supersensual

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Though joy and inward peace even in desolation are dominant marks of those who have grown up into it, still it offers to none a succession of supersensual delights.

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn

Yet even the least spiritual forms of the cult of the Child are seldom without some hint of the supersensual, the Infinite, and even in Eckhart there is a love of concrete symbolism.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.

This, then, was the type of Madonna, of the supersensual and sublimated Virgins of Cologne!

From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

It alone extends the narrow horizon of their thoughts, supplies the images of their dreams, allures them to the supersensual and the ideal.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Since perfect proof of the supersensual is beyond the span of human consciousness, the element of risk can never be eliminated: we are obliged in the end to trust the universe and live by faith.

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn