"Christian" Mysticism

I’ve read quite a bit over the past couple of years about how mysticism is invading the Church.  Of course I know that the farther from orthodoxy an individual denomination or assembly is, the more likely such mysticism will invade its teachings.

This past Saturday I got a pretty good look as to what degree an individual assembly has drifted.  I do have to note that the assembly is already astray because it is a member of the Episcopal Church denomination, which has gone apostate with its liberal teachings a long, long time ago.

I was in this particular “church” building because I was there to play for a memorial service.  I asked for a place to put my pipes together and tune up (as usual) and was provided their small library.

While performing the tuning I happened to look around at the shelves and was astounded to see that almost half of the book shelves were about mysticism (and another shelf for “gay and lesbian” studies).

As I played the pipes to warm them up, I tried to remember what I saw, and was actually able to write down a bit after tuning, just before I went to my position in the “sanctuary.”
Three shelves directly in front of me were labeled “Christian Mysticism.”  A thick book by Meister Eckhart drew my immediate attention, but titles on the shelves included “Practical Mysticism,” “The Mystic Way,” “Wisdom of the Mystic Masters,” “Dark Night of the Soul,” and “Mystics and Zen Masters.”

Two tall book cases had labels for each shelf - and each shelf had plenty in that subject, with some subjects taking more than one shelf!
The labels were:  “Eastern Religion,” “Chinese Religion,” “Zen Buddhism,” “Buddhism,” “Yoga,” “Bhagavd gita,” “Upanishads,” “Vedanta Krishna,” “Hinduism,” “Sufism,” “Tibetan Religion,” “Christian Science,” “Native American Spirituality,” and others that, in my haste, I didn’t get a chance to write down.

There is nothing in any of these books which have anything to do with the Christian faith.  If your church has a library like this, it’s a good indication how far astray your leadership have strayed.  Run - don’t walk - to a good Bible-teaching church.