Chapter IX: Psycho-Physical and Temperamental Questions 3-61

Introductory 3-9

I. Catherine’s Third Period, 1497-1510 9-13

II. Conclusions concerning Catherine’s Psycho-physical
Condition during this Last Period 14-21

III. Catherine’s Psycho-physical Condition, its Likeness and
Unlikeness to Hysteria 22-27

IV. First Period of Catherine’s Life, 1447-1477, in its Three
Stages 28-32

V. The Second, Great Middle Period of Catherine’s Life,
1477-1499 32-40

VI. Three Rules which seem to govern the Relations between
Psycho-physical Peculiarities and Sanctity in general 40-47

VII. Perennial Freshness of the Great Mystics’ Main Spiritual
Test, in Contradistinction to their Secondary, Psychological
Contention. Two Special Difficulties 47-61

CHAPTER X.--THE MAIN LITERARY SOURCES OF CATHERINE’S
CONCEPTIONS 62-110

Introductory 62, 63

I. The Pauline Writings: the Two Sources of their
Pre-Conversion Assumptions; Catherine’s Preponderant
Attitude towards each Position 63-79

II. The Joannine Writings 79-90

III. The Areopagite Writings 90-101

IV. Jacopone da Todi’s “Lode” 102-110

V. Points common to all Five Minds; and Catherine’s Main
Difference from her Four Predecessors 110

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

Introductory 111, 112

I. Interpretative Religion 112-121

II. Dualistic Attitude towards the Body 121-129

III. Quietude and Passivity. Points in this Tendency to be
considered here 129-152

IV. Pure Love, or Disinterested Religion: its Distinction
from Quietism 152-181

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

I. The Chief Present-day Problems, Perplexities, and
Requirements with Regard to the After-Life in General 182-199

II. Catherine’s General After-Life Conceptions 199-218

III. Catherine and Eternal Punishment 218-230

IV. Catherine and Purgatory 230-246

V. Catherine and Heaven--Three Perplexities to be considered 246-258

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

I. The Relations between Morality and Mysticism, Philosophy
and Religion 259-275

II. Mysticism and the Limits of Human Knowledge and Experience 275-290

III. Mysticism and the Question of Evil 290-308

CHAPTER XIV.--THE TWO FINAL PROBLEMS: MYSTICISM AND PANTHEISM,
THE IMMANENCE OF GOD, AND SPIRITUAL PERSONALITY, HUMAN AND
DIVINE 309-340

Introductory 309, 310

I. Relations between the General and the Particular, God and
Individual Things, according to Aristotle, the Neo-Platonists,
and the Medieval Strict Realists 310-319

II. Relations between God and the Human Soul 319-325

III. Mysticism and Pantheism: their Differences and Points of
Likeness 325-335

IV. The Divine Immanence; Spiritual Personality 336-340

CHAPTER XV.--SUMMING-UP OF THE WHOLE BOOK. BACK THROUGH
ASCETICISM, SOCIAL RELIGION, AND THE SCIENTIFIC HABIT OF MIND,
TO THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION 341-396

I. Asceticism and Mysticism 341-351

II. Social Religion and Mysticism 351-366

III. The Scientific Habit and Mysticism 367-386

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

INDEX 397

THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION

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