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

By Alan Watts

Written during Watts's years as an Episcopal priest, this is his most sustained attempt to recover the mystical heart of Christianity. He argues that religion withers into mere morality unless it restores direct, present-tense union with God, and reads Christian doctrine through the lens of the Perennial Philosophy. Warm and urgent — as much personal meditation as theology.