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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: mystical experience may be attained. It is odd that
Protestantism, especially evangelical Protestantism, should
seemingly have abandoned everything methodical in this line.
Apart from what prayer may lead to, Protestant mystical
experience appears to have been almost exclusively sporadic. It
has been left to our mind- curers to reintroduce methodical
meditation into our religious life.
[250] Gorres's Christliche Mystik gives a full account of the
facts. So does Ribet's Mystique Divine, 2 vols., Paris, 1890. A
still more methodical modern work is the Mystica Theologia of
Vallgornera, 2 vols., Turin, 1890.
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