...to life. What is the greatest achievement in life? R.D. Krumpos belives it is living in conscious oneness of ultimate reality, found in Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Kabbalah, Sufi, and comparative mysticism. This ebook summarizes similarities among these five traditions and outlines a mystical approaches to life....

...ism Introduction 4 What’s in a Word? 6 Mysticism defined 8 What is Reality? 10 Prominent mystics: J/C/I 12 Prominent mystics: H/B 14 Mystic viewpoints 17 Quotations of mystics 19 Our different worlds 21 Quotations of mystics 23 Mysticism is not... 25 Quotation...

...F MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY. PART II. (CONTINUED) PHENOMENON VI. THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. THE two capital points which we now proceed to e... ...TIAN CHURCH. THE two capital points which we now proceed to examine, viz. the Christian church, and the captivity of Babylon, do not deserve so mu... ...rn to Jerusalem; the second, which supplies what the other cannot reach, is the Christian church. Let us begin with this, which is the more laborious... ..., or clear idea, of all which is signified or comprehended under this name, The Christian Church: that is to say, what is certain and of divine fait... ...hould terminate all the lines which proceed from the circumference of the whole Christian world; and those which will not terminate in this centre, ... ...th written upon this Song, and the jesuit, Luis de la Puenta, and several other mystics who have followed those famous masters of spiritual things? ...

...ty has paradoxically been both encouraged and very much compromised by the Christian religion. 26 If humanity is partially (as the Catholics s... ...n as being toxic, and that as a strategy it must be abandoned. Can the Christian religion transcend itself and give people back their truth and ... ...ception of the World * THE RELIGIOUS CONCEPTION OF THE WORLD The pre-Christian religions generally follow this basic scheme: In the beginnin... ...s also born and with it the fear of divine judgment is consolidated. The Christian religion adopts the basic scheme of the Jewish religion and it t... ...of the universe and become part of the cosmic harmony. Isn’t this what the mystics from all religions throughout the ages have done? Following my p... ...of the universe and become part of the cosmic harmony. Isn’t this what the mystics from all religions throughout the ages have done? 102 Followi... .... This is very different from what the religions affirm and especially the Christian religion, which states that humanity’s fundamental problem lies...

... If you're a Beatles fan, you know the Fab Four morphed from mop tops to mystics and from rockers to revolutionaries. Through all the experimental ... ...e of words in the pursuit of romance. 53 Cyrano and his handsome friend Christian are both in love with Roxane. Lacking skill with words, Christia... ... win Roxane's heart. Sure enough, Roxane falls for the words Cyrano gives Christian and, because of them, she marries Christian. Only later does she...

...One should be especially cautious of those who call themselves "Kabbalists" or mystics, and move as far away as possible from them. These people can c... ... that the King Kuzari, whenitcametimetoselectareligionforhispeople,turned to a Christian, to a Muslim, and finally to a Jew. When the KingheardtheJew,...

... Of Buddhism The Concept Of The Buddha Buddhist Yoga Zen Buddhism And Jung Christianity 59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality O... ...59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality Of Beliefs In Christianity Christian Belief Before The Nicaean Council The Centrality Of ... ... majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many people these terms have come to lose near... ...o be as objective as possible. As a child I was reared in a fundamentalist Christian family which had little by way of formal affiliation with any par... ...nday, still hoping to fill the hunger inside. Eventually I had tried every Christian church available. The conservative Protestant churches (such as B... ... vital requirement without which no religious involvement is possible. The mystics also generally expound this view, a point we will examine in consid... ... separate from attitudes and groups alike, whether cultural or ethnic. The mystics, by and large, epitomize this emphasis. And for others, a history o... ...ed to induce visionary experiences which came to take the form familiar to mystics the world over, although colored by Hindu teaching—visions of the c... ... must not be overlooked. It is to be found in the negative theology of the mystics. One such writing has become a classic; it comes from the hand of a...

...re as many religious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that thevast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many...

