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of Mme Guyon's life and their causes--Did Mme Guyon
attain her ethical goal?--5. Santa Theresa--Biographical--
The phases of Santa Theresa's life and their causes--Did Santa
Theresa attain her ethical goal?--6. St Marguerite Marie.
CHAPTER V
THE MOTIVATION OF CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM 		116
What did the Christian mystics seek?--1. The tendencies to
self-affirmation and the need for self-esteem--2. The dread
of isolation; the needs for moral support, for affection, and
for peace in passivity and in activity--3. The universalization
or socialization of the individual will--Analysis of the morally
imperative impulse and the conditions of its production--
4. The sex impulse--The connexion of affection and love with
organic sex activity--Auto-eroticism in Grand Mysticism--The
excruciatingly delightful pains and other pains--Pleasure
and happiness in mystical ecstasy.
CHAPTER VI
THE METHODS OF CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM 		156
1. Asceticism, its causes and its utility--2. Passivity and the
stages of the mystical union--The ascending series of the
mystical states according to Santa Theresa--The ascending
series of the mystical states according to Francois de Sales--
The ascending series of the mystical states according to Mme
Guyon--Mystical trance in Buddhism, in Islamism--The
hypnotic trance--3. The confusion of the degrees of depth
of the trance with degrees of moral perfection--The ascend-
ing series of the mystical degrees according to a Roman
Catholic theologian--4. The Distinguishing traits of "Super-
natural" Mysticism--A classification of trances and remarks
regarding the conditions of their production.
CHAPTER VII
THE MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREAT MYSTICS AND
ITS RELATION TO THE OSCILLATIONS OF THEIR PSYCHO-
PHYSIOLOGICAL LEVEL 		184
Physiological and psychological factors determined the
so-called periodicity of their lives--No true periodicity is
observable--Exaltation and depression have in themselves
no ethical significance--Did these mystics obtain that which
they set out to find in the Christian religious life?--Critical
notes on Delacroix and Hocking.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Psychology of Religious Mysticism. Contributors: James H. Leuba - author. Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1925. Page Number: vi.
    
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