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...Saint? It may be a long time before the Christian world knows what to make of the Frenchwoman named Simone Weil. She was born (in 1909) into an agnostic Jewish family, and died (in 1943) a passionate Christian mystic (TIME, Jan. 15). She was deeply influenced by Roman Catholicism, but could never bring herself to become a Catholic, or even to be baptized. She wrote hardly a line for publication, but her diaries, letters and a few essays contain a vivid and challenging sense of the presence...
Some of the most soaring religious poetry ever written was composed by a tiny 16th Century Spanish monk called Juan de la Cruz-John of the Cross. From his bald head to the soles of his sandals, John was a contemplative, shy, silent mystic...
Nevertheless, congratulations on an amusing and sporting excursion into the realms of the mystic...
Later, possibly to keep the fires burning briskly, Pagliacci slyly added that he had also been influenced by his recollection of one of the prophecies of the 16th Century mystic Nostradamus, forecasting a day of doom when "the horses of the Cossacks will drink from the holy water fonts of St. Peter's." To set the record straight, he explained that he has mild anarchist and atheist tendencies, but is strongly antiCommunist...
...Iran the militant faith of Mohammed grew into a violent, mystic evangelism, complete with its own saints, rituals and miracles. Through the centuries Iran became the home of the Sufi mystics and the whirling dervishes, wild-eyed ascetics who fascinated the marketplace in Teheran and Isfahan with their homemade trances and visions...