Not of this World: A Treasury of Christian Mysticism

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James S. Cutsinger
World Wisdom, Inc, 2003 - Religion - 279 pages
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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Contents

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

The Center of the Soul
17
Hugh of St Victor 16
19
St Ignatios of Antioch
26
Simplicity
29
Drawn by the Flames
31
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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Page 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.
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Page 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...
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Page 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.
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