tlie Cornell University Library.
published
steady application,
department of
to
fall
into
mensurate may be gathered from the honest admi-
ration
men
knowing
what
the
'Hours
with
the
Mystics'
appeared
in
1856;
that
it
some
work than himself) might
thought
desirable
With
that
object
an
the
author
finished
gence and
to
the
terhig
idea of the
character of one
Having
to
spend
mind
I
specu-
 
It
is,
go
through
life
without
periods
of
sad
:
j
day.
Mid
the
sail.
But thy canvas it
oughtest,
still.
These
verses
personage,
but
to
give
those oi
come
of
his
literary
tastes,
but
their
the garden
counter the sneers of some
harsh critics, but we
of
glancing
over
subject at the same
that city
at
Halle.
When
writing
to
articles,
—
(
in
those
most
recent;
(3)
Leo
popular
but
more
novel.'
The
field
greater
length
than
could
were
simply
work.
It
was
at
writing was done
Nov.
1861,
Nov.
1861,
even
the
Dutch,
inhabitants,
one
in his preaching
an eminent
allowed
Canon
Kingsley.
In
this
article
pointing
out
various
to see in another
our hope be
'
to
alter
any
of
the
name
we
are
reminded
of
truth.
preparing
his
men
that the
Schoolmen,
the necessity
Christians,
attention
has
S.
Victor
quiet grass-grown
ready
to
they
appear to
.''
who
worked
shadowed
by
met
some
of
the
his,
perhaps
and Anselm,
in
the
all
charge
with these
utter
such
of
God
or
different
culated
to
strengthen
the
school
was
not.
Anselm
and
his
friends
were
in the
teaching, they paved
help thinking
their hazy
union with
and
asceticism.
affect-
ing
others
our
us
speak
ciate
the
fact
that
town as well
urging
them
to
to
be
feared
that
of
all
else.
The
same
to
lay
How
reader
of
the
work
must
author
for
his
treatment
of
mediaeval
connected
with
them.
mortifications
and
trances,
from
any
published
by
request
been
appreciated
'
of
'
thoughts of
been
and
is
avoid confining their
more
modern
out
of
place
had
paid
there
this
history
will
show
how
easy
and
not
lament
the
dispensation
to
think
of
This
book
never
had
any
public
a history
while
you
Mysticism,
though
an
error,
has
truth
may
of minds, impa-
disasters and
by any
interesting
to point
unjust. The
have been made more copious than was at first designed,
in order
that,
may render its service,
sufficient
will thus
my
con-
clusions,
and
who
will
a
no instance allowed myself
the
Chronicle
of
Adolf
Arnsiein
the
minimum
there
introduced
for
which
Wherever,
in
the
conversations
at
Ashfield,
Atherton
may
be
are
level
with
the
latest
results
of
historical
the
little
done
print.
It
that
been
in-
troduced.
This
new
in
the
Sixth
Chapter
Author might have been incHned
to
supplementary
mat-
which seemed to
many
studies, and who
.
.
.
,
,
the Unknown
.......
325
stem of his wineglass,
now
grow,
culture know.
outline
indicates
taste
rather
than
a
sudden
scatter in
upward as
that this Henry
life, with its
was
re-
quired
to
teach
became his
own task-master,
modern Europe.
especially
suggest
manuscriiit.
—
anyone will
read, and despairing of being ever erudite and popular at the
same time,
would
assuredly
be
written if able men with the ambition were oftener possessed of
the
possessed of the ambition.
was
Their
pathway
chanced
through
Germany
friendship robust enough to survive the landing on our British
shore. Unquestionably the pictured Vatican, sunny Forum,
brown Campagna,
found
the
young
—
;
of life
as a
the Evil
and so
mere branch
others, the most open
of his name rather
character,
to
;
every
province
of
cul-
ture,
he
a brother
of
most minute
or the
have
—
box of
idea of
but
newly
'
but he lets too much beard grow for my taste.'
Bearded
Willoughby,
O
warmth of heart and delicacy of feeling. His parents destined
him
which he should
ambition,
to
the
extravagances
whether
;
of it
the author of
some articles in
the
point
of
the
point
of
the
locality
of
the
drawing-room,
with
the
additional
enjoyment
have
heard
Since needless
wisdom were
not to
be wise.
WiLLOUGHBY. And after dinner,
old plays (I
think it was
shriek
on
them,
and so
the
consequents
your
the land
olden
on
their
palfreys,
pranc-
I
hear
that
cross
ocean
caves,
music
rises
and
familiar
to
most
persons
at
so many with regard
thing
had
obscure
a figure ; it
on
pillars,
bearing
escutcheons,
saints
and
GovvER. Now for
Atherton. It
consum-
is
confronted
at
of the adver-
labours are
the faithful
witnesses that
whose
far
glories
beacon
as he rises
contemplative
the
name
crouched
imder
the
roof
some definite idea
opposition
to
the
dry
Atherton. So they
good
service,
concerning
were
grievous
mistakes.
WiLLOUGHBY.
Yet
the
one-sidedness
posi-
trying
of
the
spirits
Hiero from
the
genuine
mystical devotee,—
you.
like those patches from a distant shire that lie in
the
middle
we
must
from some
—
flags,
bla-
zoned
interior.
Atherton.
so gravely.
Besides, we
about
the
matter.
they
accumulate.
and the safe-
hopes
some
apt to
;
ment of visions,
unions, and abstractions
but first we
till
we
all
be
called
at
the
great
VOL.
which
phantasms of
curately investigating
one
of sense and
close
philosophical
monastic perfection of
cognate terms
stood
when
we
speak
ology
in the
forms of
thought and
ticism has
mind
men
gods
at
every
step,
and
speculation and in the
with the
zero of
; and to
evolution
to us by
to be the
by the beloved
so
less the
engaged.
all of them
ated,
in
their
mysticism,
but
must
necessarily
sense.
That
excess
of
most
intense,
—they
of
a
chosen
few,
whose
example
amoris
desiderium.'
And
again
them with
that
given
by
the
a
to
inspired
not
only
has
revealed
to
liim
but
that
he
by a
what is
as
of thought
understanding.
blinded
of
reality of the
who alone is
she
of
flows
down,
melts
and
glides
the
love
she
tastes.
For
darkness of Divinity
to
glowing
iron
of
God,
by
know
God
star,
spiritual enterprise,
natures
and
with a noble
Bastille.
And
the
principle
gious
mj'stically
states of
times
when
and does
to say a
gives, too
eaction against the
We
must
not
GowER.
What
the three
;
the unseen
and .he strong.
ful utterance it
Atherton.
which
Middle
Age,
was
Sangreal,
flowers,
of
region now
covered only
in
less
it,
say,
let
 
demanding of
you
suffer
from
vexation
of your heavy
spirits
suffered
such
disappointment
heightened.
How
in
his
Though
I
should
to
win
yet a prisoner in
counsel
of
wings
around
him.
The
;
air.
WiLLOUGHBY.
theosophist,
too,
whose
science
is
: the one,
treatises
divinity
Israel,
miraculous
Lord might
be called
sight
though
miracles
world
without.
He
given
to
speak,
called
in
WiLLOUGHBY.
And
side
by
side
with
tradition,
render to
tradition the
the words
assistance,
to
determine
the
best
sit
quietly.
Know
with what
do you
the othet
put
umbrella, which
as a
a depth
of philo-
been mostly
Here then is the idea of mysticism. You have its
myth,
its
legend.
twinkling. That was
him
I am afraid we must
set
scarcely
think
it is
the
champion
suspecting me
of heterodoxy.
;
Atherton.
manifestation.
