Friday, June 22, 2007
The Only Way to Truly Understand the Divine, is to Experience the Divine
"Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge." This definition of mysticism, from one of the most influential of American Christian mystics Evelyn Underhill, is actually a pretty...
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