bernie
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Mystic Way…
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6/1/2009 1:04 AM
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Evelyn Underhill's conclusion to Mysticism, "The Mystic Way," which leads to the blessedness of the Unitive Life...
"It (Mystic Way) began by the awakening within the self of a new and embryonic consciousness: a consciousness of divine reality, as opposed to the illusory sense-world in which she was immersed... She (the crown of human evolution) opened her eyes upon a world still natural, but no longer illusory; since it was perceived to be illuminated by the Uncreated Light. She knew then the beauty, the majesty, the divinity of the living World of Becoming which holds in its meshes every living thing...
"She had transcended the narrow rhythm by which common men perceive but one of its many aspects, escaped the machine-made universe presented by the cinematograph of sense, and participated in the 'great life of the All.' Reality came forth to her, since her eyes were cleansed to see It, not from some strange far-off and spiritual country, but gently, from the very heart of things...
"Thus lifted to a new level, she began again her ceaseless work of growth: and because by the cleansing of the senses she had learned to see the reality which is shadowed by the sense-world, she now, by the cleansing of her will, sought to draw nearer to that Eternal Will, that Being, which life, the World of Becoming, manifests and serves. Thus, by the surrender of her selfhood in its wholeness, the perfecting of her love, she slid from Becoming to Being, and found her true life hidden in God.
"It (the Transcendent Life) is found in the soul of man so long as that soul is alive and growing: it is not found in any sterile place."
(Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism: A study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness)
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Re:Mystic Way…
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6/1/2009 2:19 AM
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Wow...now that is powerful!
Grateful to be here! What a gift and connection builder! Love and Gratitude, Love who You Are
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