The Dark Night of the Soul (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Dark Night of the Soul The constant and simultaneous succession and recurrence of certain district yet similar phenomena, taking place in all centuries and in all races, might lead us to the conclusion (in the lack of other positive knowledge) that behind all Form, Dogma, Ritual and Ceremonial, there is hidden a profound and mysterious meaning, a meaning which constitutes the Root Religion whence, as from a spring or fountain head, all others had their rise, and this Root Religion cannot have been other than the close and intimate Communication of man with the Universal Soul - the Body Soul - the Suchness, the Becoming, the Divinity, - give it what name you will, so that, so far from having gradually evolved into intellectual light through a scale of beings inferior to him, as the evolutionist maintains, he would rather seem to have begun as the inhabitant of a higher sphere, to boast a celestial genealogy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.