CHAPTER V. THE ROCKS OF FALSE MYSTICISM _pages_ 166-183

1. TAULER AND LUTHER.

Tauler’s orthodox doctrine distorted by Luther to serve his purpose. Passivity in the hands of God explained as the absence of all effort. Luther’s application of Tauler’s teaching to his own states of anxiety. His knowledge of Tauler; annotations to Tauler’s sermons; the German mystics; a “return to nothingness” the supreme aim of the Christian _pages_ 166-174

2. EFFECT OF MYSTICISM ON LUTHER.

Advantages of its study outweighed by disadvantage. Why Luther failed to become a true mystic. Specimens of his mystic utterances. His edition of the “Theologia Deutsch”; attitude to pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, St. Bernard and Gerson; an excerpt from his “_Operationes in psalmos_” _pages_ 175-183