...nderstood in the context of Buber's 'previous intensive study, chiefly of Jewish mystical writings. It is not an isolated phenomenon among hls work... ...ystical, but it belongs to what' Pringle-Pattison has termed the "higher Mysticism" of' real communion with God, 88 distinguished from the debased>... ...ysticism" of' real communion with God, 88 distinguished from the debased> mysticism that sub­ stitutes for the real' present world A wo~ld of illusor... ...ghts, where " absorption" in th~ Di~ .. i.s experi­ enced. The decrying of mysticism &8 a wliole~' fashion­ able to-day among Protestant writers, has ... ...on of reversal, leading through sacri6.ce. But he spurns this knowledge; "mysticism" cannot resist the sun of electric light. He calls thought, in w... ...ir place in the abysmal history of destrtlction of reality. -But what of mysticism ~ Does it not inform ua 85 how unity without duality is experi...

...Reincarnation .........................................239 Chapter 7. Beliefs, Mysticism and The Supernatural ........................ 279 Chapter 8. ... ... L U T I O N O F H U M A N I T Y Q: Why did the Kabbalah remain, much like all Jewish thought, in the margins of the development of the cultural worl... ...age of legends (Agada the language of legends ( ), the language of the Talmud (Jewish re- ligious laws), and the language of the Kabbalah (Sefirot), w... ... hu- manity: the language of the Bible (history), the language of the Halacha (Jewish law), the language of Agada (legends and tales), and the languag... ...rrected before all other souls, then in our world, in groups of people with a Jewish type of soul there are Kabbalists. Those are people who came ou... ...cion.” T H E S C I E N C E O F R E A L I T Y Q: Isn’t Kabbalah another form of mysticism, like many others in the world? A: No. People want to label ... ...icism, like many others in the world? A: No. People want to label Kabbalah as mysticism, blessings, curs- es, charms, etc. These labels became linked... ...he Creator, who is unique. A gentile who walks toward the Creator is called “Jewish,” and a Jew who doesn’t is called a “gentile.” Q: What is the be... ... who simply reads different from another who is interested in phi- losophy and mysticism, or one who wants the title, “professor of Kabbalah?” Such p...

...re: Discovery and Correction ........ 204 Chapter 6. Soul, Body and Reincarnation ......................................... 239 Chapter 7. Beliefs, Mysticism and The Supernatural ........................ 279 Chapter 8. Prayer, Request and Aim ..................................................310 Chapter 9. Rav, Disciple and Group ..........................................

...int material from this book, please mail or fax your request in writing to Jewish Lights Publishing, Permissions Department, at the address / fax numb... ...e address / fax number listed below, or e-mail your request to permissions@jewishlights.com. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Laitma... ... fulfillment / Michael Laitman. p. cm. ISBN 1-58023-264-7 1. Cabala. 2. Mysticism—Judaism. 3. Spiritual life—Judaism. I. Title. BM525.L247 2005 ... ... Safrai Gallery. Manufactured in the United States of America Published by Jewish Lights Publishing A Division of LongHill Partners, Inc. Sunset Farm ... ... Box 237 Woodstock, VT 05091 Tel: (802) 457-4000 Fax: (802) 457-4004 www.jewishlights.com Awakening to Kabbalah text 9/29/05 4:30 PM Page iv CON... ...is sensitive and intelligent translation. I would like to thank the entire Jewish Lights Publishing staff, but the hard work and dedication of some is...

...nstance, it is known that Rabbi Yosef Karo, who wrote the Shulchan Aruch (the Jewish code of laws), a priceless piece of work, slept during his Kabb... ... Jew by birth, and a ‘spiritual Jew’? The answer is: In someone who was born Jewish, there is a tendency to become a Jew in the spiritual sense. The... ...o result. However, observing Mitzvot mechanically is still necessary for the (Jewish) collective because it preserves their identities from generatio... ...perience of the Creator and the spiritual world. The wisdom of Kabbalah is not mysticism. It is a science that ex- plores the entire reality, unlike e... ...elves and attain the spiritual world. There is a certain type of soul called “Jewish,” from the Hebrew word Yehudi—meaning “unique,” or “unified” (w... ...ns that this is the most egoistic type of soul. It is no coincidence that the Jewish people are described as “stiff-necked” and insubordinate. The c...