Now,
one
man
may
regard
by
the
mighty
rushing
wind
of
the
They
have
shrunk
from
carrying
circumstances,
and
contemplative—the
as she
century,
and
announced
himself
;
single
morbid
element
than
I mean. You see
weak
division,
Iheosophic
mysticism.
mysticism
generally
called
theosophy
scarcely
any
theosophy
in
here or
hereafter—laid
nature, or the secrets
under
Deity
to be
at
the
prove itself
talking
of
reason
as
they
do,
of
Helena,
protest-
his eyelids)
deliberate
exercise
GowER. Now you come
like a grave
Camillo, bids them
Will thereto be obedient, I
have
reason
madness
be
fashion
was
conducted
on
learning,
virtually
perpetuated
the
persecution
must
exist
only
of
cartes,
a
mystic.
Atherton.
Certainly,
not
altogether
; reason
appli-
cation
of
so
that
the
pure
be no
less an
philo-
sopher
Descartes,
are impressed
reflecting
upon
them,
discover
order.
The
effort
was
cer-
in
this
which did
life-long battle,
Atherton. With all my heart. How venial the error of
their mysticism (with
'
Bernard
to
John
a
rough
age
of
fist-law,
the
and en-
Shafton.
And
so
a
religious
enthusiasm,
scarcely
too
by
case
yet
perfect,
in
all
beyond
a
certain
pass.
or the
be pro-
For contemplation sake
:
This
episode
between the god Crishna
Crishna is driving the
the lines of the opposing armies.
On
either
side
such scruples
of his
the
god
'
to
welcome
happiness
completely
with
its
worst
can
invest
the
actions
ol
large scale,
often
willing
or Protestant,
mined by
though
conditioned
by
to the frivolous
as a devotional
as a softly-cushioned
of religion
spiritual guide,—
aspire
wisdom
evil in
the altar
shall not be
But
the
final
which
a
divine
substance.
This
best
among
be confirmed
use,
;
steady,
latest
centrated in the
doned,
the
incorporeal
nature
is
J^esearches,
a
doll's-
declared
words, the
escape from
sense is
to
discern
the
inmost
reality
of
things.
These
are
who eateth
In the fourteenth century, mystics were to be
found among
almost
imitate the
(8.)
Directeur of
modern France.''
tency
;
and
The
Hindoo
accepts
as
profoundest
wisdom
caricature of
phantasmagoria
of
the
universe
he
has
been,
he may be, he, therefore, in a sense is, anything and
everything.
Fichte's
far
as
something in the
Non-Ego.
Again,
the
activity and passivity of the Non-Ego are one and the same. In as
far as the
it, the Ego
Non-Ego.'
Action
{r
prin-
—
Action, as
replies that
is dilated
a door to the characteristic
misconcep-
tion
our
own
say,
true philosopher, thinks only
right as another. There
you
caiaie
;
in
and
I
he
him I
visit or
two lately,
Hoffmann's
tales
cannot
be
more
alive
apparatus.
if
For
our
enquiry
importance chiefly as in a sort the intellectual father of
Neo-Platonism
This
is
his
conjectures
homely
latter
the
merely
intellectual,
pre-
dominates.
So
—
an
ambitious,
would-be-disembodied
strength
to
heathendom.
Nurae-
nias
learns
of
antithesis. Philo's
of
philosophy
was
necessarily
—
Caligula. Nothing
shall tempt
me to
government
turn
our
cause
present
but
see
more
prevalent
Jew
discharge
of
the
social
is
be extended, but it is incapable of
separation.
Consider
how
our thought
of
be
impossible,
were
that divine
only means of
therein
to
behold
and send
letter contributed
violate
its
it in
to
the
golden
land
sunset
the
same
principle,
S,icr.
the
works
p.
Liiiguarum,
lib.
viii.
9,
10.
us to
for a
in the
feasting,
of that
Atherton, to
illumine my
homage to
the departed
Pericles with
by
the
which fettered it to
establish
a
philosophic
church
on
pro-
fessed
of
intuition
and
incense
in
birth ; and,
poetic
of its
hensive order. Impatient
sanctioned. He
call the
with admira-
Gyi'nno-
sophists,
the
sanctions
of
been a
provinces
to-
gether
at
once
their
Olympus
and
their
without
between
P\'thagoreans were,
in
ii.
p.
70)
the days
of lamblichus,
Plato,
various stories
him
homage.
Once
Serapis
of Zeus
and of
East
and
to
one
general
sentiment
century
before
Lucian,
of
the
Plutarch had
been followed
is
doing
in
Adrastus
and
much
Philosophy
man,
as
he
might
naturally
be
another time
;
or
to
Stagyrite
did
little
more
Platonic doctrine
at
forward to supply that
75
of
pleasure,
rivals in their profession
each there was
applica-
tion
While
be
it
yours
to
show
how
of
has
an
scat-
and
catholic,
can
scepticism.
One
Finland relates how
the
River
of
philosophic
asceti-
cism
the
abstrac-
tion
infal-
lible
revelation/
the
Reminiscence
mental
abstractions.
In
Ecstasy,
individual
existence
is
but
by
turns
to
our
are
power
to
still
the
untamed
body.
The
creature
will
a
line
to
survive
me.
rather than
? Are
they
reason, like sensation,
image instead
perceive ideal truth
concerning
the
world
that
to us,
within
founded
,^,it,,
You ask, how can
reason
to
distinguish
and
define.
The
Infinite,
objects.
by a
its
fully made
and
Porphyry
hitherto
not
and
elevate
the
mind
prayers
by
which
religious spirit,
and
Plato, to elucidate and confirm the opinions of both by the
religious
dog-
mas
of the Egyptians, the Magi, and the Brahmins, and, hke many
of the
Christian Fathers,
to
He
same. His answer is—
in a
follows
ordains
and
upholds
contains
corresponding
to
the
two
former.
The
Universe
is
of
course
increases
instead
of
les-
sening
wore
involved,
though
differing
in
principle ;
—thet-xpedient,
hypostases
his
abstract
primal
principle
neither
being
with
a
divine
light.
He
cannot
tell
of
from
his
his own
unity, wherein
Retreating into the iumost recesses
of
Toii e^w, opcMJiv
mo-
tionless,
of
trance.
manifestly
is
tapestry of
by Coleridge
its golden Jiucs,
that can
that
or
monks,
in
whose
than the
to
element
pre-
vails
There is,
to
know
by
its
very
the
highest—
v.ithin,
at
which realizes only
e\ er-
to
to
Kate,
if
I
hang
Kate.
German
what
the
to
Plotinus
as
the
Plotinus
of
Berlin,
and
was
pitiable
inexplicable
the
ing,
on
grounds
which
the
understanding
shows
to
be
sound.
But no such moderate ground as this would satisfy
the
ardour
which
essayed
reform
cashiered. AVe
faculty
is
the
intuition
and
object
appear within him
the surface varieties
and
pene-
garden, in
another from
a
mon ground—
of the eternal
the object of the
?
3
Aids
The
 
philosophically
speaking,
in
the
of
expression
so
the
Egyptians,
and
the
Egyptians,
it
is
by
a
no
moral
or
spiritual
elevation.
only negation
will and
straction,
and
At
first,
and
imagery
ethereal heraldry
thrones and dominions of
minutely registered as the
his
bonds
and
issues
in
It presents
—
of
the
persuaded
the realms
things dwell
 
at
last
Being
universal, con-
cerning the
evil of
and
beyond
a
God
Aristotle,
and
above
him
a
simple
Unity,
The
last
was
the
ultimatum
objection,
to preserve
this
hypothesis
had
made
no
part
occasion
for
the
doctrine
to
mysticism
would
have
been
his
labyrinth
by
borrowing
that is
that of
 
Christianity
could
truth rciielled
fended
dis-
temple and
just now,
tion to
Pantheon, to
excel where
strange
a
all
the
Of a
truth, no
clean thing
unclean,—
garment.
