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[Anonymous No.13159459]

Mysticism thread. Post books and give recs.

[Anonymous No.13159514]

meme title but i've enjoyed this

[Anonymous No.13159529]

cloud of unknowing

[Anonymous No.13159530]

>western mysticism
Cringe

[Anonymous No.13159533]

An absolute classic

[Anonymous No.13159536]

Anyone know any books on daoist mysticism?

[Anonymous No.13159819]

>>13159533
>yoga
>western

[Anonymous No.13159904]

>>13159819
????
Mysticism has to be western?
The eastern religions understand it better anyway.::

[Anonymous No.13159910]

>>13159459
An absolute classic

[Anonymous No.13159931]

Great books ITT. >>13159459 particularly is great.

My personal recommendations are:
>Mystics of Islam by Reynolds Nicholson
>Evil and Mystic's God by Michael Stoeber
>Cloud of Unknowing
>Jakob Boehme's Aurora

>>13159904
>The eastern religions understand it better anyway

While most western and eastern strains of mysticism arrive to apophatism by similar techniques; they are still sufficiently different as to not be comparable. You have very different metaphysical frameworks in each tradition so you are comparing only orange peels with apple peels. Let's not do that again

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>>13159910
what's it about? i only read the poem and it was ok but too filthy

[Anonymous No.13160028]

https://archive.org/details/TanquereySpiritualLife/page/n2
the BEST treatise on ascetic and mystic theology

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>>13159530
yikes

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>>13159931
>You have very different metaphysical frameworks in each tradition
What did you just say, bucko?

[Anonymous No.13160846]

>>13160617
>From rationalism, religion was bound to sink into sentimentalism, and it is in the Anglo-Saxon countries that the most striking examples of this are to be found. What remains is therefore no longer even a dwindling and deformed religion, but simply ‘religiosity’, that is to say vague and sentimental aspirations unjustified by any real knowledge: to this final stage correspond theories such as that of the ‘religious experience’ of William James, which goes to the point of finding in the ‘subconscious’ man’s means of entering into communication with the divine. At this stage the final products of religious and of philosophical decline mingle together and ‘religious experience’ becomes merged in pragmatism, in the name of which a limited God is stipulated as being more ‘advantageous’ than an infinite God, insofar as one can feel for him sentiments comparable to those one would feel for a higher man.

[Anonymous No.13160850]

the one thing spanish people are good at

[Anonymous No.13160859]

>>13160850
glorified siesta

[Anonymous No.13161090]

Gravity's Rainbow

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>>13159459

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>>13160617
man, this book was so fuckin good

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>>13159459
Awake with the Blake. (Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a good start)

[Anonymous No.13161952]

>https://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/ps/ps101.htm
>On this account, therefore, I have not hesitated nor have I been ashamed to call you my brethren and my companions, because ye will be fellow-kings with me in my kingdom. This, therefore, I say unto you, knowing that I will give you the mystery of the Ineffable; that is: That mystery is I, and I am that mystery.

THE MYSTERY BEING THAT HE IS THE MYSTERY.

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>>13159530
t. brainlet

[Anonymous No.13163176]

>>13160846
>At this stage the final products of religious and of philosophical decline mingle together and ‘religious experience’ becomes merged in pragmatism, in the name of which a limited God is stipulated as being more ‘advantageous’ than an infinite God
Guenon clearly didn't read Varieties.

[Anonymous No.13163212]

I read Liber 777 by Crowley and I have literally no idea what he means in any of it and I'm not even sure I want to know. Are there any good books on Kabbalah that would be a good explanation?

If anyone has a good recommendation, I'd like some simple, comfy, nature-based and folksy mystic stuff to read as well. Something like St. Francis of Assisi but more narrative I suppose. I really liked "The Way of a Pilgrim" but I would've liked it to deal with the land and nature a bit more. That's more only gripe with a lot of mysticism nowadays. It's either sentimental tree hugging or soulless anthropocentricism with no regard to other life.

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>>13159536
Do you have a pic of those dao sefirote correspondences in a readable version?

[Anonymous No.13163328]

>>13159536

Secret of the Golden Flower
Original Tao: Inward Training (Nei-yeh) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism
Everything translated by Fabrizio Pregadio, particularly the Seal of the Unity of the Three

[Anonymous No.13163448]

Redpill me on Teresa of Avila. Tell me about the erotic love of Christ

[Anonymous No.13164330]

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