The Triple Way

by George Peck

Overview

Perhaps the most important truth that the sages of the Western world have consistently expounded is that the journey of the soul on earth is a progression. The seeker yearns for an ever expanding awareness of the presence of God. Teilhard de Chardin writes in the Divine Milieu: �God . . . waits for us every instant in our action and in the work of each moment. He is in some way at the end of my pen, my pick, my paintbrush, my needle � of my heart and my thought.�

Reflecting on mysticism as it has been expressed throughout history, George Peck, a philosopher, teacher, and Quaker, illustrates how that history is echoed in Quaker practices.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150363540
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	08/12/2014
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #213
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	30
File size:	109 KB

About the Author

George Peck took his doctorate in Italian history at the University of Chicago in 1942, and served in the Italian section of the O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services) in World War II, receiving a bronze star. Since retirement from business in 1970 he has been teaching, and has developed a course in the history of mysticism at the SUNY College at Purchase, New York. His book, entitled The Fool of God: Jacopone du Todi, which is a study of the 13th century Franciscan poet and mystic, will be published by the University of Alabama later this year.
For the past fifteen years he has been a member of the Stamford-Greenwich Meeting, Connecticut, where he has been clerk and at various times convenor of different committees. He has served for more than a decade on the Executive Committee of the New York Region of the A.F.S.C., and has recently participated in prison visitation. On most days of the year he spends some time working either in the garden or the woods, and his account of �The Appalachian Trail in Connecticut� is currently appearing in Connecticut Woodlands.