Men
know
that
they
otight
to
worship
basis in
product of a
had
foe which fronted it
Ro:nanonim,
penny
for
but
he
resisted,
and
state
of
exaltation,
to an activity
above
reason,
above
action,
annihilation,
but
an
ennobling
restoration
or
transformation
walk
yesterday,
quite
haunted
me
afterwards.
chase souls that
spiritual
every hour.
in the Germans.
where
transparent
being bowed
some other
man,
longer the
life common
they
experi-
ence,
the
waking
senses
of
their
own,
no
mastery
do
not
understand,
a
Often, at
rigid and motionless.
discordant
and
been pierced with
brought under
of human skill or
moon,
and
that
are
pure
been
told
concerning
In sleep
should,
those
antecedent
principles
which
is
Would
not
in
which
soul.
What
I
have
now
said
prerogatives in
which the
persevere in
Farewell.
the
the sacred secrets
and weakly persons, who
would possess an organization
most
arrogant
pretensions.
Plotinus
declared
the
of
an
absolute
of
the
divine
with
the
3
cause or
promise of
homage to
an
age of decline, set up the image-worship of the merely
marvellous.
perhaps
because the most learned and the most systematic. He ela-
the trinity of Plotinus
tice of theurgy.
the
school
in
that
of
all
the
journey.
Mrs.
As
though
it
mound of earth
and
void,
at
which
to
look
up
4,
6
two very trivial
statements from the
from
the
himself,
of
one
his direction.
of Theurgy,
In several pns;^ages
should lead
him to
gods. He
was closely
not in
reality drawn
approximation
ascent
herbs and minerals,
the Theurgist is
associate with
lamblichus
s'ammirano
E
K Dionisio
huma-
nity as, to look at them, you would think them beneath it.
GowER.
like the smooth-
anchorites almost
have
done,
nealh
it),
so
p.
498.
pig.
Atherton.
twenty years
iniquity,
you
must
know,
as
well
as
to arise from
the objectivity
not without grandeur.
the
state
dashed
Atherton.
which
admitted
that
the
blues,
and
with a rabble
nence to
supernatural effulgence
been
first
and
likely
to
be
useful,
employed
accordingly.*
WiLLOUGHBY.
kingdom
the
Gospel
are no means prescribed, and
to which
are not
obtain
for or
^Jeremy
Taylor.
next
evening,
and
finally
be
all
in
The
ani-
thesis
i,
he
is
above
existence.
various
creatures
possess
functionaries
corre-
former
receive
illumination
immediately
earthly
hierarchy.
Each
order
strives
perpetually
to
approximate
to
that
imme-
diately
it, draw
He
is
allowed
to
priestly
Redeemer, than
sacraments,
virtually
to
deny
the
existence
of
evil.
the more existence
among
things
unreal.
sist
It
refraining from any exercise of the intellect or of the
imagination
—
united in
as the
in
oi
abstraction
—above
wisdom
No
man
could
universal
idea,
Winter
into
the
has begun to
takes
away,
—he
untwines
the
and
a
coldly-descending
your
cathedral
of
the
woods,
his adjec-
up
thither.
such frozen speculations
apparatus
and
the
sacerdotal
Go
almost
where
you
will
his authority
as Keats
Gower's
could
not
or
Si.
Kate.
A
singular
time enough upon him.
mazy arborescence of his
them
out
How
such
a
notion
Atherton. I
Neo-Platonism.
It
does
qualities
fatal
intellec-
Numenius you have
did, the reception
—the
intellectual
source
becomes
immediately
altogether
from
the
obligations
of
an end,
by
devising
this
divorce
—
separation
already
accomplished
Atherton.
Just
so
dualism—the
as
Bernard.
now.
That
was
as to assert itself
East they
are coupled
would
say,
close to
western
is
bell, venturing to
worship without a
to
say.
or
exemplary
those
divine
attainments
God. Aquinas
the fourteenth century
soul
sense,'
This
is
world. At
preferred
if
eternity.
Between
to persuade
himself that earth is heaven, that faith is sight, that hope is fruition.
He
to have done with shortcoming
and
with
conflict
it
to
mimic
Upon her
temporal perch.
and
was
spring
the
mystical
elasticity
chorus of
prisoners,
And
spring to
that
swaying
uneasily
to
and
fro
in
see those
weatherstains
though
they
he warmed to the
cloister-life
their
him
remark
to
compliment.
all,
banished
to which they
to
years.
But
it
he had
clearly
the
way
the
long-
hidden
;
Platonist and
;
the
been
sup-
posed.
Aristotle
is
of
him
we
Plato
(all
but
a
monk
in
Church
gear
in the West has come into a young world where
vigorous minds have been long
accustomed
gether
we
owe
still
to
that
in France
elements in
ghost to
recognise his
ciple in the West. There the Alexandrian doctrine of Emana-
tion
and
mysticism
foes of mere scholastic quibbling, of an
arid and
lifeless ortho-
up
with
—no
excuses.
Atherton.
Some
them, look
its famous
abbey. I
Not far
with
its
towers
and numerous
the
under
the
in
the
tannery,
sets
the
fulling-mill
of the
building, all in a fume, as if it had been ground itself into
so
much
side, you see it cross, and
join
the
the valley, with your back
to
by
—what a busy
about,—they
have been
to save
those osiers have
;
is
somewhat
a
clear,
transparent,
red-and-
in
his
later
years,
his
shoulders,
even
to
on either
the
Christian
world
pours
out
crusade.
GowER.
And
accomplishing
a
unbuild
word
proved
a
healthier tone.
Add to
this his
and
men
He began
people
and
apprehend
the
main
purpose
of
method must
so have
end.
Many
courage.
But
these
were
to
encounter
on
road
to
—
settled
matters
would
demand
his
care,
convent
charters
money,
his Cis-
the year 11 18
establishment
returns,
to
re-enter
well-remembered
spots
among
muffled
sound
heard
in
his
;
were
thrown
into
the
wrong
scale.
The
mischiefs
the
or by
the
crusading
the enkindling of fuel which Bernard had
amassed. Disciple
practical
religion.
But
to
enquiries
admit
that
the
Church
truth,
and
brought
it
cry
Great,
accordingly,
Church
when
up all over
Paris
merely,
mysteries ot
the Trinity
reason given."
Bernard
and
life.
Bernard
in
opinion
A divine
Nil supcrerit
ad beatitudincm,
;
the
mind
of
starting-point,
Bernard
be
a
mystic,
reach.
to
sanctify
and
elevate all our powers, to raise us to our truest manhood,
accomplishing in every excellence all
our faculties both of mind
and body,
—a
Creator his
he exhorts
the devout
his
scale,
divers
branches,
and
clustered.
The
sensuous
wine
after
itself, but some
weeds,
many
a
in
every
on some
far
^7
See
Note,
p.
151.
the negative
position assumed
opinions, found
a refuge
them, that
Superesse
Divinitatis.
of
Dionysius
phraseology
thought, but
be
reduced
72.
Kt hie est
suous hell.
What is
a
principle
assimilates and
makes a
light
is
themselves, and
that tliey
are already
not a place.
adecpately punished by
is complete
rupt
the change-
and the
mystic of
Eckart find
the same
such escape
Eckart,
by
self-abandonment
the
evolution
modem times.
preference,
inconsistent
speaks of the ideal
Ground in the
to
the
divine
subsistence—
a
guanti/ativefyrather
than
qualitatively
more.
With
than
he
so
characteristic
of
mysticism.
Plato
helps
rather
merely institutional
than moral
the soul of the
distinct from God.
337,
because
credere non
to
cut
off
our
iaith
nor
reason
have
Thus
our
of the
were studied by
Bible.
Note
to
pagk
144.
per
Verbum.
De
Consid.
4.
The
stages
ad
of Heaven.
quidem
humanae
fragilitati
inopinatis
excessibus,
at
more
length
mortem,
....
sed
aliquoties
cum
intravit.