...h was concealed, various stigmas were attributed to it. It was considered mysticism, witchcraft, magic, etc., but no one knew what it was really abo... ...ginning to rid themselves of the stigmas and realize that Kabbalah is not mysticism, magic, charms, magic cures, or blessings for a good life in thi... ...rld. Baal HaSulam “Messiah’s Shofar” It is important to remember that the Jewish nation was not formed on a racial or a national basis. Jews today a... ...e to The Book of zohar” 27 From the magazine, Collections, a yearbook for Jewish studies, ninth book, Jerusalem, 1995, Editor: Meir Benayahu, pp 152... ...eir Benayahu, pp 152-154 28 From the magazine, Collections, a yearbook for Jewish studies, ninth book, Jerusalem, 1995, Editor: Meir Benayahu, pp 152... ...eir Benayahu, pp 152-154 29 From the magazine, Collections, a yearbook for Jewish studies, ninth book, Jerusalem, 1995, Editor: Meir Benayahu, pp 152... ...he introduction to Attaining the Worlds Beyond: “…Not feeling well on the Jewish New Year’s Eve of September 1991, my teacher called me to his bedsi...

....................................................... 164 Kabbalah Is Not Mysticism .................................................................... ...he introduction to Attaining the Worlds Beyond: “…Not feeling well on the Jewish New Year in September 1991, my teacher called me to his bedside and...

... communities tend to cling together in a country which is not their own. In England we, too, have Jewish, Chinese and even Arab quarters in our citi... ...aid Rosita, ‘that something evil is in that monument. This is a strange country full of idols and mysticism. To-morrow I will visit my friend, the S...

...9591973. Baba Kubi of Shiraz, “The Sufi Path of Love,” tr. R.A. Nicholson, Mysticism— A Study and an Anthology, ed. F.C. Happold, Cambridge University... ... Versus Eternal Punishment The Spiritual “Family” Karma And Predestination Mysticism 118 “Union” And “Communion” Mysticism Mysticism And Biochemistry ... ...ticism 118 “Union” And “Communion” Mysticism Mysticism And Biochemistry Is Mysticism Truly Religious? Psychological Factors The Function Of Mystical E... ...Of Mystical Experience The Mystical Journey The Psychological Mechanism In Mysticism Contrasting Viewpoints A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief... ...Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many people these terms have come to lose nearly all meanin... ...people as much as things. This is more or less what Martin Buber, a modern Jewish writer, meant when he spoke of changing one’s perception of the worl... ...ns tend to devote the giant’s share of their content to the development of Jewish and Christian thought, which is then used in turn as a basic outlook... ...grouping of people to whom it is convenient to give a common name such as “Jewish” or “Shinto.” What is more usually intended is very well-defined, or... ...e explanation may be simply that Buddhist converts in the West come from a Jewish or Christian background in which the masculinity of God has until re...

...ligious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that thevast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many...

...my relationship with Him, breaking through these screens. When the first Jewish farmers began to populate the Negev desert in the south of Israel, ... ... who takes upon himself this mission is called a Jew. But a concept of a Jewish nation doesn’t exist, because there were never such a people to beg... ...clean your head’ first, and understand that Kabbalah is not about ancient mysticism; it is the most modernistic science and the one that is the clos... ...lders.” (Isaiah 49, 22) Question: What about our duties in keeping the Jewish religious laws, is that not a part of our duty? Answer: What we ... ...l that they wanted to attain. The goal was to preserve the nation and the Jewish tradition in order to cross all the exiles, until we come out of th... ...ificant change necessary in the upbringing of the Israelis and the entire Jewish nation, and it must be lead by the Israeli government. The emphasi...

