CHAPTER VI

THE EMPHASIS OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS UPON THE PERSONAL RELATION IN RELIGION, AND SO UPON THE TRULY MYSTICAL 66 I. The Social Consciousness Tends Positively to Emphasize the Personal Relation in Religion 66 1. Emphasizes Everywhere the Personal 66 2. Requires the Laws of a Deepening Friendship in Religion 67 3. Requires the Ideal Conditions of the Richest Life in Religion 68 II. The Social Consciousness thus Keeps the Truly Mystical 70 1. The Justifiable and Unjustifiable Elements in Mysticism 71 (1) Emotion, the Test 71 (2) Subjective Tendency 72 (3) Underestimating the Historical 72 (4) Tendency toward Vagueness 73 (5) Tendency toward Pantheism 73 (6) Tendency to Extravagant Symbolism 76 2. The Protest in Favor of the Whole Man 78 3. The Self-Controlled Recognition of Emotion 82