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Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion

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The work surveys Christian mystical traditions through literary readings and historical sketches, tracing recurring themes such as inward experience, ascetic discipline, visionary language, and tensions between personal spirituality and doctrinal institutions. It combines critical essays, translations, and framed conversations to present representative mystical writings, interpret their symbolism, and evaluate their influence on religious opinion. Biographical notes and polemical comparisons highlight doubts, devotional yearnings, and varied theological responses, aiming to explain how mystical expression shaped debates about doctrine, worship, and the nature of religious experience.

INDEX.

  • Abelard, i. 142, 149.
  • Absorption, Mystical, i. 86.
  • Abstraction, Doctrine of Hugo concerning, i. 157;
    • of Ruysbroek, 328;
    • of the Quietists, ii. 172;
    • not to be mistaken for spirituality, 365.
  • Adolf Arnstein, his Chronicle, i. 181, 213, 243, 319, 340.
  • Affliginiensis, John, i. 334.
  • Agrippa, Cornelius, i. 44; ii. 61;
    • his Vanity of Arts and Sciences, 62;
    • his doctrine of the Microcosm, 65.
  • Alcantara, Peter of, ii. 157, 221.
  • Alchemy in the sixteenth century, ii. 58;
    • Theological, 77.
  • Alexandria, Rise of its Philosophic School, i. 66, 74;
    • Fusion of Religions there, 72;
    • Eclecticism, 75;
    • its Mysticism revived at Florence, ii. 147.
  • Algazzali, ii. 5.
  • Alvarez, Balthazar, ii. 171.
  • Amalric of Bena, i. 131.
  • Ammonius Saccas, his Eclecticism, i. 74.
  • Anabaptists of Munster, ii. 37.
  • Andreä, Valentine, ii. 132.
  • Angela de Foligni, i. 362.
  • Angelus Silesius, ii. 5;
    • his Pantheism, 6;
    • his Extravagance of Negation, 18;
    • Analogies with Emerson, 22.
  • Anselm, i. 141, 149.
  • Antony, St., i. 109.
  • Apathy, i. 58;
    • styled Poverty of Spirit, 331.
  • Apollonius of Tyana, i. 71.
  • Aquinas, Thomas, his Classification of Virtues, i. 123.
  • Areopagita, Dionysius, see Dionysius.
  • Aristotle, Mischievous Influence of his Ethics, i. 120.
  • Asceticism, Oriental, i. 56;
    • of Plotinus, 71;
    • of Neo-Platonism, 76;
    • of the Fathers of the Desert, 109;
    • mistakes the Design of Christianity, 143;
    • its services to Priestcraft, 365;
    • of the Friends, ii. 309;
    • discouraged by the Mysticism of Swedenborg, 328.
  • Astras, Indian, ii. 143.
  • Athos, Mount, Monks of, i. 355.
  • Atonement, Swedenborg’s doctrine of, ii. 332.
  • Augustine, i. 131, 146.
  • Aurora of Behmen, ii. 97.
  • Baader, Franz, ii. 351.
  • Bagvat-Gita, i. 51.
  • Barclay, his Apology, ii. 300.
  • Beghards, i. 184.
  • Behmen, Jacob, i. 39;
    • his early life, ii. 80;
    • his illumination, 83, 93, 95;
    • his Aurora, 86;
    • his debt to predecessors, 90;
    • his style, 99;
    • genial and manly character of his Mysticism, 102;
    • his Fountain-Spirits, 104, 120;
    • his Theory of Contraries, 109;
    • his doctrine of the Fall, 115;
    • estimate of his position, 118;
    • compared with Swedenborg, 326.
  • Bernard, his personal appearance, i. 134;
    • life at Clairvaux, 135;
    • moderation of his Mysticism, 136;
    • character and extent of his influence, 140;
    • undue limitation of Reason in his Theology, 141;
    • definition of Faith, 142;
    • doctrine concerning Contemplation, 143;
    • concerning Disinterested Love, 144;
    • definition of Union, 144;
    • Sermons on Canticles, 145;
    • his mystical Interpretation, 145.
  • Berulle, Cardinal, defends St. Francis de Sales, ii. 281,
  • Black Death, in the fourteenth century, i. 313.
  • Blosius, Ludovic, passage from his Institutio spiritualis, i. 24; ii. 281.
  • Bokelson, John, ii. 38.
