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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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..., 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...

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...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...

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... 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...

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...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 ...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...