Famous mystics alive today

          Medieval christian mysticism.

          14. The Enlightenment

          "...in the middle of the eighteenth century, Voltaire ruled unchallenged over France and over civilised Europe.

          Modern female mystics

        1. English medieval mystics
        2. Medieval christian mysticism
        3. Female mystics in the middle ages
        4. Who were the leading medieval mystics

          5. They had finally discovered and proclaimed liberty over the ruins of fanaticism. They sang, especially after drinking, about tolerance and brotherhood; they kissed passionately and even the most restrained wept tears of joy for humanity; it was truly wonderful to see...

          Men had finally become so perfectly happy that they could move beyond God and replace him, to their advantage, with philosophy and reason" (Les prisons du marquis de Pombal, August Carayon, 1865)

          The term "Enlightenment" generally refers to an intellectual movement in the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe (commencing around the end of the English Civil War and concluding at the beginning of the French Revolution) and overseas colonies, in which ideas about God, reason (induction), nature (the universe being ruled by natural law) and mankind were blended into a new non-Christian wor