  • Bona, Cardinal, i. 24; ii. 178.
  • Bonaventura, i. 149, 154.
  • Bossuet, his ignorance of Mysticism, ii. 252, note;
    • appointed to the Commission of Inquiry concerning Mme. Guyon, 255;
    • prejudges the cause of Mme. Guyon, 256, note;
    • his treatment of Fénélon, 257;
    • his panegyric on the Spanish Mystics, 259;
    • his Instructions on the States of Prayer, 261;
    • his jealousy of Fénélon, 264;
    • his treachery, 268;
    • his Account of Quietism, 268;
    • his hypocrisy, 270, note;
    • his misrepresentations, 278.
  • Bourignon, Antoinette, ii. 286, 289.
  • Brigitta, St., i. 361.
  • Buddhism, its Mysticism, i. 56;
    • its Monasticism, 56.
  • Bustami, ii. 11.
  • Cabasilas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, i. 356.
  • Cabbala, ii. 55, 142.
  • Cagliostro, ii. 130.
  • Callenberg, Lady Clara von, ii. 293;
    • her death, 295.
  • Canticles, Bernard’s Sermons on the, i. 145.
  • Carlstadt, ii. 43;
    • opposed by Luther, 51.
  • Carmel, Mount, the Ascent of, by John of the Cross, ii. 185, 192.
  • Catherine of Siena, i. 364; ii. 171.
  • Cevennes, Protestants of the, ii. 313.
  • Christina Ebner, of Engelthal, i. 223.
  • Christina Mirabilis, ii. 221.
  • City of God, Mystical, of Maria d’Agreda, ii. 164.
  • Clairvaux, Monastery of, described, i. 132.
  • Coleridge, i. 87;
    • Analogies of Plotinus with, 87;
    • his intuitive reason, 88.
  • Contemplation, doctrine of Philo concerning, i. 66;
    • of Bernard, 143;
    • of Hugo, 156;
    • Richard’s six stages of, 162;
    • the ‘indistinct’ of St. Frances de Sales, ii. 179;
    • of Fénélon, 280.
  • Contraries, Behmen’s Theory of, ii. 109.
  • Cornelius Agrippa, see Agrippa.
  • Correspondences, Swedenborg’s doctrine of, ii. 321.
  • Counter-Reformation, ii. 149;
    • character of its Mysticism, 151.
  • Cross, John of the, see John.
  • Cyr, St., ii. 248.
  • David of Dinant, i. 131.
  • Denys, St., of France, identified with the Pseudo-Dionysius, i. 120.
  • Descartes, i. 43.
  • Desert, Fathers of the, i. 109.
  • Desmarets, de St. Sorlin, ii. 244.
  • D’Etrées, ii. 243.
  • Dionysius Areopagita, first appearance of the writings under that name, i. 111;
    • Theology of the Pseudo-Dionysius, 113-115, 278;
    • influence of his Mysticism on the Middle Ages, 119;
    • in the East and in the West contrasted, 130;
    • identified with St. Denys of France, 120;
    • followed by Molinos, ii. 171;
      • by John of the Cross, 185.
  • Dionysius the Carthusian, his definition of mystical theology, i. 24; ii. 281.
  • Dippel, ii. 125.
  • Director, the Spiritual, ii. 158.
  • Dominic of Jesu Maria, his miraculous elevation, ii, 176.
  • Dominicans, Reformatory Preachers among the, i. 224.
  • Ebner, Christina, of Engelthal, i. 223;
    • Margaret, 216.
  • Eckart, his preaching, i. 188, 193;
    • compared with Tauler, 192, 254, 282, 302;
    • his story of the beggar, 197;
    • probable motive of his heresy, 204;
    • analogies with Hegel, 206, 212;
    • sources of his Pantheism, 210, 282;
    • compared with Fichte, 212;
    • two classes of followers, 330, note.
  • Eclecticism. Alexandrian, i. 74.
  • Ecstasy, doctrine of Plotinus concerning, i. 77, 78;
      • of Porphyry, 97;
      • of Iamblichus, 104;
      • of Richard of St. Victor, 163;
    • described by Said, ii. 19;
    • Theresa’s prayer of, 169;
    • corporeal effects of, 169;
    • the ‘ecstatic life’ of Francis de Sales, 176.
  • Edwards, President, i. 169.
  • Egotheism, i. 331.
