Quotations from Prominent Christians - Julian Johnson

To support the statement that some forms of concentration and inner experience have been practiced by devotees of the Christian religion, we wish to give a few statements taken from the history of saintly persons of Christianity. They are all the more valuable because they coincide exactly, so far as they go, with the inner experiences of the saints and their disciples of today. The following are a few accounts taken almost at random from Mystic Experiences of Medieval Saints.

(1) Vision of St. Francis Xavier:

After this prayer, I once found myself inundated with a vivid light; it seemed to me that a veil was lifted up from before my eyes of the spirit, and all the truths of human science, even those that I had not studied, became manifest to me by an infused knowledge. This state of intuition lasted for about twenty-four hours, and then, as if the veil had fallen again, I found myself as ignorant as before. At the same time, an interior voice said to me: "Such is human knowledge; of what use is it? It is I, it is my love, that must be studied."

How truly this corresponds to the Masters’ experience as far as these experiences of the Christians go! But of course, the Masters go far beyond this experience into worlds far more vast, into riches of the spirit immeasurably greater.

© "The Path of the Masters" published by Sewa Singh, Secretary, Radha Soami Satsang Beas, Dera Baba Jaimal Singh Post, Amritsar District, Punjab 143 204. Reprinted with permission.

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