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INDEX

Absolute, oneness with the, 410

Abstractness of religious objects, 53

ACHILLES, 85

ACKERMANN, MADAME, 63

Adaptation to environment, of things, 428; of saints, 365-368

Æsthetic elements in religions, 450

Alacoque, 304, 337, 404

Alcohol, 377

AL-GHAZZALI, 393

ALI, 334

ALLEINE, 224

ALLINE, 156, 213

Alternations of personality, 190-191

ALVAREZ DE PAZ, 114

AMIEL, 386

Anæsthesia, 283

Anæsthetic revelation, 377-383

ANGELUS SILESIUS, 408

Anger, 178, 259

"Anhedonia," 143

Aristocratic type, 363

ARISTOTLE, 486

Ars, le Curé d’, 296

Asceticism, 268, 291-304, 352-357

Aseity, God's, 430, 436

Atman, 392

Attributes of God, 431; their æsthetic use, 448

AUGUSTINE, SAINT, s68, 353, 486

AURELIUS, See MARCUS

Automatic writing, 62, 468

Automatisms, 229, 245, 467-473

 

BALDWIN, 339, 493

BASHKIRTSEFF, 82

BEECHER, 251

BEHMEN, See BOEHME

Belief, due to non-rationalistic impulses, 72

BESANT, MRS., 24, 165

Bhagavad-Gita, 353

BLAVATSKY, MADAM, 412

BLOOD, 380

BLUMHARDT, 111

BOEHME, 401, 408

BOOTH, 200

BOUGAUD, 336

BOURGET, 258

BOURIGNON, 315

BOWNE, 492

BRAINERD, 209, 248

BRAY, 244, 251, 285

BROWNELL, 505

BUCKE, 389

Buddhism, 32, 34, 512

Buddhist mysticism, 392

BULLEN, 282

BUNYAN, 154, 157

BUTTERWORTH, 402

 

CAIRD, EDWARD, 104

CAIRD, J., on feeling in religion, 424; on absolute self, 440; he does not prove, but reaffirms, religion's dicta, 443.

CALL, 284

CARLYLE, 41, 294

CARPENTER, 313

Catharine, Saint, of Genoa, 284

Catholicism and Protestantism compared, 112, 329, 455

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Causality of God, 507, 512

Cause, 492

CENNICK, 296

Centres of personal energy, 193, 261, 513

Cerebration, unconscious, 203

Chance, 516

CHANNING, 295, 478

CHAPMAN, 318

Character, cause of its alterations, 190; scheme of its differences of type, 194, 211; causes of its diversity, 256; balance of, 333

Charity, 269, 273, 347

Chastity, 304

Chiefs of tribes, 363

Christian Science, 105

Christ's atonement, 126, 240

Churches, 328, 450

CLARK, 380

CLISSOLD, 471

COE, 235

Conduct, perfect, 347

Confession, 451

Consciousness, fields of, 226; subliminal, 228

Consistency, 290

Conversion, to avarice, 175

Conversion, Fletcher's, 178; Tolstoy's, 180; Bunyan's, 183; in general, Lectures IX and X, passim; Bradley's, 186; compared with natural moral growth, 196; Hadley's, 198; two types of, 202 ff.; Brainerd's, 209; Alline's, 213; Oxford graduate's, 216; Ratisbonne's, 219; instantaneous, 222; is it a natural phenomenon? 225; subliminal action involved, in sudden cases, 231, 235; fruits of, 232; its momentousness, 234; may be supernatural, 237; its concomitants: sense of higher control, 239, happiness, 243, automatisms, 245, luminous phenomena, 246; its degree of permanence, 251.

Cosmic consciousness, 389

Counter-conversion, 173

Courage, 260, 282

Crankiness, see Psychopathy

CRICHTON-BROWNE, 375, 377

Criminal character, 258

Criteria of value of spiritual affections, 19

CRUMP, 234

Cure of bad habits, 264

 

DAUDET, 164

Death, 137, 356

DERHAM, 483

Design, argument from, 428, 482 ff.