............................................................ 60 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? ............................................................ ...father, should he have been honored as the commandment requires? Are most Christians dishonoring the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, th... ... through life accepting what the rest of our society believes. If it is a Christian society we believe in the New Testament. If it is a Muslim socie... ...to face their beliefs by thinking deeply about them. ―Few Jews, Christians, Hindus or Muslims change their religions. Few democrats want a ... ... ―Is this the reason that President George W. Bush, as an evangelical Christian, didn‘t believe in evolution or in global warming? Was it a lack... ... ―We find pantheism in Christianity also. There are a number of Christian mystics in the West. Panentheism is more common in Eastern Orthodox Chris... ...only experienced, the mystic melds into a pantheistic God. Quite commonly mystics from the several religions will write similarly about their experie...

...surgent ‗A‘ when insurgent ‗B‘ may win the guerrilla war. Why support the Christian side when the Muslim fighters may have the more ethical position.... ...ern culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have reduced the activity, but cert... ...that all divisions and diversions fit into the whole. It seems that your Christian and Islamic faiths have had a strong emphasis on increasing thei... ...roblems in that regard. During the last twenty years there have been anti-Christian outbursts in east India where churches and Christian homes have ... ... The Koran and its commentators speak of good and bad jinns. The Jews and Christians have their witches. 45 We can point to Deuteronomy 18:10 ‗T... ...Oversoul and ceases to exist. ―I find it sad that there are few mystics or yogis in Indus. Most people give lip service to the gods, while...

...te of Israel is not exclusionary. There are a million Israelis who are Arabs, both Christians and Muslims. It is true, though, that Jews have a sp... ... in the Old Testament - but man-eating goes virtually unmentioned. The Eucharist in Christianity - when the believers consume the actual body and bl... ...nial regime on its former colonies. Spearheaded by the United States, the white and Christian nations of the West embarked with missionary zeal on a... ...munity and violates the property rights of God, the imputed owner of one's spirit. Christianity regards the immortal soul as a gift and, in Jewish ... ...munity and violates the property rights of God, the imputed owner of one's spirit. Christianity regards the immortal soul as a gift and, in Jewish ... ...is inferior to the tools developed over centuries by philosophers, theologians, and mystics. Moreover, scientists often confuse language of repres...

...te of Israel is not exclusionary. There are a million Israelis who are Arabs, both Christians and Muslims. It is true, though, that Jews have a sp... ... in the Old Testament - but man-eating goes virtually unmentioned. The Eucharist in Christianity - when the believers consume the actual body and bl... ...nial regime on its former colonies. Spearheaded by the United States, the white and Christian nations of the West embarked with missionary zeal on a... ...munity and violates the property rights of God, the imputed owner of one's spirit. Christianity regards the immortal soul as a gift and, in Jewish ... ...munity and violates the property rights of God, the imputed owner of one's spirit. Christianity regards the immortal soul as a gift and, in Jewish ... ...is inferior to the tools developed over centuries by philosophers, theologians, and mystics. Moreover, scientists often confuse language of repres...

...These concepts were based on the teachings of the first century schismatic Christian sect known as the Gnostics. Once the lower self realises t... ...s, and reunion with other entities with whom great affinity is felt. Mystics have described this as the drop absorbing the ocean, as opposed t...

...isingly, many of the first spiritualists were ministers and other functionaries of Christian Churches. Three historic developments contributed to t... ...is inferior to the tools developed over centuries by philosophers, theologians, and mystics. Moreover, scientists often confuse language of repr... ...ips between objects and persons, or persons and persons. Some religions (Hinduism, Christian Science) shrug it off as an illusion, the outcome of o...

...s possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless... ...es of two centuries and formulated the creed upon which all the exist- ing Christian churches are based, was one of the most disas- trous and one of t... ...hat the Alexandrine speculations which were then conclusively imposed upon Christianity merit only disrespectful attention at the present time. There ... ...ife of man- kind. After this warning such readers from among the vari- ous Christian churches and sects as are accessible to storms of theological fea... ...y inci- dentally and because it is unavoidable that he attacks doctri- nal Christianity. In a previous book, “First and Last Things” (Constable and Co... ...f the mortal self. Not to realise that, is the heresy of Quietism, of many mystics. Commonly such people are people of some wealth, able to command se...

