Spiritualism vs Mysticism - What's the difference?
spiritualism | mysticism |
A philosophic doctrine, opposing materialism, that claims transcendency of the divine being, the altogether spiritual character of reality and the value of inwardness of consciousness.
A belief that the dead communicate with the living through a medium having special powers.
* R. H. Hutton
The quality or state of being spiritual.
The beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics.
A doctrine of direct communication or spiritual intuition of divine truth.
A transcendental union of soul or mind with the divine reality or divinity.
Obscure thoughts and speculations.
As nouns the difference between spiritualism and mysticism
is that spiritualism is a religion whose adherents believe that humans can communicate with the spirits of the dead while mysticism is the beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics.spiritualism
English
Noun
(-)- What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