Devoutness, 333

DIONYSIUS AREOPAGITICUS, 407

Disease, 97, 111

Disorder in contents of world, 428

Divided Self, Lecture VIII, passim; Cases of: Saint Augustine, 168, H. Alline, 170

Divine, the, 32

Dog, 276

Dogmatism, 320, 326

DOWIE, 111

DRESSER, H. W., 94, 97, 184

Drink, 262

DRUMMOND, 257

Drunkenness, 377, 394, 478

"Dryness," 201

DUMAS, 274

Dyes, on clothing, 289

 

Earnestness, 258

Ecclesiastical spirit, the, 328, 331

ECKHART, 408

EDDY, 105

EDWARDS, JONATHAN, 21, 112, 196, 224, 233, 234, 243, 323

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EDWARDS, MRS. J., 271, 275

Effects of religious states, 22

Effeminacy, 357

Ego of Apperception, 439

ELLIS, HAVELOCK, 48-49

ELWOOD, 287

EMERSON, 32, 164, 202, 234, 324 Emotion, as alterer of life's value, 247; of the character, 192, 256 ff., 274

Empirical method, 19, 320 ff., 434

Enemies, love your, 273, 278

Energy, personal, 193; mystical states increase it, 405

Environment, 348, 362

Epictetus, 464

Epicureans, 140

Equanimity, 279

Ether, mystical effects of, 382

Evil, ignored by healthy-mindedness, 87, 104, 128; due to things or to the Self, 131; its reality, 160

Evolutionist optimism, 90

Excesses of piety, 333

Excitement, its effects, 192, 261, 273, 319

Experience, religious, the essence of, 498

Extravagances of piety, 332, 476

Extreme cases, why we take them, 476

 

Failure, 135

Faith, 240, 496

Faith-state, 495

Fanaticism, 331

Fear, 96, 156, 158, 257, 270

Feeling deeper than intellect in religion, 422

FIELDING, 427

FINNEY, 203, 211

FLETCHER, 96, 178

FLOURNOY, 67, 505

Flower, 466

FOSTER, 175, 373

FOX, GEORGE, 8, 286, 328, 402

FRANCIS, SAINT, D’ASSISI, 313

FRANCIS, SAINT, DE SALES, 12

FRASER, 444

Fruits, of conversion, 232; of religion, 321; of Saintliness, 349

FULLER, 41

 

GAMOND, 283

GARDINER, 263

Genius and insanity, 18

Geniuses, see Religious leaders.

Gentleman, character of the, 311, 363

GERTRUDE, SAINT, 338

"Gifts," 148

Glory of God, 335

God, 32; sense of his presence, 65-71, 266, 270 ff.; historic changes in idea of him, 73, 322 ff., 482; mind-curer's idea of him, too; his honor, 335; described by negatives, 408; his attributes, scholastic proof of, 430; the metaphysical ones are for us meaningless, 435; the moral ones are ill-deduced, 437; he is not a mere inference, 492; is used, not known, 497; his existence must make a difference among phenomena, 507, 512; his relation to the subconscious region, 237, 505; his tasks, 509; may be finite and plural, 515

GODDARD, 95

GOETHE, 134

GOUGH, 200

GOURDON, 168

"Grace," the operation of, 222; the state of, 255

GRATRY, 143, 466, 495

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Greeks, their pessimism, 85, 139

Guidance, 461

GURNEY, 516

GUYON, 272, 281

 

HADLEY, 198, 262

HALE, 81

HAMON, 358

Happiness, 47-49, 78, 243, 274

HARNACK, 98

Healthy-mindedness, Lectures IV and V, passim; its philosophy of evil, 129; compared with morbid-mindedness, 159, 477

