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  1. 1. n. Obscurity of doctrine. Source: opted
  2. 2. 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. Source: opted
  3. 3. 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. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality Source: wordnet
  5. 5. n. obscure or irrational thought Source: wordnet
  6. 6. 1. Obscurity of doctrine. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) 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. 3. (Philos.) The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith. Source: webster
  7. 7. The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, andwholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had directintercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of Godand of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, andsuch as can not be analyzed or explained. Source: adambom
  8. 8. n:100 n. a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality n. obscure or irrational thought Source: ecdict

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