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Rufus jones9/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Baltimore Young Friends Yearly Meeting Lecture (1944) There is very great need to have the unique aspect of spirit in man and its relation to the divine spirit in the universe freshly interpreted in a world that has become bogged down with material conceptions of life and the world. Persons are set on fire by someone who is already aflame. ![]() What Will Get Us Ready (1944) Most persons are awakened and set on their new track of life through the quickening and kindling power of some person who becomes for them the instrument of inspiration and of the creation of faith and the vision of a nobler way of life. The Inner Light is the doctrine that there is something Divine, "something of God," in the human soul.įive words are used indiscriminately to name this Divine something: "The Light," "The Seed," " Christ within," "The Spirit," "That of God in you." This Divine Seed is in every person good or bad.But this idea received a meaning and an emphasis from the Quakers which make it their own peculiar principle and their distinct contribution to religious thought. The term "Inner Light" is older than Quakerism, and the idea which is thus named was not new when George Fox began to preach it. No person can ever hope to gain an adequate idea of the religious movement which has been called by the name of Quakerism until he has discovered what is meant by the " Inner Light." It is the root principle of an important historic faith, and it deserves a careful examination.It furnishes some material for studying a "mystical group" and it supplies us with an opportunity of discovering a test and authority even for mystical insights The Quaker movement, which had its rise in the English Commonwealth, is an exception. It has broken forth where the Spirit listed, and its history is mainly the story of the saintly lives through which it has appeared. There have been types of mystical religion which have persisted for long periods and which have spread over wide areas, but in all centuries such mystical religion has spread itself by a sort of spiritual contagion rather than by system and organization. It has found an exponent now here, now there, but it has shown little tendency toward organizing and it has manifested small desire to propagate itself. Mysticism has been for the most part sporadic.Social Law in the Spiritual World (1904) Social Law in the Spiritual World : Studies in Human and Divine Inter-Relationship (1904) As quoted in Living in the Light : Some Quaker Pioneers of the 20th Century Vol. ![]()
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