By Margaret Smith
Dr Smith's booklet explores the connection among Sufism and the mysticism discovered in the Christian Church of the close to and center East.
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219. , c. 21. Cf. Naldeke, Orientafi~cheSkix~en,chap. vii. D. 4j9 and had several successors as pillar-saints. We h d that well-known hermits were regarded with great reverence even in their lifetime, and their advice and counsel were frequently sought in matters secular as well as religious, and with this fact is closely connected the cult of the saints, which developed in the early centuries of Christianity. ^ In considering the place of the Syrian ascetics in the history of monasticism and asceticism, we can see that in spite of some misguided eccentricities, they did much to turn men's minds to the consideration of spiritual things and to lead them to value the eternal above the temporal.
D. ~ Aphraates writes to both the Sons and Daughters of the Covenant, upholding celibacy. Woman with woman ought to dwell, he thinks, and man with man. He writes to solitaries that take no wives and virgins that are not taken to wife, and they that love holiness, saying : " The fruits of the Tree of Life are given as food to the virgins and those that do the will of God, . . those that keep holiness rest in the sanctuary of the Most High ; all the solitaries dot11 the only One from the bosom of His Father make to rejoice.
23. I ~ O ,died John vi. 63. I John iv. 13. D. 216. 3 I John iv. 7, 8. "l Again he writes : " Regard the whole universe ; that is His handiwork. Heaven, the sun, the angels and men are the works of His fingers. How great is the power of God ! His will alone is creation ; for God alone created, since He alone is truly God. By the expression of His will alone His work is accomplished, and the existence of the world results from a single act of that Will. rr&~a). In The Rich Man's Salvation St. Clement writes : " We must therefore store up in the soul from the very beginning the greatest and most valuable of the doctrines leadlng to life, namely to know the eternal God as both the Giver of eternal gifts and the First and Supreme and the Only Good God.
