Men who have walked with God : 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 Sheldon Cheney.

By: Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1945Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 395, viii pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: unspecifiedSubject(s): Mysticism -- HistoryDDC classification: 149.3 LOC classification: BL625 | .C5
Contents:
The golden age and the mystic poet Lao-tse.--The Buddha, the great light, and the bliss of nirvana.--The age of reason in Greece: Pythagoras and Plato,--The tardy flowering of Greek mysticism: Plotinus.--Christian mysticism, from the founders to Saint Bernard.--The mediaeval flowering: Eckhart and the Friends of God.--Fra Angelico, the saintly painter and tool of God.--Jacob Boehme, the shoemaker-illuminate of the reformation.--Brother Lawrence, the lay monk who attained unclouded vision.--A mystic in the age of enlightened scepticism: William Blake.--A descriptive reading list, with acknowledgments (p. 385-395)--Index.

The golden age and the mystic poet Lao-tse.--The Buddha, the great light, and the bliss of nirvana.--The age of reason in Greece: Pythagoras and Plato,--The tardy flowering of Greek mysticism: Plotinus.--Christian mysticism, from the founders to Saint Bernard.--The mediaeval flowering: Eckhart and the Friends of God.--Fra Angelico, the saintly painter and tool of God.--Jacob Boehme, the shoemaker-illuminate of the reformation.--Brother Lawrence, the lay monk who attained unclouded vision.--A mystic in the age of enlightened scepticism: William Blake.--A descriptive reading list, with acknowledgments (p. 385-395)--Index.

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