...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or offend anyone who is prepared for the expr...

...summit, up to which have been piled the most ingenious edifices for murder Christian science ever adopted. My hobby-horse is a quiet beast, suited for... ...e he went upon his sea martyrdom. I felt a love for that soft- hearted old Christian. Ah! let us hope his governante tucked him comfortably in bed whe... ...h and meat fizzing in the enormous pots of the cook-shops are only for the Christians. The children abounded; the law is not so stringent upon them, ... ... is in the Greek and Armenian quarters, and among 51 Thackeray those poor Christians who were pulling figs, that you see the beauties; and a man of a... ...me a private room, and the dragoman left me. My agony at parting from that Christian cannot be described. When you get into the sudarium, or hot room,... ...h temples in their eyes) do not exceed its noble grace and simplicity. The mystics make discoveries at home, that the Gothic architec- ture is Catholi...

...his land the Switzerland of Ocean. 5 Balzac Midway between T rondhjem and Christiansand lies an inlet called the Strom-fiord. If the Strom-fiord is n... ...st a channel out to sea or construct a way to the interior. The roads from Christiana to Trondhjem all turn toward the Strom-fiord, and cross the Sieg... ...e forests, while to the south the Falberg is nearly as much separated from Christiana by inaccessible precipices. The village of Jarvis might perhaps ... ...sadly. He seemed to repress some thoughts, then stretched his arms towards Christiana, just visible like a speck on the ho- rizon and said:— “Look!” “... ...ely necessary that I disperse the clouds which envelop the most obscure of Christian doctrines. It is not easy to make myself clear when speaking of t... ...r parents be- queathed to her that fatal exaltation of soul which misleads mystics and renders them all more or less mad. She subjects herself to fast...

..., or the yellow-burning marl of a Hell-on-Earth? Our Professor, like other Mystics, whether delirious or inspired, gives an Editor enough to do. Ever ... ...m Lohn, oder wohl mit schweren Zinsen, wird’s einst zuruckgefordert. ‘Good Christian people, here lies for you an invaluable Loan; take all heed there... ...cept as appended to my own person, nowhere occurs. Again, what may the un- christian rather than Christian ‘Diogenes’ mean? Did that reverend Basket-b... ...by act and daily reverent look and habitude, her own simple version of the Christian Faith. Andreas too attended Church; yet more like a parade-duty, ... ...here, I indeed learned, better perhaps than the most. Among eleven hundred Christian youths, there will not be wanting some eleven eager to learn. By ... ..., significance enough? “From Suicide a certain after-shine (Nachschein) of Christianity withheld me: perhaps also a certain indolence of character; fo...

...ive of Languedoc, was fifty-three years old at the birth of his son, whose Christian name was selected on the ordinary principle of accepting that of ... ...s of mankind, the philosophic pessi- mist and the convinced and consistent Christian believer, will tell us that this is at least not one of the point... ...the two previous centuries. As we read the extraordinary writ- ings of the mystics who studied the sciences in their relation to infinity, such as Swe... ...im, makes him better; but self-interest also develops his evil tendencies. Christianity, above all, Catholi- cism, being—as I have pointed out in the ... ...be trained, quelled, and guided by religion. The only possible religion is Christianity (see the letter from Paris in “Louis Lambert,” in which the yo... ... creation are strangely mistaken. Seraphita, the doctrine in action of the Christian Buddha, seems to me an ample answer to this rather heedless accus...

... to know that such a scheme was attempt- ing the impossible, too much of a Christian to take God’s work out of his hands; and, like every other Claes,... ...ogether with the natural bent of his mind, led him to the mystical time of Christianity. Finding in Flanders, where Mademoi- selle Bourignon and the w... ...his particular communion, which continued to fol- low the doctrines of the Mystics notwithstanding the cen- sures of the Church upon Fenelon and Madam... ... Her wizard of a father would swallow the house at a gulp without asking a Christian blessing, the old sorcerer! In my country he’d be burned alive; b... ...e used to say that adoration was the daily bread of patience, —he spoke of Christians who love God. That is how I love you; I have long mingled my lov...

