Men who have walked with God
Subtitle: being the story of mysticism through the ages told in the biographies of representative seers and saints, with excerpts from their writings and sayings
By: by Sheldon Cheney.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1956
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Mysticism -- History.
Table of contents: title: The golden age and the mystic poet Lao-tse.; title: The Buddha, the great light, and the bliss of nirvana.; title: The age of reason in Greece: Pythagoras and Plato.; title: The tardy flowering of Greek mysticism: Plotinus.; title: Christian mysticism, from the founders to Saint Bernard.; title: The mediæval flowering: Eckhart and the Friends of God.; title: Fra Angelico, the saintly painter and tool of God.; title: Jacob Boehme, the shoemaker-illuminate of the reformation.; title: Brother Lawrence, the lay monk who attained unclouded vision.; title: A mystic in the age of enlightened scepticism: William Blake.; title: A descriptive reading list, with acknowledgments (p. 385-395); title: Index.