Mysticism
Subtitle: a study and an anthology
By: F.C. Happold
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: Penguin religion; Penguin book
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Harmondsworth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780140137460
Subjects: Mysticism; Mystiek
Notes: "Third edition"--P. [4] of cover.

Reprint of the 1970 Pelican edition.
Table of contents: title: Unit 1. The study.  The nature and scope of this book; title: The perennial philosophy; title: The astronomer's universe; title: The problem of knowledge; title: The nature of scientific truth; title: The evolution of life: an interpretation; title: What we shall understand by the term mysticism; title: The mysticism of love and union and the mysticism of knowledge and understanding; title: Nature-mysticism, soul-mysticism, and god-mysticism; title: Characteristics of mystical states; title: The nature of mystical experience; title: The mystic way; title: The purgation of the self; title: Man's knowledge of god; title: The state of contemplation; title: The degrees of prayer; title: The mystical element in buddhism; title: The higher stages of contemplation; title: The contemplation of immanence; title: The unitive life; title: The lesser mystic way: the mysticism of action; title: Mysticism and dogma: the insights of india, palestine, and greece; title: Mysticism and dogma: the christian revelation; title: The coinherence of spirit and matter; title: The validity of mysticism; title: Conclusion: The mystic's universe; title: Unit 2. The anthology. Prologue: the timeless moment; title: There is nothing that is not spirit: the upanishads; title: The tao which can be spoken is not the true tao: tao te ching; title: The mysticism of loving faith and selfless action: the bhagavad gita; title: Emptiness and compassion: buddhist mysticism; title: The father of christian mysticism: plato; title: Christo-mysticism: st john and st paul; title: The kingdom of heaven is within you: the oxyrhynchus sayings of Jesus; title: Departure and return: the hymn of the robe of glory; title: The one and the many: plotinus, the enneads; title: The divine darkness: dionysius  the areopagite, the mystical theology; title: Theosis: the deification of the creature: the mysticism of the eastern orthodox church; title: The mysticism of the intellect: st augustine, the confessions; title: The mysticism of love: st bernard of clairvaux; title: The four degrees of passionate love: richard of st victor; title: The sufi path of love; title: Intellectual vision: dante; title: Godhead, god, and the soul: meister eckhart; title: The active, inward, and superessential lives: the blessed john ruysbroeck; title: Nothing burns in hell but self-self-will: the theologia germanica; title: The royal road of the holy cross: thomas a kempis, the imitation of christ; title: God may well be loved but not thought: the cloud of unknowing; title: Practical directions for the following of the spiritual life: walter hilton, the ladder of perfection; title: The homeliness of god: julian of norwich, revelations of divine love; title: The coincidence of opposites: nicholas of cusa; title: The degrees of prayer: st teresa of avila; title: The way of absolute detachment: st john of the cross; title: Nature-mysticism and christo-mysticism: thomas traherne; title: The divine indwelling: william law; title: Nature-mysticism and soul-mysticism: richard jefferies; title: The mysticism of the divine milieu: pierre teilhard de chardin.