Hours With the Mystics, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint): A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion - Couverture souple

Robert Alfred Vaughan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330215095 ISBN 13 : 9781330215098

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Hours With the Mystics

Such are some of the questions which it will be natural to ask. The answer is at hand. First of all, Mysticism, though an error, has been associated, for the most part, with a measure of truth so considerable, that its good has greatly outweighed its evil. On this ground alone, its history should be judged of interest. For we grow more hopeful and more charitable as we mark how small a leaven of truth may prove an antidote to error, and how often the genuine fervour of the spirit has. All but made good the failures of the intellect. In the religious history of almost every age and country, we meet with a certain class of minds, impatient of mere ceremonial forms and technical distinctions, who have pleaded the cause of the heart against prescription, and yielded themselves to the most vehement impulses of the soul, in its longing to escape from. The Sign to the thing signified — from the human to the divine. The story of such an ambition, with its disasters and its glories, will not be deemed, by any thoughtful mind, less worthy of record than the career of a conqueror. Through all the changes of doctrine and the long con?ict of creeds, it is interesting to trace the unconscious unity of mystical temperaments in every communion. It can scarcely be without some profit that we essay to gather together and arrange this company of ardent natures; to account for their harmony and their differences, to ascertain the extent of their in?uence for good and evil, to point out their errors, and to estimate even dreams impossible to cold or meaner Spirits.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330215095
• ISBN 13: 9781330215098
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 357
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