  • Emanation, Neo-Platonist doctrine of, i. 80;
    • in the theology of Dionysius, 113;
    • in the teaching of Eckart, 278;
    • in the Persian Mysticism, ii. 23.
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo, i. 306; ii. 8;
    • analogies with Angelus Silesius and the Sufis, 9, 20, 22;
    • his doctrine of Intuition, 18.
  • Endern, Karl von, ii. 98.
  • Engelbrecht, ii. 125.
  • England, Mysticism in, ii. 301.
  • English Platonists, see Platonism.
  • Erigena, John Scotus, i. 131, 146, 279; ii. 110, 113.
  • Ethics, of Aristotle, i. 121;
    • of Monasticism, 122.
  • Faith, how defined by Bernard, i. 142;
    • justification by, ii. 31;
    • to what extent apprehended by the Mystics, 31;
    • to be distinguished from sanctification, 35;
    • Paracelsian doctrine of, 73, 90, 144;
    • how opposed to Sight, 240;
    • Error of Spiritualism concerning, 352.
  • Faith-Philosophy in Germany, ii. 341.
  • Fénélon, ii. 173;
    • his first interview with Mme. Guyon, 250;
    • signs the Articles of Issy, 258;
    • his Quietism, 258;
    • difficulties of his position, 263;
    • his Maxims of the Saints, 263;
    • appeals to Rome, 265;
    • his friends disgraced, 268;
    • his reply to Bossuet’s Account of Quietism, 270;
    • his submission, 272.
  • Feridoddin Attar, ii. 21.
  • Fichte, his Idealism compared with that of the East, i. 60;
    • his definition of a Mystic, 60;
    • compared with Eckart, 212.
  • Flagellants, i. 316.
  • Florence, Revival of Neo-Platonism in, ii. 149.
  • Foligni, Angela de, i. 362.
  • Fountain-Spirits of Behmen, ii. 104, 120.
  • Fox, George, his early history, ii. 303;
    • his narrowness and his benevolence, 304;
    • his asceticism, 309;
    • principal defect of his Theology, 313.
  • Francis, St., de Sales, ii. 152;
    • his ‘indistinct contemplation,’ 179;
    • his Introduction à la Vie Dévote, 246, note.
  • Francis, St., of Assisi, ii. 171.
  • Franciscans, Millenarian, i. 185.
  • Frank, Sebastian, ii. 47.
  • Fratricelli, i. 184.
  • Free Spirit, Brethren of the, i. 184.
  • Friends, Journal of the Early, ii. 305.
  • Friends of God, i. 224.
  • Gabalis, Comte de, ii. 138.
  • Gamahea, ii. 75, 77.
  • Gassner, ii. 130.
  • Gelenius, Victor, his Mystical Degrees, ii. 177.
  • Gematria, ii. 141, note.
  • Gerlacus, Petrus, i. 367, note.
  • Germain, Count St., ii. 130.
  • Gerson, Chancellor, charges Ruysbroek with Pantheism, i. 338;
    • his Mystical Theology, 369.
  • Gichtel, i. 38; ii. 123, 125.
  • Gnomes, ii. 139.
  • God, distinguished from Godhead, by Eckart, i. 190;
    • Friends of, 224.
  • Godet des Marias, ii. 252.
  • Greek Church, Mysticism in, i. 109;
    • stereotyped character of its Theology, 122.
  • Groot, Gerard, i. 334, note.
  • Guru, i. 59.
  • Guthmann, ii. 125.
  • Guyon, Madame, early religious life, ii. 207;
    • spiritual desertion, 222;
    • self-loss in God, 227;
    • Prayer of Silence, 233;
    • compared with St. Theresa, 234;
    • her activity, 235;
    • her Torrents, 236, note;
    • persecution, 237;
    • first interview with Fénélon, 250;
    • her doctrine at St. Cyr, 253;
    • Bossuets conduct to her, 255;
    • Flight from Meaux, and imprisonment, 260;
    • at Vaugirard, 263;
    • in the Bastille, 272;
    • dies at Blois, 272.
  • Hamann, ii. 341.
  • Hardenberg, Friedrich von, see Novalis.
  • Harlay, Archbishop of Paris, ii. 246.
  • Harphius, ii. 177, 282.
  • Heaven, described by Swedenborg, ii, 330.
  • Hegel, analogies with Eckart, i. 206, 212;
    • opinion of Eckart, 206.