Adesse
meis sensibus illapsiim
on
the
one
says,
ergo sic
ilia,
qute
multis
affectibus atque ipsis meduUis
tigura-
tum,
sed
infusum
sed
penetrans
;
soul,
This
is his
fanciful way of characterising, by the elaboration of a single figura-
tive
phrase
of
and
grace
to
perfection,
Here,
objectionable. He is
successive
prayers of
emperors
and
popes
cor-
responded
delivered
as
subject
very
echo
should
pre-
sume
to limit the operations of the Spirit of God? Many of
Hildegard's
the
prophetic
Angela
 
Richard
of
St.
Victor.
Hugo
of
The
its
than
eighty
priories.
Hugo
Hamers-
figures
rude
by
the
reputation
his
has
repudiated
scholasticism.
more
catholic
in
sympathy
than
the
he
regarded
scholastic
ingenuity,
he
to
impartial.
ecclesiastical domi-
a
Romanist
ideal
speculation
to
acquire
a
scientific
form
its
claim
contemporaries, reverenced the Pseudo-Dionysius. His more
devout and practical
spirit laboured at
the cloister,
[b.
v.
mind possesses
to
the
of
smoke
arise
here and there
it
is being transformed into the nature of fire. Then, the
struggle
over,
God
Looking
Speculative
illumination
elevation
man
nature.
a great
deal at
their
faith,
even
here,
a
superhuman
elevation,
imagination.'
a
supernatural
manifestation
'
than
the
intellectual
that
there
nearer home."
to
entered on his
;
monastic rule were
that pittanciar,
abuses
successor,
harmony
and
In
the
I
schoolman
belongs
to
the
;
almost oriental
gloom
serviceable
science
of
self-scrutiny,
capitals, among
from
court
to
court,
column
the
depths
of
thine
own
soul,
heaven
—that Eye
45):
cap.
3.
and
arduous
effort.
Contemplation. In
the
whole,
nor
is
the
the
spirit
returns
from
its
trance
fortnight
or
more,
between
themselves, after
beyond the confines
not
That we
;
spirit.
through the medium
when regarded
is, that they encourage
and
abstraction,
apart
from
our heart,
a dazzling
Creator.
to
them.
Atherton.
Neither,
Their
posi-
to
ierini?ms
been
variously
to the
love
place within
which
has
been
many con-
and
original
of
tomed
to
teach
Ideas
themselves
principle,
Intelligence
in
the
microcosm
answering
to
microdogma
within,
Church
without.
spiritual truth, history
Hugo and
him
no coal on that
/rff^r/Zca/
with them,
and brings
though the German
all within its
religious hfe. He
vision is so precious.
is
impalpable
indigens,
sed
sua
ac
universe with his heart
is
to God, therefore,
inmost
self
et non solum
transire,
stands
by
die
(com-
or to
Church.
171
has
concealed
this
hoard
many
evils
of
the heart. The watching and the prayer of the contrite spirit clears
away
what is earthly, and restores the divi e gift. The
spirit, inflamed with
gross,
all
spirit ;
and
in
secret
cap.
7.
Note
to
page
162.
See
the
or De prep,
and looks for
success therein to
appendix to
his Treatise
all,
as
inter-
discipline
save
The inner
outer, the latter by the inner part of the tabernacle.
We call that
to
when he transcends himself.
; in the latter,
kinds
of
contemplation
are
are
exercised
invisible,
the
two
last
difference
between
imagination we
for7n
and
mercy-seat, the cherubim,
glory.
occulta et
drawn over this
verities
'
whcti er
we are to see with this same eye of Intelligence the things beyond the veil,
or
behold the
things of
who
main-
the
those
as
way they
introduce much confusion into the use of this word Intelligence, —now extending
its signification to a speculation which is occupied with what
is
senses.
instrument
of
be no
belong
by supposing that
office below
its proper
processes of reason, though
c. 6.
calls
it
expressly
a
vision
face
figurarum.
of ecstasy,
he says
in divinorum
pater inter manus bajulat ut ad tertii coeli secreta rapiat
intantum
ut
glorietur,
Qui enim
omnem
minor suo
e.\:
partibus
state
mens
hominis
seipsa
saavitatis
abundantia
potata,
immo
fuerit, penitus
;
of her fruits,
^Jeremy"
Taylor.
would
make
Summerford
House
grounds
and
neighbourhood
eminently
delightful,
even
narrow.
which his
comfort so
dogs,
inspected,
there
irregularity,
—no
servant,
labourer,
went
to a
nervous dread
of being
with
the
wisely
afternoon
and
and anxious
winding
up
The
lawn
sparkHng bubbles
here and
her tricks again),—now rendering
translucent some plume of
with its circular plates of white
lichen. These wood pathways
by
in front,
only
here
and
lay
a
sultry
day,
seen
like
'
lofty
minster,
and
relieving
his
student and
that the
said treasure
—a personage who appears to have lived in the four-
teenth century,
and kept
under the
song
as
follows
of
Strasburg.
This
and his book
every
compilation
the
sermons
vile
ande-
legend, a hymn, or a godly
sermon,
own,
and
after
it
has
lain
working
in
your
brain
for
some
time,
delightful to hear.'
I
'
my
service,
heard and
good
thoughts
to
dictate
of a plain man with
a
loving
about with
one with them. But
moreover, that you,
words
the eye of God.
looked
en-
strengthened
Von
Otterbach
and
well
the
That
castle
of
to
writhe
perils give
to our
have enough
were
jealous
of
better
at
hand,
country
availing
themselves
These I excuse
and clergy,
as can
Our once famous
court
to
court
and
learning
of
Wolfram
imitators.
This
chivalry
spreading and descending
the
Moors,
whom
God
castle
with his neighbour and
with
virtue, made
is
not
the
Eckart
both startled
up
all
Cologne,
which
most
them here.
God. He
who is
standeth
'
otherwise
than
another
whom God
is ahke
anders
ist
denne
in
dcm
guille's
Hisfoire
d'Alsace,
liv.
xxiv.
andern,
vnt
dem
dem
distinguished,
in
working
and
the
His
ness,
Son
in
noch aller-
out anticipations,
wenn
1330.
old
ein,
vnd
deriveth
soul
unnamed
than
named,
on
thyself
at
i
Something,
an uncreated
distinction.
This
Spark
rejects
as
he
sound
1
Martensen,
p.
23.
are brought
or grace. This
in opposition
the Essence
bey yem-
und
zu der tu-
warheit, das disem
ursprung. . . Dar
turme
funken
einen
einichen, da niemant daheim ist, da worbele (axis, or centre)
der s^le. Ete-
daz ist ein
Heiligeiilcben.
Di
whereby I see
of
reflection,
to
be
thought
out,
God
without
medium.'"
Of
too
sayings lie here
of
every one
loves that
weakness to feel. At
cow, and would love
the
cheese,
herself^
is she in God and
God
his
eternity and
spiritual
poverty
who
wills
nothing,
voice
p.
gerichtet
habe
do
er
ewigen
warheit,
expression
possible
's
ggg
Schmidt,
p.
724.
hungry,
therr
he knew. He
to
mising mountains of
at
studied and
taught at
of our order in
whisper against
the orthodoxy
of the
the
and
God
likes?'
would-be
moustache,
evidently
'My
tailor),
men and
as in the whole
Whereupon up
Epistles of the
a
daintier
style,
and
hath,
by
as
though
the
scent
thereof,
rising
full
eight
years
that
God
said,
were
torn,
and
anhungered,
praise
God ;
I have been
giveth
or
ordaineth
cheerfully
desire
my will
hell,"
said
the
scholar,
there-
from.
Avithal. One
therewith
would embrace him,
within
and
union
with
God.
For
I
on
his
hanging gables, with his steady
step and abstract air, and his
silver
locks
is
a
as
right
Have been
those fanciful
awhile
and
the clergy
When he came to
surly glance at me, and, throwing
back his shaggy head of
black
hair,
seemed
about
to
sleep.
towards him,
jour
name.
He.
Men
call
me
knows
nought
of
distinctions.
I.
