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035 _a(Sirsi) 96206
035 _a(Sirsi) 96206
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035 _z(Sirsi) 96206
040 _cTUN
090 _aBL 625 .C4 1972
100 1 _aCheney, Sheldon,
_d1886-1980.
245 1 0 _aMen who have walked with God,
_bbeing the story of mysticism through the ages told in the biographies of representative seers and saints, with excerpts from their writings and sayings,
_cby Sheldon Cheney.
260 _a[New York,
_bAlfred A. Knopf
_c1945
300 _axiv, 395, viii p.
_bplates.
_c21 cm.
500 _a"A Delta book."
505 0 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aMysticism
_xHistory.
999 _c123436
_d123436