Mysticism: Its True Nature and Value

Download or read book Mysticism: Its True Nature and Value written by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on 2015-09-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MYSTICISM, in the wide and somewhat loose sense in which the term is commonly used, may be considered as the final outcome of a congenital desire for knowledge which appears in all animate creatures. In children and savages, as also in the lower animals, it takes the rudimentary form of sensitive curiosity; in more fully developed rational natures it becomes the desire to understand the inner nature of things and finally extends itself to that obscure region, dimly recognised by all men, which lies beyond the sphere of things, and of the senses by which things are perceived. But knowledge is of two kinds—abstract and concrete, or experimental and theoretical. Aeterna Press