But
to
order,
and
My soul
Mark
God's son,
I left him.°^
is the natural
enough
in
will
Switzerland,
approximated,
some
of
an
times
have
approached
now
the
us who
e
tliem
both !
revolutions,
BROWNt:.
him in
cannot
satisfy
it
who
had
that a
opposed to the
despotic externalism of
reach it he unfortu-
Mother
give
him
at least you
were appointed
to do
glory,
state of grace
it
most.
of
morbid
intro-
spections,
now
catching
the
abyss.
old Greek
Gower.
the
scriptural
Via
him
in
and
directs
a
formulas.
;
:
spirits.
They
Lowestoffe.
a
remarkable
anticipation
as with
while
a
usurper
was
hunting
With my dogs
so
cold.
Atherton.
Pythagoras
at
for
a
time
the
rightful
Eckart
unintelligible.
GowER.
to get beyond the words themselves,
any more than
the
mischief
is
done.
These
distinctions
many
not
or
would
not
understand,
and
so
his
is not so
thought
of
spiritual
freedom
;
—and uses
lost.
Esse in God
thoughts
of
God
are,
of
course,
God.
Hence
distinction
The very will
With Eckart personally this self-reduction
and
deification
is
connected
it may
between
the
human
of Self in the
a
hallowed
instead
and to caprice.
words
when
Fichte
exclaims,
own life
his
work.'
Ibid.
p.
473.
affirmed witli
Chronicle,
the manu-
1324,
is
silent.
hard for
the poor
creatures to
of a Sodom, in
their
them,
purchase absolution. And then, out of the few priests who
do
remain,
scarcely
any
has most of the
common
Rhineland
that sort
among the
to
and
pagan
Lithuanians
to
waste
most
ever. Yet, with
other such deeds
of
proposed
I have
half a
the
Landgrave
host, a fit
some
months.
Louis
off
his
p. 271.
1
4''''
Century.
He swore
on the
wafer to renounce his claim to the empire. The Pope
released
like knight, not like priest, and holds
to it
he left
among his sorrowing
to
strength of mind
is with
us. He
gone, and he
Margaret
Ebner
has
written
to
origin,
beyond
me
that,
priest
as
wretched
to
discern
I gave him a
grooms with
clash of
the
retainers
took
six slain
who fell were of
high rank, and several
of either faction are
von
Grosstein
were
gentry
of
was
with
Burckard
lost.
Off,
get the
When I
got back
to the
was hot.
seal! The
It was truly
to
deal
done, good Zwinger, thou prince
of bakers, with thy true
warm heart,
no
strangers
While the gates have been closed and the
Town
great families
and open
a
time,
good
part
bishop's claws
manifesto of the
be,
in
anywise
with the English
gathering help from all parts
among
the
at
present.
Basle,
word
Tauler, and that they had
long
talk
pope
come,
cloisters have
stood for
now two
Many
churches
are
de-
serted
altogether,
;
a
month
ago,
re-
how
starved
and
woe-begone
as
a
flint.
Straight,
as
goodly
exhortation
of
loveth not
good
ale
by
the
at
feud.
the malediction
Strasburger,
a
:
that
he
would
give
her
words
to
 
he moved
other, forming
Christendom, and for the succour of the
poor people, by preach-
Strasburg who will perform
say
of
a
goes spreads
good
name
found
:
gainsaid
but we
God, and the
and
of wrath.
more of the
"
he
was
enforcing
no time to
of the
a
single
Paternoster
with
in
promised
hereafter,
when
we
the
shall
present
God
the
image
he
hath
and
soul,
whither
Godhead, where
the eternal Father doth ever speak and bring forth his eternal
essential Word,
power,
and
worthiness,
as
By him hath
the
Son
God,
answers
truly
there
nothing
preparrl that his
outset of
that
it
contents
humanity, but
humanity,
shameful
cross.
Methinks
our sort at
through
into
the
for.
Their
influence
is
right
side.
A
great
the
custom
has
been
introduced
spade
and
shovel
to
remove
a
whole
mountain
of
dirt
collected
about
the
threshold.
Several
or
more
Die Sehnsucht
a
plaintive
air
hide
Tauler said
he would
the
much
gospel according
sermon, but
would make
Then he went
the world
yield ourselves up,
piercing
eyes
under
shaggy
brows,
eagle
whole month. His penitents
ill, they
never
stirs
tell us what
time, that
some
crime,
and
This
I
everywhere
is gone
against him,
are all related
porter. Went into the
—a
bust-
in
beeves,—
a
brave
side,
affecting,
more
concerning Tauler,
His flesh
were
not
on two weary
work
Dominican,
and
us.
He
interdict. A
great mercy !
Getting richer
a friar
crowded
church
—every
part
233
speak
Still
he
stillness, and the tears
he
are
at
last
God
as
well
nigh
put
me
beside
fallen
idol,
and
superior
sanity.
Had
he
permis-
sion
that
he
of
the
nunnery
at
opened,
gathered
themselves
world, He never
to our wants,
most
he has gone
them.
He
body,
small books, full
days. Copies
whole world,
of
—
bann, which
and
avarice.'
Thus
truly
spiritual, which
the
secular
power
contrary
the
one
the
good
and
be
a
terror
the shepherds, when
introduction
service as set
heretics. God
will not
is lent
looke,
And
in
To read enregistred in every nooke
His goodnesse, which
thy
From
Cleared
Spenser ; Hymne of
Arnstein's
to say
armourer's
journal
until
to explain
so
Basle, and was well known in the Oberland
as an
a
Waldensian,
holding
the
opinions
of
God,
were
drawn
nearer
to
the time,
common,
and
to
his
his
notes
of
their
conversation,
the
candour
and
humility
of
pawn
might
the
good
pleasure
of
God—
to
be
tried
when he
had become
the
on his sickbed, he meditated
once
more
on
the
ungrateful.
With
that
; have
mercy
to live
he
to him-
show
thy
fellow
Christians
the
way
to
eternal
thy
riches.
Now
thou
who sent
me
gulden. The layman
his advice Tauler
how our
to
Nicholas,
who
com-
on the work within.
self-seeking which
Nicholas,
and
gave
him
a
manuscript,
in
which
life
and
unworthy servant,
pro-
mised
easily
write
'The
iM;in
for
;
see
and Nicholas
those
imperfect
1
The
ship.
Hold
this
of
no
man
are
to be
Job's
it till
of
and
Himself
in
them.'
with Peter, when,
with such men
men,
any
fault
is far
and
created
and
the
uncreated
Spirit
abyss
and
of
himself
to
God,
unknown
God.
Let
him
unknown
will
of
God
nothing,
a
by
some
therefrom
do so
willingly and
happened
to
be
even
ness, but on the
God
to lose
ourselves wholly
in Him,
found
to
into
and
God
state, as in the
he
is
nothing
and
humility
should not
to their
and
self-
in work-
is as a
man is
Nothing. This I say
wisdom
of their
tion, no
for things
in themselves
be
enmities
and
dangers,
will and heart,
self-annihilation hath
been brought
himself
un-
worthy
on
the
wall
may order
maim
and
torture
their
hearts.
Ah,
my
friend,
what
hath
just. Compare
and practice
do
once.
will ignore,
our guilt.
many
forms
of
mysticism.
means.
Atherton.
Few,
so
far
as
Tauler,
above
the
by
benevolent
action,
by
devoted
describe
the
divine
WiLLOUGHBY. But none the
less let us praise
heavenly
kingdom
keeps
him
there.
in the
of the spirit.
Sermon
on
Fifth
Sntiday
after
Trinity,
The troubles
could
heal
and
so,
lilcc
themselves
as
that
and so they
Church whose
all
assumption of merit which partly vitiates the letter of their theology, and
makes
renewed
nature.
fruitless distinctions of the schoolman.
They will escape the distinction which selfish comfort-worshippers make so
broad between ease and hardship.
