The same character of revelation, which we find in poetry, … - Walter Terence Stace

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The same character of revelation, which we find in poetry, attaches to mystical illumination, although here the revelation is always the divine.

Walter Terence Stace

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Walter Terence Stace (17 November 1886 – 2 August 1967) was a British colonial civil servant, educator, public philosopher and epistemologist, who became best known for his writings on mysticism.

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The task of thought in our time is to replace the lost religious and metaphysical foundation of morals by a secular and naturalistic foundation.

Mystics more often than not avoid direct reference to themselves.

And in the end it is because of mysticism that it is possible to say that “no man is an island” and that on the contrary every man is “a part of the main.”

The same character of revelation, which we find in poetry, attaches to mystical illumination, although here the revelation is always the divine. - Walter Terence Stace

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