Mysticism

626 Pages·2011·37.925 MB·English

by  Evelyn Underhill

MYSTICISM

MYSTICISM
A STUDY
THE NATURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF
MAN'S SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS
BY
EVELYN UNDERHILL
AUTHOR OF "THE GREY WORLD," "THE COLUMN OF DUST," ETC.
THIRD EDITION, REVISED
NEW YORK
DUTTON AND COMPANY
E. P,
31 West Twenty-third Street
*y
1912

IN HONOREM
OMNIUM ANIMARUM MYSTICARUM
Lume e lassu, che visibile face
lo Creatore a quella creatura
che solo in lui vedere ha la sua pace.
Par. xxx. ioo
"When love has carried us above all things ... we receive in
peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us and penetrating us.
What is this Light, if~it be not a contemplation of the Infinite,
and an intuition of Eternity? We behold that which we are, and
we are that which we behold; because our being, without losing
anything ofits own personality, is united with the Divine Truth."
RUYSBROECK
"Man is the meeting-point of various stages of Reality."
Rudolph Eucken