Noun
Obscurity of doctrine.
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.
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's dictionaryWit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. Friedrich Schlegel
Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today. Marshall McLuhan
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. Henri Bergson
Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe. Bertrand Russell
Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things, which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau. Camille Paglia
Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots. Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science; but man needs both. Fritjof Capra