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364 pages 19 cm The nature and scope of this book -- The perennial philosophy -- The astronomer's universe -- The problem of knowledge -- The nature of scientific truth -- The evolution of life: an interpretation -- What we shall understand by the term mysticism -- The mysticism of love and union and the mysticism of knowledge and understanding -- Nature-mysticism, soul-mysticism, and God-mysticism -- Characteristics of mystical states -- The nature of mystical experience -- The mystic way -- The purgation of the self -- Man's knowledge of God -- The state of contemplation -- The degrees of prayer -- The mystical element in Buddhism -- The higher stages of contemplation -- The contemplation of immanence -- The unitive life -- The lesser mystic way: the mysticism of action -- Mysticism and dogma: the insights of India, Palestine, and Greece -- Mysticism and dogma: the Christian revelation -- The coinherence of spirit and matter -- The validity of mysticism -- Conclusion: the mystic's universe -- Prologue: the timeless moment -- There is nothing that is not spirit: the Upanishads -- The mysticism of loving faith and selfless action: the Bhagavad Gita -- The father of Christian mystic

Author

F. Crossfield Happold

Publisher

Baltimore, Penguin Books

Published

1963

Language

EN

Subjects

Religion

Updated

2026-03-24