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

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Men who have walked with God
Cheney, Sheldon
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Men who have walked with God

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A.A. Knopf
Language
English
Pages
395

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New York

Table of 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.

Edition Notes

"First edition."

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
149.3
Library of Congress
BL625 .C5, BL625 .C5

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv p., 1 ℗ ., 395, viii p. 1 ℗ .
Number of pages
395

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL14380488M
LCCN
45008427
Library Thing
2912889

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