Words the mystics actually use.

Non-dualism; the school of Vedanta teaching the identity of Atman and Brahman.

Divine emanations populating the Pleroma.

Non-violence; the highest dharma in Jain ethics, central also to Buddhism and Gandhian Hinduism.

The Wise Lord, supreme deity of Zoroastrianism.

Subtle space-substance; in theosophy, the Akashic Records — memory of all events.

Non-self; the absence of an independent, permanent self.

Rulers of the lower spheres in Gnostic cosmology.

The deepest Self; in Advaita, identical with Brahman.

Primal ignorance that overlays Atman with the world of seeming.

Devotion as a path to union.

An awakening being who vows to liberate all sentient beings.

The unchanging ultimate; sat-chit-ananda.

The awakened nature already present in all beings.

Life experience to be metabolized for spiritual learning.

Energy center along the subtle spine; seven principal in tantric mapping.

The awakened, Christed mind; in modern usage, fourth-density love.

The lesser fashioner of the material world.

A frequency of consciousness; one of seven (eight) octave levels.

Cleaving to God; the goal of mystical practice.

Cosmic order; in Buddhism, the teaching.

Remembrance — the recitation of Names of God.

The Limitless; God prior to any quality.

Sunyata — the absence of inherent existence in phenomena.

The hand-drawn open circle expressing enlightenment.

The sacrament of communion with Christ.

Annihilation of the self in God; followed by baqa, subsistence in God.

The final renovation, when evil is overcome and the world remade.

Liberating direct knowledge of one's divine origin.

Palaces of light traversed by the merkavah mystic.

A sixth-density future-self that guides without compelling.

There is one Reality — the opening of the Sikh creed.

The image of God in which humans are made.

The undifferentiated Source from which Intelligent Energy proceeds.

Spirit-presences in Shinto cosmology.

Action and its consequences; the moral physics of intention.

An initial awakening — seeing one's nature.

The Word; the creative-ordering principle of the cosmos.

The veiling-and-displaying power that produces the appearance of multiplicity.

The chariot — vehicle of mystical ascent.

Loving-kindness — one of the four divine abodes.

Liberation from the cycle of rebirth.

The divine spark; the eternal pilgrim.

The self; in Sufi psychology, refined through stages from commanding to tranquil.

Extinction of craving; awakening.

The world to come.

The primordial sound from which the cosmos issues.

The stationary geographic center of all things in Urantia cosmology.

The fullness of divine being.

Spirit; the divine spark in the human.

Service-to-others or service-to-self — the two valid orientations of will.

The heart — the spiritual organ of perception.

Spirit; the breath of the divine within.

The wheel of birth, death, and rebirth.

Awakening; deeper than kensho.

The ten emanations of the Tree of Life.

Selfless service.

The witness: 'There is no god but God; Muhammad is His Prophet.'

The indwelling Presence of God; the feminine sefirah Malkuth.

The animating principle of a person; immortal in most theistic traditions.

Emptiness; absence of inherent self-existence.

The Way; the source and pattern of all that is.

Thou art That — the great Upanishadic identity statement.

A fragment of the Universal Father indwelling each normal mortal.

Repairing the world; gathering the scattered sparks.

Father, Son, Holy Spirit — the threefold One.

The divine contraction making room for creation.

The unity of being (Ibn Arabi).

Non-forcing; effortless action in accord with the Tao.

The complementary polarities through which the Tao manifests.

Almsgiving; one of the Five Pillars.