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  Practical" Mysticism--means nothing if the attitude and the discipline which it recommends be adapted to fair weather alone: if the principles for which it stands break down when subjected to the pressure of events, and cannot be reconciled with the sterner duties of the national life.


id: 29449
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  between two fires--that of the heart and that of the mind, responding directly to neither of these, but to God only.


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id: 16306
title: Jacob Behmen: An Appreciation
author: Whyte, Alexander
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  Jacob Behmen''s books are his best biography. prayer, in praise, and in love to GOD and man. Jacob Behmen''s mind and heart and spiritual experience all combine to besides, Jacob Behmen could not have written a book even if he had tried Behmen and his visions of GOD and Nature and Man were all but literally Jacob Behmen for his answer: ''What is the soul of man in its innermost write on the Incarnation of the Son of GOD would need, says Behmen, an well as in the word of GOD, make Jacob Behmen and William Law and that Behmen''s GOD is, in His inmost Being, most kindred to man, even as Behmen''s teaching on human nature, his doctrine of the heart of man, and happen to open him, Behmen is found teaching that GOD and CHRIST, heaven Jacob Behmen a philosopher, and it was the sinfulness of his own heart


id: 14596
title: Christian Mysticism
author: Inge, William Ralph
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  spiritual life, shall we learn most of the nature of God by close, Then both will speak to us of God. Speculative Mysticism has occupied itself largely with these two great mystics that man, in his individual life, recapitulates the spiritual towards any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God. The mystical union is indeed rather a bond between Christ and the life eternal, that they should know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus that view of the relation of man to God with which Mysticism can never the Divine Tree," the mutual love which unites the Father and the Son. Eckhart quotes the words which St. Augustine makes Christ say of [Footnote 245: As when he says, "In God all things are one, from angel since the object of life is to know God (this, the mystic''s minor


id: 29450
title: The Prodigal Returns
author: Staveley, Lilian
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  After this my soul knew Jesus as Christ the Son of God, and my God, and my love for Him. I am like a thing that is magnetised, held: I am not able, day or night, "love God with all their heart, and mind, and soul, and strength?" the Kingdom of Heaven, of the Union of the Soul with God. A few months went by, and I wrote asking for another book, and this What I know of the soul''s actual Finding and Contact with God I By love, then, the soul is the Delight of God. XI When the soul is united to God a great change comes over the mind, is the same when we love God. The heart, and the mind, and the soul soul and God only; but earth-life can and should by this knowledge satisfies the soul or gives us the full feeling that we Know God. We


id: 29449
author: Staveley, Lilian
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  The Soul''s Love for God and mind, or creature, suffers in depths; but the soul in heights, and own soul, though we are able to _will_ to love God with the heart, This is the true work of man, to love God with all the heart and mind and yet the heart, mind, and soul remain in lovely perfect chastity; but this I know: as the heart feels love in itself for God, in that same soul, then first we know the ineffable joys of the world of free spirit. them in great and joyful intensity upon God, by means of love. heart and mind and will of the creature becoming wholly God''s, my soul looked for God, but my creature did not know it. We do not love God because we do not yet know Him. And we do the soul passes into a great pain, which is the anguish of love and a

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  The Golden Fountain or, The Soul''s Love for God. Being some Thoughts and Confessions of One of His Lovers


id: 29451
title: The Romance of the Soul
author: Staveley, Lilian
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  motion which shall eventually make for us a nest in the Living God. For Jesus Christ is able (but only with our own entire _willingness)_ The true inward knowledge that Christ is God comes not by nature How do we come by this joy of the personal loving of God, this heart and mind towards God of the nature of a longing--giving, a with Christ Jesus and ever able to enter into the love of God. To be flesh increases appallingly the difficulty of the soul in finding God. This world is the very place in which we can most easily and these things, accepting them from God with love, makes the heart to God by means of offering Him great love, we receive Himself. to God with the soul and to the world with our heart. with a very great love and joy, worships Him as the Known God. Now life immediately becomes totally changed, fear and sin are


id: 21774
title: Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People
author: Underhill, Evelyn
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  life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world other men--so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may human consciousness; the new worlds which await it, once it reality: escape from the terrible museum-like world of daily life, things, that celestial power of communion with veritable life, The education of the mystical sense begins in self-simplification. the mystics say--the great forces of love, beauty, wonder, grief, between that consciousness and the World of Reality. union with Reality; towards the gathering of it self up into One. The "lower life," framed for correspondence with the outward represent the natural reactions to life of the self-centred human "loving stretching out" towards Reality, says the great man, you are also spirit, and are living Eternal Life now, in the contact with the Spiritual World, a perpetual self-donation, shall capable of living the real life of Eternity in the midst of the world


id: 4544
author: nan
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  Rachel and Leah were both wives unto Jacob, right so man''s soul God and ghostly things, we would fain feel sweetness of love in our two children, dread and sorrow, are given of God to a man''s soul, God and a man''s soul; and also on a manner a kindling of love, in so the love of God, that is, when thou feelest continually thine heart God), then shalt thou use thee in this manner. God), then shalt thou use thee in this manner. but that thou shalt feel a great stirring of love unto Him that is love, that as often as a man''s affection is stirred unto God without man''s soul to God, and that maketh it one with Him in love and thy soul that time, and shape thee, in as much as thou mayst through grace, for to meek thee under the height of thy God, so that thou

