Example sentences for: mysticism

How can you use “mysticism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • According to Rabbi Daniel Mechanic, an expert on the codes, the belief that the Torah contains encrypted messages dates to the medieval practitioners of the Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism.

  • He preferred Sufi mysticism to orthodox Islam, and held debates with Brahmins, Jain monks, Parsi Zoroastrians, and Jesuits.

  • Culturebox, whose job it is to write articles that are short, is planning to devote herself to kabala, a form of Jewish mysticism, weirdly made popular by Madonna and Roseanne, in which one finds a deeper meaning in small, seemingly insignificant words and individual letters.

  • In the 1880s, he was snared by Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the eccentric Russian who invented theosophy--a blend of Eastern mysticism, occult optimism, and universal brotherhood.

  • Horrified by Stalin's purges, increasingly convinced that the Communists were literally the party of Satan and that "man without mysticism is a monster," in 1938 he broke with the party.


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