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Mysticism : its true nature and value : with a translation of the "Mystical theology" of Dionysius, and of the letters to Caius and Dorotheus (1, 2 and 5)

by: Sharpe, Alfred Bowyer; Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, 1st cent

Publication date: 1910

Topics: Mysticism

Publisher: London : Sands ; St. Louis : B. Herder

Collection: Wellesley_College_Library; blc; americana

Contributor: Wellesley College Library

Language: English

I. Two ideas of mysticism.--II. Supernatural mysticism.--III. The nature of mystical experience.--IV. The object of mystical knowledge.--V. The psychology of mysticism.--VI. Evil.--VII. Immanence and transcendence.--VIII. Plotinus.--IX. Heretical mystics.--X. Mysticism, philosophy and religion.--XI. Dionysius.--XII. The "Mystical theology" of Dionysius the Areopagite.--Letter: I. To Caius the monk--The ignorance by means of which God is known is above sense-knowledge, not below it. II. To the same--In what sense God is above the principle of divinity. V. To Dorotheus the deacon--The divine darkness further explained