This little book, written during the last months of peace, goes to press in the first weeks of the great war. Many will feel that in such a time of conflict and horror, when only the most ignorant, disloyal, or apathetic can hope for quietness of mind, a book which deals with that which is called the "contemplative" attitude to existence is wholly out of place. So obvious, indeed, is this point of view, that I had at first thought of postponing its publication. On the one hand, it seems as though the dreams of a spiritual renaissance, which promised so fairly but a little time ago, had...
This little book, written during the last months of peace, goes to press in the first weeks of the great war. Many will feel that in such a time of co...
In this book Underhill outlines her own view of the mystic's journey into five parts: "Awakening of Self," "Purgation of Self," "Illumination," "the Dark Night of the Soul," and "the Unitative life." Underhill is focussed on mysticism in Christianity but she also mentions Sufism, Hinduism, Buddhism. This semnial work has long been considered a crucial treatise on the subject of Mysticism, and continues to be so even today.
In this book Underhill outlines her own view of the mystic's journey into five parts: "Awakening of Self," "Purgation of Self," "Illumination," "the D...
