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Being aware of the polarities in one's own religion: The modern seekers who are drawn to Mysticism and Yoga can benefit tremendously by being aware of, and occasionally reminding themselves of the Exoteric and Esoteric polarities within their own religion. Then they can have much greater freedom in deciding whether or not, and how, to practice Mysticism and Yoga in the context of their own religion.
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Mysticism tends to differ from public religion, which emphasizes a worshipful submission to the deity and the ethical dimension of life, while mysticism strains after the realization of a personal union with the divine source itself. The mystic desires to be as close to God as possible, part of the divine essence itself, whereas the ordinary devotee of most religious systems merely desires to walk in God's way and obey his will.
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This is a collection of original essays designed to continue and expand the groundbreaking discussion begun in Katz's previous collections, Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis (OUP 1979) and Mysticism and Religious Traditions (OUP 1984). The publication of the earlier volumes established Katz as a leading authority on mysticism and a major figure in the study of comparative religion, and his approach to the subject has been both influential and controversial. Each of the ten essays included in Mysticism and Language analyzes the relationship between language and mystical experience in one of the world's great religious traditions. The essays are by some of the foremost authorities in the field, including Ninian Smart, William Alston, Moshe Idel, Bernard McGinn, Carl Ernst, Ewert Cousins, Steven Katz, Bernard Faure, Stephen Phillips, and Bimal Matilal.
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The principles of Mysticism and Yoga are already contained within the various religions. It is only because of incorrectly seeing them as necessarily having to exist separately from one another, that there appears to be solely a joining together. In other words, it can appear that one is doing a mere cut-and-paste job of affixing Yoga onto one's religion, while the roots of the principles are already there, in the religion, in the Esoteric form of the religion.
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Mysticism appears in all of the world religions. Their mystics form an introverted counter pole to the extraverted clerics, who concern themselves with the interpretation and distribution of the holy writings.
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[T]here is a Method of Mysticism. It is that Path, on which some two years ago in this hall I lectured, giving it step by step, as it were, so that any of you might study and tread the way, I can only now just put it in a brief form as the Method of the Mystic, which, as I just now said, is alike everywhere, for all great religions recognise the Path.
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