id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6346 Mysticism - Wikipedia .html text/html 16946 2467 54 By the middle of the 17th century, "the mystical" is increasingly applied exclusively to the religious realm, separating religion and "natural philosophy" as two distinct approaches to the discovery of the hidden meaning of the universe.[46] The traditional hagiographies and writings of the saints became designated as "mystical", shifting from the virtues and miracles to extraordinary experiences and states of mind, thereby creating a newly coined "mystical tradition".[2] A new understanding developed of the Divine as residing within human, an essence beyond the varieties of religious expressions.[12] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6346.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6346.txt