...t ought to send a frisson of repulsion down the spines of civilized men. The Serbs, Jewish scholars and many international scholars claim the numbe... ...r's shrines, celebrated each other's holidays and adopted the same customs. Muslim mysticism (the Sufi orders) appealed to many sophisticated urban... ... All four phases co-existed in Balkan history. Denial by the many who resorted to mysticism and delusional political thought. That the Turks faile... ... between: Michael Galak and Sam Vaknin Introduction by Michael Galak In traditional Jewish fashion the original idea for this dialog came to me when... ...urs, our ballet is more elegant than yours; Paranoia - the West is out to get us, Jewish doctors are out to kill our government; Triumphalism - w... ...terror of Stalin era, exposed to Western media and personal accounts of the Soviet Jewish emigration simply laughed off attempts to salvage remnant... ...ablished by Mohammed in response to refusal to acknowledge his prophetic mission by Jewish tribes of Hijaz. He divided the world into the dar al-Isl...

...n". As usual, Judaism was there first, agonizing over similar moral conflicts. Two Jewish sayings amount to a reluctant admission of the relativity... ...as many drawbacks. One, it leads to moral relativism. Consider this maxim from the Jewish Talmud: "Do not do unto thy friend that which you hate". ... ...itic arguments more closely and in an unbiased manner: Argument number one - Being Jewish is a racial distinction - not only a religious one If ra... .... Only Jews become automatic citizens of Israel (the infamous Law of Return). The Jewish Response: Race has been invariably used as an argument ag... ...y no biological test or restriction on joining the collective that is known as the Jewish people or the religion that is Judaism. It is true that s... ... first and the third kind led thinkers, such as Adolf Lasson, to associate it with Mysticism. He called it an "intellectual vision" which leads to ... ...antial facets of Romanticism. Romanticism continues to thrive in the flourishing of mysticism, of ethnic lore, and of celebrity worship. It seems th... ...etus nor its achievements can science go to its limits without becoming tinged with mysticism and charged with faith." Pierre Thierry de Chardin, "... ...etus nor its achievements can science go to its limits without becoming tinged with mysticism and charged with faith." Pierre Thierry de Chardin, "...

...n". As usual, Judaism was there first, agonizing over similar moral conflicts. Two Jewish sayings amount to a reluctant admission of the relativity... ...as many drawbacks. One, it leads to moral relativism. Consider this maxim from the Jewish Talmud: "Do not do unto thy friend that which you hate". ... ...itic arguments more closely and in an unbiased manner: Argument number one - Being Jewish is a racial distinction - not only a religious one If ra... .... Only Jews become automatic citizens of Israel (the infamous Law of Return). The Jewish Response: Race has been invariably used as an argument ag... ...y no biological test or restriction on joining the collective that is known as the Jewish people or the religion that is Judaism. It is true that s... ... first and the third kind led thinkers, such as Adolf Lasson, to associate it with Mysticism. He called it an "intellectual vision" which leads to ... ...antial facets of Romanticism. Romanticism continues to thrive in the flourishing of mysticism, of ethnic lore, and of celebrity worship. It seems th... ...etus nor its achievements can science go to its limits without becoming tinged with mysticism and charged with faith." Pierre Thierry de Chardin, "... ...etus nor its achievements can science go to its limits without becoming tinged with mysticism and charged with faith." Pierre Thierry de Chardin, "...

...e spiritual communication, releasing it from the empire of occultism and mysticism. The MESER concept notes that some forms of extrasensory communi... ...s, well knowledgeable of the topography of those places, couldn′t lead the Jewish people towards the Red Sea, but further north, towards the Promised... ...f his race, in the context of injustice to, oppression and torture of the Jewish people by the Pharaonic state. The unidirectionality of the mental ... ...accepts sacredness as a property of rationality, yet without encouraging mysticism. At the same time, the new concept necessarily also admits the pr... ...rtune, meaning that the greatest sins of this future might be atheism and mysticism. Instead of a preeminently religious world, but through force of... ... The MESER concept proclaims among capital sins, both atheism and bigoted mysticism. Unfortunately, these are not the only major sins. A sin which c... ...a (A.D. 41 - 44 ). About that Herod during whose time Jesus was born, the Jewish historian Flavius Josepus (A.D. 37-100) states that he died «…a sho...

