INDEX.
- Abelard, i. 142, 149.
- Absorption, Mystical, i. 86.
- Abstraction, Doctrine of Hugo concerning, i. 157;
- Adolf Arnstein, his Chronicle, i. 181, 213, 243, 319, 340.
- Affliginiensis, John, i. 334.
- Agrippa, Cornelius, i. 44; ii. 61;
- Alcantara, Peter of, ii. 157, 221.
- Alchemy in the sixteenth century, ii. 58;
- Theological, 77.
- Alexandria, Rise of its Philosophic School, i. 66, 74;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Contemplation, doctrine of Philo concerning, i. 66;
- 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;
- 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;
- Eclecticism. Alexandrian, i. 74.
- Ecstasy, doctrine of Plotinus concerning, i. 77, 78;
- Edwards, President, i. 169.
- Egotheism, i. 331.
- Emanation, Neo-Platonist doctrine of, i. 80;
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, i. 306; ii. 8;
- 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;
- Faith-Philosophy in Germany, ii. 341.
- Fénélon, ii. 173;
- Feridoddin Attar, ii. 21.
- Fichte, his Idealism compared with that of the East, i. 60;
- 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;
- Francis, St., de Sales, ii. 152;
- 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;
- Hildegard, Abbess, i. 146; ii. 219.
- Hindooism, its Mysticism, i. 55.
- Hugo of St. Victor, character of his Mysticism, i. 154;
- Iamblichus, his Theurgy, i. 100;
- 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;
- Intuition, ‘intellectual,’ Schelling’s doctrine of, i. 88;
- resemblance to that of Richard, 163.
- Intuition, exaggeration of its claims by the Mystics, i. 168;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Macarius, i. 111.
- Mahmud, passage from his Gulschen Ras, ii. 24.
- Maintenon, Madame de, at St. Cyr, ii. 248;
- 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;
- 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;
- Monasticism, Buddhist, i. 56;
- Montanus, i. 284.
- Montfaucon, Clara de, ii. 163, 220.
- More, Henry, his opinion of Behmen, ii. 124;
- 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;
- Night, mystical, of the Sufis, ii. 14;
- 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;
- 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;
- Petrucci, Cardinal, ii, 277.
- Philadelphian Association, the, ii. 142.
- Philo, i. 63;
- Pico of Mirandola, ii. 148.
- Platonism, distinguished from Neo-Platonism, i. 76;
- Plotinus, his early history and asceticism, i. 71;
- Poiret, Peter, ii. 287, 290.
- Pordage, ii. 142.
- Porphyry, his position, i. 94;
- 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;
- 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;
- Redemption, doctrine of Behmen concerning, ii. 116;
- 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;
- Richter, Primarius, at Görlitz, ii. 86, 98.
- Romanism, turns Mysticism to account, i. 365; ii. 355.
- Romanticism, Tieck, its best representative, ii. 343, note;
- Rome, Church of, her Mystics compared with those of Protestantism, ii. 95;
- Rosenkreuz, ii. 132.
- Rosicrucians, ii. 128;
- Rousseau, J. J., ii. 179.
- Ruysbroek, his Spiritual Nuptials, i. 321;
- Salamanders, ii. 138.
- Schelling, compared with Behmen, i. 41;
- Schlegel, Frederick, his admiration of Behmen, ii. 124;
- 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;
- 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;
- Spain, Mysticism in, ii. 150, 152.
- Spark of the Soul, i. 190.
- Sperber, ii. 125.
- Spirit, perceptible Influence of the, i. 272;
- 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;
- Sufis, the, ii. 3;
- Suso, Heinrich, i. 341;
- 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;
- Sylphs, ii. 139.
- Symbolism, of Philo, i. 64;
- 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;
- Therapeutæ, i. 66, 67.
- Theresa, St., her early life, ii. 153;
- Theurgy, i. 46;
- Thomas à Kempis, i. 367.
- Tieck, ii. 343, note, 348.
- Tophail, Abu Jaafer Ebn, ii. 299.
- Trinity, of Plotinus, i. 93;
- Understanding, its relation to Reason, ii. 361;
- not to be discarded in religion, 365.
- Undine, ii. 138.
- Union, doctrine of Plotinus concerning, i. 81;
- 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.