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BOOKS that celebrate the all-pervasiveness of Spirit

The Essential Mystics: The Soul’s Journey into Truth, Andrew Harvey, 1996. “The universe, as many mystical traditions tell us, is the ‘child’ of a Sacred marriage between the feminine and masculine forces within the One…it is the constantly self-transforming expresion of their eternal mutual passion. For the human race to have a chance to survive, this cosmic marriage has to be mirrred and enacted in our being at every level.” “God has many diferent religions to suit different aspirations, times, and countries.” “…the mystic’s journey is one taken on behalf of all humanity…”

Mother of the Buddhas: Meditation on the Prajnaparamita Sutra, Lex Hixon, 1993. The originating text of the Mahayana, the Universal, or Messianic vehicle of Buddhism is here rendered in flames of wisdom-insight and compassion: emphasizing both the depth of unthinkability - indescribable, ungraspable, insubstantial, traceless, goalless, stainless, measureless - and our involvement in the relative world sustaining what is essential to enlightenment -that is, our compassionate engagement with the evolutionary careers of all beings. [Acquire through abebooks.com …]

SUFI: Expressions of the Mystic Quest, Laleh Bakhtiar,1976. An absolutely AWESOME guide to the WHY, WHAT and HOW of Mystical Expression. “The Sufi, through creative expression, remembers and invokes the Divine order… so that that which is within may become known.” “…the doctrine of the Unity of Being is is the basis of Sufi metaphysics. Mahmud Shabistari, in his beautiful Garden of Mystery, says simply: ‘See One. Say One. Know One.’”

God in Creation: An Ecological Doctrine of Creation - The Gifford Lectures 1984-1985, Jurgen Moltmann, 1985. Moltmann purposefully brings to the surface the mystic Judaic roots of Christianity in which the Holy Spirit or Shekinah aspect of the triune God is the Feminine Principle of Divine Immanence. “The divine secret of creation is the Shekinah, God’s indwelling; and the purpose of the Shekinah is to make the whole creation the house of God.” “If we ask about creation’s goal and future, we ultimately arrive at the transfiguring indwelling of the triune God in creation, which through that indwelling becomes a new heaven and a new earth…”