INDEX
ABSOLUTE, The, 40, 103, 110, 116, 229, 344, 447
and mysticism, 24, 35, 37, 42, 67, 72, 82, 92, 97, 102, 105, 120, 127, 330, 387 seq.
and vitalism, 29
apprehension of, 36, 84, 171, 241 seq., 378, 389
search for, 45, 418
union with, 51, 91, 174, 198, 245, 310, 401, 446
man and, 55, 220, 229, 238, 289
love of, 72, 86, 239, 334, 348
immanent, 98 seq., 174, 190 seq.
and Christianity 117 seq.
its desire of man 132
awakening to, 169, 232
and contemplation, 251 seq., 332, 355
fruition of, 340, 373
and ecstasy, 374
Abyss, The, 73, 84, 97, 122, 229, 257, 335 seq., 345 seq., 425
Acarie, Madame, 470
Adolescence, 386
Aeldred, St., 466
Albertus Magnus, 143
Alchemists, Spiritual, 102, 140 seq., 226, 401, 418, 432
Alexander, S., 29
Al Ghazzali, 50, 83, 171, 210, 226, 462
Al Hallaj, 462
Allegory, 129 seq., 285
Ambrose, St., 274
Anaesthesia, 226, 329, 359
Analogy, 159
Angela of Foligno, 216, 267, 269, 277 seq., 293, 332, 375, 392, 393, 461, 470
her visions, 252, 282 seq., 341, 343
on contemplation, 350
Anthony of Padua, St., 267
Aquinas, see Thomas
Archetypal World, 154, 262 seq.
Areopagite, see Dionysius
Aridity, 241, 383, 391
Aristotle, 47, 103
Arius, 105
d'Ars, Curé, 206
Art, Function of, 74 seq.
Artists—
and mystics, 76, 237
and illumination, 169, 239, 259
and vision, 271, 285
and contemplation, 300
Asceticism, 205, 215, 224 seq., 230
Astral Light, 154 seq.
Athanasius, St., 419
`Attar, 131, 132, 226, 462
Atwood, Mrs., 143
Auditions, 66, 78, 181, 185, 241, 266 seq., 273 seq., 332
Augustine, St., 21, 29, 50, 88, 98, 100, 104, 115, 129, 133, 178, 216, 239, 248, 250, 253, 336, 419 seq., 456, 470
on God, 38
on Trinity, 111
on Love, 117
vision, 331
Automatic composition, 80, 241, 278, 293 seq.
examples, 66, 293 seq.
Automatism, 63, 161, 240, 255, 266 seq., 281
Autoscopes, 159
Aziz bin Mahommed Nafasi, 130
Azoth, 172
BAKER, Ven. Augustine, 218, 291, 308, 362, 470
on contemplation, 305
on quiet, 323
on Dark Night, 387
Barbançon, C., 471
Barluke, John Evangelist of, 471
Basil the Monk, 145
Beatific Vision, 96, 132, 190, 196, 335, 340, 389, 423, 437
Beauty, 20 seq., 258
Plato on, 22, 216
Divine, 196, 289, 342
Becoming, World of, 28, 35 seq., 73, 99, 101, 192, 222, 234, 238, 258, 367, 401, 433, 449
Being—
Eckhart on, 5, 93
and Becoming, 28, 37 seq., 67, 113, 116, 240, 340, 433
Pure, 39 seq., 73, 97, 100 seq., 249, 257, 304, 331, 339, 367, 433
Science of, 151, 453
union with, 319, 343, 345
Berger, 89
Bergson, 27, 29, 30
Bernadette of Lourdes, 359
Bernard, St., 50, 75, 173, 215, 241, 324, 331, 414, 458 seq, 470
on God, 92, 113
on Spiritual Marriage, 137
on ecstasy, 303
Bernardino of Siena, St., 467
Bérulle, Pierre de, 470
Betrothal, Spiritual, 137 seq., 245, 273
Bhagavad Gita, 155
Binyon, L., 75
Birds and Mystics, 260
Blake, William, 80, 104, 106, 107, 116, 154, 166, 168, 173, 19l, 236, 238, 240, 255, 257, 259, 267, 279, 293 seq., 355, 469, 473
automatic writing, 66
on art, 74
on Incarnation, 106
his illumination, 235 seq.
on Nature, 259
his visions 280
Blood, B. P. 371
Blosius, 468
Boehme, Jacob, 57, 93, 96, 104, 120, 123, 141, 144 seq., 154, 160, 229, 238, 241, 259, 263, 307, 349, 469, 472
his ecstasy, 58
on recollection, 64, 313
on immanence, 100
on Incarnation, 119
on New Birth, 123
his purgation, 226
illumination, 255 seq.
automatic composition, 296
on deification, 421
Bonaventura, St., 106, 124, 131, 462
Bossuet, 471
Bourignan, Antoinette, 215, 306, 471
her renunciation, 212
Boutroux, E., 40
Boyce Gibson, 62, 103
Bremond, H., 54, 67, 189, 232
Brethren of Free Spirit, 105, 150
Bridget of Sweden, St., 274, 467
Browne, Sir T., 143, 148, 160
Bruno St., 458
Bucke R. M., 193, 255
Bunyan, J., 130
Butler, Dom C., 138
CANFIELD, Benedict, 470
Catalepsy, 360
Catherine of Alexandria, St., 292
Catherine of Bologna, St., 467
Catherine of Genoa, St., 79, 80, 85, 127, 129, 173, 177, 182, 229, 252, 331, 396, 436, 461, 467
her fasts, 59
on love, 92
her conversion, 181, 196
purgation, 201, 219 seq., 225
on Purgatory, 202, 221
her illumination, 247
ecstasies, 362, 364
on mystic way, 441 seq.
