tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216316522723167434.post5278141560162797591..comments2023-05-31T03:01:58.012-07:00Comments on Lerewayah: Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism - 16Lerewayahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02638467256648146421noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216316522723167434.post-82788205871775484552012-07-02T18:00:33.008-07:002012-07-02T18:00:33.008-07:00The quotation from my book was not in Underhill...The quotation from my book was not in Underhill's book. These quotes of mystics are in both:<br /><br />“All that is not One must ever suffer with the wound of Absence, and whoever in Love’s city enters, finds but room for One and, but in Oneness, Union.” Jami I<br /><br />“Whatever share of this world Thou dost bestow on me, bestow it on Thine enemies, and whatever share of the next world Thou dost give me, give it to Thy friends. Thou art enough for me.” Rabi’a I<br /><br />“My me is God, nor do I know my selfhood save in Him. My Being is God, not by simple participation, but by true transformation of my Being.” St. Catherine of Genoa C<br /><br />“The end of Sufism is total absorption in God...but in reality it is but the beginning of the Sufi life, for those intuitions and other things which precede it are, so to speak, but the porch by which they enter.” al-Ghazali I<br /><br />“...self-love and self-will (those poisons of our spirits) are abated, and in time and in a sort destroyed; and instead of them there enter into the soul the Divine love and Divine will, and take possession thereof.” Augustine Baker C<br /><br />“For the eyes of the soul behold a plenitude of which I cannot speak: a plenitude which is not bodily, but spiritual, of which I can say nothing.” Angela of Foligno (ca. 1248–1309) C<br /><br />“God visits the soul in a way that prevents it doubting when it comes to itself that it has been in God and God in it and so firmly is it convinced of this truth...” St. Teresa of Avila CRon Krumposhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05371279514024960026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216316522723167434.post-85592812555850588162012-06-29T18:27:30.637-07:002012-06-29T18:27:30.637-07:00This *is* from Evelyn Underhill's book. Say m...This *is* from Evelyn Underhill's book. Say more.Lerewayahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02638467256648146421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216316522723167434.post-5179510664669129582012-06-28T13:00:40.605-07:002012-06-28T13:00:40.605-07:00I highly recommend Evelyn Underhill's book (it...I highly recommend Evelyn Underhill's book (it is in my bibliography). There is a paragraph in my free ebook on comparative mysticism which describes the consciousness of mystics. <br /><br />Mysticism emphasizes spiritual <i>knowing</i>, which is not rational and is independent of reason, logic or images. <i>Da`at</i> is Hebrew for “the secret sphere of knowledge on the cosmic tree.” <i>Gnosis</i> is Greek for the “intuitive apprehension of spiritual truths.” <i>Jnana</i> is Sanskrit for “knowledge of the way” to approach Brahman. <i>Ma`rifa</i> in Arabic is “knowledge of the inner truth.” <i>Panna</i> in Pali is “direct awareness”; perfect wisdom. These modes of suprarational knowing, perhaps described as complete intuitive insight, are not divine oneness; they are actualizing our inherent abilities to come closer to the goal. It is consummate cognition, unmediated discernment, with certainty.<br /><br />http://www.peacenext.org/profile/RonKrumposRon Krumposhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05371279514024960026noreply@blogger.com