mysticism

Belief in direct experience of transcendent reality or God, especially by means of contemplation and asceticism instead of rational thought.

Such experience had by an individual.

Belief in the existence of realities beyond perceptual or intellectual apprehension that are directly accessible by subjective experience.

Belief that is not based on evidence or subjected to criticism.

The character of being mystic or mystical; mysticalness.

Any mode of thought, or phase of intellectual or reli’gious life, in which reliance is placed upon a spiritual illumination believed to transcend the ordinary powers of the understanding.

Specifically, a form of religious belief which is founded upon spiritual experience, not discriminated or tested and systematized in thought.

Obscurity of doctrine.

The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained.