Word: eckhart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist Huxley's book, reflecting a growing, uneasy sense of the inadequacy of a purely rationalistic approach to God, included excerpts from many unfamiliar European mystics and religious thinkers (Francis of Sales, St. Teresa, Eckhart, Boehme), even more unfamiliar Asiatics (Jalaluddin Rumi, Visvanatha, Chuang...
...some years a resident of California and a latter-day disciple of California's mystic Gerald Heard, has called his newest book The Perennial Philosophy (Harper; $3). Under 27 headings, Author Huxley has presented the principal tenets of mysticism in his own words, illustrating by quotations from Mystics Eckhart, Lao-Tzu, William Law, many another...
...other men chosen are: James Noland, Thomas Ware, Lynn Northrup, Ralph Turlington, and James Bromwell, all in their third term, and William Haak, Walter Siravo, Patrick Nickolson, and James Eckhart, all of whom are second term...