  • Heresies, Mystical, in the fourteenth century, i. 201, 209, 257, 329.
  • Hermann of Fritzlar, i. 181;
    • his Heiligenleben, 181, note.
  • Hesychasts, i. 355.
  • Hierarchies, of Iamblichus, i. 101;
      • of Proclus, 105;
      • of Dionysius, 114;
    • Hugo’s Commentary on, 155.
  • Hildegard, Abbess, i. 146; ii. 219.
  • Hindooism, its Mysticism, i. 55.
  • Hugo of St. Victor, character of his Mysticism, i. 154;
    • his Commentary on the Hierarchies of Dionysius, 155;
    • defines Meditation, 155;
    • his Eye of Contemplation, 158;
    • defines Abstraction, 158.
  • Iamblichus, his Theurgy, i. 100;
    • his Hierarchies, 101;
    • his twofold life of the Soul, 102;
    • his doctrine concerning Ecstasy, 104;
    • his mistakes repeated by Romanticism, ii. 346.
  • Ida of Louvain, ii. 218.
  • Ida of Nivelles, ii, 220.
  • Identity, Schelling’s Philosophy of, i. 44.
  • Illuminati, ii. 136, 281.
  • Imitatio Christi, The, i. 367.
  • India, Pantheism of, i. 55.
  • Indifference, Eckart’s Doctrine of, i. 188, 194;
  • Intelligence, use of the word by Richard of St. Victor, i. 162.
  • Interpretation, mystical, i. 33;
    • of Philo, 64;
    • of Bernard, 145;
    • of Richard of St. Victor, 161;
    • of Swedenborg, ii. 323.
  • Intuition, ‘intellectual,’ Schelling’s doctrine of, i. 88;
    • resemblance to that of Richard, 163.
  • Intuition, exaggeration of its claims by the Mystics, i. 168;
    • doctrine of Emerson concerning, ii. 18;
    • not an isolated faculty, 364.
  • Irony, Romanticist doctrine of, ii. 346.
  • Issy, the Conferences at, ii. 255;
  • Jacobi, ii. 341.
  • Jean d’Avila, ii. 281.
  • Jelaleddin Rumi, ii. 12, 14, 15, 17, 110.
  • Jerusalem, Church of the New, ii. 335.
  • Jews, persecution of the, i. 315;
    • their demonology, ii. 142.
  • John of the Cross, ii. 182;
    • his asceticism, 183;
    • his Dark Night, 185;
    • estimate of his Mysticism, 192.
  • Joris, David, ii. 125.
  • Jubilation, the gift of, ii. 219.
  • Juneid, ii. 11.
  • Justin Martyr, ii. 42.
  • Kant, his practical Reason, i. 89.
  • Kathari, i. 184.
  • Kober, ii. 80.
  • Krüdener, Madame de, ii. 288;
    • opinion of Madame de Genlis concerning, 289, note.
  • Kuhlmann, i. 38; ii. 125.
  • Labadie, ii. 291.
  • La Combe, ii. 226.
  • Lautensack, ii. 125.
  • Law, William, ii. 124, 288.
  • Leade, Joanna, ii. 144.
  • Light, doctrine of the Universal, ii. 309.
  • Louis the Fourteenth at St. Cyr, ii. 249, 265;
    • urges the Pope to condemn Fénélon, 271.
  • Love, disinterested, doctrine of Bernard, concerning, i. 145;
      • of Eckart, 193;
      • of Tauler, 303, 309;
      • of Ruysbroek, 334, note;
      • of the Sufis, ii. 10, 17;
    • the central doctrine of Quietism, 204;
    • Fénélon’s doctrine of, 258;
    • its truth and its exaggeration, 283.
  • Loyola, Ignatius, ii. 150.
  • Ludolph, the Carthusian, i. 232, 235.
  • Luther, Martin, his vantage ground as compared with the Mystics, i. 304; ii. 32-35;
    • his reply concerning the Zwickau Fanatics, 45;
    • his encounter with them, 47;
    • his protest against the Mysticism of Carlstadt, 51.
  • Macarius, i. 111.
  • Mahmud, passage from his Gulschen Ras, ii. 24.
  • Maintenon, Madame de, at St. Cyr, ii. 248;
    • her interest in Mme. Guyon, 249;
    • her caution, 254.
