Such a Mystic, belonging to a particular
religion, as he always does, takes the revelation of his religion as his
moral code, and Cromwell felt himself as the avenging sword of his God,
as did the Hebrews fighting with the Amalekites. No man who accepts a
revelation as his guide can be regarded as more than partially a Mystic.
He has the Mystic temperament only, and that undoubtedly gives him
a strength far beyond the strength of those who have it not.
The true Mystic, realising God, has no need of any Scriptures, for he
has touched the source whence all Scriptures flow. An "enlightened"
Br[=a]hma[n.]a, says Shr[=i] K[r.][s.]h[n.]a, has no more need of the
Ve[d.]as, than a man needs a tank in a place which is overflowing with
water. The value of cisterns, of reservoirs, is past, when a man is
seated beside an ever-flowing spring. As Dean Inge has pointed out,
Mysticism is the most scientific form of religion, for it bases itself,
as does all science, on experience and experiment--experiment being only
a specialised form of experience, devised either to discover or to
verify.
We have seen the Mystic who realises God outside himself and seeks
Union with Him. There remains the most interesting, the most effective
form of Mysticism, the realisation by a man of God within himself.
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