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 - Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980. ([New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1945)
The golden age and the mystic poet Lao-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 mediaeval 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 acknowledgments (p. 385-395)--Index.
"A Delta book."
Keywords: Mysticism -- History