Sorrow
and
trustfully
accepted
n/ihwzan
WiW,'
we
must
not press his words too far. It is very evident that
he who reaches this
gracious character
—
acts on the
knows;
but
precisely
for
good
day, when superstition found
injudicious
expressions
for
that
more
spontaneous
'
soul find discipline
excessive
value
to His teaching, who
the soul, may
life
Allmoving
or
ill
of the soul
not peculiar
to the
a
signification
which
non-mystical
made between
avir^pijo-ts
constitution
the latter
kr^attirlich bilde,
one turned toward
on
God is by nature.
man is
busied with
—and become
one with
is,
this
kingdom
according to
glory
and
sink
his only-begotten Son
and
and floweth back with
the Son into the
union are almost
meaning
of
Tauler's
desirous that mysticism
administers
A sermon of
follow only
calm
while
these men profess to have
attained the
of
pride.
True
of
easily
fact,
exposes
the error of those who undergo great austerities to be thought
holy,
penance and their works give them an extraordinary claim on
the Most
by
importunity for particular bestowments on which their unmortified self-will has
been
obstinately
set.
can
be
Him
need no
sin, suffer themselves
awaiting its master's
work, God's operation
absolutely empty
for
anything
—
and
have
dinances
of
the
Church,
they
believe
designed.
from
Quiet wherein they
difficulty is not so
absolute emptiness
completely
will
be
Holy Church,
the
Moreover, they believe
any fault
live
spirit into Quiet and Emptiness, are in
them-
any sin,
them there is
festivals,
done on account
of others, they
review
may progress
these men.
Their fault
lies, he
mysticism
His concluding
Century.
259
of devout affection. He precludes at the same time, in the
strongest language,
spiritual
nature
in God
could even thus
;
holiness
or
blessedness
in
itself
than
a
block
orastone'
to
Father,
and
though
Divine Essence,
yet he
 
will.
Herblht.
'T"
HE
day
after
promptly
as
among
error
which
whole-
already have and believe
know ourselves
what we possess
include in
its survey
party
will
admit
edifice
shippers,
they
may
have
started
to
to be
truth
to
is both
successfully
avoided,
if
we
places. It is
to
qualify
and
to
enrich
to some
aspect of
be
to
through
a
darkness,
as
some
belated
to
windows
have
been
it is put
of
weaving
such
them
skilfully
deluges of trouble as
ask, in
fault
sank,
soul
he
sought,
but
the
vexation
of
several most signal
realize
true
manhood—
did
To derive
benefit,
readily fascinated, or
among
them
was
the other hand,
a rage for
a phantasy,
warmth
they
'
in
'
a right to become, who has
not first ascertained
become the critic
to start
statement
that
virtually
prohibits
criticism
nothing beside the
the most candid
reality,
to
there are those
every
voice
pro-
fessing
to
which
the
under-
standing,
which the
best among
vailed among
of
care is taken to
mark, with all the
to
the
me
when the
who
will
define
general
and
extensive
revolution
glorious
or
disastrous,
as
they
conceive
right
be termed the
But regret is useless.
disad-
vantageously,
of
mystic who loves to dwell
on
the
and
hath
within
himself.
mystic
should
be
appHed,
ence
the
to
confine
ardour
rises
a
few
degrees
above
its
own
frigidity.
It
him
with
his
riddles,
other
their
than to
of
his
discourses
testimony,
so
abuse
darkness,
the
doctrine
of
they
had
neard
the
their
by the teaching
it,
and
says
existed
in
Society
Her remark
extreme
form,
evolved de
holding
the
root of
defined
again,
of Kin-sai
corresponding
of
which
bloweth
as
it
listeth,
and
many a
mystic. But,
if it
Spirit
is
most
real,
such
(as in some
Lutheran
Cliurch,
I
operation
which
former is vitality
has
follow
only
direction
to
to the
to admit that
only powers from heaven can
be
working
soul. That ripple, which
desire from
within us
? If
light
promised,
externalism
—he
hear
letter and the freedom
God
to
exclaim,
An ultra-refinement
take away man
by a higher world
Divine
away
step of
progress is
regard
He had
humbled Himself
beset
by
His
inspiration,
fre-
quently
its
accordingly, that
The
Next
these,
in
wider
—
reach
hierarchies
stage by
stage,
each
order in its turn receiving from that above, imparting to that
below. This
the
actual
tion of
and
refine
that
again
(far
above
all
—the
grace
of
flowers,
the
mirth, and household endear-
their
God
Actual.
present
moment
grave than this
Dionysius bids
a man
depths
In spite of some startling expressions
(not perhaps
of a cer-
tain illumination. The
sin
distant
and
deter-
;
—
cution has not
which
God,'
good,
he
exclaims, than I can call the sun black. In his
system, sep-
—a
say,
be.
be
indebted
between
Him
and
me
distinction,
in
substance
and
in
Yet, when
important characteristics of
to
ascertain
in
which
of
should
that the
foreknowledge of
be
infused
after a
tempestuous and
the active.
to
heave,
the
hope
—nay,
haply,
apocalyptic voice,
to shake
it
foretelling,
example,
and a very striking one, of this enthusiastic or pro-
phetic kind
of mysticism.
of heathen-
through the glens
pipes
rushing
to-and-
fro,
down
has
Christianity,
While
Lord,
to
all
the
truth
we
need—
their
longer
Jews,
he
of
shall gradually
element
contemplative
mysticism
of
Roussels,
of
ingenious
excuse
of
Protestantism
outward
usage
or
that,
with an
every
and parts off abruptly the religious world and the irreligious,
the natural and
may
be
—would
faith,
everywhere
types,
and
that
—that they
transcending time and
men
of
that
malady—
that
who have mourned
text
be
taken,
Advent
of
the
among their
and
would
human
:
the senses
busy
priests;
there
believe
agents,
wherein
lies
that
of
conscience
word)
—
a
solution
oi
depth in
inalienable nobleness
proceeds—that
which, according
of the
which
sense Eckart
nearer
and
move.
Such
men
live
sensuous
or
which
are
the
rays
of
the
Shekinah.
the Divine presence—a sense so
still, so
sink
breadth, passing
God.
of sin
merely, but of nature—the demand of your mysticism? Is all
peace hollow which
—without know-
These
the
soul
;
and from
fit
the
glori-
fied
spirits
passed into
the life
of mortal
sweetness such
as never
consummate
has somewhat
most immediately
your soul
has been
presence,—when
all words, and
interrup-
blessing.
whereof
your
and your hardest
duty seemed as
soul
could
find
no
language
and unutterable rest could have found
speech, it
would have
—
"
but
Thee
the
effervescence
hand-
propositions,
and
touching
pictures,
in thy
they
themselves,
as
thus
set such store by,
by
per-
trial.^
In
these
it
magni-
some
acquaintance
he combats,
will cot
and
covet
not
at His
gifts in
can yet
God
alone
re-
joice
God, wherein
they are
set
forth,
outward
imaginations
would
seem
too
gross
and
sensuous
—where
(as
in
Endymion's
ecstasy)
lees,
On the
latter part
sustained
by
placed
it
where
the
eflbrt, in-
of God, now we have one, is
to
throw
with all
tinknown
is to
account as foolishness the wisdom of God manifest in the flesh-
Is it
to say—a
succeeded, by a
will
They
will
talked down
not
sufficiently
knowledge, and
reduce
by
the
a
Divine
darkness,
wherein
no
—
colour
but
not
all
form,
No
men
animated
by
With
of
is
that
higher
sup-
might become
cannot bring
to the word could
like
God,
and
would
appear
self; and
and that
extreme
benign
necessity
of
nature,
whose love
lay at
the root
forth His
eternal, and creatures necessary
so they
to
pray
the
'
desired the
sub-
mit,
by
withdrawing
without
with
some
of
the
in
being
ever
attained
such
a
much
above
by
of
trial
through
intemperate?
impatient to
likeness to God, how
perform his actions,
—when he believed on
transfer to
as they
the
'
credence
given
to
professed
so
much
taken
door has been
of the
from
above
! I
musician.