Heart, softening of, 262

HEGEL, 379, 439, 444

HELMONT, VAN, 487

Heroism, 356, 478, note

Heterogeneous personality, 166, 190

Higher criticism, 6

HILTY, 78, 270, 462

HODGSON, R., 514

HOMER, 85

HUGO, 168

Hypocrisy, 331

Hypothesis, what makes a useful one, 508

HYSLOP, 514

 

IGNATIUS LOYOLA, 307, 397, 401

Illness, 11

"Imitation of Christ," the, 44

Immortality, 514

Impulses, 256

Individuality, 492

Inhibitions, 256 ff

Insane melancholy and religion, 142

Insanity and genius 18; and happiness, 274

Institutional religion, 328

Intellect a secondary force in religion, 422, 504

Intellectual weakness of some saints, 362

Intolerance, 335

Irascibility, 258

 

JESUS, HARNACK on, 98

JOB, 75, 438

JOHN, SAINT, OF THE CROSS, 299, 398, 404

JOHNSTON, 252

JONQUIL, 466

JORDAN, 339

JOUFFROY, 173, 194

Judgments, existential and spiritual, 6

 

KANT, 54, 438

Karma, 512

KELLNER, 392

Kindliness, see Charity

KINGSLEY, 375

 

LAGNEAU, 280

Leaders, see Religious leaders

Leaders, of tribes, 363

LEJEUNE, 111, 306

LESSING, 312

LEUBA, 197, 200, 216, 241, 496, 506

Life, its significance, 148

Life, the subconscious, 203, 206

LOCKER-LAMPSON, 39

Logic, Hegelian, 439

Louis, Saint, of Gonzaga, 343

Love, see Charity

Love, cases of falling out of, 176

Love of God, 271

Love your enemies, 273, 278

LOWELL, 65

Loyalty, to God, 335

LUTFULLAH, 161

LUTHER, 126, 135, 239, 324, 340, 373

Lutheran self-despair, 106, 207

Luxury, 357

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LYCAON, 85

Lyre, 261

 

Mahomet, 168. See MOHAMMED

MARCUS AURELIUS, 42, 44, 464

MARGARET MARY, see ALACOQUE

Margin of consciousness, 227

MARSHALL, 493

MARTINEAU, 464

MATHER, 297

MAUDSLEY, 20

Meaning of life, 148

Medical criticism of religion, 404

Medical materialism, 11 ff.

Melancholy, 142, 274; Lectures V and VI, passim; cases of, 145, 146, 154, 156, 194

Melting moods, 262

Method of judging value of religion, 19, 221

Methodism, 222, 232

MEYSENBUG, 386

Militarism, 357-359

Military type of character, 363

MILL, 200

Mind-cure, its sources and history, 92-95; its opinion of fear, 96; cases of, 100-103, 118, 121; its message, 106; its methods, 110-121; it uses verification, 118-122; its philosophy of evil, 129

Miraculous character of conversion, 222

MOHAMMED, 334, 471

MOLINOS, 128

MOLTKE, VON, 259, 358

Monasteries, 291

Monism, 407

Morbidness compared with healthy-mindedness, 477. See, also, Melancholy

Mormon revelations, 472

Mortification, see Asceticism

MUIR, 471

MULFORD, 488

MÜLLER, 457

MURISIER, 341

MYERS, 228, 229, 456, 501, 514

Mystic states, their effects, 22, 405

Mystical experiences, 66

Mysticism, Lectures XVI and XVII, passim; its marks, 371; its theoretic results, 407, 413, 419; it cannot warrant truth, 414; its results, 416; its relation to the sense of union, 499

Mystical region of experience, 505

 

Natural theology, 482

Naturalism, 139, 164

Nature, scientific view of, 481

Negative accounts of deity, 408

NELSON, 205, 414

NETTLETON, 211

NEWMAN, F. W., 79

NEWMAN, J. H., on dogmatic theology, 425, 433; his type of imagination, 448

NIETZSCHE, 362, 364

Nitrous oxide, its mystical effects, 378

No-function, 256-257, 293, 378, 407

Non-resistance, 276, 350, 367

 

Obedience, 304

OBERMANN, 466

Omit, 290

"Once-born" type, 79, 163, 355, 477

Oneness with God, see Union.

