... mysticism. These include those of Malwida von Meysenbug, Walt Whitman, Dr. J. Trevor, Dr. R.M. Bucke, of Raja Yoga as expounded by Swami Vivekananda, Al-Ghazzali, Saint John of the Cross, Saint Teresa, Saint Ignatius, and some others such as Sufi Gulshan-Raz and Plotinus. See Appendix VI (p. 131) Page 6 HOME ...
... mysticism. These include those of Malwida von Meysenbug, Walt Whitman, Dr. J. Trevor Dr. R.M. Bucke, of Raja Yoga as expounded by Swarai Vivekananda, AI-Ghazzali, Saint John of the Cross, Saint Teresa, Saint Ignatius, and some others such as Sufi Gulshan-Raz and Plotinus. See Appendix VI (p. 131) But Yoga, as distinguished from religion, is primarily a śāstra and not a system of beliefs, ceremonies ...
... Tagore, Rabindranath 5, 175, 183, 262, 582 Tan Yun-shan, Prof 532 Tandon, Purushottamdas 226 Tara Jauhar 691, 710 Tea Ceremony 194-5, 287-8, 319, 321 Teilhard de Chardin 732 Teresa, Saint 38, 62, 129 Teresa, Mother 552 Théon, Alma 21-5 Théon, Max 21-5, 191 Thompson, Francis 28 Thoreau, H.D. 186, 485 Tiruvalluvar 485 Tilak, Lokamanya E.G. 199 Togo Mukherjee ...
... Augusta Rolfe, who is none other than the devoted Teresa. Théon's father is listed as: Judes L. Bimstein, Rabbi. Alma's father as: William J. Ware (deceased), Gentleman. The three of them went to live in N°ll Belgrave Road, St. John's Wood, Marylebone, which was Alma's residence. Page 54 It would seem that Alma and Teresa were friends from their convent days at Claydon... leaving Egypt, but by May 1884 Max and Alma knew each other well enough to go to theatre together. Not in a twosome, though —the strict Victorian code of morals forbade it — they were chaperoned by Teresa. Then, on 21 March 1885, Max and Alma were married. 1 The marriage between Louis Maximillian Bimstein, Doctor of Medicine, 2 and Mary Chrystine 1.The certificate of their marriage... Claydon, Suffolk. The latter remained a lifelong companion of the former. Teresa, when she turned forty, in July 1885, was allowed a year's trial under Théon. By and by, Théon began holding séances. Soon, however, the couple realized that England was not a place where they could pursue unhindered their exploration of the lost knowledge. So the next year they went to the Continent. It was on ...
... spiritual aspiration, the mystical state, if a compromise is accepted! Can we ever have a lascivious Christ or a lustful Buddha? Can Mirabai sleep with mortals or any earthly kiss echo on the lips of Teresa the name of the Lord? One cannot have the Spirit's height side by side with a mounting fever of the libido. One cannot have the God-intoxicated profundities of the soul together with a frenzied absorption... in man's heart and frightens away the mind of the race from walking in the footsteps of the God-seeker. Where then lies the solution of the dilemma? No number of Christs, Buddhas, Mirabais and Teresas will establish the kingdom of the Spirit on earth and drive from a world of limitation and death the mighty bewitchment of sex unless they realise that the search of sex, no matter how blind, is along... a devitalised demon lying quiescent, a presence felt as a mere passive weight in their earth-being. No more than a sprinkling have cast it out of themselves altogether. Yet even the great Yogis and Saints who have banished lustful desire have felt in the midst of their entire psychological release the limitations of their physical existence, a bounded sense of outer being and the transitoriness of the ...
... intense aspiration. If the result of such aspiration is to be sought in any words inscribed by a God-worshipper I would pick out those which Longfellow has given us, called "Saint Teresa's Bookmark", evidently a translation of that Saint's own writing: Let nothing disturb thee. Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to... exquisite religious urge or a settled mystical state with outflowing benedictions to those who need it yet have not reached its shelter - my mind keeps racing towards analogous utterances. One which Saint Teresa's sense of the all-satisfying plenitude of God's eternity suggests to me at the moment is a stanza I recall from Emily Bronte. Here we have in a concentrated form a philosophical dictum swept into ...
