[2] Mystical realism holds that divine entities are not accurately described in terms of space, matter, time, or causation, and so they, despite being real by the philosophy, do not exist.
[3] Regarding worship, this philosophy cites the altar as a place in the temporal world where the opposition between the Divine and the human is overcome.
[4] Mystical realism is evident in the political ideology of the 16th and 17th centuries in Russia, particularly in the attempt to find sacred meaning in the authority of the Tsar.
[1] The ecclesiastical thought that emerged during this period drew from mystical realism in the way it resulted to meditations on the concept of the so-called secret history, which pertained to the expectation of a mysterious and sacred aspect to an external historical reality.
[1] George Barker Stevens used the term mystical realism to describe Saint Paul's form of thought, particularly in the way he treated race and Adam.