Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion, Volumen1John Clark, 1888 |
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... natural to ask . The answer is at hand . First of all , Mysticism , though an error , has been associated , for the most part , with a measure of truth so considerable , that its good has greatly outweighed its evil . On this.
... natural to ask . The answer is at hand . First of all , Mysticism , though an error , has been associated , for the most part , with a measure of truth so considerable , that its good has greatly outweighed its evil . On this.
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... evil . On this ground alone , its history should be judged of interest . For we grow more hopeful and more charitable as we mark how small a leaven of truth may prove an anti- dote to error , and how often the genuine fervour of the ...
... evil . On this ground alone , its history should be judged of interest . For we grow more hopeful and more charitable as we mark how small a leaven of truth may prove an anti- dote to error , and how often the genuine fervour of the ...
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... Evil ; and so the universe was summarily parted . He fancied he was making art religious , while , in fact , he made religion a mere branch of art , —and that branch , of all others , the most open to individual caprice . From these ...
... Evil ; and so the universe was summarily parted . He fancied he was making art religious , while , in fact , he made religion a mere branch of art , —and that branch , of all others , the most open to individual caprice . From these ...
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... evil we condemn may be in fact keeping out some much greater evil on the other side . WILLOUGHBY . I think one may learn a great deal from such erratic or morbid kinds of religion . Almost all we are in a posi- tion to say , concerning ...
... evil we condemn may be in fact keeping out some much greater evil on the other side . WILLOUGHBY . I think one may learn a great deal from such erratic or morbid kinds of religion . Almost all we are in a posi- tion to say , concerning ...
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... evil wrought by eminent mystics , would prove a very instructive occupation ; it would be a trying of the spirits by their fruits . GOWER . And all the more useful as the mistakes of mysti- cism , whatever they may be , are mistakes ...
... evil wrought by eminent mystics , would prove a very instructive occupation ; it would be a trying of the spirits by their fruits . GOWER . And all the more useful as the mistakes of mysti- cism , whatever they may be , are mistakes ...
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Página 269 - Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Página 29 - It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Página 175 - To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel. My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
Página 36 - At, Phoebi nondum patiens, immanis in antro bacchatur vates, magnum si pectore possit excussisse deum ; tanto magis ille fatigat os rabidum, fera corda domans, fingitque premendo.
Página 298 - For both He that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one : for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren...
Página 208 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost...
Página 24 - I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow...
Página 301 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.
Página 236 - Mount up aloft through heavenly contemplation, From this darke world, whose damps the soule do blynd, And, like the native brood of Eagles kynd, On that bright Sunne of Glorie fixe thine eyes, Clear'd from grosse mists of fraile infirmities.