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id: 45315
author: Blake, William
title: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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  He answered: The desire of raising other men into a perception of the infinite. A MEMORABLE FANCY Once I saw a Devil in a flame of fire, who arose before an Angel that sat on a cloud, and the Devil uttered these words: The worship of God is, honouring His gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best.


id: 36912
author: Russell, George William
title: The Hero in Man
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flesch: 58
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summary:
  When I think of this old man, bringing forgetfulness of his own bodily pain through contemplation of the spiritual suffering of his Master, my memory of him shines with something of the transcendent light he himself perceived; for I feel that some suffering of his own, nobly undergone, had given him understanding, and he had laid his heart in love against the Heart of Many Sorrows, seeing it wounded by unnumbered spears yet burning with undying love. We weave little stories in our minds, expending love and pity upon the imaginary beings we have created, and I have been led to think that many of these are not imaginary, that somewhere in the world beings are living just in that way, and we merely reform and live over again in our life the story of another life.


id: 43611
author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
title: The Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi
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  Those two chapters tell of men and women who railed upon their parents, remembering that their god was older than the god of their parents; and that which has the sword of Michael for an emblem commends the kings that wrought secret murder and so won for their people a peace that was _amore somnoque gravata et vestibus versicoloribus_, heavy with love and sleep and many-coloured raiment; and that with the pale star at the closing has the lives of the noble youths who loved the wives of others and were transformed into memories, which have transformed many poorer hearts into sweet flames; and that with the winged head is the history of the robbers who lived upon the sea or in the desert, lives which it compares to the twittering of the string of a bow, _nervi stridentis instar_; and those two last, that are fire and gold, are devoted to the satirists who bore false witness against their neighbours and yet illustrated eternal wrath, and to those that have coveted more than other men the house of God, and all things that are His, which no man has seen and handled, except in madness and in dreams. Why do you fly from our torches that were made out of sweet wood, after it had perished from the world and come to us who made it of old times with our breath?'


id: 5616
author: Gibran, Kahlil
title: The Madman: His Parables and Poems
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sentence: 445
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Said I, after a minute of thought, It is true; for I too have known that joy. Said he, Only those who are stuffed with straw can know it.


id: 13138
author: O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph)
title: The Forgotten Threshold: A Journal of Arthur Middleton
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sentence: 707
flesch: 84
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summary:
  There is nothing but vibration in the image of God, for LIFE IS NOTHING MORE THAN THE TREMBLING OF HIS BEAUTY. One begins to see how God is a Name.


id: 16306
author: Whyte, Alexander
title: Jacob Behmen: An Appreciation
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sentence: 505
flesch: 71
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summary:
  But if you are a true student and a good man; if you are an open-minded and a humble- minded man; if you are prepared to sit at any man's feet who will engage to lead you a single step out of your ignorance and your evil; if you open Behmen with a predisposition to believe in him, and with the expectation and the determination to get good out of him,--then, in the measure of all that; in the measure of your capacity of mind and your hospitality of heart; in the measure of your humility, seriousness, patience, teachableness, hunger for truth, hunger for righteousness,--in that measure you will find Jacob Behmen to be what MAURICE tells us he found him to be, 'a generative thinker.' At the same time let all intending students of Jacob Behmen take warning that they will have to learn an absolutely new and an unheard-of language if they would speak with Behmen and have Behmen speak with them.


id: 36402
title: On Union with God
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flesch: 74
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summary:
  This is, in truth, the end of all thy labours, that thou mayest draw nigh unto God and repose in Him within thy soul, solely by thy understanding and by a fervent love, free from entanglement or earthly image. Let nothing remain which could come between thy soul and God, that so thou mayest be able to pass surely and directly from the wounds of the Sacred Humanity to the brightness of the Divinity.


id: 3283
title: The Upanishads
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words: 17852
sentence: 933
flesch: 74
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summary:
  Wise men, aware of this, identify themselves with their Higher Self and thus transcend the realm of grief. We may imagine that by much study we can find out God; but merely hearing about a thing and gaining an intellectual comprehension of it does not mean attaining true knowledge of it.


id: 29451
author: Staveley, Lilian
title: The Romance of the Soul
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sentence: 771
flesch: 69
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summary:
  At first when the creature is being taught to bless God it shrinks back in a fright, crying, What am I that I should dare to bless Almighty God, I am afraid to do it; I am too unworthy; let me wait till I am more righteous, till I have done more works. Having once re-found God, the soul frequently cries to Him in an anguish of pained wonder, How could I ever have left Thee?


id: 29449
author: Staveley, Lilian
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flesch: 75
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title:
  The Golden Fountain or, The Soul's Love for God. Being some Thoughts and Confessions of One of His Lovers

summary:
  But the sacrifice of the soul is real and long; for having at last re-found God, she must resign her full joy of Him till the death of the body--and this willingly, thankfully, without complaint, not asking favours but pouring up her gratitude. Next, I banished my own feelings as much as I could (since love must not think of itself), paying as little attention to them as possible by perpetually dropping them out as they came and returning to the thought of Jesus, concerning myself at all times of the day to loving inward conversation with Him; and in this manner I fastened myself closer than ever to Him, continually praying for greater love to give Him and passionately offering Him all that I already had, whilst with all my will and strength I tried to climb out of my miserable state.


