Prof Sorley : William Ritchie (1855-1935), professor of logic & philosophy, moral sciences (veiled Christian Catechism), etc. He always thought & wrote as one for whom Christian “moral & spiritual values are not only an essential part of experience but its ultimate meaning”. In 1900 he succeeded his teacher Henry Sidgwick in the Knightsbridge Professorship at Cambridge.
... darkness, because the darkness is there in us and around us, but it is to the Light he is leading and not to anything else. Intellectual Expression of Spiritual Experience In reference to what Prof. Sorley has written on The Riddle of This World , 2 the book of course was not meant as a full or direct statement of my thought and, as it was written to sadhaks mostly, many things were taken for ...
... Hladini Shakti. What is referred to is Page 116 not this minor form, but the full Power of Love and Ananda above. 7 February 1934 The Riddle of This World In reference to what Prof. Sorley has written on The Riddle of This World , the book of course was not meant as a full or direct statement of my thought and, as it was written to sadhaks mostly, many things were taken for granted ...
... mystic experience is preserved, the reasoning intellect comes in only on the second line as a judge of the generalised statements drawn from the experience. This is, I presume, something akin to Prof. Sorley's position — he concedes that the experience itself is of the domain of the Ineffable, but as soon as I begin to interpret it, to state it, I fall back into the domain of the thinking mind, I... considered as realisation — they must be confirmed by being translated into and justified by experience. Letters on Yoga, p. 189 That brings us straight to the question raised by Professor Sorley, what is the relation of mystic or spiritual experience and is it true, as it is contended, that the mystic must, whether as to the validity of his experience itself or the validity of his expression ...
... that this will come as soon as these descents of peace, intensity or Ananda get strong enough to occupy the whole system. 16 November 1932 I find nothing either to add or to object to in Prof. Sorley's comment on the still, bright and clear mind; it adequately indicates the process by which the mind makes itself ready for the reflection of the higher Truth in its undisturbed surface or substance ...
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