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As one of many names for the unio mystica, the mystical insight par excellence, the coincidentia seems to be ontologically prior to any particulars of religious culture.
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On the other hand I don't believe that lady mastermind is already dying, nor - for even a moment - that sinister, of all people, died in such a stupid way because he trusted gambit and mystica - of all people - too much.
What I bought – 9 January 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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[1945] Opera metaphysica et mystica I, ed. and intro.
Suhrawardi Marcotte, Roxanne 2007
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[1970] Opera Metaphysica et mystica III, ed. and English intro.
Suhrawardi Marcotte, Roxanne 2007
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[1952] Opera Metaphysica et mystica II, ed. and intro.
Suhrawardi Marcotte, Roxanne 2007
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She is called doctrix mystica, doctor of mystical theology; in a report to Pope Paul V the Roman Rota declared: Teresa has been given to the Church by God as a teacher of the spiritual life.
St. Teresa of Avila Argent 2006
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The Grateful Dead invoked the rose at every turn, and with multiple layers of symbolism: it stands for love, for the female principle, for the rosa mystica of Christian and
Line-by-line exegesis of "Black Muddy River" by Andrew Stiller Andrew Stiller 2005
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Temporis quinetiam certis, machina quaedam ex ligno ad formam ovi facta, sacra et mystica, uam foeminas aspicere haud licitam, decem plus minus uncias longa et circa quatuor lata insculpta ac figuris diversis ornata, et ultimam perforata partem ad longam (plerumque e crinibus humanis textam) inscrendam chordam cui nomen
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She was well on her way to establishing herself as his soror mystica, she thought, but she had begun to feel a deep sympathy for Sami Dooley.
A Darker Place King, Laurie R. 1999
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He then went on to speak about the role of the soror mystica, the mystical sister, during the course of which he left Ana in no doubt about the distinctly non-sisterly actions that Sami had performed for him, and in great doubt about why she had possibly thought of him as an asexual being.
A Darker Place King, Laurie R. 1999
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