  • Maisonfort, Madame de la, ii. 258, 282.
  • Malaval, ii. 243.
  • Margaret Ebner, i. 216.
  • Maria d’Agreda, controversy concerning her Mystical City of God, ii. 164;
    • her elevations in the air, 176.
  • Maria of Oignys, ii. 219.
  • Marsay, de, ii. 291;
    • his retirement to Schwartzenau, 292;
    • his marriage, 293;
    • his asceticism and melancholy, 294;
    • his last years, 295.
  • Maurice, St., ii. 130.
  • Maxims of the Saints, ii. 263, 280.
  • Meditation, how defined by Hugo, i. 155.
  • Merswin, Rulman, his Book of the Nine Rocks, i. 321, 336.
  • Mesmer, ii. 130.
  • Messalians, ii. 11.
  • Microcosm, ii. 65.
  • Molinos, his Guida Spirituale, ii. 171, 242;
    • charges against him, 180;
    • his fate, 245.
  • Monasticism, Buddhist, i. 56;
    • its Ethics, 121;
    • promoted by Bernard, 140.
  • Montanus, i. 284.
  • Montfaucon, Clara de, ii. 163, 220.
  • More, Henry, his opinion of Behmen, ii. 124;
    • his mysticism, 315;
    • his opinion of the Quakers, 317, note.
  • Morin, ii. 244.
  • Münzer, ii. 44.
  • Muscatblut, i. 335.
  • Mysticism, the instructive character of its history, i. 13, 260;
    • derivation and history of the word, 17;
    • definitions, 21;
    • its causes, 27-33;
    • its classifications, 35;
    • theopathetic, 36;
    • theosophic, 39;
    • theurgic, 45;
    • in the early East, 51;
    • of the Neo-Platonists, 63;
    • in the Greek Church, 109;
    • in the Latin Church, 127;
    • opposed to Scholasticism, 142;
    • reconciled, 154;
    • Truth at its root, 164;
    • its exaggeration of the truth concerning experimental evidence, 167;
    • German, in the fourteenth century, 235; ii. 30;
    • Persian, in the Middle Ages, 3;
    • Theosophic, in the Age of the Reformation, 29;
    • revolutionary, 37;
    • before and after the Reformation, 41;
    • in Spain, 147;
    • of the Counter-Reformation, 150;
    • of Madame Guyon, 207;
    • in France and in Germany compared, 275;
    • in England, 299;
    • of Swedenborg, 321;
    • its recent modifications, 339;
    • its services to Christianity, 351;
    • its prevalent misconceptions, 353;
    • its correctives, 355.
  • Names, of magical virtue, ii. 140.
  • Neo-Platonism, eclectic and mystical, i. 70;
    • difference between it and Platonism proper, 76;
    • its doctrine of Emanation, 80;
    • influence on Christianity, 85;
    • process of degeneration, 91;
    • its Theurgy, 103;
    • expires with Proclus, 105;
    • introduced into the Church by Dionysius, 113;
    • confounds Universals with Causes, 117;
    • its power in the Middle Ages, 129;
    • its reformatory influence in the West, 132;
    • Persian, ii. 4;
    • revived on the eve of the Reformation, 55;
    • at Florence, 149.
  • Neri, St. Philip, ii. 218.
  • Nicholas of Basle, i. 239;
    • becomes the spiritual guide of Tauler, 240;
    • his labours and fate, 359.
  • Night, mystical, of the Sufis, ii. 14;
    • of John of the Cross, 185, 195;
    • of Novalis, 349.
  • Nihilism, i. 332;
    • of Angelus Silesius, ii. 17.
  • Nirwana, Buddhist Absorption, i. 56.
  • Nördlingen, Henry of, i. 216.
  • Norris of Bemerton, ii. 315.
  • Novalis, his Aphorisms, ii. 349;
    • his Hymns to Night, 349.
  • Numenius, i., 65, 121;
    • his hypostatic emanations, 82.
  • Nymphs, ii. 139.
  • Oetinger, ii. 351.
  • Oken, ii. 351.
  • Omphalopsychi, i. 356.
  • Origen, i. 302.
  • Pachymeres, his definition of mystical Theology, i. 24.
  • Pains, the mystical, ii. 170, 176.
