Without prejudice to individual beliefs, and without offering an opinion as to the exclusive truth of any one religious system or revelation - for here we are concerned neither with controversy nor with apologetics - we are bound to allow as a historical fact that mysticism, so far, has found its best map in Christianity. Christian philosophy, especially that Neoplatonic theology which, taking up and harmonizing all that was best in the spiritual intuitions of Greece, India, and Egypt, was developed by the great doctors of the early and mediaeval Church, supports and elucidates the revelations of the individual mystic as no other system of thought has been able to do.
Underhill, Evelyn, "Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness", (London: Methuen, 1911), 104
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