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Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
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St. Francis of Assisi
Italian saint
St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish saint
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Isaac ben Solomon Luria
Jewish mystic
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
French abbot
Joachim Of Fiore
Italian theologian
St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme
German mystic
Baʿal Shem Ṭov
Polish rabbi
Meister Eckhart
German theologian and mystic
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Byzantine philosopher and theologian
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
French mystic
Meher Baba
Indian religious leader
Mystic with ties to the throne
Grigori Rasputin
Russian mystic
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna
Hindu religious leader
St. Teresa of Ávila
St. Teresa of Ávila
Spanish mystic
Lo Spagna: Saint Catherine of Siena
St. Catherine of Siena
Italian mystic
Ramon Llull.
Ramon Llull
Catalan mystic