Definition of mysticism
- n. - Obscurity of doctrine.
- n. - The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure,
sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they
had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge
of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect,
and such as can not be analyzed or explained.
- n. - The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of
knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or
faith.