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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

Author: Sheldon Cheney
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1945.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sheldon Cheney
OCLC Number: 1898658
Notes: 1st ed.
Includes index.
Description: xiv, 395, viii p. : plates ; 22 cm.
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 mediaeval 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 --
Afterword --
A descriptive reading list, with acknowledgments (p. 385-395) --
Index.
Responsibility: by Sheldon Cheney.

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