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Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion

John Murray, 1947

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Alan Watts's 1947 book, published in London by John Murray (a second edition followed from Random House in 1971), a reworking of his Episcopal divinity thesis arguing for a non-dualistic reading of Anglican theology in terms of the Perennial Philosophy. Written while Watts was training for and serving as an Episcopal priest, it is his own attempt to reconcile Christian mysticism with the non-dual insight he found in Zen and Vedanta, before he left the priesthood in 1950.

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Alan Watts 1
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John Murray (London, 1947); reissued by Random House, 1971 1
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1947 1
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Book (primary) 1
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Sourced to the subject's own accountTier two: Alan Watts's own 1947 primary text, a reworking of his Episcopal divinity thesis arguing for a non-dualistic reading of Anglican theology. Cited here as Watts's own argument, not as a scholarly or doctrinal account of Christian mysticism itself.
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