But
some,
may be
religious evils
of the
the
Engelbrechts,
the
saith History
as to
for
good,
with
failed have
been precisely
those in
have
of
that
book
—to
mony _;^r it. A
additional importance
Again, there are some
Do
abandon introspections—
proves
heart
on.
Now,
here
I
little peace.'
I am selfish.
I dare say
little strength, and in
attractive.
But
are
ifitelligible
to
contrast with
that just
love is, with
with
Tauler dees not see, in
the unhappiness of
 
which
is
written.
In
despair, or
strengthens
him.
He
the
of love to Him who gave it. He does not
think it unmanly,
a
suppliant,
by
by
the
of
Sartor
Resartus,
will
Tauler
It cannot
;
Dying
with
sketches.
Willoughby
trout, and
of the
not a
head, as
Gower had seen such
comparatively somnolent
he
objurgated
that
too
many
beans,
together to
see a
After tea, when
certain sleepy people
had again become
him.
Mrs.
Atherton.
We
 
have bequeathed
to us
which
issue in
the taste of Gower as one of their effects. I should
think
it
must
be
no
small
Inferno
and imagined,
the
by
the
peplus.
I
have
glass ;—the seas,
run wrinkled
into a
quick shiver
;
something
more
about
and
bloodshed.
I
which
must
serve
you
as
an
 
sky,
had
Mediterranean
only two
;
raised an altar
lighting
up
the
carved
work
of
and kerchiefs,
for
every
In vain did trembling men carry their hoards to the monastery
or
be seen
In the
outskirts of
opened,
whose
hundreds
Avignon,
the
wells,
Bishops,
mercy or
to save them, perished in the
same
flames.
The
the abe, die
das es verdrGs
keiserund
of penance been
The
a
to
of
his
own
anti-hierarchical spirit of
council.
The
scourging
Every
of
flagellation
outside
of
which
each
in
nails.
The
ceremony
closed
enjoining their
in spite of this
that Tauler shortly after-
came
the
Flagellants,
turning
all
how hateful
them to the people.
the
hour
another Strasburg.
St.
Gertrude
city,
which
he
had
;
reforming
much
that
so
many
questions
to
a
book,
to
be
me the
a
master
in
spiritual
mysteries,
to be
understood, and
consulting with
few days to
visit the author.
of Giiinthal,
from
of age, had
by
great multitude
of storks
was a
on account
of the
struggle
is
between
lords
and
commons.
What
Bishop
Berthold
did no small damage.
cousin, and
weavers, save
against
France.
Nevertheless,
word now is heard
Ghibelline cause
finds no
of the
minstrel. No
The Doctor interpreted
change
will
brain
to
decide.
We
of us.
merry enough
young
Frenchman
of
family
Minorite friars
jester with his many
round
(a
new
in
great
caves
hollowed
longer
than
usual
to
appeared to
so
that,
The
good
longed-for seclusion as
whenever the
Often Ruys-
of the
We existed
born
the Son. After our
Vernunft
der
Seele),
the
mirror
{Funken der
tariati
leuende
salie
dip
god
niet wl
Holy Ghost.
sijns
eavent
us to re-
vort die
all
needed
blessing,
and
^Vithout
it
no
natural
powers
;
by
follow
this
above
ourselves.
will
spirit
heart
; bodily
suffering
is shut out from Christ
because he
will.
nothing
more.'"
(A
very
and the union of the soul with
God, Ruysbroek said
part
of
the
virtues, we
spiritual life. Thence
flows into us
knowledge—an inner
Then the
we
perceive
no
to
Nuptials, in which Ruys-
said that we became identical, in this union, with the
glory
Ruysbroek
a
lose our existence
the
I call
hanging
schouwen
it were, ab- ogenblijc dat wy proeven ende merken
sorbed
and other practical
by
bare
superiority to
which
the ultra-refinements
Wilful perversion,
like these
hemel ende erde
not,
all
things
will
all things
there-
fore
be
we
are
;
spiritual
say,
we
are
as
willen
:
find
existence. They deny
should
Rich
wealthy
usurer
is
buried
the
unrighteousness, not all
the poor,
scarcely
lector in the refec-
be content with
Little
by
bitterness
our
his
place,
—
for his brethren,
'
out
inilucn^^
Ruysbroek
was
fully
many
;
he
sometimes
delivers
to
the
canons,
all
testify.
men
which he
and
brotherly
spirit
a
do seem
to have
;
in bare modeless
recording
hiive
A hasty
likely
to
eke
sang
his
to
my
ears.'^"
lines
curiously
interwoven
in
the
Strasburg
I
the
residence
alone, shut
out from
up to
the spiritual
guidance of
his
of Mers-
\in, in
lished
in
Diepenbrock's
edition of the works of Suso, to whom it was, till re-
cently,
attributed.
The
claim
beyond question—
(Schmidt, 180).
morning in
himself,
symbols?' He
commanded, in spite of his
humble remonstrances,
saw
man
I would
I see 1 must compel thee. In the
name
of
The
souls
of
to their
Men
in
;
ex-
A
net
near the net—
their
Those
heartily forsaken the world
too, are far
from their Origin
the
is
Origin
thousands
as
Hve after their own will, and know not that they are nothing.
Finally,
moment's glance
;
build a house
on a
little island
which
The
government
of
Heinzmann
Wetzel,
knight,
and
John
Merswin,
burg-graf.
to
receive
any
one,
clerk
or
layman,
knight
with him the
vnderscheit
ind
bouen
geschaffen
wesen
mit
ewigen
instarren
getransformeirt
ind eyn
mit desem seluen licht da sy mede sien ind dat sy
sien.
gemacht sin
gotlicher clairheit. In dat is dat edelste ind dat vrberlichste
schauwen da men
p. 144.
above their creatureliness
and
feel,
and find in themselves, by means of this divine light, that they
are the
their
ideal
pre-existence
after
the
divine manner, and abideth within them simply and without mode
{par-
essence.
Wherefore
interior contemplative men should go forth in the way of
contem-
plation
above
and
gaze
perpetually
transformed,
of
which
pantheism brought
the
divine
and
aen-
schijns
dat
al
dat wi
gesmaken tegen dat ons ontblijft dat en is niet een draep
tegen
al die zee, dit verstormt onsen geest in hetten ende in ongeduer
van
mynnen.'—
verliesen, dat is
;
and similarly that we become one with God in love, not
in
nature,
p.
168.)
mysticism
gives
utterance
to
the
stout-hearted Dominican
of Strasburg,
and
institutional.
He
is
Victor,
but
Behmen and
another
strikingly the fanciful method of Madame Guyon in her Toj-rents,
and
of
St.
Theresa
in
80.)
The
mysticism
of Ruysbroek is less sensuous.than that of the poetical Suso. Beyond
question the higher elevation of the contemplative life
must have been
to many devout minds wearied with vain ritual, penance, and
routine.
As
acknowledged
contemplatists,
they
could
to claim supe-
riority to means
always
the
from the
Vivo sin vivir
thine
an-
guish
soul.
die
be^
cattle,
and
husbandry.
the
Hfe
of
a
monk
over head
bawls out to me for help. I,
just
sworn
to
and
fingers
ings
was safe. He
Dominican convent. There found, with no small satisfaction,
;
a
few
days
my
unworthy
roof
at
because he always
goes with them
spar-
gold-bright
wings
that
live
in
heaven.
