MYSTICISM
Evelyn Underhill
This is a classic work in the field of spiritual consciousness studies. Underhill writes of the awakening, purification and training of the self in its ascent of the path which leads to the blessedness of the Unitive life.
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"The manifestation of the Eternal Light is renewed without interruption in the hiddenness of the spirit."
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"Do but fix your eyes joyously upon yourself, and watch how God plays the game of love within your loving soul." Suso, 'Leban', cap. vi
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"The beauty, the majesty, the divinity of the living World of Becoming holds in its meshes every living thing."
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"Free and conscious cooperation in the great life of the All alone can make personal life worth living."
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"Love flings open a door, in order that the larger Life may rush in, and it and the soul be one thing."
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"Natural magnetism…will draw the pilgrim irresistibly along the road from the Many to the One."
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"Nothing is to be seen but a ground which rests upon itself, everywhere one Being, one Life."
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"Divine Love, immanent in the soul, spurs on that soul to union with the transcendent and Absolute Light – at once the source, the goal, the life of created things."
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"All mystical thinkers agree in declaring that there is a mutual attraction between the Spark of the Soul, the free divine germ in man, and the Fount from which it came forth."
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"The 'sense of God' is not a metaphor. Innumerable declarations prove it to be a consciousness as sharp as that which other men have of colour, heat, or light."
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"Symbols form the rallying-points about which are gathered a whole group of ideas and intuitions. Their presence – sometimes the sudden thought of them – will be enough, in psychological language, to provoke a discharge of energy along some particular path: that is to say, to stir to life all those ideas and intuitions which belong to the self's consciousness of the Absolute, to concentrate vitality on them, and introduce the self into that world of perception of which they are, as it were, the material keys."
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"There is a root or depth in you from whence all these faculties come forth as lines from a centre, or as branches from the body of a tree. The depth is called the centre, the fund, or bottom of the soul. This depth is the unity, the Eternity, I had almost said the infinity of your soul, for it is so infinite that nothing can satisfy it, or give it any rest, but the infinity of God." William Law (1688-1761), English clergyman, 'The Spirit of Prayer'
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"The rippling tide of love flows secretly from God into the soul, and draws it mightily back into its source." Mechthild of Magdeburg
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"There is – must be – contact in an intelligible where between every individual self and the Supreme Self, the Ultimate."
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"Under the spur of love life draws near to Life."
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"'That Which Is', says St. Augustine; 'The One', 'The Supplier of true Life', says Plotinus; 'the energitic Word', says St. Bernard; 'Eternal Light', says Dante; 'the Abyss', says Ruysbroeck; 'Pure Love', says St. Catherine of Genoa – poor symbols of Perfection at the best. But, through and by these oblique utterances, they give us the assurance that the Object of their discovery is one with the object of our quest."
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"This universe is free, self-creative. The divine action floods it: no part is more removed from the Godhead than any other part."
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"The spring of the amazing energy which enables the great mystic to rise to freedom and dominate his world, is latent in all of us; an integral part of our humanity."
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"Hints of a marvellous truth, a unity whose note is ineffable peace, shine in created things."
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"The end and object of 'inward alchemy' will be the raising of the whole self to the condition in which conscious and permanent union with the Absolute takes place."
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"To say that God is Infinite is to say that He may be apprehended and described in an infinity of ways. That Circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere, may be approached from every angle with a certainty of being found."
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"All…are called to their origin." Rulman Merswin
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"The flame of living and creative love fills the universe."
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"God, since He is all in all – in a sense, IS all – may most easily be found within ourselves."
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"This One is…not merely the Reality of all that is, but also a living and personal Object of Love."
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