out-mysticised

Updated: May 2, 2025

But she didn't do this; she took you on your weak side, which she understood thoroughly probably because it was her own weak side and out-Heroded Herod, or, rather, out-mysticised the mystic, finishing up with some spiritual marriage, which, if it is anything at all, is impious. What right have we to make bargains for the Beyond, about which we know nothing?"

Henry Rider Haggard - Stella Fregelius