Catherine dei Ricci, St. 469
Catherine of Siena, St. 19, 63, 84, 86, 101, 173, 221, 228, 268, 297, 359, 362, 375, 377, 398 seq., 412, 414, 421, 436, 438, 459, 464, 467
on union, 37, 365
her fasts, 59
mystic marriage of, 80, 273,
on Incarnation, 119
mystic life, 174
on self-knowledge, 200
her visions, 270, 392
Dialogue, 293
ecstasies, 365 seq.
Catholicism, 469
and magic, 163
Caussade, J. P. de, 383, 390, 391, 472
Chantal, St., see Jeanne Françoise de Chantal
Character—
remaking, 204, 216 seq., 306, 381, 396, 416
in quiet, 323
purgation, 388
of unitives, 429 seq.
Chastity, 205
Christ, 109, 118, 128, 138, 233, 344, 391, 412
life of, and mystics, 120, 222, 448
humanity of, 120, 283
Eternal, 134
indwelling, 144
visions of, 279, 283
Christian mysticism, see Mysticism
Christian science, 156
Christianity—
and Mysticism, 104 seq., 222, 236, 344, 448
and philosophy, 105 seq.
and magic, 153, 163
and deification, 419
Church and magic, 163 seq.
Clairvoyance, 155, 256
Cleanthes, 106
Clement of Alexandria, 104, 455
Cloud of Unknowing, The, 48, 335, 337, 348 seq., 459, 466
Cognition, 46 seq., 67
Colette, St., 467
Columba Rieti, 468
Common Life, Brotherhood of, 465
Conation, 46 seq., 67, 314
Consciousness—
mystical, twofold, 35 seq., 90, 195, 215, 227, 240, 337, 345, 433
transcendental, 51 seq., 55, 67, 70, 212 seq., 241 seq., 385, 444
alteration of, 56, 176, 295, 389
field of, 56, 58, 67 seq., 91, 176, 329
threshold of, 56 seq., 67, 74, 314
oscillations of, in mystics, 167 seq., 177, 227 seq., 233, 253, 381, 383, 445
Mystic, its awakening, 176 seq.
Cosmic, 192 seq., 255
growth, 264, 402
unification of, 308, 363, 366
in introversion, 309 seq., 314, 329, 336
ecstatic, 370
Constant, A. L., see Lévi Eliphas
Contemplation, so, 56, 67 seq., 184, 241, 243, 282, 294, 298 seq., 304, 328 seq., 358 seq., 375
its nature, 50, 300
passive, 64
forms of, 92, 329, 335
infused, 245
an experiment in, 301 seq.
degrees of, 311
its function, 330
dark, 332, 346 seq., 353, 383
marks of, 332
descriptions of, 335
method of, 346 seq.
and ecstasy, 363, 367, 373
Contemplative—
life, 197
state, 131
experience, 331
Contemplatives, 172, 432
Conversion, 177 seq., 229 seq., 269, 376, 412
two types of, 195
Counter-reformation, 468
Cutten, G. B., 52, 59
DANCE, Mystic 231, 233
Dante, 35, 39, 75, 101, 105, 115, 120, 129, 135, 256, 307, 331, 344, 355, 367, 369, 412, 415 seq., 418 seq. 435, 437, 443, 460, 462
on emanation, 97
and mystic way, 131
Purgatorio, 200, 202
on Divine Light, 249
his vision of God, 251, 340
and symbolic vision, 286
on mystic joy, 437
Dark Night of Soul, 121, 169, 229, 241, 380 seq., 416
mystic aspect of, 387 seq.
Suso and, 403 seq.
Deification, 99, 102, 139, 170, 175, 379, 401, 415 seq.
Deified man, 146 seq.
Delacroix, 14, 242, 289, 308, 416, 419
on mystics, 62, 172
on St. Teresa, 108
on automatism, 273
on contemplation, 330
Denis the Carthusian, 364, 465
De Sanctis, 179
Detachment 130, 205 seq., 396 seq.
Devotion, 130
Dialogue, mystical, 241, 277 Sty.
Dionysius the Areopagite, 46, 65, 79, 97, 101, 104, 13'2, 171, 188, 253, 318, 320, 337, 456, 460, 465
on surrender, 93
on ignorance, 93
on Divine Love, 197
on Divine Dark, 251, 347
on contemplation, 333
Disintegrated Personality, see Personality
Dissociation, Mental, 278
Divine Absence, see God, Absence of
Divine Dark, 73, 97, 132, 171, 251, 318, 335 seq., 347, 353 seq.
its meaning, 348
Divine Fecundity, 166, 170 seq., 428
examples of, 429
Divine Humanity, 388 seq.
Divine Ignorance, see Ignorance
Divine Principle, 100
Divine Union, see Union
Douceline, St. 216, 461
Driesch, Hans 27
EBNER, Margaret, 269, 465
Eckartshausen, C. von, 123, 473
Eckhart, 6, 10, 64, 83, 133, 136, 173, 188, 229, 255, 305, 312, 318 seq., 344, 389, 463
on Being, 5, 93
on silence, 38, 64
on immanence 101
on Holy Spirit 117
on Eternal Birth, 122
on purity, 206
on poverty, 203 seq.
on detachment, 209
on union, 370
on deification, 419
Ecstasy, 32, 56 seq., 60, 81, 94, 128, 132, 161, 228, 243, 299, 303, 358 seq., 380
creative, 64, 378
and union, 170
examples, 187 seq., 362 seq.
and purgation, 226 seq.
its psychology, 363 seq.
and mysticism, 367 seq.
and contemplation, 373
dark 394
Ecstatics, 368
Elizabeth of Schönau, 459
Emanation, 97 seq.
and immanence, 102 seq.
Emotion, 45 seq.
conative, 46
and symbolism, 126
and mysticism, 135
and contemplation, 335
Entelechy, 39
Epistle of Discretion, 85
of Private Counsel, 320
of Prayer, 427
Erigena, John Scotus, 111, 259, 263, 457
Eucken, Rudolph, 27, 34, 112, 114, 414, 417
on Reality, 21, 33
Euripides, 236
Evocation, 157, 161
FAITH and life, 15
Fasting, 59
Father, The, 41, 108 seq., 115, 304, 340
Feeling—
thought and will, 67, 311, 329
and mysticism, 71, 335 seq., 367, 437
Fénelon, 471
Field of Consciousness, see Consciousness
Fire, Mystic, 114, 124, 141, 189, 221, 231, 257, 421
of Love, see Love
Flowers, Mystics and, 215, 255
Fox, George, 173, 177 seq., 226, 238, 255, 414, 469
his illumination, 257
Francis of Assisi, St., 77, 173, 196, 206, 210, 212, 215, 237, 239, 241, 267 seq., 276 seq., 364, 430, 431, 436 seq., 460, 467
his character and conversion, 180 seq.
on poverty, 208
purgation, 224
and animals, 260 seq.
stigmata, 267, 290, 375
his joy, 439 seq.
Francis de Sales, St., 10, 52, 183, 394, 471
Francis Xavier, St., 222
Franck Sebastian, 297
Fraticelli, 105
Freedom, 27, 30 seq., 129, 199, 207, 279, 330, 357, 367, 371, 404, 416 seq.
Freyer, D. A., 472
Friends of God, 185, 370, 410, 432, 464
Fruition, 173, 345, 356, 373, 417 seq., 433 seq.
Fünklein, 54
GAME of Love, see Love
Gardiner, Edmund, 59, 268, 294
Genius, 63 seq., 73
and mysticism 65, 232, 366
spiritual, 103, 235, 375, 450
Gerson, 467
Gertrude, St., 343, 389, 460, 463
Gertrude, Nun, 460
Gichtel, John, 472
Gnosticism, 58, 105, 149, 153 seq.
God, 97, 105, 107, 238, 330, 341, 447
union with, see Union
love of, see Love
as Being, 37 seq., 127, 249, 337, 369
mystics and, 38, 111 seq., 189
knowledge of, 57, 83, 130 seq., 195, 369 seq.
transcendent, 96 seq., 102, 195, 251 seq., 336, 344 seq.
immanent, 99 seq., 103, 128, 263, 342 seq.
names of, 103, 106, 163
needs man, 132, 425
absence of, 170, 376, 388 seq., 393 seq., 410
absorption in, 170
presence of, 184, 239 seq., 282, 314, 382 seq.
glory of, 192, 249
craving for, 248, 265
in quiet, 319
sons of, 433
Godfernaux, 75, 269, 361
Godhead, Unconditioned, 40, 101, 109 seq., 120, 132, 171, 344, 346, 433 seq.
vision of, 109, 340
aspects of, 109 seq., 336
emanations of, 263
desert of, 304, 337 seq.
and God, 344
Ruysbroeck on, 345
see also Abyss and Absolute
Grail, quest of, 129
Granger, F., 267
Gravitation, spiritual 132
Gregory of Nyssa, 104, 263
Gregory the Great, 457
Groot, Gerard, 465
Grou, J. N., 306
Ground of Soul, see Soul
Guyon, Madame, 196, 246, 293, 322, 390 seq., 401 seq., 407
automatic writing, 66, 295
youth and conversion, 182 seq.
and St. Catherine of Genoa, 183
purgation, 225 seq.
on contemplation, 326
dark nights 383 seq.
on union, 431
HAFIZ 462
Hall, Bishop, 470
Harphius, 465
Hazlitt, 160, 419.
Heart, 71
Heat, mystic, 193
Hébert, M., 71
Hegel on Beuty, 21
Helfde, 460
Henry de Mande, 465
Henry of Nordlingen, 465
Heracleitus, 10, 38, 106, 116, 238
and vitalism, 28 seq.
Hermes Trismegistus, 143, 153, 159
Hermetic act, see Alchemy
books, 153
science, 152 seq.
Hervey, Christopher, 113
Higher Thought, see New Thought
Hildegarde, St., 62, 115, 249, 274, 276, 458
Hilton, Walter, 51, 87, 132, 200, 220, 264, 323, 332, 342 seq., 348 seq., 401, 428, 466
on pilgrimage, 129
on presence of God, 242
on automatism 280
on contemplation, 307 seq., 334
Holland, B., 117
Holy Spirit, 109, 116 seq.
"Hound of Heaven," 135
Hugh of St. victor 129, 309
on music, 77
on contemplation, 92, 245
Humility, 200, 209, 221, 252 seq., 317, 337, 348, 400
Huysmans, 222, 271
Hymn of Jesus, 134, 234, 455
Hypnotic states, 57 seq.