  • Pantheism, Indian, i. 55;
    • Buddhist, 56;
    • Neo-Platonist, 78;
    • its necessitarian Ethics, 91;
    • of Dionysius Areopagita, 119;
    • of Erigena, 131;
    • of Eckart, 157, 160, 217;
    • among the people in the fourteenth century, 201, 209, 257, 278, 331;
    • of Angelus Silesius, ii. 6;
    • of Emerson, 8, 22;
    • of the Sufis, 20;
    • cannot claim Behmen, 112, 121.
  • Paracelsus, i. 44; ii. 71;
    • his four pillars of Medicine, 73;
    • his Theory of Contraries, 74;
      • of Signatures, 76;
    • his Green Lion, 78;
    • influence on Behmen, 91.
  • Parzival and Titurel, i. 186.
  • Passivity, i. 274; ii. 166, 190, 195.
  • Pazzi, Magdalena de, ii, 171.
  • Perfection, doctrine of, ii. 232;
    • awakens the alarm of the priesthood, 240.
  • Persia, Neo-Platonism in, ii. 4;
    • the seat of Sufism, 5;
    • its mystical poetry, 16, 24.
  • Petrucci, Cardinal, ii, 277.
  • Philadelphian Association, the, ii. 142.
  • Philo, i. 63;
    • his views on the Contemplative Life, 66;
    • his mystical interpretation, 67.
  • Pico of Mirandola, ii. 148.
  • Platonism, distinguished from Neo-Platonism, i. 76;
    • combined with Christianity assumes five distinct phases, 147;
    • in England, ii. 315.
  • Plotinus, his early history and asceticism, i. 71;
    • hears Ammonius Saccas, 74;
    • object and character of his philosophy, 76;
    • doctrine concerning knowledge, 80;
    • concerning Ecstasy, 81;
    • influence on Christianity, 85;
    • analogies with Schelling and Coleridge, 87;
    • necessitarian character of his Ethics, 91;
    • his Trinity, 93.
  • Poiret, Peter, ii. 287, 290.
  • Pordage, ii. 142.
  • Porphyry, his position, i. 94;
    • moderates the doctrine of Plotinus concerning Ecstasy, 97;
    • his modern imitators, ii. 350.
  • Postel, ii. 125.
  • Prayer, Theresa’s Four Degrees of, ii. 167;
    • of Silence, Mme. Guyon’s, 233.
  • Proclus, i. 105; influence of his philosophy on Dionysius, 112, 114;
    • his endeavour renewed by Romanticism, ii. 346.
  • Protestantism, its Mystics compared with those of Rome, ii. 95, 308, note.
  • Quakers, see George Fox;
    • their asceticism, ii. 309;
    • their doctrine of the Universal and Saving Light, 309;
    • of perceptible spiritual influence, 313;
    • of Silence and Quiet, 314;
    • opinion of Henry More concerning, 317.
  • Quiet, Theresa’s prayer of, ii. 167.
  • Quietism, licentious form of it in the fourteenth century, i. 258;
    • of Molinos and Theresa, ii. 172;
    • charged with excluding the conception of Christ’s Humanity, 172;
    • misrepresentations of its enemies, 173, note;
    • of John of the Cross, 190;
    • its doctrine of pure love, 204;
    • its holy indifference, 205;
    • its reaction against mercenary religion, 232;
    • of Fénélon, 258;
    • in the hands of the Inquisition, 276;
    • its doctrine of disinterested Love discussed, 283;
    • practical, among the Quakers, 314;
    • in the present day, 356.
  • Rabia, ii. 10.
  • Ranters, ii. 306.
  • Rapture, see Ecstasy.
  • Realism, i. 130, 149.
  • Reason, how enlisted in the service of Mysticism, i. 40;
    • how far forsaken by Plotinus, 80;
    • Intuitive, of Coleridge, 88;
    • Practical, of Kant, 89;
    • unduly subordinated by Bernard 141;
    • erroneously divorced from Understanding, ii. 361.
  • Redemption, doctrine of Behmen concerning, ii. 116;
    • of Swedenborg, 332;
    • misconceptions of, 334.
  • Reformation, relation of Mysticism to the, ii. 33.
  • Reformers, their relation to the Mystics, ii. 41.
  • Regeneration, Tauler’s doctrine of, i. 246;
    • mistake of Mme. Guyon concerning, ii. 230.
  • Reimar of Zweter, i. 186.
  • ‘Relations, Memorable,’ of Swedenborg, ii. 329.
