Ebook Mysticism in English Literature

Mysticism is, in truth, a temper rather than a doctrine, an atmosphere rather than a system of philosophy. &vario'us mystical thinkers have con tributed fresh aspects of Truth as they saw her, for they have caught glimpses of her face at different angles, transfigured by diverse emotions, so that their testimony, and in some respects their views, are dissimilar to the point of contradiction. Wordsworth, for instance, gained his revelation of divinity through Nature, and through Nature alone whereas to Blake Nature was a hindrance.