Men who have walked with God : being the story of mysticism through the ages told in the biographies of representative seers and saints, with excerpts from their writings and sayings / by Sheldon Cheney

Author: Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980
Published: New York : A. A. Knopf, 1945.
Physical Description: xiv pages, 1 leaf, 395, viii pages, 1 leaf : plates ; 22 cm

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Contents

The golden age and the mystic poet Lao-tse.--The Buddha, the great light, and the bliss of nirvana.--The age of reason in Greece: Pythagoras and Plato.--The tardy flowering of Greek mysticism: Plotinus.--Christian mysticism, from the founders to Saint Bernard.--The mediæval flowering: Eckhart and the Friends of God.--Fra Angelico, the saintly painter and tool of God.--Jacob Boehme, the shoemaker-illuminate of the reformation.--Brother Lawrence, the lay monk who attained unclouded vision.--A mystic in the age of enlightened scepticism: William Blake.--A descriptive reading list, with acknowledgments (p. 385-395).--Index.

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Mysticism—History

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Allison-Shelley Collection.

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