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Is it But what do we the heart of God, that man's of the Eternal anchorage in the three mind aches mean home in really not that man's heart cries for a for the light Reason, that man's will gropes for the faculties Divine will may ment towards God, ? One or other of be primary in the move- according to the individual temperament, or all three may have an equal share in it. But whichever be predominant, man's hunger for God cannot, without violating all good sense, be described as a special spiritual organ or 27 MEANING AND VALUE OF MYSTICISM In the case of the mystic that suscepti- capacity.
A passage from Jacob Boehme on true quiet of soul " Cease but suggests the answer to such a question from thine own activity, steadfastly fixing thine eye upon one point. For this end, gather in all thy thoughts and by faith press into the Centre, tion that of : ^ Mysticism, p. 87. 28 NATURE OF MYSTIC APPREHENSION Word of God, which is infallible and which hath called thee. Be thou obedient to this call, and be silent before the Lord sitting alone with Him in thy inmost and most hidden cell, thy mind being centrally united in itself and attending His will in the patience of hope.
36 NATURE OF MYSTIC APPREHENSION In the most unlikely quarters souls have responded to the mystic witness. There is no " church " so uni- innumerable company of unknown mystics throughout the world. Not versal, so representative, as the only the restless and unconventional, the Magnum, adventurers in search of the Mysterium answer to the mystic message ; in wild every humble work-a-day Christian congregation there are those who live by mystic apprehension. The discerning traveller marvels again and again at the large number of poor unlettered sides, folk, who have deep often in remote country- kinship with the great mystics, by an infallible instinct, understand what they have never been taught in so many words, holding in toil-worn hands the key to realms of spiritual truth whose gates are barred to the deliberate " I have heard," frequenter of mystic societies.