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Beasts of the World, Unite! Farmer Jones had a good farm, but he drank too much. One night, by the mystic operations of the historical dialectic, a leftist political theoretician appeared among his farm animals. He was old Major, a prize Middle White hog. Major addressed the other creatures...
...curious to know whether Hollywood has heard of the Pilgrim Fathers, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, or Thomas Jefferson. . . . We like amiable Catholic priests, mystic Bernadettes, charming nuns as well as the next man, but why this conspiracy of silence against America's Protestant tradition? . . . It is high time we have a series of pictures that portray our diverse religious traditions, including the bracing vigor of Protestant Christianity and the moral grandeur of historic Judaism...
...answer: "I am filled with ... a profound, mystic, silence-enjoining awe, in the presence of the religious greatness of the damned, in the presence of genius of disease and "the disease of genius, of the type of the afflicted and the possessed, in whom saint and criminal are one. . . . It is incomparably easier and more wholesome to write about divinely pagan healthfulness than about holy disease. We may amuse ourselves at the expense of the former, the fortunate children of nature and their artlessness; we cannot amuse ourselves at the expense of the children of the spirit, the great sinners...
Saint Theresa of Avila, "the Saint of Ecstasy," divided her existence equally between earthly toil and divine rapture. Her strenuous earthly labors led to her founding of the order of Discalced Carmelites; her ecstatic transports made her _one of the world's great mystic poets. Half genius of the supernatural, half militant nun, Theresa's gifts to posterity have become part of "the inalienable possessions of mankind...
...Mystic Huxley, for 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...