ABSTRACT
After the death of Katherine Mansfield, Middleton Murry had a mystical experience which he describes in To the Unknown God and God. Jesus, says Murry, taught that there is a faculty attainable by which man can see beyond the apparent good and evil outside and within. Murry's attitude to 'God' is similar. Murry's position involved a conflict with religious orthodoxy. Christ is his supreme hero, but a hero as a man whose unrivalled perfection drove him to a tragic death. As prophet, Murry concentrated (i) on the tragic and (ii) on ineffable recognition in and through the tragic. What he refused was (iii) any attempt to formulate that recognition. In his relations with Lawrence, Murry acted as a man of sound British normality and common-sense; but he was not acting as an interpreter of genius, nor even being true to the loneliness of genius, so excellently handled in his treatment of Jesus.
