Mysticism de Evelyn Underhill

Mysticism

Evelyn Underhill

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.

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A poet, novelist, and well known writer on mysticism, Evelyn Underhill was born in 1875. She was educated privately and at King's College for Women, London, of which she later became first an Honorary Fellow and then a Fellow. She was also an Honorary Doctor of Divinity of the University of Aberdeen. In 1921 she was Upton Lecturer on the Philosophy of Religion at Manchester College, Oxford. Among Miss Underhill's most notable books are 'The Spiritual Life', 'Practical Mysticism', 'The Mystic Way', and 'Meditations Based on Our Lord's Prayer'.

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PART ONE THE MYSTIC FACT CHAPTER I THE POINT OF DEPARTURE CHAPTER II MYSTICISM AND VITALISM CHAPTER III MYSTICISM AND PSYCHOLOGY CHAPTER IV THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MYSTICISM CHAPTER V MYSTICISM AND THEOLOGY CHAPTER VI MYSTICISM AND SYMBOLISM CHAPTER VII MYSTICISM AND MAGIC PART TWO THE MYSTIC WAY CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER II THE AWAKENING OF THE SELF CHAPTER III THE PURIFICATION OF THE SELF CHAPTER IV THE ILLUMINATION OF THE SELF CHAPTER V VOICES AND VISIONS CHAPTER VI INTROVERSION: PART I: RECOLLECTION AND QUIET CHAPTER VII INTROVERSION: PART II: CONTEMPLATION CHAPTER VIII ECSTASY AND RAPTURE CHAPTER IX THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL CHAPTER X THE UNITIVE LIFE CONCLUSION APPENDIX A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF EUROPEAN MYSTICISM FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE DEATH OF BLAKE BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX