Mysticism: A Study and an Anthology

407 pp. Acknowledgements; The Study - The Nature and Scope of this Book; The Perennial Philosophy; The Astronomer's Universe; The Problem of Knowledge; The Nature of Scientific Truth; The Evolution of Life: An Interpretation; What we shall understand by the term Mysticism; The Mysticism of Love and Union and the Mysticism of Knowledge and Understanding; Nature-Mysticism, Soul-Mysticism, and God-Mysticism; Characteristics of Mystical States; The Nature of Mystical Experience; The Mystic Way; The Purgation of the Self; Man's Knowledge of God; The State of Contemplation; The Degrees of Prayer; The Mystical Element in Buddhism; The Higher Stages of Contemplation; The Contemplation of Immanence; The Unitive Life; The Lesser Mystic Way: The Mysticism of Action; Mysticism and Dogma: The Insights of India, Palestine,a nd Greece; Mysticism and Dogma: The Christian Revelation; The Coinherence of Spirit and Matter; The Validity of Mysticism; Conclusion: The Mystic's Universe; The Anthology - Introduction; Prologue: The Timeless Moment; There is Nothing that is not Spirit: The Unpanishads; The Tao which can be Spoken is not the True Tao: Tao Te Ching; The Mysticism of Loving Faith and Selfless Action: The Bhagavad Gita; Emptiness and Compassion: Buddhist Mysticism; The Father of Christian Mysticism: Plato; Christo-Mysticism: St. John and St. Paul; The Kingdom of Heaven is Within You: The Okyrhynchus Sayings of Jesus; Departure and Return: The Hymn of the Robe of Glory; The One and the Many: Plotinus, the Enneads; The Divine Darkness: Dionysius the Areopagite, The Mystical Theology; Theosis: the Deficiation of the Creature: The Mysticism of the Eastern Orthodox Church; Thee Mysticism of the Intellect: St. Augustine, The Confessions; The Mysticism of Love: St Bernard of Clairvaux; The Four Degrees of Passionate Love: Richard of St Victor; The Sufi Path of Love; Intellectual Vision: Dante; Godhead, God, and the Soul: Meister Eckhart; The Active, Inward, and Superessential Lives: The Blessed John Ryysbroeck; Nothing Burns in Hell but Self-will: The Theologia Germanica; The Royal Road of the Holy Cross: Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ; God May Well be Loved but not Thought: The Cloud of Unknowing; Practical Directions for the Following of the Spiritual Life: Walter Hilton, The Ladder of Perfection; The Homeliness of God: Julian of Norwich, revelations of Divine Love; The Coincidence of Opposites: Nicholas of Cusa; The Degrees of Prayer: St Teresa of Avila; The Way of Absolute Detachment: St John of the Cross; Nature-Mysticism and Christo-Mysticism: Richard Jefferies; The Mysticism of the Divine Milieu: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; Index