Next, what type of house does the soul live in? It is a two-story house. The psychologist too often assumes that it is a one-roomed cottage with a mud floor; and never even attempts to go upstairs. The extreme Transcendentalist sometimes talks as though it were perched in the air, like the lake dwellings of… Continue reading Saturday in the Second Week of Lent: Time and Eternity – Evelyn Underhill
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It is true that God creates souls in a marvelous liberty and variety. The ideals of the building-estate tell us nothing about the Kingdom of Heaven. It is true also, that the furnishing of our rooms and cultivation of our garden is largely left to our personal industry and good taste. Still, in a general… Continue reading Friday of the Second Week in Lent: The Root of the Interior Life – Evelyn Underhill
When Saint Paul described our mysterious human nature as a “Temple of the Holy Spirit” – a created dwelling place or sanctuary of the uncreated and invisible Divine Life – he was stating in the strongest possible terms a view of our status, our relation to God, which has always been present in Christianity; and… Continue reading Thursday of the Second Week in Lent: The Interior Life – Evelyn Underhill
The Incarnation means that the Eternal God enters our common human life with all the energy of His creative love, to transform it, to exhibit to us its richness, its unguessed significance; speaking our language, and showing us His secret beauty on our own scale. Thus the spiritual life does not begin in an arrogant… Continue reading Wednesday of the Second Week in Lent: The Holiness of Things – Evelyn Underhill
The Carpenter's Nail 