Let imagination take over and you will have a God. Quite right: for the imagination is man's faculty for perceiving divinity." 16 And: "A definite relationship to God must seem as intolerable to the mystic as a particular conception or notion of God." 17. In other ways, the early Romantics expanded on Schleiermacher's ideas ...
It's not some sort of mystic spaciousness where you get in touch with the Buddha-nature or anything like that. It's simply the background awareness. It's there. And there's the question of being consciously in touch with it, being consciously open with it, or not. When you're more in touch with the background, you begin to notice the point, or the focus of the mind: here, there ...
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Toward the end of 1798, Novalis became engaged a second time, but the marriage never took place. The following year he started work as a manager of the salt mines in Saxony. Still, he found time to continue his philosophical and religious readings, in particular the writings of the mystic Christian, Jakob Böhme.
But Socrates the mystic provided the Romantics with the positive goal for such a process: the search for inspiration in the creation of truly beautiful and expressive works of art. The two dialogues in which Socrates spoke most rhapsodically on these topics—the Phaedrus and the Symposium—were the ones the Romantics turned to most often. Both dialogues taught that love of beauty was a ...
Huxley then quotes approvingly a passage from William Law, an 18th century mystic, to the effect that this Ground, both within and without, is infinite. "This depth is the unity, the eternity—I had almost said the infinity—of the soul; for it is so infinite that nothing can satisfy it or give it rest but the infinity of God." 40
