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When once the genius of Locke was in the ascendant, more spiritual forms of philosophy fell into disrepute.They, almost alone of all Christian missionaries of that age, pointed their hearers (not without scandal to greenday midi download their orthodox brethren) to a light of God within them which should guide them to the brighter radiance of a better revelation.But Fnelon is thoroughly representative of a pure and refined mysticism.Conversions greenday midi download were effected among early Christians such as could not be the result of mere rational conviction.He would have it understood that he had for ever done with enthusiasm when once he had separated from the Moravians.The doctrines of an inner light, of perfection, of reason quiescent amid the tumult of the soul, of mystical greenday midi download union, of disinterested love, are all strongly maintained by the Archbishop of Cambray.Its uncertain lights and shadows, its mysteries, obscurities, and difficulties, were thoroughly distrusted by him.In 1726 he wrote the 'Serious Call,' one greenday midi download of the most remarkable devotional books that have ever been published.The writers of the eighteenth century were fully alive to its dangers.Yet no admirer of his who had become at all penetrated with the spirit that breathes in his writings could fail to sympathise with the fundamental ideas common to every greenday midi download form of mystic theology.Cautiously and tardily often far too much so for its own immediate advantage it has seldom neglected to find at last within its ample borders some room for modes and expressions of Christian belief which, for a time neglected, had been growing up outside its bounds.