...boon so highly prized, Save tis dearly bought, now hope to get? They are Christians and have been baptized, He and all of his are heathens yet. ... ...e they their rites fulfil. A W A TCHER. Let us in a cunning wise, Yon dull Christian priests surprise With the devil of their talk We’ll those very pr... ...bright! And if they crush our golden ways, Who e’er can crush Thy light? A CHRISTIAN WATCHER. Comrades, quick! your aid afford! All the brood of hell’... ...iend roars on high; From the ground Hellish vapours rise around. CHORUS OF CHRISTIAN WATCHERS. T errible enchanted forms, Dragon-women, men-wolf swarm... ...Virgin, mother, be thou kind! Goddess, queen of heaven! 477 Goethe CHORUS MYSTICS. Each thing of mortal birth Is but a type What was of feeble worth ...

...ltaire had done their best and worst with him, profess himself an orthodox Christian, and say and print to the Church of England, with its sin- gular ... ...ale, were to be translated into detail, and become the practical emblem of Christian Sterling on the coast of Sussex in this new age. “It would be no ... ...di- rections, you might have fired a musket through the church, and hit no Christian life. A terrible outlook indeed for the Apostolic laborer in the ... ...triving towards all nobleness; here was ardent recognition of the worth of Christianity, for one thing; but no belief in it at all, in my sense of the... ...elf-con- secrated here, by free volition and deliberate selection, to be a Christian Priest; and zealously struggling to fancy himself such in very tr... ...Theology, compounded as it is of the doctrine of the Greek Fathers, of the Mystics and of Ethical Philosophers, consists,—if I may hint a fault in one...

...ot quite a gentleman. The Vicar , finding his comfort in the practice of a Christian virtue, exercised forbearance; but he revenged himself 23 W. Som... ...little better than a heathen temple he was not fit to be churchwarden in a Christian parish. Josiah Graves thereupon resigned all his offices, and tha... ...all with just such an expression on his face as would have become an early Christian about to be led into the arena. It was extraordinary that after t... ...ent to enjoy his tri- umph, and then hurry on to another subject as though Christian charity impelled him to spare the vanquished foe. Philip tried so... ... though he believed in hardly anything that Philip believed, led a life of Christian purity . Philip had received little kindness in his life, and he ... ... Juan de la Cruz, don’t you?” “I don’t indeed.” “He was one of the Spanish mystics. He’s one of the best poets they’ve ever had. I thought it would be...

...eek feel- ing—Systematic healthy-mindedness— Its reason- ableness— Liberal Christianity shows it— Optimism as encouraged by Popular Science— The “Mind... ...rieties of Religious Experience ness”— Yoga— Buddhistic mysticism— Sufism— Christian mystics— Their sense of revelation— Tonic effects of mystic state... ... Religious Experience ness”— Yoga— Buddhistic mysticism— Sufism— Christian mystics— Their sense of revelation— Tonic effects of mystic states— They de... ...ows the con- ventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammedan. His religion has been made for him by others, com... ... original gospel truth than men had ever known in En- gland. So far as our Christian sects today are evolv- ing into liberality, they are simply rever... ...rds I came to understand, that in the Emperor Diocletian’s time a thousand Christians were martyr’d in Lichfield. So I was to go, without my shoes, th... ...ytheism, and ecstatic feelings of union with the Savior in a few Christian mystics. But then why not equally call reli- gion an aberration of the dige... ...fers. Take the trancelike states of insight into truth which all religious mystics report.[8] These are each and all of them special cases of kinds of... ... may be its ministers. Every one who is at all acquainted with the Persian mystics knows how wine may be regarded as an instrument of religion. Indeed...

...se and simple, even all, who hear Of so fell sacrifice. Be ye more staid, O Christians, not, like feather, by each wind Removable: nor think to clean... ...esh it dwelt. In the other little light serenely smiles That pleader for the Christian temples, he Who did provide Augustin of his lore. Now, if thy m... ...ion lies Subjected and supreme. And there was born The loving million of the Christian faith, The hollow’d wrestler, gentle to his own, And to his ene... ... me, call’d on with loud cries; and there In your old baptistery, I was made Christian at once and Cacciaguida; as were my brethren, Eliseo and Moront... ...t, further off from him by far, Than such, to whom his name was never known. Christians like these the Ethiop shall condemn: When that the two assembl... ...onastery of that name at Paris and died in 1173. “He was at the head of the Mystics in this century and his treatise, entitled the Mystical Ark, wh...

...vine Comedy of Dante Hell 77 Not with the Saracens or Jews (his foes All Christians were, nor against Acre one Had fought, nor traffic’d in the So... ...It seems to have been a common opinion among the Jews, as well as among many Christians, that the general judgment will be held in the valley of Josap... .... c. 23. v. 84. Nor against Acre one/Had fought.] He alludes to the renegade Christians, by whom the Saracens, in Apri., 1291, were assisted to recove... ...., 1291, were assisted to recover St.John d’Acre, the last possession of the Christians in the Iloly Land. The regret expressed by the Florentine anna... ...ones approacheth: now, E’en now, mayst thou discern the pangs of each.” Christians and proud! O poor and wretched ones! That feeble in the mind’s... ...onastery of that name at Paris and died in 1173. “He was at the head of the Mystics in this century and his treatise, entitled the Mystical Ark, wh...

...ws, or the yellow burning marl of a Hell on Earth? Our Professor, like other Mystics, whether delirious or inspired, gives an Ed itor enough to do. E... ...m Lohn, oder wohl mit schweren Zinsen, wird’s einst zur¨ uckgefordert. ‘Good Christian peo ple, here lies for you an invaluable Loan; take all heed t... ...o my own person, nowhere occurs. Again, what may the unchristian rather than Christian ‘Diogenes’ mean? Did that reverend Basket bearer intend, by suc... ...n by act and daily reverent look and habitude, her own simple version of the Christian Faith. Andreas too attended Church; yet more like a parade duty... ...th a small, ill chosen Library; and then turned loose into it eleven hundred Christian striplings, to tumble about as they listed, from three to seven... ... there, I indeed learned, better perhaps than the most. Among eleven hundred Christian youths, there will not be wanting some eleven eager to learn. B...

...ho heard his words, that some who had felt drawn to see the spectacle of a Christian’s death fell on their knees as he spoke of heavenly things, and o... ...ing of Maturin’s brain, was lost to mankind; and the various Orientalists, Mystics, and Archaeologists who take an interest in these matters were unab...

... of the mysteries when they said, ‘Many are the wand bearers but few are the mystics.’ (Com pare Matt. xxii.: ‘Many are called but few are chosen.’) ... ...any are called but few are chosen.’) And in the hope that he is one of these mystics, Socrates is now departing. This is his answer to any one who cha... ...n reopened, and it is doubtful whether the belief which in the first ages of Christianity was the strongest motive of action can survive the conflict ... ...ckoning,—more merciful, at any rate, than the eternal damnation of so called Christian teachers,—for every ten years in this life deserve a hundred of... ...nce of evil are mere dialectical puzzles, stand ing in the same relation to Christian philosophy as the puzzles of the Cynics and Megarians to the ph... ...y,’ as they say in the mysteries, ‘are the thyrsus bearers, but few are the mystics,’—meaning, as I interpret the words, ‘the true philosophers.’ In ...

...r. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelior... ...oes not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establish- ments and forms some vigor of wild vi... ... wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian? There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the sta... ...eal greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nor drove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery. As much virtue as there is,... ...ent on the part of the narra- tor that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper protestations of ab- horrence.... ...al exterior. The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics! Beyond this universality of the symbolic language, we are apprised...