Search Results: MYSTICISM from Chilton Books

London: SPCK, 2000.. 1st ed. "In this ground-breaking and passionate book, the author argues that believers today desperately need to retrieve a spiritual life of great depth in order to remain faithful in a world that contains much moral and social disintegration..." Pp.9/150. P/b with illustrated cover. G+.

Norwich: Derek Neville, Itteringham Mill, 1955.. 1st ed. Privately printed. Pp.211, frontispiece., signed inscription from author to front free endpaper. Green cloth. VG.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965.. This book is one of the devotional classics of the English Church, and perhaps the greatest of them all. No one who reads it can fail to catch something of its splendour and charm". Pp.143, top corner of half-title page clipped, toning to pages. Paperback. G+.

London: Fount Paperbacks. 1985.. 1st.ed. "This book is essential for all those who wish to study mysticism further, also a magnificent introduction to this great body of literature - and a book that will provide inspiration for every Christian." Pp.366, owners name crossed out to half-title. Pbk. G+.

Oxford: SLG Press, 1976.. Fairacres Publication No.63. "Both essays n their different ways chart her progress from the rather diffused enthusiasm for mysticism of her earlier writings to the mre balanced and more profound theology which characterises the teaching of her last fifteen years." Pp.23. Lilac card covers, slightly sunned to spine edges. G+.

Oxford: SLG Press, 1996.. 1st edition. Eight Letters of Evelyn Underhill & Essays by A.M.Ramsey & A.M.Allchin. "These two essays, and a series of letters she sent to a novice trying her vocation to the religious life, introduce us to a gifted writer, director, and theologian whose teaching sprang from a life of profound prayer." Pp.iv/48. Paperback. VG.

London: SCM, 1992.. Volume I of The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism. Contents include: Part I: The Historical Roots of Western Mysticism. !. The Jewish Matrix.; 2.The Greek Contemplative Ideal; 3.Jesus: The Presence of God on Earth; 4.Mystical Elements in Early Greek Christianity; 5.The Monastic Turn and Mysticism. Part II.The Birth of Western Mysticism. 6.Early Latin Mysticism; 7.Augustine: The Founding Father. Appendix: Theoretical Foundations. The Modern Study of Mysticism. 1.Theological Approaches to Mysticism; 2.Philosophical Approaches to Mysticism; 3.Comparativist and Psychological Approaches to Mysticism. Pp.xxii/494. Paperback. VG.

London: David Nutt, 1914.. Contents: I.Popular Poetry in Italy Before and After St Francis; II.St Francis; III.The First Followers of St Francis - Brother Pacificus, St Bonaventure, Jacomino of Verona; IV.Jacopone Da Todi, the Mystic Poet; V.The Poems of Jacopone. Pp.xvi/334, spotting and toning to endpapers. Blue cloth,gilt title to spine, spine darkened, edges rubbed. Good.

Paris: Librairie Fischbacher, 1924.. Glanes Mystiques recueilles par Henry van Etten et extraites des ouvrages de Thomas A kempis, Ruysbroeck, Molinos, Mmme Guyon, St Jean de la Croix, George Fox, Bienhse Therese de l'Enfant-Jesus, etc. 13cms x 9cms. Pp.54, red-ruled pages, text in French. Brown red-ruled cover with darkened spots to front. G+.

Shaftesbury: Solos Press, 1993.. Originally published in 1937. "Demonstrates that the scriptures are not always to be taken literally as biographies of the life of Christ but they also contain allegorical and symbolical levels of meaning as well....It becomes clear that the teachings of Christ have far more in common with those of such other great world teachers as the Buddha, Krishna, Hermes Trismegistus and Zoroaster than is generally supposed by most practising Christians." Pp.226. Paperback. VG.

London: SCM, 1995.. Vol.II The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism. "The fascinating history of early medieval mysticism, when monasticism was the dominant religious and educational institution of the new post-Roman world. It brings to life such visionaries as Gregory the Great, John Scotus Eriugena, Bernard of Clairvaux and many others." Pp.xviii/630. Paperback, minor creasing to spine. VG.

London: Methuen & Co,1908.. The Library of Devotion series. 15cms x 10cms. Pp387, owner's illustrated bookplate(Honor Thomas) to front free endpaper, date to top of front free endpaper, picture of nativity scene pasted to preliminary page, strengthening to inner hinges. Green ribbed cloth, gilt title to spine, minor bumps to corners. G+.

London: Collins, 1973.. Rep. "In this book it is Teilhard de Chardin the man of prayer who speaks to us. The richness, faith, spirituality, and abundant hope of his mystical milieu tell us much about the spiritual life of the scientist-priest, and illumine the ideas behind his philosophy." Pp. 144, pages toned, owner's name to front free endpaper, pages toned. Paperback. Good.

Boston: Shambhala. 2002.. 1st ed. "Restores the realms of inner space to the Christian tradition. Drawing upon a wide range of mystical and esoteric literature and practice, he shows how multidimensional is the Christian message, and how profound its understanding of the nature and purpose of the psyche". Pp 292, 1 b/w illustration. P/b. VG.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957.. Man's search for God and his struggle to overcome the spiritual and material factors that impede his search is the most vital and rewarding of all human activities". Pp 256, toning to pages, owner's label to half-title page. Paperback. G+.

Cambridge: W.Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1917.. 1st edition. "The book is a practical one. I am no dreamer, but one who believes ardently in the power of the spiritual world to re-make the earth in its own likeness, so that we may begin, even here and now, our everlasting life"(author's preface). Written in the form of letters. Pp.viii/109/2(publisher's ads), occasional spotting throughout. Green card covers. Scarce. Good.

London: Hillside Press,nd(c.1932).. A diary of the author's direct experiences of the spiritual world. Pp.164. Wraps sunned and edges chipped. G.

London: J.M.Dent, 1961.. 2 volume set. Vol.1: Introduction and Biographies. Pp.xxxiii/466, portrait frontispiece convent inkstamps to fep. Vol.2: Critical. Pp.vi/422, portrait frontispiece, convent inkstamps to fep and title page. Green cloth, silver titles to spines. A heavy set (over 2kg) may require extra postage. VG.

Colorada: Acropolis Books. 1998.. Reflects Rafael's ardent desire for spiritual growth in himself and in his students". Pp 220. P/b. VG.

London: Sheldon Press,1976.. 1st UK ed. "Professor Parrinder defines mysticism as 'the search for unity with the universe, the self, or God", and explores it in two principal areas: monastic mysticism...and theistic mysticism...The search for the mystical through drugs, sex, and visions is also discussed and finally the relation of religious experience to the mystical is shown to be that between the ordinary believer and the expert on the way to union." Pp.8/210. Blue laminated boards. VG.