...tus nor its achievements can science go to its limits without becoming tinged with mysticism and charged with faith." Pierre Thierry de Chardin, "... ... one option among many. Knowledge, people believe, can be gleaned either directly (mysticism and spirituality) or indirectly (scientific practice).... ...could be the rule, rather than the exception. Nature may, indeed, be intelligent. Jewish mysticism believes that humans have a major role to play:... ...e the rule, rather than the exception. Nature may, indeed, be intelligent. Jewish mysticism believes that humans have a major role to play: to fix... ...ich are merely the manifestations of God's attributes (this is also the Muslim and Jewish points of view). And because the Laws of Nature and its C... ...etus nor its achievements can science go to its limits without becoming tinged with mysticism and charged with faith. " Pierre Thierry de Chardin, ...

...Nazism. w e have sought solace for our fears of the unknown in religion, mysticism, philosophy, science, technolo- gy, art, and, in fact, in every a... ...he introduction to Attaining the Worlds Beyond: “…Not feeling well on the Jewish New Year's Eve of September 1991, my teacher called me to his beds...

...en add the belief that Jesus is God, and that the Bible is true--both the Jewish scriptures and the New Testament scriptures, then my religious belie... ...d you believe that it starts at birth we both hold only opinions. The old Jewish concept was that life started when the child 49 was born. The C... ...virtue is kind.‘ Then a few hundred years later Christianity rekindled the Jewish law when Matthew wrote ‗So in everything, do to others, what you wo... ...th merciful and vengeful in the Old and New Testaments and the Koran. The Jewish book Nahum (4) shows God to be jealous and avenging, even though He ... ...That we would call 62 God. These same arguments have been made in the Jewish tradition, particularly by Maimonides, and in the Islamic tradition... ...Ulrich, 2007 42. Gonzales v. O Centro [2006] op. cit. 43. Zaehner, R. C. Mysticism Sacred and Profane: An Inquiry into Some Varieties of Prat...

...nse. Viktor Frankl developed the idea that we need to find meaning in our lives and to be responsible for choosing and living our values. As a Jewish... ... being only one God. This he passed down through his son Isaac to his progeny, the Jews. Jesus of course was always a Jew. He, like many other Jewish... ... drives of Freud? How much is a person‘s environment influenced by finding meaning in his or her life? Certainly our environments differ. The Jewish... ... | VALUES—mystic... ...ted with senseless attacking. Whether they be white, as with the Ku Klux Klan, Nazis, or Skinheads; black, as some in the Nation of Islam; or Jewish... ...en they must find a new identity by identifying with the roots of their ancestors. Americans find comfort in their Irish, Italian, Spanish or Jewish...

... enable genuine tranquility and completeness. That is why only an ancient Jewish science, the wisdom of Kabbalah, that is not based on the suppressi... ...ods, various types of philosophies, groups that practice various kinds of mysticism etc. In short, a serious person must be aware what elements affec... ...prove his attributes in order to resemble the Creator, then he is called “Jewish” or “Israel”, from the words Yasher (straight, direct) El (to God),...

...y Pg 1476 The Reason Behind Culture Pg 1477 The Reason Behind Religion and Mysticism Pg 1479 Conclusion Pg 1483 The Alternative Pg 1497 Cons... ...dead evil Pg 1766 How the Undead Fool the Living Pg 1767 The Undead and the Jewish Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice ... ...to be practiced, their cultures were poisoned, twisted, etc. One reason why Jewish Culture has survived intact for so long is that it has had more ... ...their cultural differences became too noticed… once other people read what the Jewish religion was… an elite culture that placed all other cultures b... ...severely punished, shamed, killed, or ostracized. However, what happens to Jewish culture once it is no longer a persecuted slave-culture but an e... ... yourself against, so that your greater cultural people may live… becomes a Jewish comedian instead… and practices the art of self- degradation in ... .... Read how the boys descended and regressed into the Stone Age brutality and mysticism and murder and killing: which was the original root of the cu... ...n culture was corrupted from the very start? The Reason Behind Religion and Mysticism And on the other side: what does a human entity do with it... ...not handle such concepts: even though it is the actual truth. This kind of mysticism has been written about, spoken of and barely grasped througho...

...scientists have become interested in various religions, new age theories, and mysticism. They are try- ing to find new tools and new ways to understa... ...I N G M Y S E L F Many people mistakenly relate the wisdom of Kabbalah to the Jewish religion. In truth, Kabbalah and religion are fun- damentally di... ...A L A H , S C I E N C E , A N D T H E M E A N I N G O F L I F E 206 in ancient Jewish treasures that some wondrous revelation that astounds the whole...