... the unnatural tax it lays on one by its rigid rules and its grinding tasks, there is the very great possibility of its not spiritualising one at all. Who is usually in charge of a nunnery? Not a St. Teresa or a St. Catherine, but an ordinary Mother Superior who has an ability to govern and organise, but no special spiritual radiancy. How is she to help one's soul? Of course one may turn to the occult... have many petty traits, for they too are not supernormal folk. A religious bent of mind or an impetuous turn towards the cloister does not transmute people into superhuman beings. And unless a St. Teresa or a St. Catherine is there to guide a nun and help her and uplift her by their very presence and make all her travails and tribulations as worth while as they can be made, the aspirant will not attain... and pious life which is all that there is in organised religion at its best, whether Christian or Hindu or any other, we have not much hope of being truly illuminated. To sit at the feet of a living Saint or Yogi who embodies the Divine and is with us as a constant spiritual presence in very flesh and blood is the only right and reliable and fruitful way of mysticism. Page 148 Lastly ...
... there the fulfilment of what I have termed one's divine destiny. That destiny is met only when one moves towards the realisation of God by the via mystica. All may not have it in them to be a Saint Teresa or a Mirabai, a Meister Eckhart or a Ramana Maharshi — much less to come anywhere near the Mother or Sri Aurobindo. But all can make a beginning in the inner life. By the inner life I do not mean ...
... mediaeval age was not after all so dark and unregenerate as it has been the familiar custom to represent it. Christian Europe – the Europe of cathedrals and monasteries, of saints and sages, of St. Francis and St. Teresa, of Boehme and Bernard, of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine, had an enlightenment all her own, which was real and living and dynamic, possessing a far-extending and deeply penetrating ...
... s, inspirations, and mystic phenomena are the same in ages and countries far apart from each other and even though systems were practised quite independently from each other. The experiences of Saint Teresa, those of Andal or of Mirabai are precisely the same in substance, however, differing in names, forms, or cultural colouring. It is a fact that they were not corresponding with one another or aware ...
... imperfectly constructed in his luminosity; there is more of the ethical put forward than of the spiritual or divine man. The Christ that has strongly lived in the Western saints and mystics is the Christ of St. Francis of Assisi, St. Teresa and others. But apart from that, is it a fact that Christ has been strongly or vividly loved by Christians? Only by a very few, it seems to me. As for Krishna, to judge ...
... sustains his halo, and just this difference between abiding in the soul and residing very near to it and only sometimes merging in it distinguishes the religious saint from the saint who is spiritual. In the latter category are Francis and Teresa and John of the Cross. Although I do not have Augustine's morbidity about 'sin' nor his attachment to a formal pietism, he is a magnified and consummated version ...
... show by citation how strong an impression they leave of being revelations of new depth of truth. Saint Teresa is the expert of experts in describing such conditions, so I will turn immediately to what she says of one of the highest of them the 'orison of union.' "In the orison of union," says Saint Teresa, "the soul is fully awake as regards God, but wholly asleep as regards things of this world and... Noble Classics, NY, 2004, pp. 294-5) ___________________________________________ ¹ SAINT JEAN DE LA CROIX, Vie et Œuvres, Paris, 1893, ii. 94,99 abridged. ² 'Insects,' i.e. lice, were an unfailing token of mediaeval sainthood. We read of Francis of Assisi's sheepskin that "often a companion of the saint would take it to the fire to clean and dispediculate it, doing so, as he said, because... Paris, 1897, p. 66. But there are unquestionably mystical conditions in which sensible symbols play no part. 14 Saint John of the Cross: The Dark Night of the Soul, book ii. Ch. Xvii., in Vie et Œuvres, 3me edition, Paris, 1893, iii. 428-432. Chapter xi. of book ii. of Saint John's Ascent of Carmel is devoted to showing the harmfulness for the mystical life of the use of sensible imagery. ...
