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 /
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New York :
A.A. Knopf,
1956.
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Table of 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 medival 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.