id: 4544
extension: .txt
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sentence: 1378
flesch: 76
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title:
  The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521

summary:
  For to him that will be soon sped of his purpose ghostly, it sufficeth to him for a mean, and him needeth no more, but the actual mind of good God only, with a reverent stirring of lasting love; so that mean unto God gettest thou none but God. And unto the time that thou mayst know what it is, work after those men's counsel that know their own disposition, but not after their disposition;[277] for such men should give counsel in such cases, and else none.


id: 21774
author: Underhill, Evelyn
title: Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People
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sentence: 1052
flesch: 56
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summary:
  So doing patiently, day after day, constantly recapturing the vagrant attention, ever renewing the struggle for simplicity of sight, you will at last discover that there is something within you--something behind the fractious, conflicting life of desire--which you can recollect, gather up, make effective for new life. Now the expression of vision, of reality, of beauty, at an artist's hands--the creation of new life in all forms--has two factors: the living moulding creative spirit, and the material in which it works.


id: 29450
author: Staveley, Lilian
title: The Prodigal Returns
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words: 37460
sentence: 1446
flesch: 71
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summary:
  I believed earnestly in God with the complete and peaceful faith of childhood. I was not always sure if this were quite right, but I could not concentrate my mind on God if my body was cold, because then I could not forget my body.


id: 33742
author: Böhme, Jakob
title: Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
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words: 38269
sentence: 1436
flesch: 73
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summary:
  For in respect to God thou art withered and dry, like a dead plant that hath lost its sap and strength, and so art become a dry tormenting Hunger. Therefore be pious, fear God, and reverence his Word; especially read diligently the Holy Scriptures, where thou hast comfort and instruction; for thou must endure much misery and poverty, and suffer persecution.


id: 56101
author: Johnston, Mary
title: Sweet Rocket
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words: 44110
sentence: 3497
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Said Curtin: I remember a line of Masefield's: ... Said Curtin, When we come and come, what do you do at last?


id: 38590
author: Maitland, Edward
title: The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation
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sentence: 2769
flesch: 66
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summary:
  But divorced from her, the Intuition, and--leagued with the Sense-Nature--knowing matter only and the body, the Intellect becomes prince of devils in man, the maker of men into fiends, and of the earth into a hell. Thus gradually but surely we learnt that Ecclesiastical education has rigidly excluded from its curriculum all those branches of study which could throw light on the real nature of existence, and consists in learning what other men have said who, themselves, did not know, but were mere hearsay scholars lacking the witness in themselves.


id: 13143
author: Atkinson, William Walker
title: Mystic Christianity; Or, The Inner Teachings of the Master
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sentence: 2799
flesch: 67
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summary:
  In the first place we must remember that the soul of Jesus was different from the souls of other men. In these immortal words Jesus has sent ringing down the aeons of time a scathing rebuke to the hypocritical judges of other men--those men who wish to reform others to conform to their own standards.


id: 44245
author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
title: Historic Oddities and Strange Events
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sentence: 4198
flesch: 74
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summary:
  Had Generals Lahorie and Guidal been men of decision and resolution they might still have saved it, but this they were not; though at the head of considerable bodies of men, the moment they saw that their chief had met with a hitch in carrying out his plan, they concluded that all was lost, and made the best of their way from their posts to places of concealment. Monsters who thus treat their chosen servants, how will they deal with the rest of men? The National Convention thereupon ordered that François Gamain, poisoned by Louis Capet on May 22, 1792, should enjoy an annual pension of the sum of 1,200 livres, dating from the day on which he was poisoned.


id: 43601
author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
title: Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events
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sentence: 4793
flesch: 71
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summary:
  Night and day the houses and streets re-echoed with tears, cries, and moans;--men, women, old men, and children sank into the darkest despair. Little men are proverbially peppery and ready to stand on their dignity.


id: 14596
author: Inge, William Ralph
title: Christian Mysticism
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summary:
  [Footnote 8: The analogy used by Plotinus (_Ennead_ i. 6. 9) was often quoted and imitated: Even as the eye could not behold the sun unless it were itself sunlike, so neither could the soul behold God if it were not Godlike. Of course, it is not intended to _exclude_ distinctions, but to rise above them; but the process of abstraction, or subtraction, as it really is, can never lead us to the One.[173] The only possible unification with such an Infinite is the [Greek: atermôn nêgretos hupnos] of Nirvana.[174] Nearly all that repels us in mediæval religious life--its other-worldliness and passive hostility to civilisation--the emptiness of its ideal life--its maltreatment of the body--its disparagement of family life--the respect which it paid to indolent contemplation--springs from this one root.


# ent

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  les mystiques de visionnaires seraient fort étonnés de voir quel peu de cas ils font des visions en elles-mémes


