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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 / by Sheldon Cheney.
LIBRA 115 C427
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mysticism--History.
- Mysticism.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv pages, 1 ., 395, viii pages 1 . : plates ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : A.A. Knopf, 1945.
- Contents:
- The golden age and the mystic poet Loa-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 mediæval 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
- A descriptive reading list, with acknowledgements (p. 385-395)
- Index.
- Notes:
- "First edition."
- OCLC:
- 1898658
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