ARTICLES

These six articles and translations by Robert K. Clark are intended to be useful and informative to the inquiring seeker of spiritual realities.

The first article, ‘Unknowing and Unsaying: Negation in the Mystic Quest’ briefly considers the nature of the mystic quest and the soul’s ascent through the via negativa, as it leaves behind all that is unlike its Goal.

‘Words Cannot Name Thee: A Hymn to God and Its Author’ offers a translation of one of the most uplifting short inspirational writings in the Western mystical tradition. It also explores the question of the authorship of the ‘Hymn to God’, which has been variously attributed to Gregory of Nazianzus, Proclus and Dionysius the Areopagite.

‘A Brief Chronology of Some of the World’s Religions’ offers a short historical time frame to key stages of unfoldment in the world’s major religious traditions.

‘The Divergent Uses of Greek Philosophical Terms by Platonic Philosophy and Modern Psychology: Two Illustrations’ offers insights into the differing ways that Platonic philosophy and modern psychology have used Greek philosophical terms.

‘Meister Eckhart: A Great Light’ includes a brief summary of the life of one of the foremost mystics in the recorded history of mankind, as well as selections from Eckhart’s works illustrating his thought and experiences, and appreciations from noted authorities on the place that Eckhart holds in the Western mystical tradition.

The sixth and final offering is a translation from On the Gods and the World, written by the 4th century philosopher Sallust, or Sallustius, a friend of the Emperor Julian. It suggests that, as the writer and philosopher Elbert Hubbard would succinctly express in one of his epigrams,“we are not punished for our sins, but by them.”

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Unknowing and Unsaying: Negation in the Mystic Quest
Words Cannot Name Thee: A Hymn to God and Its Author
A Brief Chronology of Some of the World’s Religions
The Divergent Uses of Greek Philosophical Terms By Platonic
Philosophy and Modern Psychology: Two Illustrations
Meister Eckhart: A Great Light
On Human Propitiation of the Divine