Religion and Science
8. The Atheistic Interpretation of Religion
~ 135 ~
nobody should ask whether mystical
experience is true or false, whether it is auto-
suggestion, hallucination, or a journey of the
soul beyond the dimensions of our world and
its union with a higher reality. One must be
content with having an operational concept of
such an experience. Mysticism is splendidly
generous. It brings to man the fulfillment of
his highest desires: inner strength, spiritual
light, divine love, ineffable peace. Religious
intuition is as real as aesthetic inspiration.
Through the contemplation of superhuman
beauty mystics and poets may reach the
ultimate truth (p.132).
1.
An Historian’s Approach to Religion.
p. 123.
2.
Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences.
Vol. 13. p. 230
