The Evelyn Underhill Collection Volume I includes: Practical Mysticism (1915) The Essentials of Mysticism & Other Essays (1920) The Life of the Spirit & The Life of To-day (1922) Evelyn Underhill was a poet, novelist, pacifist, and mystic, in addition to being a poet and novelist. Many of her acquaintances referred to her as "Mrs. Moore." She was a prolific novelist who wrote over 30 works under her maiden name, Underhill, or the alias "John Cordelier," like in the instance of The Spiral Way, published in 1912. Initially an agnostic, she gradually developed an interest in Neoplatonism and, against her husband's reservations, she was progressively converted to Catholicism and finally Christocentric Christianity. Evelyn Underhill spent her whole life trying to comprehend and explain what she might only describe as mystical experiences. She claimed that spiritual encounters are not limited to stories or the past but may occur in people's everyday lives, a point that comes across in many of her writings. This collection of three of Evelyn's books includes one of her most famous works, "Practical Mysticism," first published in 1914, along with "The Essentials of Mysticism", a compilation of essays on mysticism published between 1912 and 1920, and "The Life of the Spirit & The Life of To-day", Originally presented as a series of lectures at Oxford in 1921. Mystics like St. Teresa, Thomas a Kempis, Ruysbroeck, and St. Augustine impacted Underhill tremendously, and instances from all these thinkers and poets like Whitman and Keats are interspersed throughout her books. Practical Mysticism, in particular, has fascinated generations of readers and is still the prime source for an initial study of mysticism which is a great place to start before plunging into her more intense writings.
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