Hysteria and mystics, 58 seq.
IDEALISM, 11 seq.
Ignatius Loyola, St., 173, 414, 430, 431, 436, 468
his lucidity, 58
mortifications, 225
visions, 272
Ignorance, Divine, 319, 337, 340, 348
Illumination, state of, 130 seq, 139, 169, 191 seq., 206, 227, 279 seq., 310, 340, 381 seq., 388, 396
and alchemy, 145
its nature, 199, 246 seq.
characteristics 234 seq.
transcendental, 250 seq.
Illuminative Way, see Illumination
Immanence, 35, 40, 97 seq., 103 seq., 240, 251
psychology and, 99
consciousness of, 178, 191 seq., 196, 234, 257, 283, 342 seq.
see also Absolute and God
Incarnation, The, 106 seq., 118 seq., 355
and deification, 419
Independent spiritual life, 33, 55
spiritual world, 23, 169
Indifference, 205, 323 seq., 412
Initiation, 156 seq.
Inspiration, 63, 234, 293, 299
Intellect, 45 seq.
Bergson's theory of, 30
darkness of, 385 seq.
satisfaction of, 437
Introversion, 99, 250, 298 seq.
Intuition, 33, 64, 130, 259, 274 seq., 306, 363
Irenaeus, 104
JACOPONE DA TODI, 121, 219, 249, 461
on poverty, 207
on ecstasy, 374
Jacques of la Massa, 237
Jalalu `d Din, 32, 87, 134, 171, 348, 389, 426
James, William, 7 seq., 98
on mysticism, 81, 331
Jámí, 82, 127, 462
Janet, Pierre, 60 seq., 267
Jeanne Françoise de Chantal, St., l83, 383
Jefferies, Richard, 192, 195
Jerome, St., 13
Jerusalem, 124, 129, 334
Joan of Arc, St., 173, 276, 414, 430, 467
John, St., Gospel of, 250
John of Parma, 237
John of the Cross, St., 73, 79, 89, 92, 96, 98, 139, 173, 203, 221, 229, 350, 354, 388, 402, 407, 440, 468
poems quoted, 83, 236, 352, 371
on detachment, 206, 211
on attachments, 212
on automatism 275 seq., 280
on dark contemplation, 353
on Dark Night, 389 seq., 399
Jones, Rufus, 185 seq., 267
Joy, Mystic, 189, 239, 253, 342, 354, 437 seq.
Julian of Norwich, 36, 68, 90, 101, 133, 202, 239, 242, 247, 252 seq., 258, 268, 301, 304 seq., 364, 467
on Trinity, 111 seq.
on Incarnation, 119
visions, 270
Jundt, A., 185, 402
KABALAH, the, 153, 154, 159
Kabalists, 63, 97 seq., 103, 108, 263 seq.
Kant, 58, 301
Kempe, Margery, 224, 466
Knowledge, 44 seq.
desire of, 45 seq., 72, 90, 151
by union, 68, 84
enouncement of, 93
transcendental, 268, 301, 329 seq., 334
law of, 342, 446
and ecstasy, 369 seq., 376
LAW, William, 141, 250, 263, 397, 469, 472
on Trinity, 114
Laurence, Brother, 188, 195, 241, 246, 253, 471
character and conversion, 190
Lead, Jane, 123, 470, 473
Leadbeater, C. W., 156
Leuba, 47, 183, 267
on mystics, 91 seq., 94
Lévi, Eliphas, 153 seq., 161 seq.
Levitation, 186, 376 seq.
Liberty, see Freedom
Libido, 45
Ligature, 330
Light, Inward, 100, 103, 353
uncreated, 73, 114, 239, 308, 342
mystic, 249 seq., 289, 421
Light, life, and love, 115 seq. ,190, 239, 341
Liturgies, 163 seq.
Logos, 28, 38, 109 seq., 115 seq., 118 seq., 134, 233
Love—
Spirit of, see Holy Spirit
and pain, 19, 221 seq.
desire of, 44 seq., 71
active, 46 seq.
mystic, 49, 70 seq., 77, 81, 85 seq., 92 seq., 197, 208, 264, 281, 311, 355, 371, 389, 426 seq.
of God, 68 seq., 81 seq., 181, 191, 223
divine, 103, 196, 343
as Holy Spirit, 116 seq.
symbols of, 128, 136
mutual, 130 seq.
following, 135
Four Degrees of, 139, 309, 312, 315 seq., 327, 379
Fire of, 189, 197, 418
pure, 201, 229, 247, 312, 325, 331, 412
game of, 227, 286, 383
vision of, 279
in orison, 306, 313, 330
language of, 425
and fruition, 435 seq.
Lucia of Narni, 468
Lucidity, Mystic, 58 seq., 177, 238, 255 seq., 360, 363, 390
Lucie-Christine, 179, 384, 389
Luis de Granada, 468
Luis de Leon, 214, 468
Lull, Ramon, 462
Lydwine of Schiedam, St., 222, 467
visions, 271
MACARIUS of Egypt, St., 457
Maeterlinck, M., 340
Magic, 70, 82, 84, 149 seq.
and religion, 151
and psychology, 157 seq.
therapeutics, 161
and Christianity, 162 seq.
