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 spirit of God breathes us out from Himself that we may love."
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"The Power of God exceeds and fills all." St. Angela of Foligno
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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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"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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"Beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love."
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"Natural magnetism…will draw the pilgrim irresistibly along the road from the Many to the One."
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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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"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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"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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"All…are called to their origin." Rulman Merswin
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"Everywhere one Being, one Life – this is the goal of activity; the final state of equilibrium towards which the self is moving, or rather struggling, in the dimness and anguish of the Dark Night….The Dark Night is therefore an aspect or incident of the transition from multiplicity to Unity; of that mergence and union of the soul with the Absolute which is the whole object of the mystical evolution of man."
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"Under the spur of love life draws near to Life."
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"More and more, as we study and collate all the available evidence, this fact – this law – is borne in on us: that the general movement of human consciousness, when it obeys its innate tendency to transcendence, is always the same. There is only one road from Appearance to Reality."
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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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"The mystic vision is of a spiritual universe held within the bonds of love."
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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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"Trust your deep instincts: use your latent powers. Appropriate that divine creative life which is the very substance of your being. Remake yourself in its interest, if you would know its beauty and its truth. You can only behold that which you are. Only the Real can know Reality."
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"The world-process is the slow coming to fruition of that Divine Spark which is latent alike in the Cosmos and in man."
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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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"God, since He is all in all – in a sense, IS all – may most easily be found within ourselves."
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"The simple vision of pure love, which is marvellously penetrating, does not stop at the outer husk of creation: it penetrates to the divinity which is hidden within." Malaval, 'De l'Oraison Ordinaire'
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"Every visible and invisible creature is a theophany or appearance of God." Erigena
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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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"Whoever in Love's city enters, finds but room for One, and but in One-ness, Union." Jalalu'd Din, 'Wisdom of the East Series'
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"This meaning, this secret plan of Creation, flames out, had we eyes to see, from every department of existence."
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