Download or read book The Meaning and Value of Mysticism Classic Reprint written by E. Herman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Meaning and Value of Mysticism I believe, then, that out of the confusion and bitter mental anguish that cloud our souls to-day there is arising a deep and genuine desire for contact with the Eternal, a humble and resolute purpose to have done with pretty illusions and to grip Reality with naked hands. More especially will men everywhere begin to respond to the message of a truly Christian Mysti cism - that is, a Mysticism whose passion for intimacy with God is checked by the Christian sense of sin, based upon a deeply ethical conception of salvation and sanctity, and born of a vision of God as He is in Christ Jesus. Sudden contact with grim realities may, and very likely will, make men even less tolerant of ecclesiastical and theological conventions than they were before, but it will likewise make them more suspicious of the preciosity, mock esotericism, and cheap transcendentalism of fashionable, heterodox cults, and far more open to the appeal of an experience of spiritual immediacy founded upon the realities of the Christian Gospel. The present book is based upon such a reading of the situation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Mysticism Its True Nature and Value written by A. B. Sharpe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mysticism, Its True Nature and Value: With a Translation of the Mystical Theology of Dionysius, and of the Letters to Caius and Dorotheus (1, 2 and 5) In quite another direction, again, mysticism has been brought into connection with a certain school of metaphysics, as a kind of direct intuition by means of which the absolute reality underlying the phenomenal world may be perceived and contemplated; and this intuition is held by some to be the true essence of mysticism, as the common and only reality belonging to all kinds of mystical experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Mysticism in World Religion Classic Reprint written by Sidney Spencer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mysticism in World Religion Among primitive peoples the greatest significance is attached to the experience of ecstasy and trance as a means of contact with the unseen. The utterance of a man in trance is commonly held to emanate from the spirits of the dead. 'the primitive seer or prophet stands midway between the mystic and the The phase Of religion which centres in the work of the inspired prophet or seer is known as 'shamanism' from the word 'shaman' used among the Tunguses Of Central and Eastern Siberia. (the same type Of religion is found among the Eskimo, the Australians, and many tribes Of North and South America.) The shaman has to undergo a lengthy training; he prepares him self for his work by fasting and solitude. He receives instruction from an Old shaman, who teaches him the lore of spirits. He is Often a man of psychic abnormality, but it is significant that his trouble is cured by the exercise Of his arts. He acts as healer, rain-maker, diviner, and exorcist, purifying a house where death has occurred by driving away the ghost. He is not a mere medium: he sees the spirits, and enters into communication with them, but he is not their passive instrument. Rather is he their master; he controls the powers through which he works. Yet he is not, typically, proud or overbearing. Among the Yakuts Of Siberia it is said that, While the shaman must be possessed of inner strength, he must not be presumptuous. In his Study of Shamanism, Eliade has shown that its characteristic feature is ecstasy, and that in this experience the belief in Spirit-possession is in reality secondary and derivative, and not primary. From ancient times, he says, the religion of Central Asia was marked by the worship of a supreme sky-god, but in course of time this belief became progressively less significant; it was replaced by the cult Of ancestral spirits and other beings. As a result the belief in spirit possession was introduced. The primary and fundamental aspect of mstasy is the ascent of the soul of the shaman to Heaven, Where it enters into communion with the divine. Even when the notion of spirit-possession was introduced, it did not entirely displace the earlier symbolism; the ascent to Heaven remained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book At One With the Invisible written by E. Hershey Sneath and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from At One With the Invisible: Studies in Mysticism This book is the outgrowth of a seminar in Mysticism recently conducted by the writer in Yale University. There is, as Professor James suggests, an element of mysticism in all religion, and the aim of the seminar was to study its various aspects in the religious experience and teachings of those in whom it was conspicuous. All of the contributors to this volume, save one, took part in the seminar, and the writer desires to acknowledge again their kindness in render ing such valuable service and in permitting further use of their material in this way. It seemed advisable that a larger audience should share in the benefits of ir - hence this publication. Besides serving as an introduction to the study of Mysticism, the papers will prove especially service able to students of the Psychology of Religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book English Mystics Classic Reprint written by Geraldine Emma Hodgson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Mystics This book makes no claim to present a detailed and exhaustive criticism of mystical writings in the English tongue, nor to offer a complete or incomplete anthology from these. Its mainjustification, if it have one, is the belief that English Mysticism, while it does and must, in its main features, resemble all genuine mysticism, yet has distinct characters of its own, which shine clearly and obviously in those writers whose debt to non - English predecessors is small or none, and break through that foreign influence even where it exists, showing by elaboration or addition the marked features of the indigenous attitude. As additional justification I would plead that this English contribution is not less individual and valuable than that of the Platonist Christian writers, of the great Latin Mystics (of classical and later ages), of the Flemings or Germans. This is, no doubt, a daring claim. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Mysticism Classic Reprint written by Charles Morris Addison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Theory and Practice of Mysticism The lectures which form the substance of this volume were written at the request of the Faculty of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge and were delivered there in May, 1915. They were given also, in November of the same year, at the Theological Department of the University of the South, Sewanee, Ten nessee. They were not written for publica tion but for intimate conferences with younger ministers and young men studying for the min istry. This will explain their familiar char acter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Essential Mysticism Classic Reprint written by Stanwood Cobb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Essential Mysticism It were too bold, too ambitious an aim, to expect to accomplish so much of good in this modest volume. S'but may the writer dare to hope that it will set on fire in the minds of some of its readers a few trails of spiritual gunpowder, which may, ultimately, cause explosions within the domain of their inner self resulting in a larger, freer, more far seeing life? