{"id":8225,"date":"2016-08-16T23:48:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/mysticism\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:48:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:48:40","slug":"mysticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/mysticism\/","title":{"rendered":"MYSTICISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Mysticism keeps men sane.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>G.K. Chesterton<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The dark night of the soul through which the soul passes on its way to the Divine Light.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John of the Cross<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>A most sublime and sweet knowledge of God and of His attributes overflows into the understanding from the contact of the attributes of God with the substance of the soul.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John of the Cross<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>For what is mysticism? Is it not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for \u201cThe Kingdom of Heaven is within\u201d? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Florence Nightingale<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>In joy of inward peace, or sense<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Of sorrow over sin,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>He is his own best evidence<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>His witness is within.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>J.G. Whittier<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mysticism keeps men sane. G.K. Chesterton The dark night of the soul through which the soul passes on its way to the Divine Light. John of the Cross A most sublime and sweet knowledge of God and of His attributes overflows into the understanding from the contact of the attributes of God with the substance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/mysticism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MYSTICISM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}