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  The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521


id: 3283
title: The Upanishads
author: nan
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  perishable body and regards it as his true Self must experience death many a teacher, the knowledge of the Self cannot be gained unless the heart of the Knowledge of the Atman or Self cannot be attained when it is taught by those distinction between body and Soul, he knows that his true Self is not the Yama having first described what the Atman is, now tells us how to attain It. A man must try to subdue his lower nature and gain control over the body and Know the Atman (Self) as the lord of the chariot, and the body as the Self is joined with body, mind and senses, It is called the intelligent knowing that great all-pervading Atman the wise man grieves no mind is able to think: know that alone to be the Brahman, not form and sense faculties, know him not; because the real Self of man is not


id: 5616
title: The Madman: His Parables and Poems
author: Gibran, Kahlil
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  But God made no answer, and like a mighty tempest passed away. And God made no answer, but like a thousand swift wings passed unto God again, saying, "Father, I am thy son. thou hast given me birth, and through love and worship I shall My friend, thou art not my friend, but how shall I make thee day the mother of Jesus came to him and said: "Friend, my son''s "Shall they of this so holy city have but one eye and one hand?" And they said, "Come thou and see." The Good God said, "Good day to you, brother." "Nay, thou art not like me, O, Madman; for the desire for a "Nay, thou art not like me, O, Madman, for thy soul is wrapped in And my soul said, "Let us pass on. Said the Eye one day, "I see beyond these valleys a mountain veiled


id: 13138
title: The Forgotten Threshold: A Journal of Arthur Middleton
author: O''Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph)
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  morning the singing dunes had attained to the harmony of silence. sank slowly and deeply into God. I think that some day I shall know upon earth, eternity made time in beauty, "majestic instancy," the thought, the face of man looking into the Face of God, soul mingling full song from time to the silence of eternity. exhibition to God and man of life in the light of eternity. day is near when my morning stars shall sing their lives out together nothing but the beauty of souls, seeing therein God''s image and stars are the eternal reflections of God''s patience, for they endure of God. Nay more, nature is the mirror in time of man''s eternity, as man is the image in time and eternity of God. It is for this reason of infinite planets, which fly to or flee from the human song of God''s


id: 13143
title: Mystic Christianity; Or, The Inner Teachings of the Master
author: Atkinson, William Walker
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  Spirit was incarnated in His body, and there began the life of Man, not Occult Teachings concerning the Divine Nature of Christ--the Spirit Jesus spent these years as a growing youth and young man, working at Jesus came as a World Prophet, not as a mere Jewish holy-man, and And after a time, Jesus moved away from the place, followed by His come the Teachings of Jesus, the Master, will flow pure and clear, The occult traditions teach that during the forty days of Jesus'' Jesus, the Master, is working within your soul as the Christ teaching regarding the nature of the soul of Jesus? Occult Teaching concerning this great mystery of Christianity. By these words Jesus indicated the occult teachings that those who By these words Jesus pointed out the occult teachings that those who The lives and teachings of these two great Masters who preceded Jesus


id: 33742
title: Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
author: Böhme, Jakob
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  Soul breaks forth out of its Nature-self and enters into "God''s this Love of God to Man. _Inwardly_ he has a seed of the Divine Life And if thou dost this, know that God will speak unto thee, and will as thy Lord Christ hath said: In me ye may have rest, but in the World separation of thy mind from the World, then thou also wilt begin to love of Love, which will hence appear to thee as great as God _above Nature_ of God in Christ, to bring thee out of thy Darkness into his marvellous to the Light of God, thou must consider that there are in thy soul two if thou desirest to see God''s Light in thy Soul, and be divinely love_ the Light of God, and attract the Divine Power into itself, God manifesting himself in Love, there thou findest Heaven, without


id: 36402
title: On Union with God
author: nan
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  Let nothing remain which could come between thy soul and God, that so heart cleave unto God. Withdraw as much as thou canst from thy acquaintance and from all men, and to unify and tranquillize thy heart and mind in God with loving of God. Strong in the love of Jesus, go forth from thyself, with a heart pure, a powers, be recollected in God and form but one spirit with Him. It is in this that the highest perfection possible to man here below creature, that thou mayest tend to the Lord thy God with thy whole heart soul passes beyond himself, and does in very truth ascend to God. Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn created objects, and the closer thy union with God, the nearer wilt thou please God alone, to love Him only and cling to Him. Concern not thyself with anything except thy Lord Jesus Christ, Who


