The Complete Christian Mystic: A Practical, Step-By-Step Guide for Awakening to the Presence of God

by Evelyn Underhill

Regarded by many as the 20th Century’s finest practitioner and ablest teacher of Traditional Christian Mysticism, Evelyn Underhill draws from the lives and writings of such beloved Catholic Saints as St. Teresa, St. Augustine, St. Catherine of Siena, St. John of the Cross, St. Hildegarde of Bingen, St. Mechtild, St. Bernard, and dozens more, as well as from the works of Protestant giants like Jacob Boehme, and George Fox, founder of the Quakers, to demonstrate that ” The spiritual life is not a special career involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life, and until he has realized it he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers. It is therefore the function of a practical mysticism to increase, not diminish, the total efficiency, the wisdom and steadfastness, of those who try to practice it…” At more than 600 pages, THE COMPLETE CHRISTIAN MYSTIC: A PRACTICAL, STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE FOR AWAKENING TO THE PRESENCE OF GOD is the ultimate single-volume “Masters Class” on the mystical life.

616 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 8, 2010

About the author

Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism.

In the English-speaking world, she was one of the most widely read writers on such matters in the first half of the twentieth century. No other book of its type—until the appearance in 1946 of Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy—met with success to match that of her best-known work, Mysticism, published in 1911.

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