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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some nice tanning due to age. 1977 edition. No notes or highlighting. Gift message in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In its stricter or narrower connotation spirituality is applied to the religious life in its innermost and deepest strata the life with God and all spiritual experiences arising from this source. Prayer is the center the core of spirituality-and this is true not of mystical prayer alone. As a matter of fact mysticism as the experience of union with God (a feature of many religions besides Christianity) is a rare phenomenon in religious life. It is true of course that the spiritual energies generated by this prayer of union do not remain sealed in the cell of the con- templative saint but diffuse themselves sometimes fructifying very remote areas in the civilized world of his age. The spiritual influences exerted by St. Francis and St. Teresa are historical examples of this and in our own day a non-Christian Eastern mysticism emanating from India is seeping into an English literature lately emancipated from the Puritan tradition with results not wholly salutary. Nevertheless the most powerful influence upon a people is exercised not by the mystical but by the common kind of prayer by the attitude of the ordinary man towards God in his prayer and in his moral life. Here also the saints the heroically spiritual are leaders; but chiefly such of them as stand on common ground with the men of their time; who can share more or less freely their spiritual experi- ence with their fellow-men. (SP)