…mystics, you find it throughout the 17th century mystics, you find it in the great English mystic of the 18th century, William Law, and you find it, of course, in the Quakers, who have probably more than any Protestant denomination. concerned with this…

…mystics, you find it throughout the 17th century mystics, you find it in the great English mystic of the 18th century, William Law, and you find it, of course, in the Quakers, who have probably more than any Protestant denomination. This alert passivity,…

…cannot be approximate means of union with God and the same idea is expressed by the great Anglican mystic of the 18th century William Law who says to find or know God in reality by any outward proofs or by anything but by God himself made manifest in…

…think for two reasons. First of all, it is regarded as valuable because of the self-evident sensibility of values, as William Law would say. It is regarded as intrinsically valuable, just as aesthetically the experience of beauty is regarded as valuable. It…

…is in one respect. But we must also remember that the age of Hume is at the same time the age of Wesley and William Law, the age of Voltaire and rationalism, is also the age of Cagliostro, the age in which Casanova was able to make a handsome living…