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050 4 _aBV
100 1 _aVaughan, Robert Alfred,
_d1823-1857
245 1 0 _aHours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2022-07-30
508 _aMFR, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)
520 _a"Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion" by Robert Alfred Vaughan is a scholarly historical account written in the mid-19th century. This work explores the development and significance of mysticism throughout various religious traditions, examining how this tendency towards intense personal communion with the divine has manifested across different cultures and eras. At the start of the book, a gathering of three friends—Henry Atherton, Lionel Gower, and Frank Willoughby—engages in deep discussions on the nature of mysticism over dinner. Their conversations touch upon the historical context and the philosophical aspects of mystical beliefs, prompting considerations about the pursuit of the divine and the subjective experience of such spirituality. The opening sets the stage for exploring the complex relationship between mysticism, reason, and the emotion-driven pursuit of religious truth, suggesting a detailed examination of these themes as the narrative unfolds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnited Kingdom: Gibbings & Company Ltd., 1893
653 _aMysticism -- History
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/hourswithmystics00vaugiala
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68646
999 _c109450
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