Evelyn Underhill

Mysticism (1911)

INDEX

(At present this is largely of academic interest, and included for completeness only. As soon as I can obtain a book version of this work, I intend to interpolate page numbers into the text. In the meantime, bear with us. DCW)

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
  • wakening 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 o

  • n 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

Mystic 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

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 t
  • hree 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

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1906 - The Miracles of Our Lady Saint Mary

1911 - Mysticism

1912 - Introduction to The Cloud of Unknowing

1913 - The Mystic Way

1914 - Introduction: Richard Rolle - The Fire of Love

1915 - Practical Mysticism

1915 - Introduction: Songs of Kabir

1916 - Introduction: John of Ruysbroeck

1920 - The Essentials of Mysticism, and other Essays

1922 - The Spiral Way

1922 - The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (Upton Lectures)

1926 - Concerning the Inner Life

1928 - Man and the Supernatural

1929 - The House of the Soul

1933 - The Golden Sequence

1933 - Mixed Pasture: Twelve Essays

1936 - The Spiritual Life

1943 - Introduction to the Letters of Evelyn Underhill
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