified by at least some degree of sacramentalism, by the mystical sense of transcendence, and the activist concern for the world, it tends toward nihilism, the view that all things are empty of value.

The sense of «churchly appurtenance,» in von Hügel's phase, is something we must cultivate these days, to help our people recognize that in and through the parish of St. Vitus, Smithville, the very glory of the mystical Body of Christ shines forth, «the holy Church throughout all the world» is reflected, and Christ is present still as we offer ourselves, m union with His perfect Sacrifice, in the eucharistic memorial of the passion and death of our Head.

For example, if sacramentalism is uninformed by the mystical tendency to relativize the things of the world, or by the apophatic suspicion of symbols, or by the activist need to change the social world, it will inevitably degenerate into idolatry and empty ritualism.

And now we come to that rediscovered doctrine of our day: the mystical Body of Christ in which we, by Baptism, are incorporate so that «in Christ» we live divinely human lives, as members of the order of supernatural charity which permeates and penetrates this order of relative justice which we call the secular world.

Mystical religion exemplifies the religious relativizing of the world.

We shall see presently the place of our Lord Jesus Christ in this whole context, the utter necessity of the Church as the mystical Body of Christ, and the inescapable reality of «the resurrection of the body, and the life of the world to come.»

But the symbols discover this meaning for us (S 57, emphasis added), 21 a remark that recalls Wittgenstein's famous conclusion of his Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus: «Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is»; except that the how of world - making, if it is ultimately dependent on imaginative interpretations of signs or symbolisms, becomes every bit as mysterious as the fact that it is.

Schweitzer's ethical mysticism begins with a reflective observation of the finite world («I am urge - to - life»), moves to an empirical generalization («in the midst of other wills - to - live»), is made cosmic by an intuitive insight, which is the completing or mystical element of thought («all is part of a cosmic or universal will - to - live»), and returns to the finite for experiential verification in ethical participation («Ethics alone can put me in true relationship with the universe by my serving it, cooperating with it; not by trying to understand it... It is through community of life, not community of thought, that I abide in harmony... [«The Ethics of Reverence for Life,» Christendom, Vol.

This was also the principle of the Brothers of Waldo (at Lyons) and of those heretical movements — Joachimites, Brothers of the Poor Life, etc. — which preached true evangelical communism, practiced absolute nonviolence, and declared that apocalyptic visions had revealed that the «poor and pure religious orders will bring in the mystical government of the world.»

Gnosticism is a world - opposing form of faith in quest of a salvation that can be reached not by an eschatological reversal of the world or by a mystical dissolution and transformation of the world but only by the most radical kind of world - negation.