Word: mystical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...misty, mystic haze of blue light stands a forest of eerie, black wooden shapes. They are made of orange crates, piano ornaments, driftwood, barrel tops and shipwreck planks, glued, twisted, nailed or pushed together. This is The Moon Garden + One, one of the most unusual exhibitions of sculpture in many a moon, on view this week at Manhattan's Grand Central Moderns Gallery...
...Damned Dulles!" swore an Indian lawyer in Calcutta last week. "He is responsible for the tensions of the world! He is not allowing the Americans to come to terms with the Russians!" Added a high French Cabinet minister in Paris: "This man thinks like a theologian. Eisenhower is the mystic. Dulles is the theologian. He is against the Russians because they don't believe in God." Said West German President Theodor Heuss in what was interpreted in Bonn to be a pointed criticism of Dulles' diplomacy: the West should "disentangle" itself from the "web of slogans and ideologies...
...mystic at this stage, says Progoff, may seem to an outsider to be "lost in a schizophrenic state." Like a disciple in Zen Buddhism, he is "walking across the proverbial razor's edge . . . On either side is psychosis." But after the blinding flash of enlightenment that Christian mystics call union with the divine, his contact with the world is restored and he can return to his former life, "the same person, but altogether different." Progoff agrees with the author of The Cloud that this ultimate success may regulate "his conduct ao agreeably, both in body and in soul, that...
While these good results may be paramount to the psychologist looking on the discipline prescribed in The Cloud as a kind of do-it-yourself therapy, they are mere byproducts to the true mystic, for whom union with God is the only aim. "If you desire to have this aim concentrated and expressed in one word," said the author of The Cloud, "take but one short word of a single syllable . . . The word GOD or the word LOVE . . . This word shall be your shield and your spear, whether you ride in peace or in war. With this word you shall...
Gongora was a Seventeenth Century mystic, "impassioned by the beauty of the world," who tried to generally reform the Church intellectuals of his time...