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The Mystical Works of Evelyn Underhill comprises the most important works of one of the foremost writers on spirituality and Christian mysticism of the early twentieth century. The collection opens with Underhill’s most widely read work: Mysticism. A general introduction to the concept, followed by a comprehensive exploration of the nature and development of human mystical consciousness, this...

he talked of this as the one prayer he made for his converts and fellow workers; and said that he desired it for them so that they could ‘be able to comprehend what is the breadth and length and depth and height’—a splendour of realization unachieved by theology—and be ‘filled with all the fullness of God’: in other words, draw their spiritual energy direct from its supernatural source. You know that St. Bernard called this the ‘business of all businesses’; because it controls all the rest, and gives
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