Hours With the Mystics A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion

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Volume 1: Henry Atherton; Lionel Gower; Frank Willoughby; Connexion of the Arts; Etymology; Causes of Mysticism; Classification of Mystics. Early Oriental Mysticism: The Bagvat-Gita; Characteristics of Hindoo Mysticism. The Mysticism of the Neo-Platonists: Philo; Plotinus; Neo-Platonism in the Christian Church; Porphyry. Mysticism in the Greek Church: Saint Anthony; The Hierarchies of Dionysius. Mysticism in the Latin Church: Intellectual Activity of the West; Hugo of St. Victor. German Mysticism in the Fourteenth Century: The Chronicle of Adolf Arnstein of Strasburg; The Doctrine of Eckart discussed; The Interdict; Tauler's Disappearance; Nicholas of Basle and Tauler; Further Thoughts on Tauler and Middle-Age Mysticism; Views of God and the Universe; The Black Death; Heinrich Suso; Nicholas of Basle. Volume 2: Persian Mysticism in the Middle Age; Theosophy in the Age of the Reformation: Luther, Cornellius Agrippa, Theophrastus Paracelsus, Jacob Behmen, The Rosicrucians; The Spanish Mystics: Neo-Platonism, St. Theresa, St. John of the Cross; Quietism: Madame Guyon, Antoinette Bourignon, Peter Poiret, Madame de Krudener; Mysticism in England: George Fox, Henry More Norris of Bemerton; Emanuel Swedenborg. A massive work!