Comparative Analysis of the Principles of Moral and Mystical Cultivation

The aim of the present paper to present a analytical review of the principles of moral education and the principles of mystical cultivation to find to what extent these two are in convergence or divergence with one another. These principles represent prescriptive, general and common rules which affect the process of moral and mystical change. The main question of the research is "to what extent are the general rules and principles governing the process of mystical education in convergence with those governing the process of moral education". A library method is used, content analysis of books on morals, particularly those on practical mysticism, is made and these books have been examined in order to extract these principles. The research findings show that the educational nature of the two types of educations necessities that they have such common principles like gradation, shariah-orientation, and inner and outer influential correlation, but some of their principles do not overlap each other. Two principles mass-orientation and cultivation of moral rationality are recognized as part of the principles exclusive to moral education, and such principles like individual-orientation, interpolative interaction, disintegration of individuality and necessity of master-orientation are recognized as part of those exclusive to mystical education.