History of Mysticism: The Unchanging Testament - Softcover

Abhayananda, Swami

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842930516 ISBN 13: 9781842930519

Publisher: Watkins Pub Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

A contemporary American mystic and scholar tells the story of man's recurrent experience of enlightenment throoughout the ages, and presents in an historical context the lives and words of over forty famous mystics from both Eastern and Western religious traditions.

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is a passionate poetic and powerful work destined to be a classic. -Greg Bogart

Author of Astrology And Spiritual Awakening It has already become a classic valuable to seasoned scholars as well as beginning students of mysticism

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(From the Preface by S. Abhayananda) I am one of those who have been privileged, by the grace of God, to experience the ultimate Truth of existence. This "mystical experience" occurred, for me, on the night of November 18, 1966. Since that time, I have easily recognized, by their various descriptions of it, those who have also directly experienced that absolute Truth. And it has become abundantly clear to me that, over the course of man's long history, many individuals of differing cultures, languages, and religious traditions have known that same unitive experience. Contained in this book are the accounts of the lives and teachings of some of the best known of those individuals, for whom I feel great empathy and comradery, as my own experience coincides with and confirms their own. In fact, their experience is my experience; for all who have realized the Truth have known that same eternal Self.

The material contained herein presents no speculative philosophy; it offers no metaphysical hypothesis. Rather, it is the collected legacy of those who have experienced, first-hand, the unitive Truth underlying all existence. It is a record of the voices of the illumined souls of the past, all of whom gave their hearts, their very lives, to sharing their transcendent knowledge with unborn humanity. And so, to the prospective reader, I say: mark well what you read here. This is no ordinary history of people, places and events; it is the secret history of manŐs perennial journey on the ultimate Quest, where all the travellers, arriving from widely diverse paths, arrive at the self-same unitive Truth.

It is really the greatest, the most thrillingly wonderful, story ever told. May it awaken you and inspire you to join the great Quest.

About this edition

• Publisher: Watkins Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1842930516
• ISBN 13: 9781842930519
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432