Magnum Opus, see Alchemy
Magus, 144
Malaval, 254, 361, 472
Mantra, 158
Margaret Mary, St., 267
Maria Maddelena dei Pazzi, St., 222, 469
Marie de l'Incarnation, Ven., 471
Maritain, J., 301, 334
Marriage of Soul, see Spiritual Marriage
Martinists, 154
Maury, A., 363
McDougall, W., 228
Mead, G. R. S., 134
Mechthild of Hackborn, St., 31, 196, 460
visions, 287
Mechthild of Magdeburg, 62, 90, 135, 206 seq., 238 seq., 249 seq., 278 seq., 393, 420, 460
on mystic pain, 61
on love, 92
on orison, 344
Meditation, 49, 158, 311, 313 seq., 324 seq.
Mediums, 66, 293 seq., 360
Mental Healing, 158, 161
Menticulture, 153, 156
Merswin, Rulman, 97, 177, 195 seq., 202, 376 seq., 383, 393, 402, 465
his vision of Nine Rocks, 98, 132, 204
conversion, 185
psychology, 186, 294
penances, 228
Metapsychic phenomena, 155 seq.
Microcosms 98, 102, 159
Mirror of St. Edmund, The, 306
Mirror of Simple Souls, The, 75, 219, 337, 342, 426, 437, 462
Missal, 119, 163, 274
Molinos, 324, 471
Monet, 263
Monoideism, 58 seq., 246, 363 seq., 373
More, Gertrude, 59, 78, 88 seq., 128, 248, 470
Mortification, 169, 186, 200 seq., 216 seq., 233, 396
Music and Mysticism, 76 seq., 277, 336
Musset, A. de., 293
Myers, F., 359
Mysteries, The, 235, 455
Orphic, 24, 426, 454
Dionysiac, 58, 236, 359, 454
Mystic—
marriage, see Spiritual philosophy, see Philosophy
vision, 35 seq., 134
type, 49, 91, 223 seq., 229
sense, 50 seq.
feeling, 73
literature, 80, 239
experience, 91, 252, 336
quest, 91 seq., 103, 129 seq.
education, 92, 298 seq., 310
life process, 92
theology, 104 seq.
death, 169, 383 seq., 401
life, first, 169, 228, 238, 298, 310, 381
life, second, 229, 381, 403 seq.
language, 335
development, 381 seq.
heritage, 432
Mystic Way, 81 seq., 91, 94, 127, 167 seq., 306, 381, 416, 426 seq., 432, 440 seq.
and life of Christ, 121
and alchemy, 145
stages of, 168 seq.
end of, 442
Mystics The, see also Mystics
his mechanism, 49 seq.
defined, 75 seq.
his states, 168
great, mark of, 173
as genius, 386
and visions and voices, 266 seq., 279
and artistic expression, 272 seq.
and orison, 324, 328 seq.
and ecstasy, 370 seq.
and Dark Night, 387 seq.
mature, 432 seq.
Mysticism—
its doctrines, 23
Indian, 31, 57, 158, 170, 314, 434
and vitalism, 34
its nature, 70 seq., 81 seq.
and music, see Music
and symbols, 79, 125 seq.
defined, 82
love and, 85 seq. its branches, 94
and theology, 95 seq.
its valid part, 102
Christian, 104, 172 seq., 234, 304, 311, 323, 344, 364, 401, 419
theurglc, 150
and magic, 162 seq.
European, 171, 434
and goodness, 199
passive, 322
German, 396 seq., 459, 462
its meaning, 444
curve of, 453 seq.
tradition of, 454, 469
Medieval, 458
Italian, 460 seq.
Franciscan, 460 seq.
Dominican, 462
Mahommedan, see Sufis
Flemish, 465
English, 466
Spanish, 468
Mystics, The, 23 seq., 34 seq., 49 seq., 94, 104, 344
their claim, 4, 22 seq.
and artists, 35, 75, 223, 236, 259, 271
practical, 59, 101, 246 seq., 347, 414
psycho-physical peculiarities, 58 seq., 363
their wholeness of life, 63
automatic powers, 65
heroic types, 91 seq., 428
and theology, 95 seq., 108 seq.
and occultists, 156
as actives, 172 seq., 429 seq.
their love of nature, 206, 260
and Unitive life, 414 seq.
two types of, 415
as lovers, 428
Unitive, 429 seq.
and humanity, 446
Christian, see Mysticism
NAMES of God, see God
Nativity, The, and Mysticism, 119, 122
Naturalism, 8
Nature—
and Christ, 115
mystic vision of, 178, 191 seq., 234, 240, 254
mystics and, 206, 258 seq.
contemplation of, 301 seq.
Negation, 318, 337 seq., 344, 353 seq., 372, 387
Negative states, 381 seq.
Neoplatonists, 96 seq., 104 seq., 109, 226, 318, 333, 337, 359, 372, 426, 454 seq., 470
their Trinity 111
New Birth, 34, 53, 122 seq., 140, 193, 303, 319, 419, 445, 454, 469
New Man, 142, 217, 222, 259, 310, 402
New Thought 71, 153, 156 seq.
Nicholson, R. A., 171
Nicolas of Basle, 465
Nicolas of Cusa, 114, 118, 465
Nirvana, 171
Norris, John, 470
OBEDIENCE, 205, 215
Occult, see Magic
Odes of Solomon, 455
Odic force, 155
One, The, 41, 81, 96, 97, 102, 107, 108, 113, 139, 212, 229, 307, 331, 337, 343 seq., 347, 372, 454, 455
Dante's vision of, 340
One Act, the, 325 seq.
