Project Gutenberg 2022-07-30 Public domain in the USA. 512 Vaughan, Robert Alfred 1823 1857 Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion $aUnited Kingdom :$bGibbings & Company Ltd.,$c1893. MFR, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) "Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion" by Robert Alfred Vaughan is a scholarly historical account written in the mid-19th century. This work explores the development and significance of mysticism throughout various religious traditions, examining how this tendency towards intense personal communion with the divine has manifested across different cultures and eras. At the start of the book, a gathering of three friends—Henry Atherton, Lionel Gower, and Frank Willoughby—engages in deep discussions on the nature of mysticism over dinner. Their conversations touch upon the historical context and the philosophical aspects of mystical beliefs, prompting considerations about the pursuit of the divine and the subjective experience of such spirituality. The opening sets the stage for exploring the complex relationship between mysticism, reason, and the emotion-driven pursuit of religious truth, suggesting a detailed examination of these themes as the narrative unfolds. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/hourswithmystics00vaugiala 20180725003906vaughan 1893 GB Reading ease score: 58.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Mysticism -- History BV Text Category: History - Religious Category: Philosophy & Ethics Category: Religion/Spirituality 1930100 2025-06-27T07:43:31.782874 text/html 1888743 2024-10-18T23:38:27 text/html 973709 2025-06-27T07:43:55.799226 application/epub+zip 996856 2025-06-27T07:43:36.320871 application/epub+zip 856237 2025-06-27T07:43:34.009829 application/epub+zip 1499358 2025-06-27T07:44:09.852204 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1426100 2025-06-27T07:43:53.466315 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1340778 2022-09-30T21:29:23.410386 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1679790 2025-06-27T07:43:28.522868 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1659713 2024-10-18T23:38:27 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16375 2025-06-27T07:44:10.013185 application/rdf+xml 10489 2025-06-27T07:43:34.466837 image/jpeg 1957 2025-06-27T07:43:34.238860 image/jpeg 2161710 2025-06-27T07:43:31.929851 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia