Index

Absolute, oneness with the, 419.

Abstractness of religious objects, 53.

Achilles, 86

Ackermann, Madame, 63

Adaptation to environment, of things, 438; of saints, 374‐377.

Æsthetic elements in religions, 460.

Alacoque, 310, 344, 413.

Alcohol, 387.

Al‐ghazzali, 402

Ali, 341

Alleine, 228

Alline, 159, 217

Alternations of personality, 193.

Alvarez de Paz, 116

Amiel, 394

Anæsthesia, 288.

Anæsthetic revelation, 387‐393.

Angelus Silesius, 417

Anger, 181, 264.

“Anhedonia,” 145.

Aristocratic type, 371.

Aristotle, 495

Ars, le Curé d’, 302.

Asceticism, 273, 296‐310, 360‐365.

Aseity, God’s, 439, 445.

Atman, 400.

Attributes of God, 440; their æsthetic use, 458.

Augustine, Saint, 171, 361, 496

AURELIUS, see MARCUS.

Automatic writing, 62, 478.

Automatisms, 234, 250, 478‐483.

Baldwin, 347, 503

Bashkirtseff, 83

Beecher, 256

BEHMEN, see BOEHME.

Belief, due to non‐rationalistic impulses, 73.

Besant, Mrs., 23, 168

Bhagavad‐Gita, 361.

Blavatsky, Madam, 421

Blood, 389

Blumhardt, 113

Boehme, 410, 417, 418

Booth, 203

Bougaud, 344

Bourget, 263

Bourignon, 321

Bowne, 502

Brainerd, 212, 253

Bray, 249, 256, 290

Brooks, 512

Brownell, 515

Bucke, 398

Buddhism, 31, 34, 522.

Buddhist mysticism, 401.

Bullen, 287

Bunyan, 157, 160

Butterworth, 411

Caird, Edward, 106

CAIRD, J., on feeling in religion, 434; on absolute self, 450; he does not prove, but reaffirms, religion’s dicta, 453.

Call, 289

Carlyle, 41, 300

Carpenter, 319

Catharine, Saint, of Genoa, 289.

Catholicism and Protestantism compared, 114, 227, 336, 461.

Causality of God, 517, 522.

Cause, 502.

Cennick, 301

Centres of personal energy, 196, 267, 523.

Cerebration, unconscious, 207.

Chance, 526.

Channing, 300, 488

Chapman, 324

Character, cause of its alterations, 193; scheme of its differences of type, 197, 214.

Causes of its diversity, 261; balance of, 340.

Charity, 274, 278, 310, 355.

Chastity, 310.

Chiefs of tribes, 371.

Christian Science, 106.

Christ’s atonement, 129, 245.

Churches, 335, 460.

Clark, 389

Clissold, 481

Coe, 240

Conduct, perfect, 355.

Confession, 462.

Consciousness, fields of, 231; subliminal, 233.

Consistency, 296.

Conversion, to avarice, 178.

Conversion, Fletcher’s, 181; Tolstoy’s, 184; Bunyan’s, 186; in general, Lectures IX and X, passim; Bradley’s, 189; compared with natural moral growth, 199; Hadley’s, 201; two types of, 205 ff.; Brainerd’s, 212; Alline’s, 217; Oxford graduate’s, 221; Ratisbonne’s, 223; instantaneous, 227; is it a natural phenomenon? 230; subliminal action involved, in sudden cases, 236, 240; fruits of, 237; its momentousness, 239; may be supernatural, 242; its concomitants: sense of higher control, 244, happiness, 248, automatisms, 250, luminous phenomena, 251; its degree of permanence, 256.

Cosmic consciousness, 398.

Counter‐conversion, 176.

Courage, 265, 287.

Crankiness, see Psychopathy.

Crichton‐browne, 384, 386

Criminal character, 263.

Criteria of value of spiritual affections, 18.

Crump, 239

Cure of bad habits, 270.

Daudet, 167

Death, 139, 364.

Derham, 493

Design, argument from, 438, 492 ff.

Devoutness, 340.

Dionysius Areopagiticus, 416

Disease, 99, 113.

Disorder in contents of world, 438.

Divine, the, 31.

Dog, 281.

Dogmatism, 326, 333.

Dowie, 113

Dresser, H. W., 96, 99, 289, 516

Drink, 268.

Drummer, 476.

Drummond, 262

Drunkenness, 387, 403, 488.

“Dryness,” 204.

Dumas, 279

Dyes, on clothing, 294.

Earnestness, 264.

Ecclesiastical spirit, the, 335, 338.

Eckhart, 417

Eddy, 106

EDWARDS, JONATHAN, 20, 114, 200, 229, 238, 239, 248, 330.

Edwards, Mrs. J., 276, 280

Effects of religious states, 21.

Effeminacy, 365.

Ego of Apperception, 449.

Ellis, Havelock, 418

Elwood, 292

Emerson, 32, 56, 167, 205, 239, 330

Emotion, as alterer of life’s value, 150; of the character, 195, 261 ff., 279.

Empirical method, 18, 327 ff., 443.

Enemies, love your, 278, 283.

Energy, personal, 196; mystical states increase it, 414.

Environment, 356, 374.

Epictetus, 474.

Epicureans, 143.

Equanimity, 284.

Ether, mystical effects of, 392.

Evil, ignored by healthy‐mindedness, 88, 106, 131; due to things or to the Self, 134; its reality, 163.

Evolutionist optimism, 91.

Excesses of piety, 340.

Excitement, its effects, 195, 266, 279, 325.

Experience, religious, the essence of, 508.

Extravagances of piety, 339, 486.

Extreme cases, why we take them, 486.

Failure, 139.

Faith, 246, 506.

Faith‐state, 505.

Fanaticism, 338 ff.

Fear, 98, 159, 161, 263, 275.

Feeling deeper than intellect in religion, 431.

Fielding, 436

Finney, 207, 215

Fletcher, 98, 181

Flournoy, 67, 514

Flower, 476.

Foster, 178, 383

Fox, George, 7, 291, 335, 411

Francis, Saint, D’Assisi, 319

Francis, Saint, de Sales, 11

Fraser, 454

Fruits, of conversion, 237; of religion, 327; of Saintliness, 357.

Fuller, 41

Gamond, 288

Gardiner, 269

Genius and insanity, 16.

Geniuses, see Religious leaders.

Gentleman, character of the, 317, 371.

Gertrude, Saint, 345

“Gifts,” 151.

Glory of God, 342.

GOD, 31; sense of his presence, 66‐72, 272, 275 ff.; historic changes in idea of him, 74, 328 ff., 493; mind‐curer’s idea of him, 101; his honor, 342; described by negatives, 417; his attributes, scholastic proof of, 439; the metaphysical ones are for us meaningless, 445; the moral ones are ill‐deduced, 447; he is not a mere inference, 502; is used, not known, 506; his existence must make a difference among phenomena, 517, 522; his relation to the subconscious region, 242, 515; his tasks, 519; may be finite and plural, 525.

Goddard, 96

Goerres, 407

Goethe, 137

Gough, 203

Gourdon, 171

“Grace,” the operation of, 226; the state of, 260.

Gratry, 146, 476, 506

Greeks, their pessimism, 86, 142.

Guidance, 472.

Gurney, 527

Guyon, 276, 286

Hadley, 201, 268

Hale, 82

Hamon, 367

Happiness, 47‐49, 79, 248, 279.

Harnack, 100

Healthy‐mindedness, Lectures IV and V, passim; its philosophy of evil, 131; compared with morbid‐mindedness, 162, 488.

Heart, softening of, 267.

Hegel, 389, 449, 454

Helmont, Van, 497

Heroism, 364, 488, note.

Heterogeneous personality, 169, 193.

Higher criticism, 4.

Hilty, 79, 275, 472

Hodgson, R., 524

Homer, 86

Hugo, 171

Hypocrisy, 338.

Hypothesis, what make a useful one, 517.

Hyslop, 524

Ignatius Loyola, 313, 406, 410

Illness, 113.

“Imitation of Christ,” the, 44.

Immortality, 524.

Impulses, 261.

Individuality, 501.

Inhibitions, 261 ff.

Insane melancholy and religion, 144.

Insanity and genius, 16; and happiness, 279.

Institutional religion, 335.

Intellect a secondary force in religion, 431, 514.

Intellectual weakness of some saints, 370.

Intolerance, 342.

Irascibility, 264.

JESUS, HARNACK on, 100.

Job, 76, 448

John, Saint, of the Cross, 304, 407, 413

Johnston, 258

Jonquil, 476

Jordan, 347

Jouffroy, 176, 198

Judgments, existential and spiritual, 4.

Kant, 54, 448

Karma, 522.

Kellner, 401

Kindliness, see Charity.

Kingsley, 385

Lagneau, 285

Leaders, see Religious leaders.

Leaders, of tribes, 371.

Lejeune, 113, 312

Lessing, 318

Leuba, 201, 203, 220, 246, 506

Life, its significance, 151.

Life, the subconscious, 207, 209.

Locker‐lampson, 39

Logic, Hegelian, 449.

Louis, Saint, of Gonzaga, 350.

Love, see Charity.

Love, cases of falling out of, 179.

Love of God, 276.

Love your enemies, 278, 283.

Lowell, 65

Loyalty, to God, 342.

Lutfullah, 164

Luther, 128, 137, 244, 330, 348, 382

Lutheran self‐despair, 108, 211.

Luxury, 365.

Lycaon, 86

Lyre, 267.

Marcus Aurelius, 42, 44, 474

MARGARET MARY, see ALACOQUE.

Margin of consciousness, 232.

Marshall, 503

Martineau, 475

Mather, 303

Maudsley, 19

Meaning of life, 151.

Medical criticism of religion, 413.

Medical materialism, 10 ff.

Melting moods, 267.

Method of judging value of religion, 18, 327.

Methodism, 227, 237.

Meysenbug, 395

Militarism, 365‐367.

Military type of character, 371.

Mill, 204

Mind‐cure, its sources and history, 94‐97; its opinion of fear, 98; cases of, 102‐105, 120, 123; its message, 108; its methods, 112‐123; it uses verification, 120‐124; its philosophy of evil, 131.

Miraculous character of conversion, 227.

Mohammed, 341, 481

Molinos, 130

Moltke, Von, 264, 367

Monasteries, 296.

Monism, 416.

Mormon revelations, 482.

Mortification, see Asceticism.

Muir, 482

Mulford, 497

Müller, 468

Murisier, 349

Myers, 233, 234, 466, 511, 524

Mystic states, their effects, 21, 414.

Mystical experiences, 66.

Mysticism, Lectures XVI and XVII, passim; its marks, 380; its theoretic results, 416, 422, 428; it cannot warrant truth, 422; its results, 425; its relation to the sense of union, 509.

Mystical region of experience, 515.

Natural theology, 492.

Naturalism, 141, 167.

Nature, scientific view of, 491.

Negative accounts of deity, 417.

Nelson, 208, 423

Nettleton, 215

Newman, F. W., 80

NEWMAN, J. H., on dogmatic theology, 434, 442; his type of imagination, 459.

Nietzsche, 371, 372

Nitrous oxide, its mystical effects, 387.

No‐function, 261‐263, 299, 387, 416.

Non‐resistance, 281, 358, 376.

Obedience, 310.

Obermann, 476

O’connell, 257

Omit, 296.

“Once‐born” type, 80, 166, 363, 488.

Oneness with God, see Union.

Optimism, systematic, 88; and evolutionism, 91; it may be shallow, 364.

Orderliness of world, 438.

Organism determines all mental states whatsoever, 14.

Origin of mental states no criterion of their value, 14 ff.

Orison, 406.

Over‐beliefs, 513; the author’s, 515.

Over‐soul, 516.

Oxford, graduate of, 220, 268.

Pagan feeling, 86.

Pantheism, 131, 416.

Parker, 83

Pascal, 286

Paton, 359

Paul, Saint, 171, 357

Peek, 253

Peirce, 444

Penny, 323.

Perreyve, 505

Persecutions, 338, 342.

Personality, explained away by science, 119, 491; heterogeneous, 169; alterations of, 193, 210 ff.; is reality, 499. See Character.

Peter, Saint, of Alcantara, 360

Philo, 481

Philosophy, Lecture XVIII, passim; must coerce assent, 433; scholastic, 439; idealistic, 448; unable to give a theoretic warrant to faith, 455; its true office in religion, 455.

Photisms, 251.

Piety, 339 ff.

Pluralism, 131.

Polytheism, 131, 526.

Poverty, 315, 367.

“Pragmatism,” 444, 519, 522‐524.

Prayer, 463; its definition, 464; its essence, 465; petitional, 467; its effects, 474‐477, 523.

“Presence,” sense of, 58‐63.

Presence of God, 66‐72, 272, 275 ff., 396, 418.

Presence of God, the practice of, 116.

Primitive human thought, 495.

Pringle‐pattison, 454

Prophets, the Hebrew, 479.

Protestant theology, 244.

Protestantism and Catholicism, 114, 227, 330, 461.

Providential leading, 472.

Psychopathy and religion, 22 ff.

Puffer, 394

Purity, 274, 290, 348.

Quakers, 7, 291.

Ramakrishna, 361, 365

Rationalism, 73, 74; its authority overthrown by mysticism, 428.

Ratisbonne, 223, 257

Reality of unseen objects, Lecture III, passim.

Récéjac, 407, 509

“Recollection,” 116, 289.

Redemption, 157.

Reformation of character, 320.

Regeneration, see Conversion; by relaxation, 111.

Reid, 446

Religion, to be tested by fruits, not by origin, 10 ff., 331; its definition, 26, 31; is solemn, 37; compared with Stoicism, 41; its unique function, 51; abstractness of its objects, 54; differs according to temperament, 75, 135, 333, and ought to differ, 487; considered to be a “survival,” 118, 490, 498; its relations to melancholy, 145; worldly passions may combine with it, 337; its essential characters, 369, 485; its relation to prayer, 463‐466; asserts a fact, not a theory, 489; its truth, 377; more than science, it holds by concrete reality, 500; attempts to evaporate it into philosophy, 502; it is concerned with personal destinies, 491, 503; with feeling and conduct, 504; is a sthenic affection, 505; is for life, not for knowledge, 506; its essential contents, 508; it postulates issues of fact, 518.

Religious emotion, 279.

Religious leaders, often nervously unstable, 6 ff., 30; their loneliness, 335.

“Religious sentiment,” 27.

Renan, 37

Renunciations, 349.

Repentance, 127.

Resignation, 286.

Revelation, the anæsthetic, 387‐393.

Revelations, see Automatisms.

Revelations, in Mormon Church, 482.

Revivalism, 228.

Ribet, 407

Ribot, 145, 502

Rodriguez, 313, 314, 317

Royce, 454

Rutherford, Mark, 76

Sabatier, A., 464

Sacrifice, 303, 462.

Saint‐pierre, 83

Sainte‐beuve, 260, 315

Saintliness, Sainte‐Beuve on, 260; its characteristics, 272, 370; criticism of, 326 ff.

Saintly conduct, 356‐377.

Saints, dislike of natural man for, 371.

Salvation, 526.

Sandays, 480

SATAN, in picture, 50.

Scheffler, 417

Scholastic arguments for God, 437.

Science, ignores personality and teleology, 491; her “facts,” 500, 501.

“Science of Religions,” 433, 455, 456, 488‐490.

Scientific conceptions, their late adoption, 496.

Second‐birth, 157, 165, 166.

Seeley, 77

Self of the world, 449.

Self‐despair, 110, 129, 208.

Self‐surrender, 110, 208.

Sénancour, 476

Seth, 454

Sexual temptation, 269.

Sexuality as cause of religion, 10, 11.

“Shrew,” 347.

Sickness, 113.

Sick souls, Lectures V and VI, passim.

Sighele, 263

Sin, 209.

Sinners, Christ died for, 129.

Skepticism, 332 ff.

Skobeleff, 265

Smith, Joseph, 482

Softening of the heart, 267.

Solemnity, 37, 48.

Soul, 195.

Soul, strength of, 273.

Spencer, 355, 374

Spinoza, 9, 127

Spiritism, 514.

Spirit‐return, 524.

Spiritual judgments, 4.

Spiritual states, tests of their value, 18.

STARBUCK, 198, 199, 204, 206, 208‐210, 249, 253, 258, 268, 276, 323, 353, 394.

Stevenson, 138, 296

Stoicism, 42‐45, 143.

Strange appearance of world, 151.

Strength of soul, 273.

Subconscious action in conversion, 236, 242.

Subconscious life, 115, 207, 209, 233, 236, 270, 483.

Subconscious Self, as intermediary between the Self and God, 511.

Subliminal, see Subconscious.

Sufis, 402, 420.

Suggestion, 112, 234.

Suicide, 147.

Supernaturalism its two kinds, 520; criticism of universalistic, 521.

Supernatural world, 518.

Surrender, salvation by, 110, 208, 211.

Survival‐theory of religion, 490, 498, 500.

Suso, 306, 349

Swinburne, 421

Symonds, 385, 390

Sympathetic magic, 496.

Sympathy, see Charity.

Systems, philosophic, 433.

Taine, 9.

Taylor, 246

Tenderness, see Charity.

Tennyson, 383, 384

TERESA, SAINT, 20, 346, 360, 408, 411, 412, 414.

Theologia Germanica, 43.

Theologians, systematic, 446.

“Theopathy,” 343.

Thoreau, 275

Threshold, 135.

Tiger, 164, 262.

Tobacco, 270, 290.

Tolstoy, 149, 178, 184

Towianski, 281

Tragedy of life, 363.

Tranquillity, 285.

Transcendentalism criticised, 522.

Transcendentalists, 516.

Trevor, 396

Trine, 101, 394

Truth of religion, how to be tested, 377; what it is, 509; mystical perception of, 380, 410.

“Twice‐born,” type, 166, 363, 488.

Tyndall, 299

“Unconscious cerebration,” 207.

Unification of Self, 183, 349.

“Union Morale,” 272

Unity of universe, 131.

Unreality, sense of, 63.

Unseen realities, Lecture III, passim.

Upanishads, 419.

Upham, 289

Utopias, 360.

Vacherot, 502

Value of spiritual affections, how tested, 18.

Vambéry, 341

Vedantism, 400, 419, 513, 522.

Veracity, 7, 291 ff.

Vivekananda, 513

Voltaire, 38

Voysey, 275

War, 365‐367.

Wealth‐worship, 365.

Weaver, 281

Wesley, 227

Wesleyan self‐despair, 108, 211.

Whitefield, 318

Whitman, 84, 395, 396, 506

Wolff, 492, 493

Wood, Henry, 96, 99, 117

World, soul of the, 449.

Worry, 98, 181.

Yes‐function, 261‐263, 299, 387.

Yoga, 400.

YOUNG, 256.