{"id":690,"date":"2014-07-18T02:16:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T02:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiescent.wordpress.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2014-07-18T02:16:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T02:16:50","slug":"a-j-muste-on-the-mystics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/2014\/07\/18\/a-j-muste-on-the-mystics\/","title":{"rendered":"A. J. Muste on the Mystics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>As far as reading is concerned, what undoubtedly influenced me most, during the critical months of inner wrestling, to conclude that I could not &#8220;bend&#8221; the Sermon on the Mount and the whole concept of the Cross and suffering love to accommodate participation in war, was the serious reading of the Christian mystics. ~\u00a0A. J. Muste, &#8216;Sketches for an Autobiography,&#8217; in <em>The Essays of A. J. Muste<\/em>, N. Hentoff, ed., Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1967, p. 47.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here Muste specifically mentions the work of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rufus_Jones_%28writer%29\">Rufus M. Jones<\/a> as being helpful. Many of his works are freely available on <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Jones%2C+Rufus+Matthew%2C+1863-1948%22\">Archive.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as reading is concerned, what undoubtedly influenced me most, during the critical months of inner wrestling, to conclude that I could not &#8220;bend&#8221; the Sermon on the Mount and the whole concept of the Cross and suffering love to accommodate participation in war, was the serious reading of the Christian mystics. ~\u00a0A. J. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}