The word for today is…
mystery (noun):
1a : something not understood or beyond understanding : enigma
b : a piece of fiction dealing usually with the solution of a mysterious crime
c : the secret or specialized practices or ritual peculiar to an occupation or a body of people
d obsolete : a private secret
2 : profound, inexplicable, or secretive quality or character
3a : a religious truth that one can know only by revelation and cannot fully understand
b(1) : any of the 20 events (such as the Nativity, the Crucifixion, or the Assumption) serving as a subject for meditation during the saying of the rosary
(2) capitalized : a Christian sacrament specifically : eucharist
c(1) : a secret religious rite believed (as in Eleusinian and Mithraic cults) to impart enduring bliss to the initiate
(2) : a cult devoted to such rites
4 : mystery play
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : Middle English mysterie “hidden religious truth, rite or event with religious significance, hidden meaning,” borrowed from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French misterie, borrowed from Late Latin mysterium “hidden religious truth revealed by God, religious rite, Eucharist,” going back to Latin (in plural mysteria), “secret religious rites, things not to be divulged,” borrowed from Greek mysterion, plural mysteria “religious rite to which only initiates may be admitted, secret” (in the New Testament, “religious truth revealed by God”), from mys-, base of mystes “person initiated (into a religious cult)” + -terion, suffix in words denoting instruments, place and ceremonies (derivative of -ter, agent suffix)
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