A Study in Illumination (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Geraldine E. Hodgson

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ISBN 10 : 1331662842 ISBN 13 : 9781331662846

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A fascinating look at how mystics and poets move from ordinary sense perception to deeper spiritual truth.

This study examines the path of illumination, exploring how perception, consciousness, and faith interact in the quest for meaning.

The book surveys key ideas and moments in mysticism and poetic vision. It analyzes how sensory experience can lead to profound spiritual insight, and it weighs debates about transcendence, immanence, and the nature of reality. Drawing on figures like Browning, Saint Teresa, Pascal, and Ruysbroeck, it shows how illumination often blends struggle, doubt, and grace on the road to union with the divine.

• Traces the classic stages of mystical life: purgation, illumination, and union.
• Explains how sense experience can become a doorway to spiritual truth.
• Uses literary and religious figures to illuminate the mystic journey.
• Discusses the balance between the seen world and the unseen, and the risks of pantheism.

Ideal for readers of literary criticism and religious history who want a clear, thoughtful guide to how mystics and poets seek reality beyond the senses.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Chapter IV appeared in The Seeker for February, 1913, under the title Robert Browning as a Mystic. Though the fact will be apparent to careful readers, yet, in order to forestall and save superficial criticism, it may be as well to say that the many quotations are illustrations of the theory of the book; that their function is precisely that of diagrams, say in a treatise on entomology. As it would be tiresome to one reader to have to go to his collection every time he wished to see an insect, so it would be to another to walk across the room to his book-shelves. Moreover, it might conceivably happen in both cases that the particular specimen was not there. I owe and offer thanks to those who have generously permitted me to make any excerpts from their copyright works, whether to author or publisher; most specially to the Right Rev.
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Excerpt from A Study in Illumination

A great part of Chapter IV appeared in The Seeker for February, 1913, under the title "Robert Browning as a Mystic." Though the fact will be apparent to careful readers, yet, in order to forestall and save superficial criticism, it may be as well to say that the many quotations are illustrations of the theory of the book; that their function is precisely that of diagrams, say in a treatise on entomology. As it would be tiresome to one reader to have to go to his collection every time he wished to see an insect, so it would be to another to walk across the room to his book-shelves. Moreover, it might conceivably happen in both cases that the particular specimen was not there.

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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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331662842
• ISBN 13: 9781331662846
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
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