E-text prepared by Ruth Hart
ruthhart@twilightoracle.com
In the original book, the Table of Contents was located after the Preface,but I have placed it at the beginning of the text for this online version.
Author of "Mysticism," "The Mystic Way," "Immanence: A Book ofVerses."
"If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything wouldappear to man as it is, infinite.
For man has closed himself up,
till he seesall things through the narrow chinks of his cavern."
WILLIAM BLAKE
NEW YORK
E.P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 FIFTH AVENUE
Copyright 1915 by
E.P. Dutton & Company
TO THE UNSEEN FUTURE
| Preface | vii | |
| I. | What is Mysticism | 1 |
| II. | The World of Reality | 13 |
| III. | The Preparation ofthe Mystic | 21 |
| IV. | Meditation andRecollection | 56 |
| V. | Self-Adjustment | 29 |
| VI. | Love and Will | 74 |
| VII. | The First Form ofContemplation | 87 |
| VIII. | The Second Form ofContemplation | 105 |
| XI. | The Third Form ofContemplation | 126 |
| X. | The Mystical Life | 148 |
PREFACE
This little book, written during the last months of peace, goesto press in the first weeks of the great war. Many will feel that in such a timeof conflict and horror, when only the most ignorant, disloyal, or apathetic canhope for quietness of mind, a book which deals with that which is called the"contemplative" attitude to existence is wholly out of place. So obvious,indeed, is this point of view, that I had at first thought of postponing itspublication. On the one hand, it seems as though the dreams of a spiritualrenaissance, which promised so fairly but a little time ago, had perished in thesudden explosion of brute force. On the other hand, the thoughts of the Englishrace are now turned, and rightly, towards the most concrete forms ofaction--struggle and endurance, practical sacrifi