The Astral Projection Course of Study

Saints, Visionaries, and Forgotten Masters of Divine Encounter

BY MARILYNN HUGHES

The Mystics of Christianity: Saints, Visionaries, and Forgotten Masters of Divine Encounter

By Marilynn Hughes

The Mystics of Christianity: Saints, Visionaries, and Forgotten Masters of Divine Encounter, By Marilynn Hughes – The Mystics of Christianity is a comprehensive exploration of the Christian mystical tradition, bringing together the voices of saints, contemplatives, theologians, visionaries, monastics, and spiritual seekers whose lives and writings have revealed the profound depths of the soul’s journey toward God. From the early Desert Fathers and Mothers to the great mystics of the medieval world and the continuing witnesses of modern contemplation, this volume traces the unfolding of a spiritual tradition that has sought not only to understand God, but to encounter the Divine through prayer, silence, surrender, love, and transformation. Within these pages are the familiar masters of Christian mysticism as well as lesser-known figures whose wisdom has often remained hidden from wider audiences. Together, they reveal the many expressions of mystical experience: the longing for union with God, the purification of the heart, the discovery of divine love, the mystery of creation, the transformation born through suffering, and the awakening of the human person to a deeper reality. More than a collection of biographies, The Mystics of Christianity is a journey through the living history of Christian spiritual experience. It invites readers to encounter the voices of those who sought the mystery beyond words and discovered that the deepest movement of the soul is always a movement toward Divine Love. Featuring the lives, writings, and spiritual insights of Jesus of Nazareth, Mary, Paul the Apostle, Ignatius of Antioch, Anthony the Great, Augustine of Hippo, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Isaac of Nineveh, Symeon the New Theologian, Hildegard of Bingen, Bernard of Clairvaux, Francis and Clare of Assisi, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Meister Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, Brother Lawrence, Angelus Silesius, Thérèse of Lisieux, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Charles de Foucauld, Thomas Merton, James Finley, Hermas, Perpetua, Anne Catherine Emmerich, and hundreds of other saints, visionaries, contemplatives, theologians, monastics, and forgotten masters, this volume offers one of the most comprehensive explorations of the Christian mystical tradition ever assembled in a single work.