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Mysticism in English Literature Classic Reprint written by Caroline F. E. Spurgeon and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mysticism in English Literature The variety of applications of the term "mysticism" has forced me to restrict myself here to a discussion of that philosophical type of mysticism which concerns itself with questions of ultimate reality. My aim, too, has been to consider this subject in connection with great English writers. I have had, therefore, to exclude, with regret, the literature of America, so rich in mystical thought. I wish to thank Mr John Murray for kind permission to make use of an article of mine which appeared in the Quarterly Review, and also Dr Ward and Mr Waller for similar permission with regard to certain passages in a chapter of the Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. ix. I am also indebted to Mr Bertram Dobell, Messrs Longmans, Green, Mrs Coventry Patmore and Mr Francis Meynell for most kindly allowing me to quote from the works respectively of Thomas Traherne, Richard Jefferies, Coventry Patmore, and Francis Thompson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Studies in Mystical Religion Classic Reprint written by Rufus Matthew Jones and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Mystical Religion NO one doubts today that one of the main approaches to the meaning of religion is through the nature of the soul of man. It would no doubt be a mistake to push the method of the inner way to the exclusion of all other methods of studying religion, but it is certain that no body can tell us what religion is until he has sounded the deeps within man, and has dealt with the testimony of personal consciousness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The True Mystic Classic Reprint written by Holden Edward Sampson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The True Mystic The Lectures contained in this volume were delivered in December last at Folkestone, England, and also in London. In these Lectures I have put together the salient and fundamental principles belonging to the great subject of Mysticism, which will be found more exhaustively treated in my books "Progressive Creation" and "Progressive Redemption." The Lectures contain necessarily a very brief and inadequate outline and sketch of the great subject. I have therefore to make apologies to my readers for the sketchiness of this effort to elucidate so wide and profound a theme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Supernatural Mysticism Classic Reprint written by Benedict Williamson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Supernatural Mysticism In reading Father Williamson's book Supernatural Mysticism I am reminded of two sayings of profound wisdom, which bring home to us the need of ever striving after a closer personal union with God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Problems of Mysticism and Its Symbolism Classic Reprint written by Herbert Silberer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Problems of Mysticism and Its Symbolism We thus arrive at a science which may be called paleo-psychology. Its fossils are the thought-forms throughout the ages, and such a science seeks to show fundamental likenesses behind the more superficial dissimilarities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Modern Mysticism written by John Bunyan Shearer and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modern Mysticism: Or the Covenants of the Spirit, Their Scope and Limitations Entirely new sense, and have become SO closely associated in the popular mind with certain peculiar views, that it is difficult to use these terms without seeming to sanction such views, or to reject the views without seeming to reject Scripture. Some work has been needed which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Gleanings of a Mystic Classic Reprint written by Max Heindel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gleanings of a Mystic In Gleanings Of a Mystic are found twenty-four lessons which were formerly'sent out to students. It is the wish Of the writer Of this introduction that these lessons may carry a message of love and cheer to the soul-hungry reader and hope to the disconsolate one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Occultists and Mystics of All Ages Classic Reprint written by Ralph Shirley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Occultists and Mystics of All Ages The other difficulty from which the record of Apollonius's life and teachings has suffered is due to the religious disputes which arose through the rapid growth of Christianity and its conflict with the previously existing religions of the Roman world. We may argue legitimately enough that the power of working miracles is no proof of the truth of the doctrines expounded by any religious teacher. But the fact remains that in proselytising for Chris tianity the fullest use was made of the miracles recorded as accomplished by Jesus in the Gospels, in support of the contention in favour of the Divine origin of their worker, and of his work. Illogical though this argument may appear to the philosophic mind, it is not surprising that it should have carried great weight, and indeed it must be admitted that it does so even at the present day. What more natural, then, than that one of the disputants on the other side should have produced a polemical pamphlet in which he attempted to show that such. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Mystic Key to Spiritual Illumination and Occult Mastery Classic Reprint written by John Hamlin Dewey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mystic Key to Spiritual Illumination and Occult Mastery It is the secret of a stupendous truth, a truth so simple that it may be apprehended by the humblest mind, yet so mighty, when apprehended and applied, as to bring complete Spiritual emancipation and enlightenment to the most benighted and depraved soul, and health and vigor to the most weakened and diseased body. This truth gleams forth in all inspired teaching, but was first brought to its full revelation, in the perfect demonstration of practical experience in the life and work of the Christ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Mystic Scroll written by Helen Van-Anderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mystic Scroll: A Book of Revelation In a series of plain, simple lessons, simple as to form, yet profound as to con tents, you will be shown, 0, Beloved, the way of blessedness and peace, for in these are the germ seeds that may blossom into the true flowers of health and happiness and prosperity. Heed, you faithful, and be steadfast in perseverance, you that are longing for the Great Guidance. There has been woven into the texture of this book that which will vivify whosoever hath wrought truth into the fabric of his daily life. For this he shall be called one of the weavers of the Great Pattern. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.