Origen, 455
Orison, 184, 243, 254, 306 seq., 344, 375, 380 seq.
of quiet, see Quiet
union, see Union
Degrees of, 169, 306 seq., 311
naked, 307, 318
ideal of, 325
Ormond, A. T., 428
Osanna Andreasi, 468
Otto, R., 340, 348
Oxyrhynchus Papyri, 101
PACHEU, J., 91
Pain, 18 seq.
and love, 18, 221 seq.
mystic states of, 168 seq., 389, 403
of God, 394
Pantheism, 99
Papus, 150
Paracelsus, 150, 297
Pascal, 368, 376, 379, 471
memorial of, 188
Passivity, 51, 65, 81, 183, 247, 306, 321, 325, 373
Pathology and mysticism, 60 seq., 360
Patmore, Coventry, 25, 135, 143, 311
on Incarnation, 118
on Church 164
on Reality 199, 420
Paul, St., 58, 178, 199, 267, 368, 429, 431, 437, 455
on Trinity, 113
conversion of, 178
Pelagius, 105
Penington, Isaac, 470
Personality—
divine, 42, 51, 105, 118, 128, 289, 337, 341, 346, 423
sub-conscious, see Subliminal
remaking of, 54 seq., 375, 402, 416 seq.
levels of, 330
and deification, 420 seq.
Peter Damian, St., 458
Peter of Alcantara, St., 468
Petersen, Gerlac, 84, 200, 211, 427, 465
Philadelphians, 470
Philip of the Trinity, 275
Philo, 63, 96, 454
Philosopher's stone, 142 seq., 418, 432
Philosophy, 5 seq., 262, 334
vitalistic, 26 seq., 155
activistic, 33
transcendental, 73
mystical, 83, 95 seq., 104 seq., 433
Christian, 105
Hermetic, 141
occult, 152 seq.
Pilgrimage of soul, 98, 128 seq.
Plato, 5, 39, 101, 103, 169, 199, 235, 238, 243, 262, 372
on beauty, 21, 216, 236
on mystic sense, 50
on contemplations 305
Platonism and mysticism, 83
Platonism Cambridge, 72, 470
Pleasure, states of, 167 seq., 188, 241
and pain, 228, 380 seq., 393
Plotinus, 86, 93, 96, 101, 106, 173, 178, 207, 229, 233, 262, 271, 331, 335, 368, 374, 455
on mystic sense, 50
ecstasy, 82, 372
union, 85, 333
immanence, 99
Poetry, 278, 286, 352
Poets, 233 seq., 331, 375
and illumination, 234
mystical, 255, 383
Poiret, P., 472
Pordage, Dr., 470, 473
Porphyry, 455
Poulain, A., 242
Poverty, 205 seq., 220, 400
Pratt, J. B., 52, 138, 177, 269 seq., 288
Prayer, see Orison
Presence of God, see God
Prince, Morton, 57
Proclus, 456
Prophecy, 277 seq., 295, 366
Prophets, 279, 285, 376
Psychology 44 seq.
of mystic way, 92, 102, 167 seq.
and magic, 157 seq., 161
and automatism 266 seq., 294 seq.
of contemplation, 329, 337, 351
of ecstasy, 361 seq.
of Dark Night, 381 seq.
of Unitive Life, 416 seq.
Purgation, 131, 147, 169, 177, 198 seq., 232, 240, 253, 381 seq., 388 seq.
factors of, 228 seq.
and illumination, 229 seq.
passive, 388, 399
of spirit, 396
Purgatory, 202, 221
Purification, see Purgation
QUIA amore langueo, 136
Quakers, 100, 105, 464, 469
Quiet, Orison of, 83, 172, 182, 283, 308 seq., 316 seq., 328 seq., 338, 349, 364, 368
Quietism, 68, 150, 247, 321 seq.
Quietists, 105, 469 seq.
RABI'A, 85, 248, 462
Rapture, 243, 248, 281, 303, 329, 359, seq., 375 seq.
dark, 394
Realism, 8
Reality—
philosophy and, 8 seq., 33 seq.
beauty and, 21 seq.
mystics and, 23 seq., 41, 68, 93 seq., 198, 314, 335, 369, 388, 414 seq., 420, 433 seq.
dual nature of, 33 seq., 195, 240, 340, 433 seq.
levels of, 34, 56, 64, 232
negative descriptions, 42, 337, 345
condition of knowing, 43, 47 seq., 175, 330, 395
and ecstasy, 61, 187 seq., 367 seq.
transcendent, 72, 240, 251 seq.
and art, 74 seq.
and symbols, 78 seq., 285
concepts of, 96, 114, 128, 195, 419
and immanence, 98, 240, 250
and theology, 101 seq., 116, 121
self's movement to, 128 seq.
craving for, 200, 394
of phenomena, 256
Reason, see Intellect
Re-birth, see New Birth
Récéjac, 16, 133, 220, 243, 328
on beauty, 21
on mysticism, 46, 82, 86, 262, 279
Receptivity, 64 seq., 317 seq.
Recollection, 50, 308 seq., 313 seq., 328
Regeneration, 122, 128, 417 symbols of, 140 seq.
Religion, 17, 47, 160
and mysticism, 96
and magic, 152, 157, 162 seq.
