Ron Grunberg's Reviews > Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness

Read this book a long time ago, but I throw it down here because the memory of it still lingers, strong. I remember being mesmerized reading page after page of summaries of the mystics in history, Jacob Boehme, Emmanuel Swedenborg, William Blake, Dante, Meister Eckhart, the list goes on and on. Ms. Underhill, another of the great largely unheralded women writers of the 20th century, succinctly and without diminishing her subjects' greatness, presents their thinking, excerpts from their work, and clearly illustrates the thread common to all their writings which weaves its way through their common fabric. Eminently readable, incredibly instructive, Mysticism offers a huge menu of great men and women from whose work to further pursue on your own.