Category: Mysticism

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ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 11)

The End – Accompanied by Magnificent Masonic Funeral Music Andrew Murray died on 18 January 1917, four months before his 89th birthday. He was so deeply influenced by Johann Christoph Blumhardt’s “Möttlingen” revival that he included a portion of Friedrich Zündel’s...

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ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 10)

“The Kingdom of God is within you” (Part 10) There are two noticeable aspects of Murray’s book “The Kingdom of God is within you” that bear the marks of subtle deception. The first is that Murray never fully quotes or...

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ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 9)

The Masonic Influences on Andrew Murray Paul warns us in Ephesians 5:11, “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [rebuke, expose] them.” This is not a two-pronged command; the one cannot be separated from...

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ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 8)

Why is Biblical doctrine important? The Bible is very clear on the punishment for the desecration of God’s doctrines. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ,...

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ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 7)

True Love True love comes from a heart saturated with humility and meekness. Humility is not something you can evoke or engender by yourself through asceticism, monasticism, retreats, piety, contemplation, silence, solitude, or any other form of mysticism such as...

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ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 6)

Strange Mystical Bedfellows Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde said, “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” Paradoxically, he too, together with Thomas More, a vehement persecutor of heretics (Protestants), who was canonized as a saint by Pope Pius...

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ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 3)

Mystic Secrecy Mysticism has its roots in the notion that God is wholly incomprehensible. For William Law and mystics in general the universe is “wrapped in the impenetrable mystery of a God who is so infinitely greater than man, that,...

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ANDREW MURRAY’S MYSTICISM (PART 2)

Andrew Murray’s mysticism Perhaps the following facts about Andrew Murray’s mysticism are not so widely known as the many books he had written. Nonetheless, as you may see, it mirrors universal mysticism to its core. Murray’s books resonated so well...

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ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 1)

Introduction: Andrew Murray, The Mystic – The article is a response to a comment by Robert on the DTW Website (Discerning the World – 21 Nov. 2022). Hello, Tom Sorry for two comments in one day, but I have gone...

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Stephan Joubert: The Innovator

An innovator par excellence Stephan Joubert is forever renewing old things. If not “The NEW new Testament” he has translated with Jan van der Watt, it is new ideas about the work of the Holy Spirit that keep popping up...