Not of this World: A Treasury of Christian MysticismJames S. Cutsinger World Wisdom, Inc, 2003 - 279 pàgines This profound and insightful book includes selected writings of Christian sages and saints from the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Evangelical and Celtic branches of the Christian tradition. They are presented from a perspective of 'the transcendent unity of denominations'. |
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Pàgina xvi
... contemplative jour- neys have taken them East , as well as by many practicing Christians - that Christianity is strictly a bhakti - mârga , to use the language of Hinduism : that is , a purely devotional path , in which love of the ...
... contemplative jour- neys have taken them East , as well as by many practicing Christians - that Christianity is strictly a bhakti - mârga , to use the language of Hinduism : that is , a purely devotional path , in which love of the ...
Pàgina 14
... contemplation , will raise it to the vision and praise of God , as the blessed Augustine says : " As many creatures as are in the world converse with righteous men , and although their language is dumb and wordless , it is nonetheless ...
... contemplation , will raise it to the vision and praise of God , as the blessed Augustine says : " As many creatures as are in the world converse with righteous men , and although their language is dumb and wordless , it is nonetheless ...
Pàgina 15
... contemplate the creatures and , seeing infinite wisdom in their creation and organization , may rise to the knowledge and contemplation of the hypostatic Word that is before time , the Word by whom " all things were made " ( John 1 : 3 ) ...
... contemplate the creatures and , seeing infinite wisdom in their creation and organization , may rise to the knowledge and contemplation of the hypostatic Word that is before time , the Word by whom " all things were made " ( John 1 : 3 ) ...
Pàgina 19
... Contemplation is the mind's perspicacious and free attention , diffused every- where throughout the range of whatever may be explored . There is this difference between meditation and contemplation : meditation relates always to things ...
... Contemplation is the mind's perspicacious and free attention , diffused every- where throughout the range of whatever may be explored . There is this difference between meditation and contemplation : meditation relates always to things ...
Pàgina 20
... contemplation . In the Song of Songs , he transports himself to the final grade . In meditation there is a wrestling of ignorance with knowledge ; and the light of truth gleams as in a fog of error . So fire is kindled with diffi- culty ...
... contemplation . In the Song of Songs , he transports himself to the final grade . In meditation there is a wrestling of ignorance with knowledge ; and the light of truth gleams as in a fog of error . So fire is kindled with diffi- culty ...
Continguts
A Single Unified Science Philip Sherrard | 146 |
Practicing Presence Brother Lawrence | 149 |
Hidden and Glorified Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 152 |
As through a Mirror St Bonaventure | 154 |
Recognition The Gospel of Thomas | 158 |
Two Facades C S Lewis | 162 |
UNION | 167 |
Unity | 169 |
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Descending with the Breath | 33 |
So Many Names | 35 |
What Dreams May Come | 38 |
Sleep but My Heart Waketh | 41 |
Nakedness and Sacrifice | 44 |
The | 47 |
Go Not but Stay | 51 |
Rank upon Rank | 67 |
The Virginal Paradise | 77 |
ILLUMINATION | 83 |
François Fénelon | 92 |
Pico della Mirandola | 98 |
St Gregory of Sinai | 104 |
Luminosity | 111 |
Thinking the Unthinkable | 119 |
The Religion of Light | 126 |
Saving Loveliness | 132 |
Filling Every Place Jeremy Taylor | 141 |
Virtues and Powers Paracelsus | 144 |
A Higher School Henry Suso | 171 |
Flight to Greater Things St Gregory of Nyssa | 173 |
No Other Way Theologia Germanica | 177 |
Gods Own Breath John Smith | 181 |
The Very Marrow of the Bones St Teresa of Avila | 185 |
Christmas in the Soul John Tauler | 189 |
High Fantasy Lost Power Dante | 194 |
Motionless Circling Nikitas Stithatos | 197 |
Unicity | 201 |
A Reply to Active Persons The Cloud of Unknowing | 203 |
Closing to a Bud Again Lilian Staveley | 206 |
The Joyful Instant St Augustine | 210 |
One and the Same Mind Origen | 213 |
Awareness and Return Swami Abhishiktananda | 216 |
Waylessness John of Ruysbroeck | 219 |
Hidden Beauty St Dionysios the Areopagite | 223 |
Essence Is Simple St Nikolai Velimirovich | 226 |
St Thérèse of Lisieux Nikiphoros the Athonite JeanPierre de Caussade St Diadochos of Photiki St Bernard of Clairvaux | 266 |
Jean Borella Hieromonk Damascene St Francis of Sales | 267 |
25 | 268 |
41 | 269 |
47 | 270 |
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angels Apostle attain beauty become beginning behold Bernard of Clairvaux blessed body C. S. Lewis child Christian Church contemplation created things creatures darkness death deification delight Desert Fathers desire Dionysios the Areopagite disciples Divine dream dwell earth enter Essence eternal everything exists eyes feel flesh glory God's grace Gregory of Sinai Gregory Palamas hear heart heaven heavenly hidden Holy Spirit human ineffable inner intellect Jean Borella Jesus Christ John John of Ruysbroeck Kallistos Ware knowledge light live Logos Lord Mary Maximos the Confessor meditation Meister Eckhart mind mysteries mystical nature ness never ourselves perfect person Philokalia possess poverty pray prayer present pure purity reality saints Scripture sense sleep soul speak St Dionysios St Gregory sweet tabernacle thee theologian thou thought tion trans true truly truth understand union unto Virgin virtue vision wisdom words
Passatges populars
Pàgina xxi - And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Pàgina 130 - The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the street were as precious as gold : the gates were at first the end of the world.
Pàgina xix - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Pàgina 115 - Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever, Amen. As I read the words, there came into my soul, and was as it were diffused through it, a sense of the glory of the Divine Being; a new...
Pàgina 116 - I know not how to express. I seemed to see them both in a sweet conjunction ; majesty and meekness joined together ; it was a sweet, and gentle, and holy majesty; and also a majestic meekness; an awful sweetness; a high, and great, and holy gentleness.
Pàgina 130 - In the absence of these I was entertained like an Angel with the works of God in their splendour and glory, I saw all in the peace of Eden ; Heaven and Earth did sing my Creator's praises, and could not make more melody to Adam, than to me.
Pàgina 130 - WILL you see the infancy of this sublime and celestial greatness ? Those pure and virgin apprehensions I had from the womb, and that divine light wherewith I was born are the best unto this day, wherein I can see the Universe. By the Gift of God they attended me into the world, and by His special favour I remember them till now.
Pàgina 117 - ... clouds and blue sky, in the grass, flowers, trees, in the water and all nature; which used greatly to fix my mind. I often used to sit and view the moon for...
Pàgina 96 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius: I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.