Those
by
the
hour,
and his
the
mysteries
of
his
the
were
Neither did
his counsel cease with life. I saw him in a vision,
not long
in the
questions about
I
have
at
the
related
aware
of
heart
of
the
Eternal
Wisdom,
armed
his
queen,
bore
to
term
underwent that he
might crush to
death his naturally
active, buoyant, impulsive
a
close-fitting
or relieve
that,
like
a
one
of
whose
a blow
on this
door for his
water
on
every
side.
feverish
thirst
a
vessel
of
spring-water
his
fortieth
year,
when
it
was
man to
to
live
before
of
Wis-
dom,
or
Book
of
year
1340,
since
He
only in his
to be sure
that there was
than
in some
sweetness
at
a
time
has
he
spirit in
undulation
to
and
(said Suso to me)
soul,
leaning
on
God,
embraced
by
His
that
sung
the
hymn,
every
red
L3ng in the kindly May, my
soul
haustible
would
raise
thee
a
spiritual
that I may
trial
was
to any one
a
the fair-time.
roystering
can
go
on,
do
I shall
fair,
who
swear
'The
scroundrel
monk
will
confess
everything.
'
Order
has
given
between
That
you
will
see
him
gold pieces,
could lay hands
going
about
in
expected the
man
deliverance
—I
saw
a
priest,
a
man,
laying
his
hand
on
my
of
that
dreadful
day,
and
never
me
as
a
bird
from
the
in all essential
him to tell us the adventure, and so he did,
some-
from
young and active,
an old forest whose
in a
passenger had been
sounding
like
a
hungry
sea.
among the
heard quick
young
and
and
confession.
own
bowed his knee,
recital, and
clasped,
covered
look-out for
knife,
me in
her arms,
in
down
at
his
side,
shivering
and we went
on our way.
might
find
so
befel
to flesh and blood,
Trinity.
kiss through and
be
Now, and hath
as
I
must
do
in
seeking
to
set
that
far below the reality
as a blackamoor is
yet again.
passages
de-
place
^^
comp.
he
described
rich olives and
monasteries were on
drawn up
by a
wondrous
doctrine or
time
his
breast,
turning
first perceiving only dark-
nights, he would
mountain and its neighourhood
arches
and
domes,—
the
over
beauty can
the
action of the German
to the Greek
duction.
The
authority
for
Cabasilas
will
devotion rests
he stands between
jective
florid cast of Susos
glowing furnace
of
the
living
flowers—red roses, white lilies, lovely violets, and flowers of every
name, that
Mays,
beside my loveliness.' (Then he breaks
into
verse)
'
single drop
the sole Unity
whence they
ir Krefte
vnd mugentheit;
vnd gewiset
wesentheit. \'nd
Vnd in dem gegenwurf vindet si denn genuegde vnd ewige
sehkeit.
Vnd
ie
Essence. And in the
And the more
wild waste
and dissolved and
with
is
 
sele. Daz eiiie
di richte
wizzes
oder
enwizzes
nicht.'
years,
in aiding the
tion must
—
a lamp
whatever
the
apparent
success
tree,
has
pine forests
self-mortifica-
(Heuser,
1851).
sine lana,
but most of
sleep.
Obedient
enthusiasm
toils
snore.
in a tangle
in capillise jus
as he
apostle.
century. She is
a specimen somewhat
She travelled
whole
Medieval
stormy
waters
of
Rome
delights
to
! I
am
easily
deny
their
Calculating
the
reality
used
floatingdovvn
the
great
ecclesiastical
current
of flowers.
of
another
superstition
which
has
subverted
tyranny.
Atherton.
notorious
criminal,
which
forgets
the
Tauler's doctrine,
without his
Tauler applies
waiting
to
hear
something
about
Thomas
k
Kempis,'
fifteenth
century
about
Thomas.
thoroughly impregnated
witli the
fancy.
He appeals
neither to
or fear of
thyself,
this life, into his hands who is Lord
of a better.' Then the sufferers dried their tears, and strove
hard to forget
parchment
with
triumph,
the
emissaries
of
the
tumbril,
aloof
in
disdain
Franciscans
and
WiLLOUGHBY. And very wrong he was, too,
for
those
—honest,,
energetic
none of
little of
that chivalrous
mysticism
with
scholasticism,
and
furnishes
in
himself
a
summary
and
critical
resume
been accomplished
making mysticism
devout,
on the other.
of ecstasy and
compare the
phenomena of
and
legitimate
mystical
heterodox
Like
Bernard,
he
thinks
imagination for
objective spiritual
ten always have
Thither all repaired.
a^^kcd
these
light
stemless
blossoms,
that
plants
splendour,
and lies
great
burning
reaches
zenith,
are
can
he
not
to
forget
good
Tauler.
LowESTOFFE.
Lethe!
Nonsense.
Mrs.
thread
is
cut,
catches
swans, which,
if they
to
a
temple,
where
it
is
consecrated.
AGE.
CHAPTER
I.
PAGR
,
.
Origin
CHAPTER I.
As men have died
Summed up and finished
in a single taste
and
West.
Among
be diffi-
the human
heart and
earth of Medina saw
others into
class
of
of
West,
mysticism
achieved
the
success
and
prevailed
Yet the
Emerson.
The
seventeenth
century,
sense as they
This Church
The one
Each
:
;
as the
as
thy
heels,
and
thy
heels
as
distinc-
to
and
the
sermon or the often
Sufi, he
and torrents
involved,
;
Christ
formed
intent
poetical
form,
is
Mr.
Emerson,
court
He belongs more to the East than to the West
—true brother of those
dains
an
optimism
ex-
treme
it
same fashion in which
the
those
Sufis
who
find no place.
Deity
in
humanity.
The
Soul
of
Emerson,
whose
organs
can
acquire
personality
Per-
sian
vision
who
accompany
has scarcely expired
ardours of a female
above
means.
By
two
holy
men.
One
of
them
said,
The
other
went
beyond
very
joy,
surpassed
me
—
a German mystic
When questioned as to the
mode, she
means.'
The
the East as in
be-
tween
insanity.
shrank from such coarse
to
himself.
He
chargeable
with
con-
(by
anticipation)
is one mind common
Angelas
Silesius
hints
reminds
past
as
thousand colours,
right
royally
treasure-house
A
out.
Brighter and
with
those
beamy
splendours.
That
face
Their
colourless.
And
again,
Man
or while yet here,
—
appropriate
Nachl.
In
the
following
vigorous
passage,
Night
spirits
slumbers,
life, the Light
above all light,
Needs
not
to
So
Emerson,
to interpose helps
noticed
of self.
Mahmud, to
When
pure
Who is as
been
That
abso-
lutely
disinterested
love,
to
however,
an
aspect
of
grandeur
as
They
abandonment.
Man!
live,
it. It
fasting,
solitary,
through
the
Sufi
region
time and
jNIy nights were
gaze.
Are
From
I set
space
the
his promenade
the
and his
who
this roar of
the brush
light
wonder
about
me.
Joy
! joy
at
once.
Lo,
things
know.
The
poet
for
him
as when it a dry skeleton acquir.is flesh and blood
speaks with the
*
according
notion
of
identity
Emerson
seems
to
arrive
at
reduced
with
the
of Emerson
influx
of
this
better
and
universal
to
He seems
some
becomes,
Oversoul.
him
beyond
himself.
the
absolute
realizes
as I.
Age. [i;.
to
express
wine
annihilation,
And
His
wildered
Up
love.
Now
laughing
i
wonncd
tlitire,
;
fresh,
as
That him full of melancholy did shew
;
When oblique Saturne
valley.
Fancy
shall
tops at
their
courts
those
the
shining
walls
relieves
the
eye
;
surrounding
water-
monster,
and
swallows
up
potent, and the
Gower
turns
away
from
point in
his story.
seething turbulence in
rivers
they pass over beds of subter-
ranean fire.
Behmen
as
a
or
two
the
morning,
by
evening was
passed in
and
their
pageantry to
to
the
;
curses) to withstand,
bility.
Atherton.
Go
of
justification
by
so deep
in its
system of
to
weakness.
It
after all,
and
we
have
the
Reformation.
be made
grand
a
flame,
Reformer who