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].
Alternations of personality, [193].
Alvarez de Paz, [116].
Amiel, [394].
Anæsthesia, [288].
Anæsthetic revelation, [387-393].
Angelus Silesius, [417].
“Anhedonia,” [145].
Aristocratic type, [371].
Aristotle, [495].
Ars, le Curé d', [302].
Asceticism, [273], [296-310], [360-365].
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].
Bashkirtseff, [83].
Beecher, [256].
Behmen, see [Boehme].
Belief, due to non-rationalistic impulses, [73].
Bhagavad-Gita, [361].
Blavatsky, Madam, [421].
Blood, [389].
Blumhardt, [113].
Booth, [203].
Bougaud, [344].
Bourget, [263].
Bourignon, [321].
Bowne, [502].
Brooks, [512].
Brownell, [515].
Bucke, [398].
Buddhist mysticism, [401].
Bullen, [287].
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].
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].
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].
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].
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].
Derham, [493].
Design, argument from, [438], [492] ff.
Devoutness, [340].
Dionysius Areopagiticus, [416].
Disorder in contents of world, [438].
Divided Self, Lecture [VIII], passim;
Cases of:
Saint Augustine, [172],
H. Alline, [173].
Divine, the, [31].
Dog, [281].
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].
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-state, [505].
Fanaticism, [338] ff.
Fear, [98], [159], [161], [263], [275].
Feeling deeper than intellect in religion, [431].
Fielding, [436].
Flower, [476].
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].
Greeks, their pessimism, [86], [142].
Guidance, [472].
Gurney, [527].
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].
Helmont, Van, [497].
Heterogeneous personality, [169], [193].
Higher criticism, [4].
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].
John, Saint, of the Cross, [304], [407], [413].
Johnston, [258].
Jonquil, [476].
Jordan, [347].
Judgments, existential and spiritual, [4].
Karma, [522].
Kellner, [401].
Kindliness, see [Charity].
Kingsley, [385].
Lagneau, [285].
Leaders, see [Religious leaders].
Leaders, of tribes, [371].
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].
Mahomet, [171].
See Mohammed.
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.
Lectures [V] and [VI], passim;
cases of, [148], [149], [157], [159], [198].
Melting moods, [267].
Method of judging value of religion, [18], [327].
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].
Molinos, [130].
Monasteries, [296].
Monism, [416].
Morbidness compared with healthy-mindedness, [488].
See, also, [Melancholy].
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].
Nature, scientific view of, [491].
Negative accounts of deity, [417].
Nettleton, [215].
Newman, F. W., [80].
Newman, J. H., on dogmatic theology, [434], [442];
his type of imagination, [459].
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].
Parker, [83].
Pascal, [286].
Paton, [359].
Peek, [253].
Peirce, [444].
Penny, [323].
Perreyve, [505].
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].
“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].
its authority overthrown by mysticism, [428].
Reality of unseen objects, Lecture [III], passim.
Redemption, [157].
Reformation of character, [320].
Regeneration, see [Conversion];
by relaxation, [111].
Reid, [446].
Relaxation, salvation by, [110].
See [Surrender].
Religion, to be tested by fruits, not by origin, [10] ff., [331];
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].
Rodriguez, [313], [314], [317].
Royce, [454].
Rutherford, Mark, [76].
Sabatier, A., [464].
Saint-Pierre, [83].
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];
“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].
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].
Soul, [195].
Soul, strength of, [273].
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].
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].
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].
Swinburne, [421].
Sympathetic magic, [496].
Sympathy, see [Charity].
Systems, philosophic, [433].
Taine, [9].
Taylor, [246].
Tenderness, see [Charity].
Teresa, Saint, [20], [346], [360], [408], [411], [412], [414].
Theologia Germanica, [43].
Theologians, systematic, [446].
“Theopathy,” [343].
Thoreau, [275].
Threshold, [135].
Towianski, [281].
Tragedy of life, [363].
Tranquillity, [285].
Transcendentalism criticised, [522].
Transcendentalists, [516].
Trevor, [396].
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].
Union with God, [408], [418], [425], [451], [509] ff.
See lectures on Conversion, passim.
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].
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].
Wood, Henry, [96], [99], [117].
World, soul of the, [449].
Yes-function, [261-263], [299], [387].
Yoga, [400].
Young, [256].