...with great felicity of expression reflects-upon spiritual Christianity and mysticism. If he had given us a little more of the tangible, the visible, o... ...d with great felicity o expression reflects upon spiritna Christianity and mysticism. I he had given us a little more o the tangible, the visible, our... ...re- garded as the ideal of spirituality, Dr. CoflBn mentioned Sampson, the Jewish Hercules; Bezaleel, the skillful artisan; Stephen, the in- tellectua...

...n our fellow-man?” In such passages, unhappily too rare, the high Platonic Mysticism of our Author, which is perhaps the fundamen- tal element of his ... ...y clouds soon roll together again, and hide it from view. Such tendency to Mysticism is everywhere traceable in this man; and indeed, to attentive rea... ...es look through him, then he may be useful. “Thou wilt have no Mystery and Mysticism; wilt walk through thy world by the sunshine of what thou callest... ...oasted ourselves a Rational Uni- versity; in the highest degree hostile to Mysticism; thus was the young vacant mind furnished with much talk about Pr... ...and worshipped it, though under the mean- est shapes, with a true Platonic mysticism. What the man ultimately purposed by thus casting his Greek-fire ... ...om Old Clothes are not venerable. Watch, too, with reverence, that bearded Jewish High- priest, who with hoarse voice, like some Angel of Doom, summon... ...potted from the world. “They have their Temples, whereof the chief, as the Jewish Temple did, stands in their metropolis; and is named Almack’s, a wor... ...Fire-balls, and supernal and infernal prodigies, which, in the case of the Jewish Mysteries, have also more than once scared back the Alien? Be this a...

...d never occurred to me as a possible one; I had rather feared, whenever my Jewish friends scrutinised me keenly, that I might be too well known to be ... ...e on which he wished me to write verses. On reading the letters, one of my Jewish friends agreed to furnish me with two or three hundred pounds on my ... ... sunrise, motionless, and without wishing to move. I shall be charged with mysticism, Behmenism, quietism, &c., but that shall not alarm me. Sir H. Va...

... consistent form, was set before me by Lambert with all the fascination of mysticism, swathed in the wrap- pings of the phraseology affected by mystic... ... Swedenborg bor- rowed from Magianism, Brahmanism, Buddhism, and Christian mysticism all the truth and divine beauty that those four great religious b... ... ness than those offered by money. Her features were of the purest type of Jewish beauty; the oval lines, so noble and maidenly, have an indescribable... ...gment, I ever met with. Really a great genius—with too great a passion for mysticism perhaps; but the kindest heart in the world. Something most extra...

...and un- challenged by urgent elementary realities breeds the Her- esies of Mysticism, anger and hate call for God’s Judgments, and the stormy emotions... ... of him, or reading in a blind, industrious way that strange miscellany of Jewish and early Christian literature, the Bible, and suchlike mental morti...

...n. In the real circumstances of the Christian church, when struggling with Jewish persecution at some period of the generation between the crucifixion... ...ance words, is not, as some readers may fancy, an old, obsolete, or merely Jewish form of seeking the divine pleasure. About a century ago, a man so f... ...fler, but lived habitually a life of power, though in a world of religious mysticism and of apocalyptic visions. To him, being such a man by nature an... ... title to their robes, (for which I could not help wishing that a party of Jewish old clothes men would at this moment have appeared, and made a loud ...

...d made up in equal proportions of Pagan Platonism, Christian Quietism, and Jewish Mysticism. See Bulwer’s ‘Zanoni.’ Pope has blended some of its eleme... ...up in equal proportions of Pagan Platonism, Christian Quietism, and Jewish Mysticism. See Bulwer’s ‘Zanoni.’ Pope has blended some of its elements wit...

...gloomiest moods, beneficial effects, similar to those experi- enced by the Jewish monarch of old; and so engaging is the temper of Annot Lyle, so fasc... ...at prob- ably nothing but the strong good sense, which, on all points, his mysticism excepted, formed the ground of his character, prevented his provi...

