Christian Mysticism: Considered in Eight Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford |
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acosmism Augustine Averroes beauty believe called Cambridge Platonists Catholic century Christ Christian Mysticism Church consciousness contemplation creature darkness deification Dionysius Divine doctrine Eckhart element Erigena essence eternal evil existence faculties faith Father feeling Fénelon German mystics Gnostics Godhead Gospel Greek Gregory of Nyssa Harnack heart heaven highest holy human idea ideal immanence intellectual Irenæus John knowledge language later Lecture light living Logos Lord means medieval mind moral mysteries mystical theology nature Neoplatonism Neoplatonists object Origen ourselves Pantheism passage Paul personality Philo philosophy Platonism Platonists Plotinus prayer prayer of quiet Proclus pure quæ quietistic quoted realisation reason regarded religion religious revelation Ruysbroek sacraments says sense soul speaks speculative Mysticism spiritual supernatural Suso symbols Tauler teaching Teresa thee Theologia Germanica things thou thought tion true truth unity universe visions William Law words writers δὲ καὶ τὸ
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Page 42 - The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Page 311 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 208 - And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.
Page 41 - for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Page 312 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord ? or who shall stand in his holy place ? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart...
Page 298 - For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven: wherefore thou be wise, Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith! She reels not in the storm of warring words, She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No," She sees the Best that glimmers thro' the Worst, She feels the Sun is hid but for a night, She spies the summer thro...
Page 56 - That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the word of life...
Page 66 - God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him; and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.
Page 248 - God is not dumb, that He should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor; There towers the mountain of the Voice no less, Which whoso seeks shall find, but he who bends, Intent on manna still and mortal ends, Sees it not, neither hears its thundered lore.
Page 310 - I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man : A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thoughts, And rolls through all things.