A Study in Illumination (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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A fascinating look at how mystics and poets move from ordinary sense perception to deeper spiritual truth.

This study examines the path of illumination, exploring how perception, consciousness, and faith interact in the quest for meaning.

The book surveys key ideas and moments in mysticism and poetic vision. It analyzes how sensory experience can lead to profound spiritual insight, and it weighs debates about transcendence, immanence, and the nature of reality. Drawing on figures like Browning, Saint Teresa, Pascal, and Ruysbroeck, it shows how illumination often blends struggle, doubt, and grace on the road to union with the divine.

• Traces the classic stages of mystical life: purgation, illumination, and union.
• Explains how sense experience can become a doorway to spiritual truth.
• Uses literary and religious figures to illuminate the mystic journey.
• Discusses the balance between the seen world and the unseen, and the risks of pantheism.

Ideal for readers of literary criticism and religious history who want a clear, thoughtful guide to how mystics and poets seek reality beyond the senses.

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