CHAPTER X

THE MYSTICAL LIFE
( The text of the final chapter of Underhill's book. Read more... )

My anger is the effervescence of my pity.

Bloy, Léon . Pilgrim of the Absolute. New York: Pantheon Books. pp. 11, 13.

St. Augustine hated the Stoics, Dostoevsky hated the Russian Liberals. At first sight this seems a quite inexplicable peculiarity. Both were convinced Christians, both spoke so much of love, and suddenly - such hate! And against whom? Against the Stoics, who preached self-abnegation, who esteemed virtue above all things in the world, and against ( Read more... )

Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.
Leon Bloy

Every man who begets a free act projects his personality into the infinite. If he gives a poor man a penny grudgingly, that penny pierces the poor man’s hand, falls, pierces the earth, bores holes in suns, crosses the firmament and compromises the universe. If he begets an impure act, he perhaps darkens thousands of hearts whom he does not know, ( Read more... )

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A Journey Round My Skull: Musings and Thunderings of Leon Bloy

"....nostalgia for an aristocratic medievalism, which opposed the bourgeois materialism of the modern zeitgeist ( Read more... )