Optimism, systematic, 86; and evolutionism, 90; it may be shallow, 356

Orderliness of world, 428

Organism determines all mental states whatsoever, 15

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Origin of mental states no criterion of their value, 16 ff.

Orison, 397

Over-beliefs, 503; the author's, 505

Over-soul, 506

Oxford, graduate of, 216, 263

 

Pagan feeling, 85

Pantheism, 129, 407

PASCAL, 281

PATON, 351

PAUL, SAINT, 168, 349

PEEK, 248

PEIRCE, 435

Penny, 317

PERREYVE, 495

Persecutions, 331, 335

Personality, explained away by science, 117, 481; heterogeneous, 166; alterations of, 190, 206 ff.; is reality, 489. See Character

PHILO, 470

Philosophy, Lecture XVIII, passim; must coerce assent, 424; scholastic, 430; idealistic, 438; unable to give a theoretic warrant to faith, 445; its true office in religion, 445

Photisms, 246

Piety, 332 ff.

Pluralism, 129

Polytheism, 129, 515

Poverty, 309, 359

"Pragmatism," 435, 509, 512-514

Prayer, 451; its definition, 454; its essence, 454; petitional, 456; its effects, 464-467, 513

"Presence," sense of, 58-63

Presence of God, 65-71, 267, 270 ff., 387, 409

Presence of God, the practice of, 114

Primitive human thought, 485

PRINGLE-PATTISON, 444

Prophets, the Hebrew, 469

Protestant theology, 239

Protestantism and Catholicism, 112, 223, 323, 450

Providential leading, 461

Psychopathy and religion, 23 ff.

PUFFER, 385

Purity, 268, 285, 341

 

Quakers, 8, 286

 

RAMAKRISHNA, 353, 357

Rationalism, 72, 73; its authority overthrown by mysticism, 419

RATISBONNE, 219, 252

Reality of unseen objects, Lecture III, passim

RÉCÉJAC, 398, 499

"Recollection," 114, 284

Redemption, 154

Reformation of character, 314

Regeneration, see Conversion; by relaxation, 109

REID, 436

Relaxation, salvation by, 108. See Surrender

Religion, to be tested by fruits, not by origin, 11 ff., 324; its definition, 27, 3r; is solemn, 38; compared with Stoicism, 42; its unique function, 51; abstractness of its objects, 54; differs according to temperament, 74, 132, 326, and ought to differ, 477; considered to be a "survival," 116, 480, 488; its relations to melancholy, 142; worldly passions may combine with it, 330; its essential characters, 365, 475; its relation to prayer, 453-455; asserts a fact, not a theory, 479; its truth, 369; more than science, it holds by concrete reality, 490; attempts to

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evaporate it into philosophy, 492; it is concerned with personal destinies, 480, 493; with feeling and conduct, 494; is a sthenic affection, 495; is for life, not for knowledge, 496; its essential contents, 498; it postulates issues of fact, 508

Religious emotion, 274

Religious leaders, often nervously unstable, 8 ff., 31; their loneliness, 328

"Religious sentiment," 28

RENAN, 37

Renunciations, 342

Repentance, 125

Resignation, 281

Revelation, the anæsthetic, 377-384

Revelations, see Automatisms.

Revelations, in Mormon Church, 472

Revivalism, 223

RIBET, 397

RIBOT, 143, 493

RODRIGUEZ, 307, 308, 311

ROYCE, 444

RUTHERFORD, MARK, 75

 

SABATIER, A., 454

Sacrifice, 297, 451

SAINT-PIERRE, 82

SAINTE-BEUVE, 255, 309

Saintliness, Sainte-Beuve on, 255; its characteristics, 266, 361; criticism of, 320 ff.

