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THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT
OF RELIGION

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The Venerable Battista Vernazza
(Tommasina Vernazza)
1497-1587.

THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT
OF RELIGION AS STUDIED
IN SAINT CATHERINE OF
GENOA AND HER FRIENDS

By BARON FRIEDRICH von HÜGEL
MEMBER OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY

VOLUME SECOND
CRITICAL STUDIES

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CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME

The frontispiece consists of a reduced facsimile, in photogravure, of a lithograph by F. Scotto, entitled “Ven. Batta. Vernazza,” which was printed and owned by the firm of Gervasoni, and which appeared in the large 4to volume, Ritratti, ed Elogi di Liguri Illustri, with the text printed by Ponthenier, all in Genoa. This book was published there, in monthly parts, from 1823 to 1830. Scotto’s highly characteristic lithograph no doubt reproduces an authentic likeness; and probably the original portrait was, in the first instance, owned by the Canonesses of S. Maria delle Grazie, Battista’s own convent in Genoa. The picture now in the possession of the Nuns of S. Maria in Passione, the successors of those Canonesses, is of a quite conventional, secondary type.

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[Part III.—CRITICAL]
[Chapter IX.—Psycho-physical and TemperamentalQuestions][3-61]
Introductory[3-9]
I.Catherine’s Third Period, 1497-1510[9-13]
II.Conclusions concerning Catherine’s Psycho-physicalCondition during this Last Period[14-21]
III.Catherine’s Psycho-physical Condition, its Likeness andUnlikeness to Hysteria[22-27]
IV.First Period of Catherine’s Life, 1447-1477, in its ThreeStages[28-32]
V.The Second, Great Middle Period of Catherine’s Life,1477-1499[32-40]
VI.Three Rules which seem to govern the Relations betweenPsycho-physical Peculiarities and Sanctity ingeneral[40-47]
VII.Perennial Freshness of the Great Mystics’ Main SpiritualTest, in Contradistinction to their Secondary, PsychologicalContention. Two Special Difficulties[47-61]
[Chapter X.—The Main Literary Sources of Catherine’sConceptions][62-110]
Introductory[62, 63]
I.The Pauline Writings: the Two Sources of their Pre-ConversionAssumptions; Catherine’s PreponderantAttitude towards each Position[63-79]
II.The Joannine Writings[79-90]
III.The Areopagite Writings[90-101]
IV.Jacopone da Todi’s “Lode”[102-110]
V.Points common to all Five Minds; and Catherine’s MainDifference from her Four Predecessors[110]
[Chapter XI.—Catherine’s Less Ultimate This-WorldDoctrines][111-181]
Introductory[111, 112]
I.Interpretative Religion[112-121]
II.Dualistic Attitude towards the Body[121-129]
III.Quietude and Passivity. Points in this Tendency to beconsidered here[129-152]
IV.Pure Love, or Disinterested Religion: its Distinctionfrom Quietism[152-181]
[Chapter XII.—The After-Life Problems and Doctrines][182-258]
I.The Chief Present-day Problems, Perplexities, and Requirementswith Regard to the After-Life in General[182-199]
II.Catherine’s General After-Life Conceptions[199-218]
III.Catherine and Eternal Punishment[218-230]
IV.Catherine and Purgatory[230-246]
V.Catherine and Heaven—Three Perplexities to be considered[246-258]
[Chapter XIII.—The First Three Ultimate Questions][259-308]
I.The Relations between Morality and Mysticism, Philosophyand Religion[259-275]
II.Mysticism and the Limits of Human Knowledge andExperience[275-290]
III.Mysticism and the Question of Evil[290-308]
[Chapter XIV.—The Two Final Problems: MysticismAnd Pantheism, the Immanence of God, AndSpiritual Personality, Human and Divine][309-340]
Introductory[309, 310]
I.Relations between the General and the Particular, Godand Individual Things, according to Aristotle, theNeo-Platonists, and the Medieval Strict Realists[310-319]
II.Relations between God and the Human Soul[319-325]
III.Mysticism and Pantheism: their Differences and Pointsof Likeness[325-335]
IV.The Divine Immanence; Spiritual Personality[336-340]
[Chapter XV.—Summing-up of the Whole Book. BackThrough Asceticism, Social Religion, and theScientific Habit of Mind, to the MysticalElement of Religion][341-396]
I.Asceticism and Mysticism[341-351]
II.Social Religion and Mysticism[351-366]
III.The Scientific Habit and Mysticism[367-386]
IV.Final Summary and Return to the Starting-point of theWhole Inquiry: the Necessity, and yet the AlmostInevitable Mutual Hostility, of the Three Great Forcesof the Soul and of the Three Corresponding Elementsof Religion[387-396]
[Index]397