Poetic Mysticism

Abstract

Poetic Mysticism is one of the latest varieties of mystic consciousness. The term “mysticism” has its religious, philosophical and psychological cannotation. Mystic consciousness is realized by the trinity of God, man and nature. As man visualized the union of mystic trinity in terms of a slow spiritual process, the very notion of mystic voyage emerged. The five fold structure was developed as “Awakening, Purgation, Illumination, the Dark Night of the soul and Union. Poetry and mysticism are inseparable because of their origin in “dim consciousness of the beyond.” Mystic poetry embodies three pathways- i.e, Truth, Beauty and Goodness. The mystic poets create a concrete, integrated and uptodate vision which properly developed mystical doctrines, a well defined path and multi-dimensional articulated images of great power, Mystic poetry paves the path to divinity and the union with Almighty.

Key words: - mystic, occultism, transcendentalism, visionary, mortification etc.