.................................................. 318 Lectures XVI and XVII: MYSTICISM .................................................................... ...nts at our peril— The question of theological truth. LECTURES XVI AND XVII MYSTICISM Mysticism defined— Four marks of mystic states— They form a disti... ...y form a distinct region of consciousness— Examples of their lower grades— Mysticism and alcohol— “The anaes- thetic revelation”—Religious mysticism— ... ...nscious- 8 The V arieties of Religious Experience ness”— Yoga— Buddhistic mysticism— Sufism— Christian mystics— Their sense of revelation— Tonic effe... ...ic states— They describe by nega- tives— Sense of union with the Absolute— Mysticism and music— Three conclusions— (1) Mystical states carry authority... ...egree— Third degree— Automatisms, their frequency among religious leaders— Jewish cases— Mohammed— Joseph Smith— Religion and the subconscious region ... ...things, there is a frosty chill about his words which you rarely find in a Jewish, and never in a Christian piece of religious writing. The universe i... ... was altogether conscious of what he was doing.[323] Here, to take another Jewish case, is the way in which Philo of Alexandria describes his inspirat...

...V and XV: THE VALUE OF SAINTLINESS ....................................................................................... 318 Lectures XVI and XVII: MYSTICISM ................................................................................................................... 365 Lecture XVIII: PHILOSOPHY ........................................................................

... in our fellow man?” In such passages, unhappily too rare, the high Platonic Mysticism of our Au thor, which is perhaps the fundamental element of hi... ...ery clouds soon roll together again, and hide it from view. Such tendency to Mysticism is everywhere traceable in this man; and indeed, to attentive r... ...Eyes look through him, then he may be useful. “Thou wilt have no Mystery and Mysticism; wilt walk through thy world by the sunshine of what thou calle... ... boasted ourselves a Rational University; in the high est degree hostile to Mysticism; thus was the young vacant mind furnished with much talk about ... ...rs, and worshipped it, though under the meanest shapes, with a true Platonic mysticism. What the man ultimately purposed by thus casting his Greek fire... ...whom Old Clothes are not venerable. Watch, too, with reverence, that bearded Jewish High priest, who with hoarse voice, like some Angel of Doom, summ... ...nspotted from the world. “They have their Temples, whereof the chief, as the Jewish Temple did, stands in their metropolis; and is named Almack’s, a w... ...e Fire balls, and supernal and infernal prodigies, which, in the case of the Jewish Mysteries, have also more than once scared back the Alien? Be this...

... rather than enhanced by his duality; a realist who strove to demolish the mysticism of Christianity, and became himself a mystic in the con templati... ...ngs his heroes into touch with Nature, and endows them with all the innate mysticism of his own temperament, for to him Nature was “a guide to God.“ ... ...with enraptured allusions to his new found joy. Lassitude and indecision, mysticism and al truism, all were swept aside by the impetus of trium pha... ...hose beautiful religious doctrines which we have re ceived from Egyptian, Jewish, Hindoo, Chinese, and Greek antiquity. The two great principles of J... ...he Minister of justice. Again oblivion, and another scene. The family of a Jewish watchmaker is evicted for being too poor. The children are crying, a...

...t, indeed, amongst those foolish persons who built their morality upon the Jewish ceremonial law. Shakspeare him- self took ten per cent. 2dly, It hap... ...ominant reading on his fea- tures. Some people have supposed that Lamb had Jewish blood in his veins, which seemed to account for his gleam- ing eyes.... ...i- tions upon the pretended bloody practices of the Jews, and of the early Jewish physicians. Being himself a Lincoln man, he treated Sir Hugh 4 of L... ...coln, the young child that suf- fered death by secret assassination in the Jewish quarter rather than suppress his daily anthems to the Virgin, as a t... ...believe that Lamb, if seri- ously aware of any family interconnection with Jewish blood, would, even in jest, have held that one-sided language. More ... ...fended occasionally with a certain freedom of expression, a certain air of mysticism, more consonant to the conceits of pagan philosophy than consiste...

...does not look into any- thing. He has abandoned himself altogether to this mysticism” (Pierre could not tolerate mysticism in anyone now). “He seeks o... ... who lead the masses. Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as repre...

