_THE GENERAL GORDON EDITION._ CHRIST MYSTICAL. By JOSEPH HALL, D.D., Bishop of Norwich. Reprinted, with General Gordon’s marks, from the Original Copy used by him, and with an Introduction on his Theology By the Rev. H. CARRUTHERS WILSON, M.A. “A book which was so highly prized by so romantic and heroic a Christian as General Gordon is sure to awaken a widespread curiosity. This edition is not only printed from his copy, but shows the passages which he had marked for special consideration. The treatise itself is worthy of the place it held in his esteem. Mr. Wilson’s introduction is entirely appropriate, and we cannot but feel that the publishers have rendered good service by including the work in their Devotional Library.”--_Baptist Magazine._ “Hall’s treatise is in itself an excellent example of the best kind of devotional literature, and it will contribute to its appreciation by the modern reader that its sacred teachings and appeals formed part of the spiritual nourishment of the English nineteenth-century hero and saint.”--_Christian World._ LONDON: HODDER AND STOUGHTON. FOOTNOTE: [1] I shall give only one example, which is elementary in both senses of the word. Ruysbroeck distinguishes three kinds of life--the active life, the inward life, and the super-essential life. The Gnostics distinguish the spirit, the soul, and the material life, and divide men into three classes--the pneumatic or spiritual men, psychic or soul men, and hylic or material men. Plotinus also distinguishes between the soul, the intellect, the reasonable soul, and the animal nature. The Zohar distinguishes the spirit, the soul, and the life of the senses, and in the two systems, as in Ruysbroeck, the relation of the three principles is explained by a _procession_ which is of the nature of an _irradiation_; then the theory of the divine meeting, God coming into us from within towards without, we going to Him from without towards within, etc. Cf. also the 5th Ennead, etc. etc. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.