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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... sense of respect , with the same veneration with which one is able to recognize the very traces of God in places known and unknown . " -John Chryssavgis , former dean of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology and author of Ascent ...
... sense of respect , with the same veneration with which one is able to recognize the very traces of God in places known and unknown . " -John Chryssavgis , former dean of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology and author of Ascent ...
Pàgina xix
... sense of symbolic patterns is much less precise and keen than that of his ancestors . There are three major Parts to this treasury because it is a journey of three Days from the Good Friday of our death to this world to the Easter of ...
... sense of symbolic patterns is much less precise and keen than that of his ancestors . There are three major Parts to this treasury because it is a journey of three Days from the Good Friday of our death to this world to the Easter of ...
Pàgina xxi
... sense of a passage might be otherwise obscured or complicated by a tangent to its primary meaning or by the introduction of foreign or technical terms already defined in the text . The Sources of Readings at the end of the book provide ...
... sense of a passage might be otherwise obscured or complicated by a tangent to its primary meaning or by the introduction of foreign or technical terms already defined in the text . The Sources of Readings at the end of the book provide ...
Pàgina 12
... sense . It then delights in the things which delight the senses , and out of all these together it builds the circle of comforts and pleasures whose enjoyment it considers as its primary good . So the order of things has become inverted ...
... sense . It then delights in the things which delight the senses , and out of all these together it builds the circle of comforts and pleasures whose enjoyment it considers as its primary good . So the order of things has become inverted ...
Pàgina 13
... sense has its own range of subjects , pleasant and un- pleasant . The soul delights in pleasant things and , becoming accustomed to them , acquires a lust for them . In this way each sense introduces into the soul several lusts or ...
... sense has its own range of subjects , pleasant and un- pleasant . The soul delights in pleasant things and , becoming accustomed to them , acquires a lust for them . In this way each sense introduces into the soul several lusts or ...
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 |
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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.