There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.
That the world is, is the mystical.
Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.
The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.
Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.
My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . . "
Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers. . . Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.
The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.
Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life. . . If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is like the Virgin's womb; for the same Holy Spirit fills the font, Who filled the Virgin, that the sin, which that sacred conception overthrew, may be taken away by this mystical washing.
Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.
If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness alive!" would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it won't really make a difference. You can only absorb so much.
If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them.