# The Varieties of Religious Experience/Index

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. Alline, 159, 217. Alternations of personality, 193. Alvarez de Paz, 116. Amiel, 394. Anæsthesia, 288. Anæsthetic revelation, 387-393. Angelus Silesius, 417. Anger, 181, 264. 'Anhedonia,' 145. Aristocratic type, 371. Aristotle, 495. Ars, le Curé 302. Aseity, God's, 439, 445. 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.
Baldwin, 347, 503. Bashkirtseff, 83. Beecher, 256. Behmen, see Boehme. Belief, due to non-rationalistic impulses, 73. Besant, Mrs., 23, 168. Bhagavad-Gita, 361. Blavatsky, Madam, 421. Blood, 389. Blumhardt, 113. Boehme, 410, 417, 418. Booth, 203. Bougaud, 344. Bourget, 263. Bourignon, 321. Bowne, 502. Brainerd, 212, 253. Bray, 249, 256, 290. Brooks, 512. Brownell, 515. Bucke, 398. Buddhism, 31, 34, 522. Buddhist mysticism, 401. Bullen, 287. Bunyan, 157, 160. Butterworth, 411.
Caird, Edward, 106. Caird J., on feeling in religion, 434; on absolute self, 450; he does not prove, but reaffirms, religions dicta, 453. Call, 289. Carlyle, 41, 300. 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. Channing, 300, 488. 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. Churches, 335, 460. 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. Courage, 265, 287. 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. Death, 139, 364. Derham, 493. Design, argument from, 438, 492 ff. Devoutness, 340. Dionysius Areopagiticus, 416. Disease, 99, 113. Disorder in contents of world, 438. Divided Self, Lecture VIII, passim; Cases of: Saint Augustine, 172, H. Alline, 173. Divine, the, 31. Dog, 281. Dogmatism, 326, 333. 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. Environment, 356, 374. 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, 246, 506. Faith-state, 505. Fanaticism, 338 ff. Fear, 98, 159, 161, 263, 275. Feeling deeper than intellect in religion, 431. Fielding, 436. Finney, 207, 215. Fletcher, 98, 181. Flournoy, 67, 514. Flower, 476. Foster, 178, 383. 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. Gratry, 146, 476, 506. Greeks, their pessimism, 86, 142. Guidance, 472. Gurney, 527. Guyon, 276, 286.
Hadley, 201, 268. 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. Hegel, 389, 449, 454. Helmont, Van, 497. Heroism, 364, 488, note. Heterogeneous personality, 169, 193. Higher criticism, 4. Hilty, 79, 275, 472. 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. Job, 76, 448. John, Saint, of the Cross, 304, 407, 413. Johnston, 258. Jonquil, 476. Jordan, 347. Jouffroy, 176, 198. Judgments, existential and spiritual, 4.
Kant, 54, 448. Karma, 522. Kellner, 401. Kindliness, see Charity. Kingsley, 385.
Lagneau, 285. Leaders, see Religious leaders. Leaders, of tribes, 371. Lejeune, 113, 312. 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. Melancholy, 145, 279; Lectures V and VI, passim; cases of, 148, 149, 157, 159, 198. Melting moods, 267. Method of judging value of religion, 18, 327. Methodism, 227, 237. 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. Mohammed, 341, 481. Molinos, 130. Moltke, Von, 264, 367. Monasteries, 296. Monism, 416. Morbidness compared with healthy-mindedness, 488. See, also, Melancholy. Mormon revelations, 482. Mortification, see Asceticism. Muir, 482. Mulford, 497. Müeller, 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. Naturalism, 141, 167. Nature, scientific view of, 491. Negative accounts of deity, 417. Nelson, 208, 423. Nettleton, 215. Newman, F. W., 80. Newman, J. H., on dogmatic theology, 434, 442; his type of imagination, 459. Nietzsche, 371, 372. 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. Pantheism, 131, 416. Parker, 83. Pascal, 286. Paton, 359. Paul, Saint, 171, 357. Peek, 253. Peirce, 444. Penny, 323. Perreyve, 505. Persecutions, 338, 342. 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. Polytheism, 131, 526. Poverty, 315, 367. '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. Purity, 274, 290, 348.
Quakers, 7, 291.
Ramakbishna, 361, 365. Rationalism, 73, 74; its authority overthrown by mysticism, 428. Ratisbonne, 223, 257. Reality of unseen objects, Lecture III, passim. Récéjac, 407, 509. 'Recollection,' 116, 289. 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; its definition, 26, 31; 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. Ribot, 145, 502. Rodriguez, 313, 314, 317. Royce, 454. Rutherford, Mark, 76.
Sabatier, A., 464. Sacrifice, 303, 462. Saint-Pierre, 83. Sainte-Beuve, 260, 315. 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; her 'facts,' 500, 501. '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. Self-surrender, 110, 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. Solemnity, 37, 48. Soul, 195. Soul, strength of, 273. Spencer, 355, 374. Spinoza, 9, 127. 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. Stevenson, 138, 296. Stoicism, 42-45, 143. 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. Sufis, 402, 420. Suggestion, 112, 234. 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. Suso, 306, 349. Swinburne, 421. Symonds, 385, 390. Sympathetic magic, 496. Sympathy, see Charity. Systems, philosophic, 433.
Taine, 9. Taylor, 246. Tenderness, see Charity. Tennyson, 383, 384. Teresa, Saint, 20, 346, 360, 408, 411, 412, 414. Theologia Germanica, 43. Theologians, systematic, 446. 'Theopathy,' 343. Thoreau, 275. Threshold, 135. Tiger, 164, 262. Tobacco, 270, 290. Tolstoy, 149, 178, 184. Towianski, 281. Tragedy of life, 363. Tranquillity, 285. Transcendentalism criticised, 522. Transcendentalists, 516. Trevor, 396. Trine, 101, 394. 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. Veracity, 7, 291 ff. 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. Wolff, 492, 493. Wood, Henry, 96, 99, 117. World, soul of the, 449. Worry, 98, 181.
Yes-function, 261-263, 299, 387. Yoga, 400. Young, 256.
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