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VERY REV. W. R. TNGE, M.A., ON 



be very general with them, that there was apparently a record, in 

 the ether around us, of all mundane affairs, and that we got our 

 information from this mystic source. He would ask Dean Inge 

 whether Christian memory was not a much more reliable and 

 comprehensive thing. For instance, there was memory which 

 perished with disintegration of the brain, but spiritual memory, 

 memory of the soul, was much more important, lasting and eternal. 

 Was not the memory of the soul a distinct thing from the memory 

 of the brain 1 If in this soul-life we would be saved from false 

 ideas of Mysticism, and be guarded against evil suggestions from 

 the unseen world, our intellect should be guided and instructed by 

 the written Word of God. If that was not the case, if our actual 

 memory and power of reasoning were not built up solely by the 

 Word of God, we should be in danger of holding a very defective 

 view of Christianity itself. 



Rev. A. Graham-Barton said : I rise to express my gratitude 

 to the reader of the paper, who has proved himself to be a master of 

 mystical lore. 



At the same time, I am convinced that he is going against the 

 conclusions of many of the chief Mystics when he seeks to give a 

 supreme place to intellectualism in the realm of the Mystic. 



I submit that whatever part the intellect may be invited to take 

 after the vision, or ecstasy, it has no place in the illumination of the 

 spirit. 



I think that Moberly's definition of Mysticism, as quoted by the 

 Essayist, that " it is, to the fullest extent, wholly rational," is scarcely 

 in keeping with actual experience. 



Reason retires when the soul gives itself entirely to the meditation 

 of the purely spiritual. 



It is then that the ideal is attained, and oneness with God 

 glorifies. Ruysbroeck, in his De Calculo, puts the case in a clear 

 light. 



He writes : " Simple unity with God can be felt and possessed by 

 none save by those who stand before the immense brightness with- 

 out reason and without restraint." If we do not distinguish soul 

 from intellect, and the moral from the mental, our faith will be at 

 peril. 



I do not agree with the Dean when he denies to the soul an entire 

 entity, and speaks of it as wandering across an abyss. 



