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Practical Mysticism

Practical Mysticism

Underhill, Evelyn

Paperback

Metaphysical GeneralIslamGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1511792167
ISBN13: 9781511792165
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 20 2015
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Underhill sets out her belief that spiritual life is part of human nature and as such is available to every human being. Underhill's practicalmysticism is secular rather than religious, since it is a natural human activity. In the following paragraph, Underhill defines the meaning of the phrase Practical Mysticism: Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his latent faculties, a bracing and brightening of his languid consciousness, an emancipation from the fetters of appearance, a turning of his attention to new levels of the world. Thus he may become aware of the universe that the spiritual artist is always trying to disclose to the race. This amount of mystical perception---this 'ordinary contemplation', as the specialist call it, ---is possible to all men: without it, they are not wholly alive. It is a natural human activity Underhill's book was written at the outbreak of World War I, at a time of struggle and endurance, practical sacrifices, difficult and long continuous effort when, she believed, practical mysticism was the activity needed most

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