id: 36912
title: The Hero in Man
author: Russell, George William
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  these know well that the inner life of thought, of experiment, and of realisation of their own divinity, who make the spiritual life seem crucified in men; leaving so radiant worlds, such a light of beauty, friend, and the loved one draws nigh, we sometimes feel half-pained, his mind pervade one quarter of the world with thoughts of Love, and so pervade with heart of Love far-reaching, grown great and beyond sun of love shines with a brilliant light to other eyes than its own. faith, might cause "our light to shine in some other heart which as yet is the love which the Mighty Mother has in her heart for her children, And now that the soul had divined this secret, the shadowy shining This soul, shedding its love like rays of in love against the Heart of Many Sorrows, seeing it wounded by


id: 38590
title: The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation
author: Maitland, Edward
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  Soul--who is ever "Mother of God" in man, and whose sons the prophets as the poet says, "an honest man''s the noblest work of God," it was for me no less true that "an honest God''s the noblest work of man." And it once for Humanity, for Perfection, for God. Had we been in any degree instructed in spiritual or occult science, we Sun, not the man (as do the astrals), but the God, his light is all parts of Man: of mind, soul and spirit, intellect and intuition, and "Which Light is the Spirit of God within the man, showing unto him manifestation of God, and they are the divine man and woman of all man; the spirit of the second is as the soul towards God. The first principles in man, the Spirit, the Soul, and the Mind; being Spirit, the Soul, and the Body, and therein of the whole Man. For these


id: 43601
title: Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events
author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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  way home, to Wildisbuch, and remained at her father''s house ten days John Gottfried Kaltofen was a young man of 24 years, servant to that the murder of the servant took place in the house of David when the said Jews had taken the body of the lad to many places in exhibited a leaning towards Lutheranism, and the canons of St. Maurice, who had placed great hopes on the young preacher, thinking keep the pure Word of God," said the article; "it shall be preached Belkot, head of the city tribunal of Münster, entered the church of We must now return to what took place in the town of Münster at the offered to deliver the city into the hands of the prince-bishop if Several more executions took place during the following days, and When King John appeared before Francis of Waldeck, the bishop asked


id: 43611
title: The Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi
author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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  ''I know little of Joachim of Flora,'' I said, ''except that Dante set him I shall create a world where the whole lives of men He turned and said, looking at me with shining eyes: ''Jonathan Swift to time to turn over the books upon an old bookstall, and thinking, door was opened by an old over-dressed woman, who said, ''O, you are her old men looked at one another and followed her upstairs, passing doors The old woman said: ''Yes they have come at last; now she will be able ''We have been deceived by devils,'' said one of the old men, ''for the world likes them and takes possession of them, and so eternity comes and the oldest of the old men said: ''Lady, we have come to write down Then the oldest of the old men said in French to the woman who was


id: 45315
title: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
author: Blake, William
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  1. That man has two real existing principles, viz., a Body and a Soul. 2. That Energy, called Evil, is alone from the Body; and that Reason, 3. That God will torment man in Eternity for following his Energies. God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God. Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps. Isaiah answered: "I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical An Angel came to me and said: "O pitiable foolish young man! Once I saw a Devil in a flame of fire, who arose before an Angel that I have also the Bible of Hell, which the world shall have whether they


id: 44245
title: Historic Oddities and Strange Events
author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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  office at Vienna came to an end, and he set out on his way home. His father sent Hans to be page to the imprisoned Duke Frederick at so drunk that he lay like a dead man for two days and two nights, and way or other at once, so he sent a crown of gold roses to Hans, and said refused to come down from her room and dine with the Duke unless the old Whilst Hans was away, the Duke won a large sum of money at play, enough of the inner man, of a good, faithful, God fearing, and loving soul, Abram answered, "Let the man come, and sign the deed and see the money Then mass was said, during which the man in whose hands the fortunes of Countess, a man named John Stauff, whether his wife was at home, as he


id: 56101
title: Sweet Rocket
author: Johnston, Mary
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  I like sun," said Miss Darcy. "They _like_ doin'' you a good turn," said Mrs. Cliff, and, getting to Presently Marget said: "Let us rest before we turn back. Walking so, Marget fell to talking of Anna Darcy''s life, the manner of When with Miss Darcy he had stepped upon the porch Linden had said: "Come look at the sky," said Linden. Though I think," said Marget, "that one day the edges Marget drove, Curtin sitting beside her, Miss Darcy and Richard Linden home--just like me!" said Marget, with a happy laugh. came and said, ''This is home''--" Her dark eyes looked afar to the valley "I don''t know anyone like you," said Curtin. "I don''t know anyone like you," said Curtin. then Linden said, "Read for a little while, Marget." She took up a and Curtin and Drew, Linden and Marget, sat or moved about in the old


