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Assuming mystic is required, the following 13 results were found.

  • MYSTICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/MYSTICAL

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • MYSTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/MYSTICS

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANAGOGICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGOGICAL

    used with regard to the different Senses of the Scripture. The literal Sense is the first, and the natural Sense. The mystical Sense is founded on the natural Sense, from whence it is taken by Analogy or Comparison, by Similitude or Resemblance of one...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALLEGORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ALLEGORY

    ALLEGORICAL, something containing an Allegory. See ALLEGORY. The Divines find divers Senses in Scripture; a Literal, a Mystical, and an Allegorical Sense. See MYSTIC, &c. The Prophecies, in particular, delivered in the Old Testament, are said to be many...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Rhetoric

  • Theologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology

    Gospel, Apocalypse, &c. Canon, Deuterocanonical, Apocrypha, &c. Circumstances thereof, Style, Allegory, Type, Parable, Mystical, &c. Text, Versim, Septuagint, Vulgate, &c. Paraphrase, Targum, &c. Points, Quotations, &c. Matter thereof; Declarations, of...

    • Type: Category

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Gospel, Apocalypse, &c. Canon, Deuterocanonical, Apocrypha, &c. Circumstances thereof, Style, Allegory, Type, Parable, Mystical, &c. Text, Versim, Septuagint, Vulgate, &c. Paraphrase, Targum, &c. Points, Quotations, &c. Matter thereof; Declarations, of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • ANAGRAMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGRAM

    of their Art, which they call Mura, i.e. changing, being nothing but the Art of making Anagrams, or of finding hidden and mystical Meanings in Names: which they do by changing, transposing, and differently combining the Letters of those Names. Thus, of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALPHABEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALPHABET

    intitled Sephat Alacham; containing divers sorts of imaginary alphabets, which the Author distributes into Prophetical, Mystical, Philosophical, Magical, Talismanical, etc.; Monsieur Leibnitz had it in view to compose an Alphabet of Human Thoughts. Mem....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    this was in the early Days of the Phoenician or Egyptian Sages, when Words were more complex and obscure than now; and mystic Symbols and Hieroglyphics obtained; so that an Explication of their Marks or Words, might amount to a Revelation of their whole...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • ALGEBRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRA

    the Inventor.—Others, from Gefr, a kind of Parchment, made of the Skin of a Camel, whereon Ali and Giafar Sadek wrote in mystic Characters the Fate of Mahometanism, and the grand Events that were to happen till the End of the World.—But others, with...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APOCALYPSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCALYPSE

    it as written in bad Greek, and even finds Solecisms and Barbarisms in it, abundance: though he allows it to contain a mystic sense, which he says he admires even where he does not understand. On the other hand, St. Justin, Irenaeus, and St. Augustine...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ASCETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCETIC

    of Caesarea in Cappadocia. We also say, the Ascetic Life, meaning the Exercise of Prayer, Meditation, and Mortification—See MYSTIC.

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANAGOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGOGY

    and Eternal. See ECSTASY, &c. This is not the natural Sense of such a Passage of Scripture; it is an Anagogy. See MYSTIC. We have Comments on the Scripture, which are Anagogies throughout. See ANAGOGICAL. ANAGOGY

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
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