...of something, and was in most pleasant spirits. The other was a shopman of Jewish extraction. They were talking about the price of wool when Nekhludof... ...e important thing. Peter Gerasimovitch was joking about something with the Jewish clerk, and they burst out laughing. Nekhludoff answered all the ques... ...he money if Maslova had not been in ac- cord with them,” said the clerk of Jewish extraction. “Well, do you think that it was she who stole the money?... ...02 Resurrection swer to the bell. “No; whatever you may say, there is some mysticism in him; without mysticism there can be no poetry,” she said, with... ...g the footman’s movements as he was drawing the curtains. “Without poetry, mysticism is superstition; without mysticism, poetry is—prose,” she continu... ...d not satisfy her, and again she had to interrupt the conver- sation about mysticism, and correct in a martyred tone the unintelligent Philip, who was... ...efore. Leaning over the table so as not to be beard by the jailer—a man of Jewish type with grizzly whiskers, who sat by the window—Nekhludoff said: “... ... and he stopped. Yes. At that moment I hear Rozovsky shouting in his fine, Jewish voice. Lozinsky threw away the ciga- rette and stepped from the door...

... told, per- haps, that red cheeks are not incompatible with fanaticism and mysticism; but I fancy that Alyosha was more of a realist than anyone. Oh! ... ... an expression of still greater gravity. He was perhaps predisposed to mysticism. And the birth of his deformed child, and its death, had, as thou... ...ady particularly and used to turn me out of her room then. I’ll knock that mysticism out of her, thought I! ‘Here,’ said I, ‘you see your holy image. ... ...r watch which had long ceased to go. He snatched it up and carried it to a Jewish watch maker who had a shop in the market-place. The Jew gave him six... ... had made merry there. All the girls who had come had been there then; the Jewish band with fiddles and zithers had come, too, and at last the long ex... ...destly, but Kolya interrupted him hotly: “Come, you want obedience and mysticism. You must admit that the Christian religion, for instance, has on... ...ople may never degenerate, as often happens, on the moral side into gloomy mysticism, and on the political into blind chauvinism—two elements which ar...

...peared to be hidden under strange appellations. I was also taught that the Jewish nation, as long as it flour- ished, actually were satisfied with the... ...ese family scenes, before they were to lose themselves in a history of the Jewish nation, show us now, in conclusion, a form by which the hopes and fa... ...givings of the boy, and even of the youth, was especially the state of the Jewish quarter of the city (Judenstadt), properly called the Jew Street (Ju... ...which should have portrayed a for- eign nationality, as, for instance, the Jewish pastoral poems, those on the patriarchs altogether, and whatever els... ...g to do with feelings which might easily have led them into gloom, or with mysticism, which might easily have led them into the dark. This class, too,...

...anity, eighteen hundred years, and a new world?— that the humble life of a Jewish peasant should have force to make a New York bishop so bigoted. Fort... ...ee from earth to heaven, and see there standing, still a fixture, that old Jewish scheme! What right have you to hold up this obstacle to my understan... ...e Genius; as there has been none wholly destitute of Genius. Poetry is the mysticism of mankind. The expressions of the poet cannot be analyzed; his s...

...m for our adored Emperor. “My poor husband is enduring pains and hunger in Jewish taverns, but the news which I have inspires me yet more. “Y ou heard... ...ng the Holy Alliance, entrusting power to Arakcheev, favoring Golitsyn and mysticism, and afterwards Shishkov and Photius. He also acted badly by conc... ...r does not look into anything. He has abandoned himself altogether to this mysticism” (Pierre could not tolerate mysticism in anyone now). “He seeks o...

...ight and making the struggle with darkness narrower.” “That is a beautiful mysticism—it is a—” “Please not to call it by any name,” said Dorothea, put... ...f them. Everything seemed dreary: the por- tents before the birth of Cyrus—Jewish antiquities—oh dear!— devout epigrams—the sacred chime of favorite h...

...ight and making the struggle with darkness narrower.” “That is a beautiful mysticism—it is a—” “Please not to call it by any name,” said Dorothea, put... ...of them. Everything seemed dreary: the portents before the birth of Cyrus— Jewish antiquities—oh dear!—devout epigrams—the sacred chime of favorite hy...