In Easwaran's language, the "great mystics" - who he often uses as illustrative examples - are people who have attained this goal.

For this reason, St John and most great mystics criticise visionary experience, although recognising that some visions may, in themselves, be good.

Lily liked to see herself as the last of the great mystics, a pagan witch from the distant past with rare and subtle powers.

But once this change in their consciousness had been effected, great mystics appeared all over Europe.

Because those who came before them knew, all the way back to the first writings of the great mystics in the time before Lost B'hala.

Gertrude was one of the great mystics of the 13th century.

The three great mystics of Jalbador.

Kumkumanandaswami himself was a great devotee mystic and ritual worshipper of the Goddess.

Millenia ago, a disagreement arose between eight great mystics as to who was the most powerful.

He was the last of the great mystics, a remnant of the Middle Ages.