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Mysticism

a study in the nature and development of man's spiritual consciousness

by Evelyn Underhill

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Languages: English, French, Portuguese
  • Content type: Fiction

Mysticism is usually thought of as an intense state involving personal unification with the Divine or Ultimate Reality. By its very nature, it is an ineffable experience, impossible to put into words. It is not impossible, however, to study the phenomenon, with an eye toward understanding not only its nature and manifestations, but its relationship to spirituality in general. This book is such a s[Bokinfo]

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Spiritualism”.

    • Spiritualism· via Open Library
  • Controlled discovery queries from libris, openlibrary, sudoc, and wellcome matched “mysticism”, “Mysticism”, and “mysticisme”. Retained metadata contains “Mysticism” in the title, “Consciousness” in the subtitle, “Mysticism” in the description, and 5 additional metadata match(es).

    • mysticism· via Libris, National Library of Sweden
    • Mysticism· via Open Library
    • mysticisme· via SUDOC — French university and research library union catalog
    • mysticism· via Wellcome Collection
    • Mysticism· in title
    • Consciousness· in subtitle

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Mysticism; a study in the nature and development of man's spiritual consciousness

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Libris bibliographic record

21 cm; 544 sidor

2003Dover PublicationsEnglish
  • 9780486422381
  • 0486422380
Catalog record

a study in the nature and development of man's spiritual consciousness

Open Library record

1911DuttonEnglishPublic

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  • Open Library reports 67 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL1101637W
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