  • Reminiscence, Platonic, i. 77.
  • Ricci, Catherine, ii. 219.
  • Richard of St. Victor, his Mystical Interpretation, i. 161;
    • his Degrees of Contemplation, 162;
    • his Doctrine of Ecstasy, 163.
  • Richter, Primarius, at Görlitz, ii. 86, 98.
  • Romanism, turns Mysticism to account, i. 365; ii. 355.
  • Romanticism, Tieck, its best representative, ii. 343, note;
    • opposes Rationalism, 344;
    • its philosophy of life, 345;
    • its doctrine of Irony, 346;
    • subsides in Superstition, 347.
  • Rome, Church of, her Mystics compared with those of Protestantism, ii. 95;
    • her debt to Mysticism, 149;
    • Fénélon no fair sample of her Mystics, 356.
  • Rosenkreuz, ii. 132.
  • Rosicrucians, ii. 128;
    • pretended discovery of the, 132, 136.
  • Rousseau, J. J., ii. 179.
  • Ruysbroek, his Spiritual Nuptials, i. 321;
    • visited by Tauler at the Convent of Grünthal, 325;
    • his doctrines concerning the Trinity, Abstraction, Union, 326, 329;
    • his protest against false Mystics, 330, note;
    • his doctrine concerning disinterested Love, 334, note;
    • charged by Gerson with Pantheism, 338;
    • compared with contemporary Mystics, 338.
  • Salamanders, ii. 138.
  • Schelling, compared with Behmen, i. 41;
    • his Philosophy of Identity, 44;
    • analogies of Plotinus with, 87;
    • indebted to Behmen, ii. 124;
    • his doctrine of Unconsciousness, 351.
  • Schlegel, Frederick, his admiration of Behmen, ii. 124;
    • his Romanticism, 345;
    • his extravagance, 346.
  • Schlegel, A. W., ii. 348.
  • Schleiermacher, ii. 341, 343, note.
  • Scholasticism, opposed to Mysticism, i. 142;
    • reconciled, 154.
  • Schröpfer, ii. 130.
  • Schwenkfeld, ii. 50.
  • Science, its mystical character in the Middle Age, i. 41;
    • in the Age of the Reformation, ii. 53;
    • union with Religion, 67.
  • Self-annihilation, Tauler concerning, i. 250;
    • of the Sufis and Angelus Silesius, ii. 16.
  • Self-love, ii. 214.
  • Shemhamphorash, ii. 141.
  • Silence, Quaker practice of, ii. 314;
    • Mme. Guyon’s Prayer of, 233.
  • Sleep, sacred, i. 102.
  • Societies, secret, ii. 136.
  • Soul, its twofold life, according to Iamblichus, i. 102;
    • Spark of the, 190;
    • Ground of the, Tauler’s doctrine concerning, 246, 255, 291;
    • Theresa’s Flight of the, ii. 174.
  • Spain, Mysticism in, ii. 150, 152.
  • Spark of the Soul, i. 190.
  • Sperber, ii. 125.
  • Spirit, perceptible Influence of the, i. 272;
    • as taught by the Quakers, ii. 313;
    • witness of the, 314;
    • Swedenborg’s doctrine concerning the, 331.
  • Spiritualism, its revival of antiquated errors, ii. 350;
    • its morbid dread of historic reality, 365.
  • Staupitz, ii. 33.
  • Stilling, Jung, i. 39; ii. 289.
  • Strasburg, Godfrey of, i. 186;
    • rival houses in, 187;
    • under the Interdict, 213;
    • Revolution in, 218;
    • Black Death in, 313;
    • the Flagellants in, 317;
    • resists the Imperial Impost, 319.
  • Sufis, the, ii. 3;
    • their early leaders, 11;
    • analogies with Emerson, 16;
      • with Angelus Silesius, 17;
    • their doctrine concerning disinterested love, 17;
    • their allegorical lyrics, 24.
  • Suso, Heinrich, i. 341;
    • his austerities, 344;
    • his Horologe of Wisdom, 345;
    • pursued as a poisoner, 348;
    • his adventure with the robber, 351.
  • Swedenborg, Emanuel, ii. 321;
    • comprehensive character of his Mysticism, 322;
    • his doctrine of correspondences, 323;
    • position of Man in his System, 325;
    • scientific character of his Mysticism, 326;
    • opposed to Asceticism, 328;
    • his Memorable Relations, 329;
    • his descriptions of the unseen World, 330;
    • his doctrine of Spiritual Influence, 331;
      • of the Work of Christ, 332;
      • of the New Jerusalem, 335.
