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" Mysticism : "
F.C. Happold.
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BL
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786272
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b606287
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F.C. Happold.
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Mysticism : : a study and an anthology\ F.C. Happold.
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Revised edition
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Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, [1990]
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407 pages ; 18 cm.
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0140137467
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: 9780140137460
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"A Penguin book. Religion"--Page 4 of cover.; "Third edition"--Page 4 of cover.; Reprint of the 1970 Pelican edition.
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| Contents
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The nature and scope of this book --; The perennial philosophy --; The astronomer's universe --; The problem of knowledge --; The nature of scientific truth --; The evolution of life: an interpretation --; What we shall understand by the term mysticism --; The mysticism of love and union and the mysticism of knowledge and understanding --; Nature-mysticism, soul-mysticism, and God-mysticism --; Characteristics of mystical states --; The nature of mystical experience --; The mystic way --; The purgation of the self --; Man's knowledge of God --; The state of contemplation --; The degrees of prayer --; The mystical element in Buddhism --; The higher stages of contemplation --; The contemplation of immanence --; The unitive life --; The lesser mystic way: the mysticism of action --; Mysticism and dogma: the insights of India, Palestine, and Greece --; Mysticism and dogma: the Christian revelation --; The coinherence of spirit and matter --; The validity of mysticism --; Conclusion: the mystic's universe --; Prologue: the timeless moment --; There is nothing that is not spirit: the Upanishads --; The mysticism of loving faith and selfless action: the Bhagavad Gita --; The father of Christian mysticism: Plato --; Christo-mysticism: St John and St Paul --; The kingdom of heaven is within you: the oxyrhynchus sayings of Jesus --; departure and return: the hymn of the robe of glory --; The one and the many: Plotinus, the Enneads --; The divine darkness: Dionysius the Aeropagite, the mystical theology --; The mysticism of the intellect: St Augustine, the confessions --; The mysticism of love: St bernard of Clairvaux --; The four degrees of passionate love: Richard of St Victor --; The Sufi path of love --; Intellectual vision: Dante --; Godhead, God, and the soul: Meister Eckhart --; The active, inward, and superessential lives: the blessed John Ruysbroek --; Nothing burns in hell but self-will: the theologia Germanica --; The royal road of the Holy Cross: Thomas a Kempis, the imitation of Christ --; God may well be loved but not thought: the cloud of unknowing --; Practial directions for the following of the spiritual life: Wlater Hilton, the ladder of perfection --; The homeliness of God: Julian of Norwich, revelations of divine love --; The coincidence of opposites: Nicholas of Cusa --; The degrees of prayer: St Teresa of Avila --; The way of absolute detachment: St John of the Cross --; Nature-mysticism and Christo-mysticism: Thomas Traherne --; The divine indwelling: William Law --; Nature-mysticism and soul-mysticism: Richard Jefferies --; Epilogue: the mysticism of the divine milieu
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Mysticism.
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Mystiek.
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BL625.F343 1990
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F Crossfield Happold
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