Conclusion : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], CONCLUSION Far from being academic or unreal, that history, I think, is vital for the deeper understanding of the history of humanity. It shows us, upon high levels, the psychological process to which every self which desires to rise to the percepti...
Preface To The Twelfth Edition : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], PREFACE TO THE TWELFTH EDITION Since this book first appeared, nineteen years ago, the study of mysticism--not only in England, but also in France, Germany and Italy--has been almost completely transformed. From being regarded, whether critically...
Part Two. The Mystic Way. Iii. The Purificati : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], III. THE PURIFICATION OF THE SELF Here, then, stands the newly awakened self: aware, for the first time, of reality, responding to that reality by deep movements of love and of awe. She sees herself, however, not merely to be thrust into a new world, but...
Appendix. Historical Sketch Of Mysticism : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], APPENDIX: HISTORICAL SKETCH OF MYSTICISM If we try to represent the course of Mysticism in Europe during the Christian period by the common device of a chronological curve, showing by its rises and falls as it passes across the centuries the absence...
Part One. The Mystic Fact. I. The Point : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], I. THE POINT OF DEPARTURE The most highly developed branches of the human family have in common one peculiar characteristic. They tend to produce--sporadically it is true, and often in the teeth of adverse external circumstances--a curious and definite...
Part Two. The Mystic Way. Viii. Ecstasy : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], VIII. ECSTASY AND RAPTURE Since the object of all contemplation is the production of that state of intimate communion in which the mystics declare that the self is "in God and God is in her," it might be supposed that the orison of union represented...
Part One. The Mystic Fact. Vii. Mysticism : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], VII. MYSTICISM AND MAGIC It is unnecessary to examine in detail the mistakes--in ecclesiastical language, the heresies--into which men have been led by a feeble, a deformed, or an arrogant mystical sense. The number of these mistakes is countless; their...
Part Two. The Mystic Way. Vi. Introversi : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], VI. INTROVERSION. PART I: RECOLLECTION AND QUI In our study of the First Mystic Life, its purification and illumination, we have been analysing and considering a process of organic development; an evolution of personality. We may treat this either...
Part One. The Mystic Fact. Iv. The Characteristics : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], IV. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MYSTICISM The spiritual history of man reveals two distinct and fundamental attitudes towards the unseen; and two methods whereby he has sought to get in touch with it. For our present purpose I will call these methods the "way...
Part One. The Mystic Fact. Vi. Mysticism : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], VI. MYSTICISM AND SYMBOLISM In our study of theology we saw the Christian mystic adopting, as chart and pilot book of his voyages and adventures, the scheme of faith, and diagram of the spiritual world, which is accepted by ordinary Christian men. We saw...
Part Two. The Mystic Way. X. The Unitive Life : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], X. THE UNITIVE LIFE What is the Unitive Life? We have referred to it often enough in the course of this inquiry. At last we are face to face with the necessity of defining its nature if we can. Since the normal man knows little about his own true...
Part Two. The Mystic Way. Vii. Introversi : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], VII. INTROVERSION. PART II: CONTEMPLATION We must now consider under the general name of Contemplation those developed states of introversion in which the mystic attains somewhat: the results and rewards of the discipline of Recollection and Quiet. If...
Part One. The Mystic Fact. V. Mysticism : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], V. MYSTICISM AND THEOLOGY In the last chapter we tried to establish a distinction between the mystic who tastes supreme experience and the mystical philosopher who cogitates upon the data so obtained. We have now, however, to take account of the fact...
Preface To The First Edition : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION This book falls naturally into two parts; each of which is really complete in itself, though they are in a sense complementary to one another. Whilst the second and longest part contains a somewhat detailed study...
Bibliography : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], BIBLIOGRAPHY I. THE WORKS AND LIVES OF THE MYSTICS. II. GENERAL WORKS ON MYSTICISM. III. PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, THEOLOGY. IV. ALCHEMY AND MAGIC. PART I THE WORKS AND LIVES OF THE MYSTICS 1. Texts. 2. Translations. 3. Biographies and Monographs. NOTE...
Part Two. The Mystic Way. Part Two. The Mystic Way : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], PART TWO: THE MYSTIC WAY p. 166 "As the Pilgrim passes while the Country permanent remains So Men pass on; but the States remain permanent forever." Blake, "Jerusalem." p. 167
Part Two. The Mystic Way. V. Voices And Visions : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], V. VOICES AND VISIONS We now come to that eternal battle-ground, the detailed discussion of those abnormal psychic phenomena which appear so persistently in the history of the mystics. That is to say, visions, auditions, automatic script, and those...
Title Page : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], MYSTICISM: A STUDY IN NATURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS BY EVELYN UNDERHILL
Part Two. The Mystic Way. Iv. The Illuminati : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], IV. THE ILLUMINATION OF THE SELF In illumination we come to that state of consciousness which is popularly supposed to be peculiar to the mystic: a form of mental life, a kind of perception, radically different from that of "normal" men. His preceding...
Part Two. The Mystic Way. I. Introductory : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], I. INTRODUCTORY We are now to turn from general principles and study those principles in action: to describe the psychological process, or "Mystic Way," by which that peculiar type of personality which is able to set up direct relations with the Absolute...
Untitled : * Evelyn Underhill (b. 6 Dec. 1875, d. 15 Jun 1941) was an English Anglo-Catholic writer who wrote extensively on Christian mysticism. A pacifist, novelist, and philosopher, she was widely read during the first half of the 20th century. This work, Mysticism, is not a textbook of the subject. She...
Part One. The Mystic Fact. Iii. Mysticism : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], III. MYSTICISM AND PSYCHOLOGY We come now to consider the mental apparatus which is at the disposal of the self: to ask what it can tell us of the method by which she may escape from the prison of the sense-world, transcend its rhythm, and att...
Part Two. The Mystic Way. Ii. The Awakening : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], II. THE AWAKENING OF THE SELF First in the sequence of the mystic states, we must consider that decisive event, the awakening of the transcendental consciousness. This awakening, from the psychological point of view, appears to be an intense form...
Part One. The Mystic Fact. Ii. Mysticism : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], II. MYSTICISM AND VITALISM We glanced, at the beginning of this inquiry, at the universes which result from the various forms of credulity practised by the materialist, the idealist, and the sceptic. We saw the mystic denying by word and act the validity...
Part One. The Mystic Fact. Part One : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], "What the world, which truly knows "nothing," calls 'mysticism' is the science of "ultimates,..." the science of self-evident Reality, which cannot be 'reasoned about,' because it is the object of pure reason or perception. The Babe sucking its mother's...
Bibliographical Note : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE PART I THE WORKS AND LIVES OF THE MYSTICS ANGELUS SILESIUS. Text. Cherubinischer Wandersmann. Propylen-Verlag, Berlin, 1923. Trans. Selections from the Cherubinic Wanderer. Translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch. London, 1932. AUGUSTINE...
Part Two. The Mystic Way. Ix. The Dark Night : * "Mysticism", by Evelyn Underhill, [1911], IX. THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL We have wandered during the last few chapters from our study of the mystical life-process in man, the organic growth of his transcendental consciousness, in order to examine the byproducts of that process, its...
