
TO most English readers the "Imitation of Christ" is the representative of mediaeval German mysticism. In reality, however, this beautiful little treatise belongs to a period when that movement had nearly spent itself. Thomas a Kempis, as Dr. Bigg has said, was only a semi-mystic...









Light, Life and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages is a book compiled by W.R. Inge. It is a collection of writings from various German mystics who lived during the Middle Ages. The book includes works from famous mystics such as Meister Eckhart, Johannes...

""Light, Life and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages"" is a book compiled by W.R. Inge that features a collection of writings from several German mystics from the Middle Ages. The book includes excerpts from the works of Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler,...


As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good...

