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Also Known As mystical theology

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Bonaventura Berlinghieri: St. Francis and Scenes from His Life
St. Francis of Assisi
Italian saint
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Engraving by Lucas Vorsterman after Peter Paul Rubens showing St. Ignatius of Loyola with a halo, hands clasped in prayer before a crucifix and open book.
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish saint
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
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Isaac ben Solomon Luria
Jewish mystic
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
French abbot
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Joachim Of Fiore
Italian theologian
The second founder of the Franciscans, St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme
German mystic
Baʿal Shem Ṭov
Baʿal Shem Ṭov
Polish rabbi
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Meister Eckhart
German theologian and mystic
Lo Spagna: Saint Catherine of Siena
St. Catherine of Siena
Italian mystic
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Byzantine philosopher and theologian
Engraving of Saint Teresa of Avila in a Carmelite habit, gazing upward and holding a crucifix and a scroll.
St. Teresa of Ávila
Spanish mystic
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
French mystic
Sibyl of the Rhine
St. Hildegard
German mystic
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Meher Baba
Indian religious leader
Mystic with ties to the throne
Grigori Rasputin
Russian mystic
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Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna
Hindu religious leader