The Spiral WayEvelyn Underhill was a prolific writer, with dozens of books and hundreds of articles to her credit. Underhill wrote about mysticism in the beginning of her career, but later focused more on the spiritual life as lived by ordinary people. Written by Underhill under the pseudonym John Cordelier, ?The Spiral Way? is a Christian look at the journey of the spirit. With chapters structured to parallel the Roman Catholic tradition of the Mysteries of the Rosary, Underhill relates the spiritual journey to the life of Jesus Christ. This book, subtitled ?Mediations Upon the Fifteen Mysteries of the Soul's Ascent, ? examines those mysteries in three phases. The Joyful Mysteries (the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity, the Presentation in the Temple, and the Child amongst the Doctors) examines the ascent of the soul. The Sorrowful Mysteries (the Agony in the Garden, the Scourging, the Crown of Thorns, the Bearing of the Cross, and the Crucifixion) expands upon the trials and the agony experiencedalong an often difficult path. The third phase, the Triumphant Mysteries (the Resurrection, the Ascension, the Coming of the Holy Spirit, the Assumption, and the Coronation) fulfills the promise of the soul's glorious ascension of ultimate redemption. |
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... mystical and eternal fellowship of Jesus . For each to live is Christ ; and to grow is to assimilate the simple yet difficult secret of His growth . They are many , since to each His life in them is a separate and 7 INTRODUCTION.
... mystical and eternal fellowship of Jesus . For each to live is Christ ; and to grow is to assimilate the simple yet difficult secret of His growth . They are many , since to each His life in them is a separate and 7 INTRODUCTION.
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... God- head , can only know Himself as mirrored in the Son . The undeclared riches of Deity take form in the wisdom of His energetic Word ; and God finds Himself in the Eternal Christ . So too the Son , our Friend and Lover , source and ...
... God- head , can only know Himself as mirrored in the Son . The undeclared riches of Deity take form in the wisdom of His energetic Word ; and God finds Himself in the Eternal Christ . So too the Son , our Friend and Lover , source and ...
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John Cordelier. Divine and Human nature , is born of the encounter between the Eternal Christ and the spirit of man ... Christ's glory : motes , transfigured by the effulgence of His mystical body , our separated lives surrendered to the ...
John Cordelier. Divine and Human nature , is born of the encounter between the Eternal Christ and the spirit of man ... Christ's glory : motes , transfigured by the effulgence of His mystical body , our separated lives surrendered to the ...
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... changing beauty , yet that very beauty's energising soul - we dis- cern the Eternal Christ ; with whom and in whom we , since we are carried on Life's crest , must surely seek to 1 live . He reigns in virtue of a tran- THE SPIRAL WAY 13.
... changing beauty , yet that very beauty's energising soul - we dis- cern the Eternal Christ ; with whom and in whom we , since we are carried on Life's crest , must surely seek to 1 live . He reigns in virtue of a tran- THE SPIRAL WAY 13.
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... Eternal in time - is the character of the new life to be aimed at ; and at last perhaps to be achieved . It is only ... Christ . New life He asks from us ; yes ! not from us alone , but from every level of creation - new life in bird and ...
... Eternal in time - is the character of the new life to be aimed at ; and at last perhaps to be achieved . It is only ... Christ . New life He asks from us ; yes ! not from us alone , but from every level of creation - new life in bird and ...
Contents
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The Presentation in the Temple | 48 |
The Child amongst the Doctors | 56 |
The Agony in the Garden | 69 |
The Scourging | 82 |
The Crown of Thorns | 93 |
The Bearing of the Cross | 102 |
The Crucifixion | 112 |
The Resurrection | 125 |
The Ascension | 135 |
The Coming of the Holy Spirit | 144 |
The Assumption | 157 |
The Coronation | 167 |
NOTES | 176 |
Common terms and phrases
agony altar amongst angels ascent bear beauty beginning Behold birth blessed body born charity child choice Christian comes communion COSIMO CLASSICS Cosimo de Medici Cross crown darkness death deep demands desire eager earth ecstasy entinctured Eternal Christ Eternal Return exultant Exultet eyes flaming flesh flower footsteps garden gift glad glory goeth grace growing growth hath heart heaven heavenly hidden Holy Holy of Holies Holy Saturday hour humble humility Incarnation Infinite inflowing innovative publisher Jesus JOYFUL MYSTERY life's living Lord Lover Magnificat Mary meek midst mighty Mother mystic nature ness pain passion path perfect prayer purity Reality Roman Breviary Roman Missal scourge secret seek seems self-giving SORROWFUL MYSTERY soul soul's spiral Spiral Road spirit spiritual marriage suffer surrender thee things Thomas à Kempis Thou hast tion trans transcendence transfigured TRIUMPHANT MYSTERY true unto veils veritable virgin virgin soul waits Wisdom wonder
Popular passages
Page 78 - Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him When into the woods He came.
Page 72 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; Persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Page 152 - And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
Page 91 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword ? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Page 43 - Welcome, all wonders in one sight ! Eternity shut in a span ! Summer in Winter, Day in Night ! Heaven in Earth, and God in man ! Great, little One ! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
Page 49 - And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished...
Page 88 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 122 - Yea. Passing away, saith my God, passing away : Winter passeth after the long delay : New grapes on the vine, new figs on the tender spray, Turtle calleth turtle in Heaven's May. Though I tarry wait for Me, trust Me, watch and pray. Arise, come away, night is past and lo it is day, My love, My sister, My spouse, thou shalt hear Me say. Then I answered : Yea, AMEN.
Page 28 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in.