Word: mysticisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...success on a number of occasions, but the leader survived to leave half a dozen books describing the Baha'i plan before he died in 1892. The plan, in the words of an official Baha'i publication, "offers a clear pattern of world order," without invoking any "secret mystic doctrines." That plan is now overseen by an elected nine-mancouncil located in Israel which also sets policy for Baha'is in those areas neglected by the scriptures of the founder...
...Harvard sailing team really ran into lousy weather last weekend in its two regattas. Cold, wet and blustery winds plagued both the Ivy League Championships in New London, Ct., and the Friis Trophy Regatta on Mystic Lake in Medford. And by the time the weekend was over, the spirits of the Harvard competitors were even bleaker than the weather conditions...
...Jesuit superiors and provincial representatives from around the world converged on Rome. The man they elected as the society's 28th general (to serve, like the Pope, for life) was a career missionary named Pedro Arrupe, the first Basque to head the order since Ignatius himself. Something of a mystic, also like Ignatius, Arrupe, now 65, presides over the troubled order today with disarming calm and good cheer...
...little town called Manresa, he devoted nearly a year to an orgy of austerity, begging door to door, wearing a barbed girdle, fasting for days on end. For months he endured the terrible depressions of the mystic's dark night of the soul, even contemplating suicide at one point. But what followed was the mystic's singular reward, an immense breakthrough to enlightenment. In a wave of ecstatic illumination one day at the River Cardoner, Inigo became, in his own words, "another...
Discalced Carmelite Friar William McNamara also understands the lure of the East. "People in the West, particularly the young, are being fed stones instead of bread in churches and schools. They know nothing of the deepest mystical tradition; yet they want inner experience. They hear there's a mystic tradition in the East, and they go over...