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The Mystical Element of Religion, as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends, Volume 2 (of 2)

IV. Final Summary and Return to the Starting-point of the Whole Inquiry: the Necessity, and yet the Almost Inevitable Mutual Hostility, of the Three Great Forces of the Soul and of the Three Corresponding Elements of Religion 387-396

Chapters

1. CHAPTER IX.--PSYCHO-PHYSICAL AND TEMPERAMENTAL QUESTIONS 3-61

2. CHAPTER X.--THE MAIN LITERARY SOURCES OF CATHERINE’S

3. CHAPTER XI.--CATHERINE’S LESS ULTIMATE THIS-WORLD DOCTRINES 111-181

4. CHAPTER XII.--THE AFTER-LIFE PROBLEMS AND DOCTRINES 182-258

5. CHAPTER XIII.--THE FIRST THREE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS 259-308

6. CHAPTER XIV.--THE TWO FINAL PROBLEMS: MYSTICISM AND PANTHEISM,

7. CHAPTER XV.--SUMMING-UP OF THE WHOLE BOOK. BACK THROUGH

IV. Final Summary and Return to the Starting-point of the Whole Inquiry: the Necessity, and yet the Almost Inevitable Mutual Hostility, of the Three Great Forces of the Soul and...

8. CHAPTER IX

The picture of Catherine’s life and teaching which was attempted in the previous volume will, I hope, have been sufficiently vivid to stimulate in the reader a desire to try and...

9. CHAPTER X

The main literary sources of Catherine’s conceptions can be grouped under four heads: the New Testament, Pauline and Joannine writings; the Christian Neo-Platonist, Areopagite b...

10. v. 7, has an anthropomorphic touch to which she does not respond;

and “I have given all my heart, that it may possess that Lover who renews me so,--O Beauty ancient and ever new!” v. 10, has the personal designation “Lover,” which, again, is a...

11. CHAPTER XI

We have now attempted, (by means of a doubtless more or less artificial distinction between things that, in real life, constitute parts of one whole in a state of hardly separab...

12. CHAPTER XII

Moving on now to the questions concerning the After-Life, it will be convenient to consider them under five heads: the chief present-day positions and perplexities with regard t...

13. Book VIII, Book IX, 560_d_ to 588_a_, and Book X up to 608_b_), so

insists upon and develops the truth and importance of Immortality in the strictest, indeed the sublimest sense: we get, in its earlier portions, (especially in Book II, 10_c_, t...

14. CHAPTER XIII

I take the ultimate questions involved in the religious positions which are taken up by Catherine, and indeed by the Christian Mystics generally, and which we have studied in th...

15. CHAPTER XIV

We now come to the last two of our final difficulties and problems--the supposed or real relations between Inclusive or Exclusive Mysticism and Pantheism; and the question conce...

16. CHAPTER XV

I now propose to conclude, by getting, through three successively easier matters, back to the starting-point of this whole book, and, in doing so, to sum up and delimitate, more...

17. Part V., Prop. xix., 251; II. 175, 176

Teresa, St., _Life Written by Herself_, Eng. tr., D. Lewis, 1888, Ch. iv. 17; II. 11 Ch. v. 23, 27, 28, 29; II. 14; 5, 11; 13, 20; 13 Ch. vi. 30, 31; II. 10, 11 Ch. vii. 40, 41;...

18. Part II. 226_b_-242_b_; I. 419

226_c_-241_b_; I. 420 227_a_-241_b_; I. 420-421 Cap. III. 231_a_; I. 430 232_b_-245_c_; I. 419 232_b_; I. 431 Cap. V. 234_b_: I. 427 Cap. IX. 241_b_; I. 427-428 241_c_-245_c_; I...

19. Part III. Cap. I. 247_b_; I. 432

248_c_; I. 430, 432 249_a_; I. 430 Cap. II. 250_a_, _b_; I. 160, 161 250_a_-263_c_; I. 422 250_b_; I. 430 Cap. VI. 259_c_; I. 432 260_b_; I. 428 264_a_-271_a_; I. 423 Cap. VIII....

20. Part III., Div. 2, ed. 1881; II. 313

[4] I have already traced the steps in the growth of this legend. It is no doubt this element in the biography which irritated John Wesley, the man of absolute judgments; althou...