WHAT The MYSTICS HAVE TAUGHT
Ernest Holmes
What Is a Mystic? (Continued)
"The teaching of the mystics has been that there should be conscious courting of the Divine Presence. There should be a conscious receptivitiy to It, but a balanced one. As one of the Apostles said, in substance, that he would rather speak ten words with his understanding than ten thousand with confusion. "God is not the author of confusion but of peace." Unlike the great psychics of the ages, who have been more or less confused, the great mystics have been intensely and pre-eminently the sane people, sound people.
The philosophy of Jesus will remain sound when the belief in a material universe shall have been rolled up like a scroll and numbered with the things once thought to be real. So will be the philosophy of Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Emerson and Walt Whitman, and the philosophy we are writing about today. But the more or less unconscious disclosures of many psychics are not entire true, even in the day in which they are given. While psychism is a most interesting field of study, we should understand it for what it is worth.
It is through the teachings of the illumined that the Spiritual Universe reveals Itself, imparting to us what we know about God. What we directly experience ourselves, and what we believe others have experienced, is all we can know about God.
Jesus taught a Power transcendent, triumphant, absolute, positive, against which lesser laws meant nothing. By Its very Presence It heals. The mystics did not contend or argue with people. There was nothing to argue about. THEY SAW and KNEW. They are the great revealers to man of the nature of the Universe, and the relationship of man to God."
Ernest Holmes
What Is a Mystic? (Continued)
"The teaching of the mystics has been that there should be conscious courting of the Divine Presence. There should be a conscious receptivitiy to It, but a balanced one. As one of the Apostles said, in substance, that he would rather speak ten words with his understanding than ten thousand with confusion. "God is not the author of confusion but of peace." Unlike the great psychics of the ages, who have been more or less confused, the great mystics have been intensely and pre-eminently the sane people, sound people.
The philosophy of Jesus will remain sound when the belief in a material universe shall have been rolled up like a scroll and numbered with the things once thought to be real. So will be the philosophy of Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Emerson and Walt Whitman, and the philosophy we are writing about today. But the more or less unconscious disclosures of many psychics are not entire true, even in the day in which they are given. While psychism is a most interesting field of study, we should understand it for what it is worth.
It is through the teachings of the illumined that the Spiritual Universe reveals Itself, imparting to us what we know about God. What we directly experience ourselves, and what we believe others have experienced, is all we can know about God.
Jesus taught a Power transcendent, triumphant, absolute, positive, against which lesser laws meant nothing. By Its very Presence It heals. The mystics did not contend or argue with people. There was nothing to argue about. THEY SAW and KNEW. They are the great revealers to man of the nature of the Universe, and the relationship of man to God."
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