Part One: The Mystic Fact

1911 work with the author’s 1930 preface; complete CCEL transcription Evelyn Underhill
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“What the world, which truly knows nothing, calls ‘mysticism’ is the science of ultimates, . . . the science of self-evident Reality, which cannot be ‘reasoned about,’ because it is the object of pure reason or perception. The Babe sucking its mother’s breast, and the Lover returning, after twenty years’ separation, to his home and food in the same bosom, are the types and princes of Mystics.”
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“The Rod, the Root, and the Flower”

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CCEL ThML DC.Rights explicitly states Public Domain; modern catalog description excluded. 1911 work with the author’s 1930 preface; complete CCEL transcription

Preface to the First Edition I. The Point of Departure