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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.
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Religion can probably out live any scientific discoveries which could be made. It can accommodate itself to them. The root cause of the decay of faith has not been any particular discovery of science, but rather the general spirit of science and certain basic assumptions upon which modern science, from the seventeenth century onwards, has proceeded.
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But the divine mystery is inherent in the divine, a part of the nature of God, and can never disappear. And this means that it is still a mystery even to the mystic who has directly experienced it, nay, even to God Himself. That is why it is ineffable. The mystery and the ineffability of God are one and the same thing.
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To suppose that the world aims, as some human beings do, at noble ends, is plainly anthropomorphic. And perhaps the chief ground for refusing to admit purpose in nature is just that there is no evidence of it.
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It is not that science proves that the world is not moral. Science as such is not concerned with values, and proves nothing of the sort. Nevertheless, as a matter of history, it is science which has suggested this view to the modern mind by its insistence on mechanistic categories.
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Thus we see that mysticism naturally, though not necessarily, becomes intimately associated with whatever is the religion of the culture in which it appears.
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Mystics more often than not avoid direct reference to themselves.
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All religious thought and speech are through and through symbolic. And this fundamental insight is perhaps as old as religion itself.
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It has been said that man lives by truth, and that the truth will make us free. Nearly the opposite seems to me to be the case. Mankind has managed to live only by means of lies, and the truth may very well destroy us.
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Walter Terence Stace
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Born:
November 17, 1886
Died:
August 2, 1967
(aged 80)
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Walter Terence Stace was a British civil servant, educator, public philosopher and epistemologist, who wrote on Hegel, mysticism, and moral relativism.
Known for:
Mysticism and philosophy (1960)
A critical history of Greek philosophy (1920)
The concept of morals (1937)
The philosophy of Hegel (1924)
Religion and the modern mind (1952)
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