... learns to lose itself in the Divine, all ambitions and programmes and strategies for social service would become, not service of humanity, but an offering to the Divine. We are reminded of Mother Teresa who has said that in her epic ministrations to the sick, the miserable, the destitute and the dying at Calcutta and elsewhere, she is not engaging in social service, but only in God's service..... with human misery, and reacted in two different ways. One was Prince Siddhartha, for whom suffering was the result of life itself, and hence the way out was a release into Nirvana. The other was Saint Vincent de Paul, the result of whose apostleship was the creation of "an appreciable sense of charity in the mentality of a certain section of the well-to-do", but by and large the wretched and the ...
... like St. Antony and St. Pachomius to the great monastic leaders like St. Benedict and St. Bernard, to St. Francis and St. Dominic, St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross, right up to Mother Teresa at the present time, there have always been hot only individual saints who have revealed the love of Christ, but whole communities who have borne witness to the mystery of Christ and its power to transform... spite of what Zaehner condemns historical Christianity for, "there has never been a time when the Church failed to manifest 'Christ's gift of love'". You add a list of martyrs and saints "right up to Mother Teresa at the Page 102 present time" and even whole communities who have revealed the love of Christ and the power of Christ's mystery to transform human life. I would be... accept such a saint as revealing the love of Christ and the power of Christ's mystery to transform human life? In fact the Order he founded was from the beginning tainted with unscrupulous fanaticism and his followers were the worst agents of the Inquisition before their rivals the Franciscans challenged the monopoly. Mention of the Inquisition reminds me of another saint, whom you have ...
... And there is Dante's music about the santo riso, the saintly smile, of Beatrice which guided him from the sins of the flesh to the soul's ecstasy of worship. Crashaw wrote a hymn in honour of St. Teresa, lauding her devotion to Christ and her transforming influence on men. Francis Thompson made a shrine for Alice Meynell: she was the religious calm-centre to the storm of his much-tossed and vagrant... the attraction of the overhead, which is marked in patches, get full response. Indirect also are the excellent lines by a poet of our own day, Robert Hugh Benson, depicting a contemplative of St. Teresa's Order: Page 119 She moves in tumult; round her lies The silence of the world of grace; The twilight of our mysteries Shines like high noonday on her face; Our piteous... energy of thought and will, yet without those subtle delicate influences of the Divine that are received when the being is bent not only on God-knowing but also on God-loving, on growing the devotee and saint as well as the sage and prophet. This meaning, however, unfolds for all its reliance on the mind's ordinary method of speech less through a number of illustrative images concretising the ideas than ...
... use it to pluck flowers for my puja. Your idea of the Nobel Prize is wonderful! That would close all their mouths. Laffont would be delighted! But how to move Stockholm!? They understand Mother Teresa better ! I am a kind of outlaw. I embrace you with deep and sweet love. I am waiting and waiting for Her Hour. Satprem January 8, 1978 (Personal letter) ......... I am being completely... Falsehood. Mother and Sri Aurobindo fought against this No of the world all their life, they were surrounded by this No, it was what they were working on, through their “disciples” — it is not on little saints that one does the work, but on anything that resists the change with all its strength. Apparently, that No pushed both of them into the tomb. This is Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s Mystery — the one... majority of them), Indian, Swiss, Australian, German, Tunisian, etc. N. is preparing a report which she will send as soon as ready. We have also informed Edgar Faure, Yves Jaigu and Therese de Saint-Phalle, in order to make UNESCO intervene and to put pressure on the Embassy of India in Paris. For your part, see what you can do with all our friends. M. D. is among last night’s prisoners. ...
... imperfectly constructed in his luminosity; there is more of the ethical put forward than of the spiritual or divine man. The Christ that has strongly lived in the Western saints and mystics is the Christ of St. Francis of Assisi, St. Teresa and others. But apart from that, is it a fact that Christ has been strongly and vividly loved by Christians ? Only by a very few, it seems to me. As for Krishna, to... brother-in-law Shankar first out of his corporeal tabernacle—that would be a better thing to start with, what ? For do you know my sister writes he has become "a devotee”, thanks to this Bharati Maharaja Saint! It looks very much like an Asura in the saintly guise though if he has really had any success with Shankar, qu'en dites-vous ?(Gods are so easily defeated, don't you see?) Well, from the ...
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