mystic
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Emmanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish mystic born in 1688, wasn’t being metaphorical when he subtitled his otherworldly narrative “From Things Heard and Seen.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Bailey Rose Quiñones is a mystic earth nun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
It was this identification with Derbyshire that led Tutti to write Re-Sisters in 2002, which also focused on another non-conformist woman, the medieval Norfolk mystic Margery Kempe.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
Healy Lake members, Combs said, have long considered their dogs to be mystic companions.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
Between the head line and heart line in my right palm, she said, I have the mystic cross.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
Such activities include praying to gods and deities, fortunetelling and physiognomy, and consulting spiritual gurus or mystics, according to party commentaries and state media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Formula 1 is about physics and not mystics.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
"They treat a whole host of maladies," said Thomas Patton, a professor at New York state's Union College who has studied Myanmar's mystics.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
Ancient mystics tried to understand what is being.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2025
It is the story of the people who battled over the meaning of the mysterious number—the scholars and mystics, the scientists and clergymen—who each tried to understand zero.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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