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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...

THE MYSTICS OF THE CHURCH “MYSTIC” and “Mysticism” are words which meet us constantly in all books that deal with religious experience; and indeed in many books which do not treat of religion at all. They are generally so vaguely and loosely used that they convey no precise meaning to our minds, and have now come to be perhaps the most ambiguous terms in the whole vocabulary of religion. Any vague sense of spiritual things, any sort of symbolism, any hazily allegorical painting,
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