Rhythm, 76 seq., 157 seq., 162, 233, 238, 278
and ecstasy, 58
Ribet, 268
Ribot, 60, 363, 371
Richard of St. victor, 139, 204, 309, 370, 374, 429, 431, 458, 459, 466
degrees of love, 139, 292, 312, 315, 327
on ecstasy, 379
on deification, 421
Rolle, Richard, 77, 91, 196, 201, 206, 211, 237 seq., 239, 277, 317, 355, 369, 459, 466
on song, 77 seq., 193, 439
on mystic love, 86
on Heat Sweetness, Song, 193
his Conversion, 193
on illumination, 264
on contemplation, 336, 342
on joy, 438 seq.
Romuald, St., 458
Rose of Lima, St., 261, 440, 469
Rosicrucians, 150, 469
Royce, Josiah, 23, 132
Rutherford, Samuel, 317 seq.
Ruysbroeck, 51, 77, 130, 133, 173, 210, 229, 235, 304, 331, 373, 409, 420 seq., 436, 437, 465
on God, 35, 37, 115 seq., 435 seq.
on emotion, 48
on love of God, 86, 265, 356
on introversion, 100
on Trinity, 116
on contemplation, 117, 333, 345 seq.
on Birth of Son, 119, 122
on union, 312, 422, 435
on Quietism, 322
on dual life, 325, 435
on Dark Night, 391
on Unitive Life, 422 seq.
on divine sonship, 433
SACRAMENTS
and Magic, 163
and Mystics, 364
Sacred Heart, vision of, 80
Sacrum Commercium, 208
Sadi, 462
Saint-Martin, 7, 80, 469, 473
Sanctity, 127, 390
Scepticism, Philosophic, 13
School of Holy Spirit, 403 seq.
Self—
and world, 5
the, its three activities, 45 seq., 84, 310, 329, 437
its machinery 211, seq.
its dual nature, 52 seq., 63, 90, 199, 213, 240, 302, 310, 432 seq.
surrender of, see Surrender
and Reality, 68, 74, 82, 102, 304, 312, 317, 432
loss of, 84, 208, 336 seq., 401, 434
transmutation of, 91 seq., 140 seq., 217, 388, 396, 402, 414 seq., 418 seq.
cravings of, 126
annihilation of, 132, 170, 396 seq., 418, 434
suggestion, 159 seq.
awakening of, 168, 176 seq., 198
conversion of, see Conversion
knowledge, 200 seq., 233
conquest, 200
simplification, 204
death of, 217, 221, 264, 400, 412
illumination of, 238 seq.
education of, 311
mergence, 312, 332, 343, 373
naughting, 317, 399 seq., 416, 422 seq.
in contemplation, 329 seq.
in Dark Night, 385 seq,
love, 397
Semer, M., 193
Senses—
World of, 5, 338
death of, 220
night of, 239
and automatism, 268
hallucinations of, 268 seq., 275, 279
"Seven Valleys, The," 131
Shelley, 78
Silence, Interior, see Quiet
Simeon Mataphrastes, 419
Sin, 198 seq., 219, 387
conviction of, 390 seq,
Smith, John, 470
Solitude, 173, 324
Son, The, 115, 120
Eternal Birth of, 121
Marriage with, 304
Sonship Divine, 446
Song, Mystic, 78, 194, 241, 439 seq.
Song of Songs, 137, 250, 373, 426
Sophia, 123, 230, 233
Soul, 85, 93, 99, 137
apex of, 54, 366
ground of, 54 seq., 99 seq., 233, 274, 304, 312, 319, 339, 343 seq., 349, 390, 401
spark of, 54 seq., 74, 100, 108, 145, 230, 259, 274, 304, 366, 390, 396, 402, 445
Space and Time, 12
Spark of Soul, see Soul
Spiritual Marriage, 80, 92, 129, 136 seq., 172, 302, 327, 355 seq, 372 seq., 415 seq., 426 seq.
Ornaments of, 90
of St. Catherine, 174, 291, 297
Starbuck, 58, 172, 382
on conversion, 176, 192
Steiner, R., 150, 152, 156, 191
Sterry, Peter, 470
Stewart J. A., 54, 74
Stigmatisation, 59, 267, 375
Subliminal Mind, 52 seq., 62, 91, 102, 108, 273, 306, 311, 375, 392
in mystics, 57, 66, 185
and visions, 290
Substance and Existence, 34
Sufis, 63, 80, 83, 92, 96, 108, 127, 130, 171, 210, 226, 418, 462
"Suggestive Enquiry, A", 143, 147
Surrender, 68, 92, 135, 170 seq., 185, 190, 209, 223, 236, 244, 284, 308 seq., 317, 323 seq., 339, 347 seq., 355, 392 seq., 398 seq., 415, 445
Suso, 91, 101, 172 seq., 185, 195 seq., 201, 206, 218, 222 seq., 229, 238 seq., 255, 267, 271 seq., 276 seq., 283, 291, 343, 371, 388, 393, 396, 464
on theology, 97, 118
his conversion, 186
temperament, 186, 408 seq.
visions, 187, 283 seq., 386
illumination, 253
his Dark Night, 386, 403 seq.
and the knight, 408
and the baby, 410
on union, 424
Swedenborg, 160, 473
Symbolism, 78 seq., 97, 125 seq., 159, 271, 336
Symbols, 101, 158, 234, 239, 257, 268, 283, 328
of the Absolute, 113, 127 seq., 331
three classes of, 126
of quest, 129 seq.
of love, 136 seq.
of pilgrimage, 130 seq.
of marriage, 136, 425
of transmutation, 140 seq., 418
magic, 159
philosophic, 341
and ecstasy, 364 seq.