Saintly conduct, 348-368

Saints, dislike of natural man for, 363

Salvation, 515

SANDAY, 470

SATAN, in picture, 50

Scholastic arguments for God, 428

Science, ignores personality and teleology, 481; her "facts," 490, 491

"Science of Religions," 424, 445, 446, 478-481

Scientific conceptions, their late adoption, 486

Second-birth, 154, 162, 163

SEELEY, 76

Self of the world, 439

Self-despair, 108, 127, 205

Self-surrender, 108, 205

SÉNANCOUR, 466

SETH, 444

Sexual temptation, 263

Sexuality as cause of religion, 12

"Shrew," 339

Sickness, 111

Sick souls, Lectures V and VI, passim

SIGHELE, 258

Sin, 205

Sinners, Christ died for, 127

Skepticism, 325 ff.

SKOBELEFF, 260

SMITH, JOSEPH, 471

Softening of the heart, 262

Solemnity, 38, 48

Soul, 191

Soul, strength of, 268

SPENCER, 348, 366

SPINOZA, 10, 125

Spiritism, 504

Spirit-return, 514

Spiritual judgments, 6

Spiritual states, tests of their value, 19

STARBUCK, 195, 200, 202, 205-206, 244, 247, 253, 263, 316, 345, 385

STEVENSON, 135, 290

Stoicism, 42-45, 140

Strange appearance of world, 148

Strength of soul, 268

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Subconscious action in conversion, 232, 237

Subconscious life, 113, 203, 206, 228, 231, 265, 473

Subconscious Self, as intermediary between the Self and God, 501

Subliminal, see Subconscious

Sufis, 394, 411

Suggestion, 110, 229

Suicide, 144

Supernaturalism its two kinds, 510; criticism of universalistic, 511

Supernatural world, 508

Surrender, salvation by, 108, 205, 208

Survival-theory of religion, 480, 488, 490

Suso, 301, 342

SWINBURNE, 413

SYMONDS, 376, 381

Sympathetic magic, 486

Sympathy, see Charity

Systems, philosophic, 424

 

Taine, 11

TAYLOR, 241

Tenderness, see Charity

TENNYSON, 374

TERESA, SAINT, 22, 339, 352, 400, 402, 403, 405

Theologia Germanica, 43

Theologians, systematic, 437

"Theopathy," 336

THOREAU, 269

Threshold, 132

Tiger, 161, 257

Tobacco, 264, 285

TOLSTOY, 146, 174, 180

TOWIANSKI, 276

Tragedy of life, 355

Tranquillity, 279

Transcendentalism criticised, 511

Transcendentalists, 506

TREVOR, 387

TRINE, 100, 385

Truth of religion, how to be tested, 368; what it is, 500; mystical perception of, 371, 401

"Twice-born," type, 163, 355, 477

TYNDALL, 294

 

"Unconscious cerebration," 204

Unification of Self, 180, 341

"UNION MORALE," 267

Union with God, 400, 409, 416, 441, 499 ff. See lectures on Conversion, passim

Unity of universe, 129

Unreality, sense of, 62

Unseen realities, Lecture III, passim

Upanishads, 410

UPHAM, 284

Utopias, 352

 

VACHEROT, 492

Value of spiritual affections, how tested, 19

VAMBÉRY, 334

Vedantism, 392, 410, 503, 512

Veracity, 8, 286 ff.

VIVEKANANDA, 504

VOLTAIRE, 36

VOYSEY, 270

 

War, 357-359

Wealth-worship, 357

WEAVER, 276

WESLEY, 223

Wesleyan self-despair, 106, 207

WHITE FIELD, 312

WHITMAN, 83, 387, 496

WOLFF, 482

WOOD, HENRY, 94, 98, 116

World, soul of the, 439

Worry, 96, 178

 

Yes-function, 256-258, 293, 378

Yoga, 391

YOUNG, 251


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