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Evelyn Underhill

The essentials of Mysticism: And other essays, (Hardcover)

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The essentials of Mysticism: And other essays, (Hardcover)
Author: Alicia Editions
ISBN: 9782357285231
Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: 2020-07-10
Page Count: 222

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Religion
Publication date
July, 2020
Pages
222
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Mysticism

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Few writers have explained the mystical life with greater clarity and depth than Evelyn Underhill. In this remarkable work, she presents a concise and illuminating introduction to the nature of mysticism and the spiritual journey toward union with the Divine.

Drawing on Christian tradition as well as the broader history of spiritual experience, the book explores the stages through which the mystic soul passes in its search for God. Awakening, purification, illumination, and union are examined not as abstract ideas but as living realities within the inner life.

Written with elegance and insight, this work opens the reader to the profound tradition of contemplative spirituality that has inspired seekers for centuries. It reveals mysticism not as something distant or obscure, but as the deepest expression of the human longing for truth, beauty, and divine presence.

Accessible, thoughtful, and deeply inspiring, this enduring study remains one of the finest introductions to the spiritual path and the mystery of the contemplative life.

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"What are the true essentials of mysticism? When we have stripped off those features which some mystics accept and some reject - all that is merely due to tradition, temperament or unconscious allegorism - what do we find as the necessary and abiding character of all true mystical experience? This question is really worth asking. For some time much attention has been given to the historical side of mysticism, and some - much less - to its practice. But there has been no clear understanding of the difference between its substance and its accidents: between traditional forms and methods, and the eternal experience which they have mediated. In mystical literature words are frequently confused with things, and symbols with realities; so that much of this literature seems to the reader to refer to some self-consistent and exclusive dream-world, and not to the achievement of universal truth. Thus the strong need for re-statement which is being felt by institutional religion, the necessity of re-translating its truths into symbolism which modern men can understand and accept, applies with at least equal force to mysticism. It has become important to disentangle the facts from ancient formulae used to express them."

The essentials of Mysticism: And other essays, (Hardcover)
Author: Alicia Editions
ISBN: 9782357285231
Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: 2020-07-10
Page Count: 222

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Religion

Publication date

July, 2020

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