Christian Mystics

Personhood of God

C.M. Gregory — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:57:00 +0000

The clear and firm structure of the I-You relationship, familiar to anyone with a candid heart and the courage to stake it, is not mystical. To understand it we must sometimes step out of our habits of thought, but not out of the primal norms that determines man’s thoughts about what is actual. Continue reading →

The Christian Mystic Paradigm

C.M. Gregory — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:38:29 +0000

All of this is done by those who willingly turn from the things of this life, either for the sake of the coming kingdom, or because of the number of their sins, or on an account of their love of God. Without such objectives the denial of the world would make no sense.” Continue reading →

Peter Marshall

C.M. Gregory — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:33:28 +0000

How can you prove that anything is beautiful? Could you demonstrate to me, by logic, or reason, or by intellect, that the Fifth Symphony, or the Moonlight Sonata, was sheer beauty Continue reading →

Profane Source of Truth?

C.M. Gregory — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:26:49 +0000

Let every good and true Christian understand that wherever truth may be found, it belongs to his Master Continue reading →

Mystical Experience

C.M. Gregory — Thu, 12 May 2011 16:05:30 +0000

In God Logic we have the perfect religious recipe, the authority of scripture applied rationally in the fullness of understanding and individually confirmed by emotion… God becomes property of the soul, neatly and logically compartmentalized, conveniently accessible in time of need, want, or whenever socially necessary Continue reading →

Wandering Mind – Friend or Foe?

C.M. Gregory — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:01:26 +0000

I sit at my table and wage war on myself It seems like it's all, it's all for nothing It's high time I've razed the walls that I've constructed Continue reading →

Spirit of Soul (Part III of III)

C.M. Gregory — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:32:26 +0000

Spirit is a synergistic word intended to express the sum of mankind’s intellectual composition and is characteristically responsible for motion in the soul leading to action in the body. Continue reading →

Heart of Soul (Part II of III)

C.M. Gregory — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:01:12 +0000

Our heart is therefore, the shrine of the intelligence and the chief intellectual organ of the body, When, therefore, we strive to scrutinize and to amend our intelligence through rigorous watchfulness, how could we do this if we did not collect our intellect, outwardly dispersed through the senses, and bring it back within ourselves – back to the heart itself, the shrine of the thoughts? Continue reading →

On The Soul (Part I of III)

C.M. Gregory — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:06:00 +0000

In modern-day Christendom scriptural words are frequently used as building blocks for doctrine but rarely discovered for their experiential value. Continue reading →

Making of a Mystic

C.M. Gregory — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:28:23 +0000

A lifetime spent preparing for the journey, Reading from a map in the mind, In the rolling mist, then he gets on board, Now there'll be no turning back, Beware that hooded old man at the rudder Continue reading →