  • Sylphs, ii. 139.
  • Symbolism, of Philo, i. 64;
    • of Dionysius, 114;
    • of Richard of St. Victor, 161;
    • how far necessary, ii. 353.
  • Sympathies, Science of, ii. 63.
  • Synderesis, i. 256, 327.
  • Talmud, its Theurgy, ii. 141.
  • Tanchelm, i. 38.
  • Tauler, i. 192, 216, 224, 265;
    • Sermon on the Image of God, 226;
    • his cautions to Mystics, 228;
    • disappearance for two years, 230;
    • his restoration, 234;
    • he issues circulars and treatises comforting the excommunicated, 236;
    • passages from his Sermons, 244-251, 290;
    • concerning the ‘Ground’ of the Soul, 246, 255, 291;
    • excellences and defects of his Theology, 251;
    • elevated character of his Mysticism, 253;
    • prepares the way for the Reformation, 253;
    • compared with Eckart, 254, 302;
    • his doctrine of Abandonment, and the state above Grace, 255;
    • his internal Trinity, 255;
    • on Work of Christ, 300;
    • summoned before the Emperor, 318;
    • retires to Cologne, 319.
  • Tears, gift of, ii. 220.
  • Theologia Germanica, i. 148, 288, 367.
  • Theologia Mystica, i. 21;
    • definitions, 23.
  • Theosophy, i. 40;
    • in the age of the Reformation, ii. 29, 69, note;
    • of Swedenborg, 321.
  • Therapeutæ, i. 66, 67.
  • Theresa, St., her early life, ii. 153;
    • her reform of the Carmelite order, 155;
    • sensuous character of her Mysticism, 162;
    • her four degrees of Prayer, 167;
    • her Raptures, 170;
    • her Torments, 170;
    • compared with Madame Guyon, 234.
  • Theurgy, i. 46;
    • of Neo-Platonism, 105;
    • Lutheran, ii. 59;
    • Modern, 130;
    • Rabbinical, 141.
  • Thomas à Kempis, i. 367.
  • Tieck, ii. 343, note, 348.
  • Tophail, Abu Jaafer Ebn, ii. 299.
  • Trinity, of Plotinus, i. 93;
    • Tauler’s doctrine of the internal, 256, 291;
    • doctrine of Ruysbroek concerning, 326;
    • of Behmen, ii. 103, 104, note;
    • of Swedenborg, 332.
  • Understanding, its relation to Reason, ii. 361;
    • not to be discarded in religion, 365.
  • Undine, ii. 138.
  • Union, doctrine of Plotinus concerning, i. 81;
      • of Bernard, 144;
      • of Richard of St. Victor, 163;
      • of Ruysbroek, 329;
    • Prayer of, ii. 168;
    • Swedenborg’s doctrine concerning, 334.
  • Universals, confounded with Causes, by Neo-Platonism, i. 171.
  • Valdes, ii. 244.
  • Veronica of Binasco, ii. 220.
  • Vespiniani, Countess, ii. 277.
  • Victor, St., see Hugo and Richard.
  • Victor, St., the school of, i. 153.
  • Vincula, Theurgic, ii. 59.
  • Virtues, divided into human and superhuman, i. 121;
    • how classified by Aquinas, 123.
  • Visions, intellectual and representative, ii. 174;
    • doctrine of John of the Cross concerning, 189.
  • ‘Visio caliginosa,’ ii. 179.
  • Walter, Balthasar, ii. 80.
  • Weigel, Valentine, ii. 51;
  • Werner, Zachariah, ii. 347.
  • Wessel, John, ii. 33.
  • Wolfram von Eschenbach, i. 186.
  • Woolman, John, ii. 305.
  • Words, ‘substantial,’ ii. 175, 229.
  • Yogis, the, i. 57.
  • Yokhdan, Hai Ebn, history of, ii. 299;
    • his practice of contemplation, 311.
  • Yvon, ii. 291.
  • Zanoni, ii. 128.
  • Zerbino, Prince, by Tieck, ii. 343, note.
  • Zinzendorf, ii. 308.
  • Zwickau, the fanatics of, ii. 44.