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

Preface. 1 The Golden Age and teh mystic poet Lao-Tse. 2 The Buddha, the great light, and the bliss of Nirvana. 3 The age of reason in Greece: Pythagoras and Plato. 4 The tardy flowering of Greek mysticism: Plotinus. 5 Christian mysticism, from the founders to Saint Bernard. 6 The medieval flowering: Eckhart and the Friends of God. 7 Fra Angelico, the sintly painter and tool of God. 8 Jacob Boehme, the shoemaker-illuminate of the Reformation. 9 Brother Lawrence, the lay monk who attained unclouded vision. 10 A mystic in the age of enlightened scepticism: William Blake. Afterword

'This is a book about certain artists and poets and spiritual prophets who have been close to God in the special mystic way. They have known the experience of union with God. The writers and artists among them have believed, in some cases, that their writings and pictures were composed as if by divine dictation; or they have thought of art as a special mode of revelation of the rhythm or vital order of the universe. The recognized spiritual prophets among them are men who have spoken intuitively, out of divine awareness, expressing in each case truths of such power and intensity that they swayed vast numbers of less intuitive men.'

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