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What is the ineffable? If one were to look up the standard definition, they would find that it is generally defined as something ‘too great, powerful beautiful etc. to be described or expressed.’ Demonstrably relevant to religious traditions, the ineffable is hardly reducible to them. The ineffable is famously evoked by the English Romantic poets of the Eighteenth Century in William Wordsworth's iconic poem The Prelude (Second Book)
From Nature and her overflowing soulI had received so much, that all my thoughtsWere steeped in feeling; I was only thenContented, when with bliss ineffableI felt the sentiment of Being spreadO'er all that moves and all that seemeth still;O'er all that, lost beyond the reach of thoughtAnd human knowledge, to the human eyeInvisible, yet liveth to the heart …