of Unitive Life, 415 seq., 427 seq.
of deification, 421
Symons, Arthur, 83, 89, 236, 352
Synteresis, 54, 145
TAULER, 55, 61, 87, 100 seq., 115, 173, 185, 265, 269, 278, 330, 393, 396, 463 seq.
on self loss, 85, 400
on poverty, 215
on mortification, 217
on pain, 222
on desert of God, 304
on Abyss, 338
Telepathy, 155, 295
Tennyson, 238, 255
Teresa, St., 58, 64, 79, 88, 91, 92, 96, 100, 102, 117, 168, 169, 172 seq., 201, 215 seq., 222, 227, 238, 241 seq., 246 seq., 267 seq., 269, 271, 278 seq., 283 seq., 313, 318, 326, 343, 361, 375, 392 seq., 414, 430, 432, 436, 440, 453, 464, 468, 471, 473
on ecstasy, 61, 360, 368, 371
on Trinity, 108 seq.
Spiritual Marriage, 138
her character, 213 seq.
purgation, 213 seq.
visions, 270, 281, 284 seq., 288 seq.
on auditions, 274 seq.
her transverberation, 292
automatic writing, 294 seq.
on orison, 308, 311 seq., 356 seq.
on recollection, 315
on quiet, 321, 326
on rapture, 329, 363, 376 seq.
on levitation, 376, seq,
on pain of God, 394
Téwekkul Beg, 99
Theologia Germanica, 50, 55, 83, 121, 127, 141, 230, 245, 425, 464
on detachment, 207
on deification, 418
Theology, 114 seq.
Theopathetic state, 132, 175
life, 431, 436
mystics, 429
Thomas à Kempis, 19, 217, 278, 437, 465, 470
on love, 87
Thomas Aquinas, St., 17, 39, 50, 65, 116, 150, 188, 361, 428, 462
on emanation, 97
on immanence, 99
on Trinity, 111
on Holy Spirit, 117
on Beatific vision, 190, 423
Thompson, Francis, 135
Towne, E., 156
Tradition, 300, 454, 470
Traherne, Thomas, 470
Trance, Ecstatic, 170 seq., 255, 294, 359 seq., 367, 375 seq.
Transcendence, 34, 91, 97 seq., 103, 108, 232, 259, 307, 324, 335, 418, 444
symbols of, 126 seq.
process of, 168, 198
vision of, 195
and immanence, 250, 259, 337
contemplation of, 337, 344 seq.
dark, 355
and ecstasy, 365
Transcendental Consciousness, see Consciousness
feeling, 55 seq., 73, 232, 330
sense, 56 seq., 70 seq.
powers, 63
life, 213
world, 258 seq.
Transmutation, see Self and Symbols
Tree of Life, 98, 103, 263
Trinity, Christian, 107 seq., 133, 257, 272, 344, 422, 435
Hindu, 110
Neoplatonic, 111
Truth, Quest of, 334
UNIFICATION, 54, 108, 238, 416, 434 of consciousness 68, 364, 370
Union, Mystic, 24, 32, 35 seq., 68, 72 seq., 79 seq., 84 seq., 89, 100, 127, 133 seq., 146, 170 seq., 281 seq., 292, 310 seq., 325, 338, seq. 355 seq., 367, 372, 378, 396, 401, 417 seq., 422 seq., 446
hypostatic, 119
condition of, 203, 307
orison of, 245, 283, 308 seq., 329, 343, 346, 355 seq.
St. Teresa on, 283, 357
passive, 333, 367
ecstatic, 370
Unitive Life, 57, 81, 290, 388, 402, 413 seq.
and illumination, 245 seq.
examples of, 429
dual character of, 433
its gaiety, 439 seq.
Unitive Way, 121, 131, 139, 170, 229, 310, 381, 413 seq.
Unity, 107, 109, 132, 258, 422
VAUGHAN, H. (Silurist), 255, 347, 409, 470
Vaughan, R. A., 150
Vaughan, Thomas, 470
Vernazza, Ven. Battista, 115, 356, 467
Vision, 74, 240, 307, 333
illuminated, 234 seq., 254 seq.
fourfold, 259
Visions, 66, 79, 196, 266 seq., 279 seq., 375, 381
examples, 109, 181, 182, 187, 286 seq., 404 seq.
of Godhead, 109, 251 seq., 283 seq., 340, 370
dynamic, 138, 290 seq.
evil, 270, 392
and voices, 281
symbolic, 285
Vitalism, 26 seq., 155
Voices, see Auditions
Von Crevelsheim, Ellina, 370
Von Hügel, Baron F., 29, 40, 41, 60, 80, 122, 202, 247, 268, 317, 323, 351
on St. Catherine of Genoa, 59, 182, 362
on quietism, 325
WAITE, A. E., 108
on Magic, 151, 154 seq., 157
Weigel, V., 297
Whichcote, B., 470
Whitman, Walt, 192, 238, 248, 255
Will, 45 seq., 153 seq., 161 seq., 392
and magic, 71, 153 seq.
purgation of, 170, 395 seq.
and conversion, 188, 197
surrender of, 208
in contemplation, 299, 303, 310, 313, seq., 324, 329, 375
Woolman, John, 470
Word, The, 109, 113,115, 118, 193, 233, 241, 244, 258, 326, 331, 340, 417, 423
Words, see Auditions
Wordsworth, W., 238, 255, 285