Word: mystical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these mystic forms, the primate explained, is Loyola's rule of prayer...
Suddenly the Archbishop broke off and resumed his lecture in a normal voice. Of this example of Loyala's mystic exercises, he said...
...have the story of Paul's loves". I use the quotation marks advisedly, because nowhere in the book have I found any love that was more than animal passion or animal instinct, unless perhaps it be Paul's love for his mother on her death bed. Even Miriam, the mystic, the dreamer, apparently does not really love him. There is passion, physical attraction--plenty of that, but no love...
Editor Jacks quests ever for idea? but likes best those ideas which sting the emotions and radiate a mystic loveliness...
...workers and a group of Mohammedan laborers who " told filthy stories in Pushtu " (which sounds singularly evil). His one and only lucrative job evaporated when he discovered that, quite without his knowledge, he was being used by a group of fake-spiritualists to add, by his turbaned presence, proper mystic color to their meetings. Altogether, he saw Amerca as few foreign visitors see it-and in the " Epilogue," where he treats of the differences and likenesses between West and East, he has some very sane and original things...